Discussion for article #230634
“This would mean they can come after anyone who supports an issue publicly they don’t agree with,” Greene wrote. “Yea fucking right. You know WE ALASKANS are NOT having that.”
I love this woman.
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Sounds like thin gruel, two instances of “active campaigning” for an initiative by a pro-cannabis group that’s taken in less than nine-thousand dollars. I’m guessing public humiliation has a low price tag in Alaska.
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I wonder if APOC pored over Sarah Palin’s various campaign records to this degree?
Ha, ha, just kidding!
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Alaskans really seem to like their melodrama.
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“…But without a reasonable investigation…”
Yes, because this will take the place of investigating real campaign finance graft quite nicely.
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Smoke, but no fire.
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The commission’s budget aims at policing the full range of political expenditures. However, it’s also a “conservative” context where each major state party protects itself primarily by replicating behaviors the commission is unable to go after its own party for, without only the centuries-long legacy of systemic corruption and discrimination that characterizes the continentally contiguous 48.
Those dynamics mean that the commission’s budget, developed for and during past period that brought us Feingold-McCain, now substantially exceeds what’s necessary to police the things that the combination of Alaska state law and Alaskan political culture practically restricts the commission from going after.
At the same time, there’s a serious escalation of the annual urgency of every government-created-and-sustained body to justify its budget for the next fiscal period (and to keep their phony baloney jobs). So, ‘public issue initiatives’ outside the establishment are pretty much all the commission has left to go after.
Predictably, and as history has shown, there’s significantly more tolerance in the establishment for the conduct of causes to the RIGHT of the establishment than to its LEFT.
It explains most of why the common “conservative” establishment of the national 2 party system keeps chugging along, as since the Civil War, with rare, and not particularly noteworthy, success.
It’s far too onerous a systemic suppression to be overcome by the combining of narrow interest groups, no matter how many or how many they represent, or from within the established party structures (given their necessary fixation on non-stop electioneering). Our history has proven that the only things that can create meaningful change are the occasional confluences of the"Great Man(/Woman)" presidential candidacy phenomenon and mobilization of voters from social upheaval due to economic collapse or other pervasive crisis; only their confluence has ever brought change that lasts for more than a single generation.
By analogy to Gibbon on The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, folks, our Antonines have already passed and a long period of darkness stretches out for our descendants.
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“But without a reasonable investigation, no determination can be reached,” the commission said.
this sounds like a fishing expedition to me, making the issuance of the subpoena questionable legally. a competent attorney should be able to get this quashed.
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The fact that this is a persecution, not a prosecution, needs to be noted early-on. Now if the oldstream media in Alaska will just report it that way, …but watch as they legitimize a political witchhunt.
This girl needs to announce her candidacy for the Alaska Governor’s seat.
She’s a much sharper tack than the 1/2 Term disaster we read of so often on these very pages.
And she’s got better tools, on all counts.
Maybe that is why they are already throwing stumblingblocks in her pathway.
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I’m sure the APOC could find much more serious crimes elsewhere, like the “non-profit” groups that funneled millions into defeating Mark Begich, but I know it’s a lot easier to go after the low hanging fruit like this.
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The real question is does she have a big enough clan to have half a chance during a brawl.
I’m sure they’re going just as hard after Pastors who campaign from the pulpit too, right?
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How dare she insist on the right of free speech? Does she not understand that she isn’t a cooperation?
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This is nothing more than a witch hunt because of what she did, the cause she works for and the fact she is black in a very white culture, (and yes, I lived there for a number of years).
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Like she or her organization can afford that.
Without a broad enough base of financial support, organizations like this young lady’s get routinely buried by government agency. We’re only learning about this because pot’s topical, she’s young and attractive, with media access, and she used a common phrase that’s both crudely subversive and attention getting.
No doubt Roger Ailes is currently obsessing over how to get one of his militia of short-skirted Miss Americas to reprise this exhibition.
“You know what? I feel like just giving up. Just … FUDGE it!”
- “MISS KELLY OH NO YOU DI’N’T”
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The Republican Party of Alaska hates APOC, because they are always BUSTING Republicans.
Fortunately, marijuana legalization passed in Alaska, in spite of the antics of Miss Fuck it I quit!
Yes, its always the anonymous and ominous “They”.
D’Souza was investigated and convicted for very similar reasons. I would expect no less scrutiny in this case.