The Most Conservative District in Alaska Has Failed to Lead

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Alaska’s House District 10 borders the Wasilla City Limits on one side and Denali National Park on the other. In between those two borders lies the greatest concentration of conservative voters in Alaska. This is the more conservative of the two house districts currently represented by Sen. Mike Dunleavy. This is where conservative US Senate candidate Joe Miller beat Dan Sullivan by more than 10%, and Mitt Romney received roughly 70% of the vote in the general election. In a word, this is the heartland of conservative Alaska.

Knowing this, members of the Alaska Legislature quite naturally look to the representative from District 10 to lead on conservative issues. The thinking goes, “If the representative from the most conservative district in the state isn’t sticking their neck out on a particular conservative issue, why should I?” So if you want to know why a number of conservative issues, such as halting state employee salary increases, have failed to gain traction in the Alaska Legislature, look no further than the representative who has been the voice of House District 10 in the legislature for the last decade.

That individual is my legislator, Rep. Keller; employed in the legislature since the nineties, and currently running for his 6th term in office. In the spirit of full disclosure, I am running against him. Let me tell you why.

Alaska State Government is overspending today. In fact, we have watched the legislature pass unsustainable state budgets now for the last nine years in a row. In the end, you cannot consume our financial resources at the speed we are consuming them today, without tangibly reducing the quality of life that will be available to future generations of Alaskans. You just can’t. No matter how you slice it, excessive state spending today is—for all practical purposes—a tax on our kids.

As a member of the house and now house leadership, Rep. Keller voted for every single one of the last nine unsustainable state budgets, more than doubling the state budget since 2005. Even after declaring his commitment to sustainable spending, he continued to vote for budgets that were unsustainable, ensuring that the state would one day come looking to take the PFD, on the road to taking control of the Permanent Fund itself.

Remember that 2.5% salary increase for state employees last year? Keller crossed over and voted with the Democrats, and against his Republican colleagues, to increase state employee salaries in the midst of the current budget crisis. Jim Colver voted with the Republicans. Paul Seaton voted with the Republicans. Bob Lynn voted with the Republicans. Even a number of Democrat legislators voted with the Republicans. Wes Keller voted with the Democrats.

Senator Dan Sullivan has received a grade of “F” from Conservative Review for his performance in the US Senate over the past two years. Wes Keller supported Dan Sullivan when he ran against US Senate candidates Joe Miller and Mead Treadwell, further confirming that Wes Keller does not reflect the conservative values of a district where Miller beat Dan Sullivan by more than 10% in the primary, and Sullivan received support from only 33% of voters. Instead of leading his district in the direction of conservative values, Wes Keller is actually leading his district away from them.

Wes Keller was the deciding vote in the house to increase the state minimum wage (HB384). If the senate had not intervened to kill HB384, Alaska would now be tied with California and Massachusetts for having the highest minimum wage in all fifty states.

On the first day of the special session in July, Rep. Keller declared he would ensure that a roll call vote was taken to override the governor’s attack on the PFD. Unfortunately, that never happened. There was no vote during the special session because Keller did not call for one. The consequence of that failure is not only the wasted time and expense of a special session, but even more importantly, the legislators who have been supporting the governor’s attacks on the PFD behind the scenes now won’t have to defend their actions to the voters at election time. They will be back next year, and they will be going after the PFD again with a vengeance.

Rep. Keller has publicly gone on record to declare his opposition to the 90-day legislative session that was passed by Alaskan voters, saying that he needs the extra time to network with his house colleagues and work with agencies. Last year, the legislature was in session for 157 days, and this year the legislature has already been in session for 157 days. For individuals like Rep. Keller, who do not have another form of employment outside of the legislature, this may not be an immediate problem. However, 157 days in session puts a tremendous strain on part-time citizen-legislators, staffers, and their families, and results in some of the very best candidates being unable to run for public office simply due to the amount of time they would have to spend away from work, and away from their homes and families, while serving as a legislator. The legislature needs to stop making excuses, and honor the law passed by Alaskan voters.

We are currently watching the Alaska Legislature shift from a part-time body of citizen-legislators to its acting more and more like the role of legislator should be a full-time career. Unfortunately, longevity in office breeds complacency, and longer sessions in Juneau serve to insulate legislators from their constituents back home, resulting in a legislature that is less accountable to the people. If the last two years are any indication, we are already well on our way down that road.

As a member of the house, Keller publicly advocated for implementation of the federal P-20 database and the federal data mining of Alaskan students’ personal information. He led the charge in pushing SB91 through the house, which severely undercuts personal responsibility for the commission of crimes, and was passed over the strenuous objections of virtually every law enforcement and victims’ rights group in the state. Rep. Keller lost the endorsement of Alaska Right to Life after 2012, and was refused their endorsement in 2014 and again in 2016. This is not the record one would hope for from someone representing the most conservative district in our state.

I am running to fight for genuine conservative reform, fiscally and socially, and to retire a failed incumbent politician who got us into this mess. The Alaska Legislature needs a strong conservative voice to represent District 10, one who will lead the district toward conservative values and not away from them.

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David Eastman is a firefighter in Wasilla, a former military police officer on JBER, and a candidate for the Alaska State House in District 10. He is endorsed by fiscal conservatives such as Brad Keithley, founder of Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets, and social conservatives such as Eagle Forum Alaska and Jack Phelps, founder of the Alaska Private and Home Educators Association (APHEA).

Sources of documentation for Rep. Wes Keller’s votes and positions available here

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Trump Collapsing? Not So Fast.

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Presidential polling this year is like Texas weather. Wait 15 minutes and it’s likely to change.

Yesterday, a McClatchy/Marist poll had Hillary Clinton jumping to a 15-point lead against Donald Trump. A Fox News poll had the Democratic candidate up by 10.

That was yesterday. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll out Friday afternoon indicates Clinton’s lead over Trump has narrowed to less than three points among likely voters, 42% to 39%. This is within the margin of error, suggesting, says Reuters “the race is roughly even.” It also marks a five-point drop for Clinton since Monday.

The Trump staffers who CNBC claimed earlier this week were “suicidal” over the campaign’s sudden collapse can take at least a couple steps back from the edge.

Reuters says “the reasons behind the shift were unclear.” However, in recent days Hillary Clinton was awarded “four Pinocchios” by the Washington Post for her increasingly-reported lie over how FBI Director James Comey characterized her public statements about her private email server. There was also the news of the Obama administration, of which she had been a part, sending $400 million to Iran in the dead of night as an apparent ransom for four American prisoners.

Though the Reuters numbers — and an LA Times/USC poll that shows the race a statistical tie — come as a relief to the Trump campaign, the news is not all sunny. As Robert Eno at Conservative Review noted Friday, Trump is down 6.8 points in the RealClear Politics average (though it does not include the new Reuters poll.) Eno also indicates how the GOP nominee is even running weak in states that have been solidly Republican since the 1980s. For example, Trump is down four in Georgia head-to-head with Hillary, and down six in Florida.

By way of comparison, Eno says that on this date in 2012 Barack Obama had a 2.8 percent lead in the RealClear Politics average over Mitt Romney.

On the other hand, on July 28th, a mere eight days ago, Donald Trump was beating Hillary Clinton in the RCP average. Meaning, applauding or getting agitated over the polls at this point is pointless. We’re better off popping the popcorn, putting up our feet and cheering TeamUSA because this particular race is far from finished. (For more from the author of “Trump Collapsing? Not So Fast.” please click HERE)

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Lead Attorney in DNC Fraud Case Found Dead

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One month after a Bernie Sanders supporter served the Democratic National Committee and its then-chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, with a civil complaint alleging fraud on behalf of Hillary Clinton, he was found dead in his Florida home.

In a video recorded by independent filmmaker Ricardo O. Villalba, the deceased, Shawn Lucas, appeared to be excited to serve papers on the DNC on July 3 — the day before Independence Day . . .

An unconfirmed report indicates that on Tuesday Lucas was found dead by his girlfriend in the bathroom of his home . . .

Given Lucas’ young age, news of his sudden death set social media ablaze with speculations of conspiracy — especially coming close on the heels of the July 10 murder of young DNC staffer Seth Rich.

Rich’s killer reportedly took nothing of value from the 27-year-old — with the exception of his life. His wallet, watch and cell phone were still on his person.

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Trump Endorses Ryan After Week of Tension

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Donald Trump endorsed Paul Ryan on Friday night, after refusing to back the speaker’s reelection bid earlier this week.

“This campaign is not about me or any one candidate, it’s about America,” Trump said, although he did not immediately launch into his message of support.

“I understand and embrace the wisdom of Ronald Reagan’s big tent within the party,” he continued, acknowledging that he’ll need support in the House and Senate to get his agenda accomplished if elected. “So I embrace the wisdom that my 80 percent friend is not my 20 percent enemy.”

After a few minutes, Trump then uttered the magic words: “In our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.”

The mogul’s backing came at a rally in Green Bay, Wis., less than a week before Ryan faces a primary challenger whom has Trump praised, though Ryan appears to have little to worry about in the Tuesday race with businessman Paul Nehlen. (Read more from “Trump Endorses Ryan After Week of Tension” HERE)

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Website Gets Busted Trying to Cover Obama’s Lies

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Rumor-disproving website Snopes has proven itself especially unreliable on all matters political, and it did so again this week when it tried to “bust” the myth that President Obama had paid Iran $400 million in exchange for American citizens being held in Iranian jails . . .

Both Snopes and the Obama administration insist that the payment was part of the Iran nuclear deal and completely unconnected to the release of the men.

““[T]he money transfer was the result of a settlement of a long-standing claim at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague around the same time that the prisoners were released,” the Snopes article reads. “The Tribunal was created specifically to deal with diplomatic relations between Iran and the United States.”

The article largely sources a statement from State Department spokesman Jack Kirby.

“The negotiations over the (arms deal) settlement … were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,” Kirby said in the statement. “Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side.” (Read more from “Website Gets Busted Trying to Cover Obama’s Lies” HERE)

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Ex-CIA Spook Who Whitewashed Benghazi Endorses Hillary

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Hillary has become a spook’s candidate. Former deputy CIA Director Michael Morell, who so conveniently covered her tracks in Benghazi, has now confirmed it.

In a glowing endorsement his friends at The New York Times prominently featured Friday, Morell gave his full-throated support to Clinton, while insisting that he was no partisan and had even voted Republican in the past.

Like an obedient party hack vying for a new job, Morell spouted the party line that Donald Trump was “not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security.”

Those are strong words, especially coming from someone who we are led to believe is an unimpeachable source. But is he?

The “non-partisan” Morell was caught “mis-speaking” to Congress about his role in sanitizing the infamous CIA talking points prepared for US Ambassador Susan Rice to deliver on the Sunday talk shows after the Benghazi attacks. And when he was caught out, like a faithful soldier, he fell on his sword. (Read more from “Ex-CIA Spook Who Whitewashed Benghazi Endorses Hillary” HERE)

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CORRUPT TO THEIR CORE: Lessons From the DNC

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What a revelatory week this has been for the Democrat Party. From media collusion, to the resignation of the head of the Democrat National Committee on the eve of the convention, the curtain has been pulled back on the inner workings and modus operandi of the DNC.

Just a few days before the convention Julian Assange’s Wikileaks released over 20,000 emails hacked from the DNC. From the publically exposed internal emails what many of us have suspected was verified, that the DNC colludes with the mainstream media on their reporting. As one source described the collusion, “The intimate relationship between the Democratic Party and the media isn’t just a conspiracy theory dreamed up by paranoid conservatives. Turns out, there’s more bias in some newsrooms than there is at a Lois Lerner auditing party. From reporters giving party officials a chance to edit or comment on their stories to outright dictating what questions Democratic officials will be asked on air, the collusion uncovered in the pages of messages is astounding — even for the most cynical media critic.”

Another dubious practice with the mainstream media was also revealed.

Over 15 specific recent examples were exposed of mainstream media “draft sharing” their stories before publication. Draft sharing is a practice of sharing the drafts of stories with sources before the stories are published.

While not illegal, from a reporting standpoint, the practice is unethical, according to journalism experts. Renita Coleman, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, has said, “It’s been a time-honored code that you don’t show sources stories before they run.” Edward Wasserman, the Knight Chair in Journalism Ethics at Washington and Lee University, said that draft sharing is “hard to square with even the most source-friendly reporting practices.” No wonder the mainstream media sounds and acts like they’re simply the propaganda arm of the DNC.

Another media analyst made the observation, “The Left must know that it can’t win the war of ideas on a level playing field, so it resorts to lying, slander, and outright distortion — in many cases, with the liberal media’s help. Of course, the people most hurt by the press’s bias aren’t conservatives — they’re the American people, who never really get to know the truth about their candidates.”

The leaked emails also proved that the DNC purposefully tilted the political playing field in Hillary Clinton’s favor, sabotaging the Bernie Sanders campaign, much to the chagrin of Sanders’ supporters. The most egregious was denying the Sanders campaign access to the DNC voter database. Most political analysts are now saying had this not been done, Bernie would have won the nomination with the requisite number of delegates from the primaries. The revelations led to the resignation of Debbie Wasserman Shultz as the head of the DNC, on the eve of the convention. An underling gaveled in the first days of the convention.

But true to form for the party of corruption, Shultz was rewarded immediately by the Clinton campaign, by naming her as the honorary chairman of the Clinton campaign. Based on how she was running the DNC, through the lens of the leaked emails, it would appear she had been functioning as a de facto Clinton official all along.

Predictably, Clinton and the DNC blamed the Wikileaks revelations on the “vast right-wing conspiracy.” Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager Robby Mook, claimed on ABC’s “This Week” that they were leaked, “by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump.” Mook offered no evidence, of course, which only further invests the Clinton campaign more in their conspiracy theory of a “vast right wing conspiracy.” If anything, the DNC emails prove there’s a “vast left wing conspiracy” of collusion between the party and the mainstream media.

The DNC emails also prove how they take for granted the Hispanic and the black vote. Multiple emails from DNC staffers referred to the “buckets” of voters, based on race. They further prove how they take those voters for granted by claiming that they are the most “brand-loyal” voters for the party. It should be immensely disturbing to those voters that they’re assumed to be so loyal that they are merely blind puppets of the party that panders to their special interests.

Equally disturbing was the pejorative way they are sometimes referenced by the DNC. One staff member, and Obama campaign veteran, Rebecca Christopher, referred to their courtship of Hispanic voters as “taco bowl outreach.” That kind of “branding” should cause all sentient Hispanic voters to rethink their commitment and fealty to the DNC.

As if to not let Jewish voters feel left out, on the first day of the convention, Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA), compared Israeli settlers on the West Bank to “termites.” Rabbi David Wolpe, writing in Time after the Johnson gaffe, was astounded at the “shockingly limited amount of play in the press,” the statement received. Especially, as Wolpe points out, since the “terminology evokes some of the worst expressions of historical anti-Semitism—those moments in time when Jews were characterized as ‘vermin’ and targeted for ‘extermination.’”

As the New York Observer printed earlier this year, in a pieced titled, “Sooner or Later the DNC will Have to Face Its Corruption Issues,” the DNC has “come under scrutiny throughout the Democratic primaries, from rigging the debate schedule, to inciting a lawsuit from the Sanders campaign over access to voter database files, to colluding with the Clinton campaign through a joint fundraising committee—the Hillary Victory Fund—which was recently accused of violating campaign finance laws. The fund has also been linked to buying the support of superdelegates as the Clinton campaign gets to decide where and how much money goes to state Democratic Parties.” The piece linked much of the corruption to “the fear of retribution” from the DNC and party leaders, which “has been silencing Democrats for way too long.”

Neither of the major parties is immune to the foibles, follies, and imperfections of the individuals either leading or working in them. But the Democrat Party, at least at the national level, appears to be corrupt at its very core, as copiously evidenced by the leaked DNC emails. Perhaps it’s time for all cognitively functional Democrats, especially Hispanics, Jews, and blacks, to rethink their blind party loyalty. (For more from the author of “CORRUPT TO THEIR CORE: Lessons From the DNC” please click HERE)

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US Muslim Organization Puts up Billboard That’s Turning Heads

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A Muslim-American organization has taken a bold step to strike at ISIS while at the same time defending Islam.

A billboard that reads, “HEY ISIS, You SUCK!!!, From #ActualMuslims,” was erected on a busy Chicago highway by the Sound Vision Foundation. In the top right corner it reads: “Life is sacred. Quran 5:32.”

Leena Suleiman, director of creative engagement for the nonprofit organization, explained the reason for the billboard, saying, “We launched the campaign in light of the constant pressure on American Muslims to condemn ISIS, especially since Muslims are the biggest victims of ISIS.”

She went on to say the billboard is meant to convey that ISIS does not represent the religion of Islam.

Suleiman remarked that while the response within the Muslim commuity has been positive, the larger response will be harder to gauge.

The billboard, she said, also represents the frustrations faced by Muslims striving for a peaceful existence who are put in the same category as ISIS terrorists.

According to Sound Vision’s executive director, Mohammad Siddiqi, the money for the billboard was raised by a group of concerned Muslim-American professionals.

Suleiman said in an interview with Chicago’s WMAQ-TV, “Obviously Muslims know that ISIS sucks, so the main audience is people who are not Muslims.” She continued, saying non-Muslims need to know that Muslims are not OK with ISIS.

When the billboard was posted on Twitter, people were quick to respond.

One person tweeted:

Another person wrote:

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Dobson: Electing Trump to the White House ‘Would Unleash Christian Activists’

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Christian activist Dr. James Dobson believes that a Donald Trump presidency “would unleash Christian activists to fight for their beliefs.”

Writing on the website WND, Dobson recounted a June meeting in which he met with Trump and other Christian leaders at Trump Tower in New York City.

At the meeting, he told Trump, “Our Supreme Court has struck down Bible reading in schools and even prohibited prayer to an unidentified God. Then, they banned the posting of the Ten Commandments on bulletin boards. From there, the limitation on religious liberties has become even more egregious,” he wrote.

“Most recently, President Obama and Hillary Clinton have been referring to ‘freedom of worship,’ rather than ‘freedom of religion.’ Do you understand their motive? They are suggesting that Americans are free to worship in their churches and synagogues, but not in the public square,” he told Trump.

He said that Trump responded by calling it an “outrage that Christians have been deprived of their rights to speak openly on behalf of the values and principles in which they believe.”

Dobson noted that Trump criticized the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 piece of tax code that bans political participation by churches, as well as other tax-exempt not-for-profit groups. The amendment was supported by then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson, D-Texas.

Dobson said Trump’s promise to overturn the amendment “would have a great impact on Washington because it would unleash Christian activists to fight for their beliefs.”

Trump has kept faith with the ministers with whom he met. The Republican platform includes a plank to abolish the amendment.

“We’re going to get rid of that horrible Johnson amendment and we’re going to let evangelicals, we’re going to let Christians and Jews and people of religion talk without being afraid to talk,” Trump said last month.

Jerry Falwell Jr., president of Liberty University, has said that eliminating the amendment “is almost as important for Christians as the appointment of Supreme Court justices.”

Trump himself has said that ending the ban can be a catalytic moment for religion in America.

“I think maybe that will be my greatest contribution to Christianity — and other religions — is to allow you, when you talk religious liberty, to go and speak openly, and if you like somebody or want somebody to represent you, you should have the right to do it,” Trump told Dobson and the other clergy at their June meeting, saying religious leaders in America were “petrified” of running afoul of the ban.

“You talk about religious liberty and religious freedom, you don’t have any religious freedom if you think about it,” he said then. (For more from the author of “Dobson: Electing Trump to the White House ‘Would Unleash Christian Activists'” please click HERE)

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NFL Star: Margaret Sanger’s Plan to Exterminate Blacks Is Working — but Faith Is a Step Toward Healing

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Benjamin Watson, a NFL tight end now with the Baltimore Ravens, said in an interview with Turning Point that minorities are buying into the idea of abortion, “hook, line and sinker,” which is ironic, he said, because Planned Parenthood and founder Margaret Sanger’s plan “to exterminate blacks … [is] working.”

Watson discussed how minorities make up the majority of abortions, adding, “We sit here and talk about advancing the black agenda, whatever that means, we talk about our interests, and what’s important to us — like having political power and advancement and all those things — and then we are turning around and we are killing our children. And we are buying the lie that it’s our personal decision to make.”

Men should be a big part of raising their child, he said, because “as much as he has a role in making the baby in the first place, it needs to take both of them the whole way through. Any idea that a man doesn’t have a role in it is not true, and is simply more about politics and making a man’s life easier.”

Watson recalls how he gave advice in the locker room to a teammate who had just found out that his girlfriend was pregnant. “My whole speech to him was encouraging him about what an awesome opportunity it is to raise a child, to give the child a home, to love that child, and that God entrusted him with another life, and what a responsibility and the privilege that is. And then being real and saying, ‘Look, it’s not going to be easy. There are going to be some sacrifices that are going to come.’”

He admitted that it isn’t easy to be a good father and that he falls short all the time. But the man’s duty is to “be there for their child, and for the baby’s mother … we need to be the provider, be a priest, a protector for them, so that they get a little glimpse of the sacrificial love of the heavenly Father.”

“I tell them they’re never going to be a perfect dad because no one is,” Watson said. “But we have a perfect Father to model ourselves after … my job as a father is to be the best example of our heavenly Father as I earthly can.”

Watson’s new book, Under Our Skin, looks at race, bias and justice and “appeals to the power and possibility of faith as a step toward healing.” (For more from the author of “NFL Star: Margaret Sanger’s Plan to Exterminate Blacks Is Working — but Faith Is a Step Toward Healing” please click HERE)

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