Former Murkowski media consultant John Tracy this week took on the topic of Bill Walker’s PFD grab on his weekly television spot “Reality Check,” defending the embattled governor and suggesting that Alaskans opposed the governor’s legally dubious executive action are being unreasonable.

It’s time to “reality check” John Tracy.

Tracy suggests it is ordinary Alaskans who don’t want to just hand their money over to an outsized, wasteful and confiscatory government who are being unreasonable, not the government that is deficit spending at a reported $360,000 an hour.

He even goes so far as to invoke the Alaska Constitution as justification for confiscating the common property of all Alaskans for the benefit of a few.

But the section cited explicitly states: “the fund should provide a means of conserving a portion of the state’s revenue from mineral resources to benefit all generations of Alaskans.”

What Tracy never begins to explain is how diverting those resources to some Alaskans now, without fixing the underlying problem, serves the interests of all Alaskans now, much less benefits “all generations of Alaskans.”

He further compounds his error by suggesting the PFD is an “entitlement,” rather than just compensation for private property taken by the State of Alaska, our mineral rights.

At first blush it would appear Tracy is just another arrogant elitist blowhard, but when one scratches below the surface something else altogether emerges.

John Tracy’s high-sounding rhetoric about Governor Walker’s knowing the difference between politics and governing – read, being a statesman –  is nothing more than a manipulative ploy to cover for his bosses.

The truth is, Tracy is being paid big bucks by KTVA to say what he says. KTVA is owned by GCI, whose President and CEO Ron Duncan co-Chairs the Alaska’s Future campaign, a special interest cabal comprised of major corporations, unions, and corrupt politicians pushing to take ordinary Alaskans’ PFD to solve the State’s fiscal woes.

Duncan has gone so far as to blackmail our politicians by threatening to pull as much as $220 million in planned capital improvements off the table if the State government doesn’t comply with their demands.

John Tracy further has counted Senator Lisa Murkowski among his major clients, who has for years favored the PFD grab, dating all the way back to her days in the State legislature before her father appointed her to the United States Senate.

Even over the objections of a whopping 83% of Alaskans, Murkowski co-sponsored and voted for legislation to take your PFD, a measure her father backed strongly as governor of Alaska.

Earlier this year, Senator Murkowski reiterated her support for an all-options-on-the-table approach to the State’s budget shortfall, including your PFD.

John Tracy is certainly entitled to his opinion, but he owes Alaskans a full accounting of his rather substantial conflicts of interest. Because maybe, just maybe, his opinions are shrouded in self-interest.

In the interest of full disclosure, Restoring Liberty publisher Joe Miller drafted the Recall Walker petition application that is circulating around the state.

Here’s hoping the mainstream media catches up to speed on full disclosure.

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For more on KTVA’s questionable reporting, click HERE.