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Alaska Man, Who Dressed as Sister, Is Charged With Murder After Friend’s Decomposed Body Found Under Floorboards

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By K Newz. Five years after an Alaska man went missing, his decomposed body was found beneath the floorboards of his supposed friend’s home in Wasilla, the Daily Mail reports.

Daniel Roy Buckwalter, 46, hailed from Big Lake and vanished in August 2015. Later, his abandoned truck was found in the Houston area, his blood inside.

Now a grand jury in Palmer has indicted Jay Osmond Gardner, 55, beneath whose floorboards Buckwalter’s body, or what was left of it, was finally found. Gardner was arrested on March 25 at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International airport in Alaska as the man attempted to flee the state while dressed as his sister. . .

According to 11 KVTA, since being relieved of his drag disguise, Gardner has been stuck in a men’s jail. There he’ll have plenty of time to regret allegedly murdering the Alaska man and hiding him beneath the floorboards. (Read more from “Alaska Man, Who Dressed as Sister, Is Charged With Murder After Friend’s Decomposed Body Found Under Floorboard” HERE)

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Cops Arrest a Wanted Man, 55, Trying to Board a Flight Dressed as His Sister, Then Find Body of a Friend He ‘Murdered’ Five Years Ago Under His Floorboards

By Daily Mail. An Alaska man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his friend who was missing for five years, after police discovered caught him trying to flee the state while impersonating his sister and then found remains under the floorboards of his home. . .

States Troopers took Gardner into custody at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on March 25, 2020 and after it finding evidence that he was attempting to flee the state under his sister’s identity, he was charged with numerous counts related to fraud and identity theft.

Gardner’s true Alaska state ID card was issued in his birth name and identity of Jay Osmond Gardner on March 1, 2019. It is alleged that, on January 22, 2020, a renewal of an Alaska state ID was issued to Gardner after he fraudulently presented himself to be Cher Jammes, in name and appearance.

When confronted by an investigator, he told them to refer to him as ‘Janey’ because he was teased while growing up with the name Cher. (Read more from “Cops Arrest a Wanted Man, 55, Trying to Board a Flight Dressed as His Sister, Then Find Body of a Friend He ‘Murdered’ Five Years Ago Under His Floorboards” HERE)

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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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Alaska legislative candidate’s mega-gaffes go viral via Huffington Post

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Wasilla City Councilman, Republican State House candidate (and former candidate for Alaska Lt. Governor in 2010), Mark Ewing keeps talking. And then trying to untalk. And then talking again. And it’s just not good.

In a recent debate at the Greater Wasilla Chamber of Commerce candidates forum, Ewing squared off with his Republican primary opponent. All started predictably with both candidates in favor of a controversial coal mine, a controversial copper mine, and another boondoggle bridge to almost nowhere.

But soon Mr. Ewing distinguished himself in the Rock ’em Sock ’em robot battle of conservative Mat-Su Valley Republicans. After talking about cutting the operating budget, he cited education as one of the problems:  “We are spending millions and millions of dollars educating children that have a hard time making their wheelchair move and, I’m sorry, but you’ve got to say, ‘no’ somewhere. We need to educate our children, but there are certain individuals that are just not going to benefit from an education.”

It’s worth remembering that another Wasilla Republican whom you may have heard of happens to have a special needs child in the district. Trigg Palin is not in a wheelchair, so we don’t know for certain if he is one of those whom Mr. Ewing feels isn’t worth educating.

After his comment in the debate was published in The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, he received a lot of email. He doubled down on a local right wing radio show stating: “Actually, you know, that was a response that isn’t politically correct. But I’m going to use a quote from Jack Nicholson and that is, ‘most people can’t handle the truth.'”  That didn’t work.

Read more from this story HERE.