Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan is now channeling union busting Wisonsin Governor Scott Walker. Well isn't THAT special?

Courtesy of KTVA:  

Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan is targeting unions in a move that is not unlike that of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. 

Late Friday afternoon the mayor’s office submitted a proposed ordinance to the Anchorage Assembly that could completely overhaul collective bargaining rights and dramatically change the relationship between the municipality and its employees.  The ordinance is aimed at city employees and organizations across a wide spectrum of jobs, but the language goes out of its way to define two jobs with new language: police and firefighters. 

And most drastically, the new proposal removes four pages of rules that dictate how unions go about strikes, and it affirms several times that "strikes or any work disruptions" are prohibited outright. 

This proposal isn't limited to firefighters and police officers. It also includes sewer and water employees, and electrical employees and port employees, as well.

You know for a long time now we have been debating who the Alaska GOP would choose to face Mark Begich in 2014. The main two choice had always been Joe Miller and Mayor Sullivan.

However recently Miller's huge play to take over the Alaska GOP collapsed as his flunky, Russ Millette, got the boot as chairman, leaving Miller with no inside track to getting the nomination.

Not only that but recent polling shows he would only receive 9% support against Begich which essentially makes him a non-starter, and the field wide open for Sullivan who has a more impressive 29% support.

However this proposed ordinance is definitely going to impact Sullivan's chances against Begich in a negative way, as Alaska is a union state, and many of our citizens are blue color workers heavily invested in their unions.

Beyond that Sullivan has some of the same issues that damage Miller's chances, including backing from a fringe group of supporters, a certain "party planner" who shall remain nameless (Unless he runs of course.), and let's not forget THIS:

 

Yes Sullivan also has ties to the Wasilla Wendigo. Which by the way, is ANOTHER thing that will surely come out if he decides to take Senator Begich on. 

Personally I see smooth sailing ahead for Mark Begich's chances of retaining his Senate seat.

Joe Miller damn near tramples Alaskans as he runs TO Fox's Greta Van Susteren and then just as quickly runs AWAY from local Alaska media. Just about sums him up doesn't it?

Did you see how aggressively Joe moved through the people that he wants to support him in order to get a little face time with Van Susteren?

Here is the eight minute interview that Miller GLADLY gave Greta Van Susteren, that was so important that he made the Alaska media stand outside in the hallway cooling their heels before bitching to them for less than six minutes about how unfair they had been to him.

It is fairly obvious that Joe Miller has never, and will never, care about issues in Alaska.  He is running a national campaign, along with the other Teabagger candidates, to try and stop President Obama and hopefully make an opening big enough for Sarah Palin to drag all of her baggage through so that she will be a viable candidate in 2012.  Sarah instructed Christine O'Donnell to "speak through Fox News" and clearly she has given the same instruction to her butt-boy Joe Miller.

Look out how quickly he made like a rabbit and dashed away from the Alaska media after he finished throwing his little tantrum. And don't think they did not notice.  You can even hear at least a couple of them call him a "pussy" as he runs away.

As for the reference to Mayor Dan Sullivan's alleged mistress Bernadette Wilson, she has now moved on and is currently working for Joe Miller.  In fact we saw her in his campaign office earlier in the day before we were told the "press conference" was moved to the Dena'ina Center.

Here she is standing very close to her new potential political sugar daddy. (At one point I saw her run her hand across his back, but I am sure there must simply have been a piece of lint that needed removing.)



Courtesy of Mudflats

(No wonder Mrs. Vaguely Bearded Guy always looks so unhappy.)

Speaking of not looking happy it did not appear that Danny-boy was terribly thrilled to have been kicked to the curb either.

Aww, the Alaska political landscape is simply littered with broken hearts and dashed dreams, don'tcha know.