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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
Clips from Alaska State LegislatureClear
1:21
Ashley Carrick“I think that the Division of Elections, having Dan J. Sullivan back on the ballot in this particular situation, has responded appropriately to the Supreme Court decision, but I'm still concerned that the amount of information that voters would like to see and that candidates would like to have on their ballot creates a precedence that is not necessarily in the greatest interest of transparency.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:43
Andrew Gray“in the email from Daniel J. Sullivan to the Lieutenant Governor on June 10th, he states, quote, 'Like the incumbent, I also go by Dan. I have publicly gone by Dan Sullivan as long as I can remember,' end quote. So my question is, why must he be listed as Daniel, but the U.S. senator will be listed as Dan.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:38
Carol Beecher“we have been doing this for a while as part of the voter list maintenance. However, this was a larger list than we had anticipated, as well. So it was very concerning, but this is the process that we do we move— if we get a list of individuals from DMV, which usually is more like 200 names, then we send those individuals the notices, same letter, and ask them to confirm their citizenship. And again, they can do that by email, they can call us.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:31
Carol Beecher“we are under the National Voter Registration Act, which does not allow the division to do really an investigation or to require documentation regarding citizenship. We go by the oath and affirmation. So when we get information like this, that's why it seems probably very simple on its face that all they have to do is contact us. That's all they have to do is let us know. And then we go by their oath and affirmation on the last registration that we have.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:58
Carol Beecher“Evidence in the record showed that Mr. Sullivan had never previously used Dan Sullivan in state records. He had never affiliated before as a Republican in 40 years of Alaska voter history. His campaign website mirrored the incumbent's website design and branding, and he requested by email to appear as Dan S. Sullivan despite his middle initial being Gene J., even though he later corrected this himself.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:37
Carol Beecher“This unprecedented and challenging situation arose when two candidates, incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan and Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., requested to appear on the ballot with identical names and party designations, indicating that Mr. Sullivan intended to confuse voters, creating the risk that voters would, in fact, be confused.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:51
Carol Beecher“The Supreme Court specifically chose not to adopt the portion of the Superior Court's decision as to how the names should appear on the ballot, and that left the decision to the discretion of the Division. The Division distinguished between the two candidates by using Mr. Sullivan's full name, omitting his party affiliation and adding the incumbent designation for Senator Sullivan. This was done to maximize the differentiation between these candidates so that we, we did not want any voters to be confused between the two candidates.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:25
Ky Holland“My first question was the same question that Chair Carrick just asked, so I'm just going to go straight to the follow-up because I had the same concern about connecting the dots between the data that was released and how that was maybe going to be used, and maybe this was a manifestation of what we were all concerned about was that that would happen.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:46
Ashley Carrick“you've been given a list of people that are considered potentially non-citizens and therefore by law are not eligible to be registered to vote. So you're saying all they have to do is contact you and say, yes, I'm a citizen, or no, I'm not a citizen, and that's all you do. But at what point do you say, well, it says the evidence that I have indicates that they are not a citizen and then make that referral for further investigation to the Department of Law, the Attorney General's Office, to find out if they are breaking the law?”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:33
Carol Beecher“The Division does not have a responsibility to specific candidates. It has a responsibility to the voters to make sure that the voter intent is clear, that we protect the integrity of the electoral process, and that we prevent purposeful manipulation of the ballot.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:46
Carol Beecher“currently what we do is if we see that someone has voted and is listed as a noncitizen and doesn't respond back to us, then we would refer that to the Department of Law. If we have someone who is a— has been identified as a noncitizen, they're registered to vote, but they haven't voted— or I said that backwards. So, if somebody is not a citizen, got registered, but didn't vote, We would not refer that, but I don't have a good answer for you. If you could send that to me in writing, then I can provide you with a much more full answer for that.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:39
Carol Beecher“It is, it is not an onerous request from the division to simply contact us and confirm, and that is what we have asked them to do. We don't require paperwork, we're not requiring documentation, nothing like that. And if they call us and say they are a registered voter because I do know we're within that 30 days prior to an election for registration purposes, then we go back to their previous filing as the date so that for sure they are registered and will be on the registrar.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:16
Ashley Carrick“isn't it already illegal for a noncitizen simply to register to vote?”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:39
Carol Beecher“the division continually works to make sure that the voter rolls are clear and only have legitimate registered voters on them. If we get information from a verified source and DMV collects information on citizenship, then the division must act on that, and to not act means that potentially these individuals would end up on the voter register and vote a ballot and not be a citizen.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:40
Ashley Carrick“you mentioned that they simply have to tell you yes or no. That they are or are not a citizen, and then you'll move them back to active status.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
1:20
Ky Holland“how should we think about this question of whether someone is presumed to be a valid voter or presumed to be an invalid voter? It seems like in this case, and you've referred to him, I think, as kind of a trusted source, or indication, but it raises to me this fundamental question of can we trust that the voter rolls are good, or if anybody makes some allegation that there's some concerns with it, do we immediately take the position that they need to be removed from the active roll and placed into some sort of suspect category.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:19
Andrew Gray“Can you give us a ballpark figure about how many letters went out? I— my ballpark is around 3,500.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:27
Andrew Gray“I'm curious if the Division of Elections has ever asked other candidates to respond to questions under oath. And this was a June 8th request to Dan J. Sullivan. Through the chair— Chair Gray, so you are referring to the request from the Lieutenant Governor's investigation? Yes, that is correct. The division has not requested that prior to my knowledge.”
Alaska Legislature: MISC-20260722-1300 ·
0:44
Justin Ruffridge“If we pass this language forward, if it's the intention to have a new legislature fix it and reduce a tax, I don't— I'm not certain I've really ever seen that be a possibility to reduce a tax at a future date. We're going to put in a tax rate that that I think many of us would already say is too high for a lot of reasons.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:16
Bert Stedman“There's been a lot of marketing around the state that this is the, you know, the hinge that's going to open the door and we're going to get a project. That's complete marketing nonsense. It does not get this project economic. There's more hurdles that have to be crossed.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:19
Lyman Hoffman“The problem that this legislature is facing is that we are within a window. That has been explained time and time again.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
1:00
Bert Stedman“one of the solutions that we talked about and the one that's in the bill here is a delayed effective date out to '29, tax year '29, and asking the impacted parties to submit hypothetical tax returns to the Department of Revenue so they can look through them, so they can get a good feel for, you know, what we're actually dealing with, and come back to the next legislature with cleanup language and I would expect a rate adjustment to something that would flow and be equitable to both the industry and the state and have a balance.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:34
Justin Ruffridge“this is not something that we heard it in committee before that is ready for prime time. You know, I think Speaker Edgeman talks about collaborative effort, and I mean, that is certainly a nice narrative to have, and there is obviously a lot of work that a lot of people have put forward to this bill, but collaborative it has not been. It has been essentially closed-door sessions, some work. This is— I saw this for the first time this morning.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:31
Bryce Edgmon“is the bill in front of us perfect? Not by any stretch. I don't think to anyone's sort of, you know, sense of what could be in the bill or might not be in the bill. But I think it's a product that's, you know, is a vehicle that hopefully will get us there in the end.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
1:00
Erik Gunderson“the ACS amends subsection A-1 to increase the amount paid to the state by the project developer within 60 days after financial final investment decision on Phase 1 from $40 million to $50 million. It adds language stating that it is the intent of the legislature that $10 million from this amount be appropriated to workforce development projects for the AK LNG project.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
1:55
Lyman Hoffman“acknowledging the shortcomings, it's not unheard of in crime bills, in many other pieces of legislation, that additional work is expected by the next legislature to address them, to have new eyes on it, and to make the necessary corrections. I think that for the most part, the intense work that has been performed by our legal department, by the administration, by the contractors, and specifically the interests of the State of Alaska are fairly represented in this particular piece of legislation.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
1:03
Lyman Hoffman“I believe that this particular opportunity that we have before us is the best opportunity that I've seen in, in many, many years. So I'm here to support this particular piece of legislation with the understanding that additional work has to be made.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:46
Justin Ruffridge“There's a phrase here: income of an Alaska liquefied natural gas project as defined in AS 3125.390 is, I guess, exempted from the provisions of this proposed new income tax. I'm wondering how we define income of an Alaska liquefied natural gas project, and would that include sales of natural gas from producers into, into the gas pipeline proposal?”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:28
Justin Ruffridge“what we do later on, on line 16 and line 18, is we double that AVT as we go through this project if it gets built. But those revenues do not go to the places where the property tax is being overrun by state law. It now is going to go to community assistance, and then in line 7, go to the state. The precedent we're setting here is not a good one.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:11
Justin Ruffridge“It is saying that the state of Alaska can go into your municipality, exempt property taxes, and then take the tax for the state's own use.”
Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260716-0800 ·
0:28
Justin Ruffridge“I want to ask the question, what about protecting the interest of our constituents, who I think have been worried for quite some time about what the answer is going to be to their energy solutions, and we're seeking maximum government take.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:28
Bert Stedman“If you take the tax rate to zero, it still doesn't get this project over the line financially. So there's more work to be done by the developer to get this project economic.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:29
Calvin Schrage“I move that the House Conference Committee adopt Work Draft 34-G HB 381, HB 2038/Q as the working document for HB 381 and ask for an objection for the purposes of an explanation of changes.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:24
Calvin Schrage“We're going to continue to work through this process, continue to work on this committee substitute. This is not the final product and it will be refined further.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:21
Bert Stedman“We have a property tax established in 1974 for 20 mils of our oil and gas. And that is a significant tax. And it hasn't been updated.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:29
Bert Stedman“This is a significant reduction in the tax burden on this gas line in any way you cut it. And some of us are concerned maybe we are a little too aggressive in that direction.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:41
Erik Gunderson“The new language amends the language outlining the legislature's finding that the project labor agreement, also known as a PLA, and apprenticeship utilization requirements are necessary to advance the project. The work draft removes reference to prevailing wage.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:19
Justin Ruffridge“What I hear you say in a nutshell is the effect of the language is irrelevant. It's just the fact that the language exists or doesn't exist.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·
0:26
Bert Stedman“The economics of putting the project forward do not work at 20 mils. You cannot get it over the line. We're talking about a couple hundred million dollars a year more in debt service. So they need some relief through construction and, and then after first gas to make their economics work.”
Alaska Legislature: Conference Committee On HB 381, 7/2/26, 10:30am ·