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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

“Removing him from the trial was a last resort that was necessary to make sure the defendants had a fair trial. For this reason, the Supreme Court held that the Superior Court did not abuse its discretion when it removed him. The man also made other arguments, but he did not provide any legal or factual support for his arguments. Even self-represented litigants must provide more than just a simple statement to have their claims heard.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“Due process includes a right to be present in court. But the right to be present is not absolute. In cases where someone is accused of a crime, the right to be in court is very strong.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“For the first time, the Supreme Court had to decide whether a plaintiff in a civil lawsuit can be excluded from court for disrupting the proceedings.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“The Supreme Court held that those arguments were waived by insufficient briefing and did not consider those other arguments in its decision.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“He repeatedly interrupted proceedings, argued with the judge, and ignored the judge's explanations and instructions.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“After twice requiring the man to participate by video conference and warning him that he would not be allowed to participate in the trial unless he behaved better, the judge excluded the man from trial. The trial continued without him, and the neighbors won the case.”

Alaska Court System: Alaska Supreme Court Opinion No. 7812, S-19351, Humphrey v. Reges · Sep 9, 2026

“Their country is in shambles right now. They are, as you probably have seen the numbers, 300% inflation. Their money is valueless. They're not paying their soldiers. We control the strait and lots of other things.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“We've taken out about 9 of their tankers. Many of them are gone, though.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“But right after the election, oil prices are going to be tumbling downward. They're going to be tumbling down and we'll get them down. I think for gasoline, we'll get them below $2 a gallon. But not until after the midterm.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“I think the war will end immediately after the election. Because? Because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice, weak group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapon. All they want is a nuclear weapon.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“you've been saying for weeks that oil and gas prices are going —come down. Oil is now back above $100 a barrel.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“We're seeing a lot of attacks now in the Strait of Hormuz. That's between the United States and Iran.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“Well, I think it's very easy to explain to America. All you have to do is say, will you let Iran have a nuclear weapon? And the answer is no. And they're doing very poorly.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

“And if they had a nuclear weapon, the whole world is in deep trouble.”

White House: President Trump Gaggles with Press at Joint Base Andrews, Sep. 9, 2026 · Sep 9, 2026

Treg Taylor “the importation of natural gas is probably inevitable at this point. We're going to have to import LNG to supply the needs of the rail belt.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Dave Bronson “I always get a little nervous when people say let's have government force private enterprise or even a utility to do something. That's a principle of mine. But the other thing is, is I would work real hard at convincing them to do just that”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “We have to approach energy with an all-of-the-above approach. And we have to, we have to move forward on these projects. We can't sit there and study these projects or continually second-guess these projects.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “I hesitate for government to force anything, but that is the direction that needs to occur. And I think everybody is coming to that conclusion a little slow, but they're getting there.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “the legislature in the state of Alaska should work to take steps to create what I think energy wonks refer to as unified economic dispatch, so that the cheapest electron is going to the consumer”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Dave Bronson “it's because of failed personal relationships in Juneau, and you can narrow that down to about less than half a dozen people. They're fighting with each other. That's got to stop.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “The way that our legislature has dealt with this project, the legislature has to give that project Project a chance. There's many legislators I've heard question the economic viability of that project, and yet it's not their job to question the economic viability.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Shireen Crosby

“lawmakers just spent a regular session and 3 special sessions failing to agree on the terms. With that said, question number 1... Do you support the Alaska LNG Project? If yes, name the specific concessions or actions you would take as governor to get the state and Glenfarm to a final investment decision to move the project forward.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “this idea of a grid, which we are gradually moving to, it's inevitable in my opinion. And we're building the infrastructure up, by the way, right now to have those redundant systems.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Dave Bronson “we're not running out of gas in Cook Inlet. We have 19 trillion cubic feet of reserves. We have 3 trillion of proven reserves. This notion that we need to— that it's running out of gas is what we're running out of is contracts for deliverable gas because Hilcorp wants to exit the basin”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Dave Bronson “the bankers and the developers, they look at what the legislature is doing and has done for decades to projects. Every time they turn around, the tax structure is changing.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “as Attorney General, I helped negotiate that contract with Glenfarm... we have private investors, but they're looking at Alaska right now and saying, wait, I thought Alaskans wanted that project.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins “There's Godwin Creek near Seward, 30-megawatt hydro resource. We should be pursuing that for— with urgency and vigor.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Treg Taylor “we've walked ourselves into a little bit of a corner, and we're going to have to take drastic measures that are going to drastically affect the outcome for a lot of Alaska families.”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Shireen Crosby

“The rail belts for electric utilities Golden Valley, Matanuska, Chugach, and Homer Electric currently operate separate grids. Independent studies show combining them into a single jointly run grid is the cheapest way to lower energy bills for families and businesses. As governor, would you force these utilities to unite into one grid despite their objections?”

Last Frontier Republican Club Alaska Governor Debate 2026 · Sep 8, 2026

Sherry Powell

“My boyfriend is a journeyman painter, fabricator. Extraordinary. He can do wonderful things with paint. So he's obsessed with fish, so I'm really excited to find out what you guys want to do with those.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “another one that we worked on is streetlight replacement... it was approved. So we have $50,000, and we're going to look at replacing a lot of our lights along our main corridor along the spur.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “Right now, a lot of our stuff is from De Julio Designs.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “come our next meeting, we'll bring this forth in a more formal manner. There could be some shifts on this as administration talks about it. And then it will go forth, the recommendation of the commission will go forth to city council, usually at the end of the year.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “if the commission's agreeable, we could do something like a work session after our next meeting.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “I would like to talk to our clerk and maybe see if we could do a work session immediately following our meeting, even if we have to set a time. At our next meeting where we would vote on this plan.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “And then along Airport Way as well. But some of them are starting to get tired. We've replaced bulbs, we've restrung them.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “we've recently been talked to about a pickleball player pickleball club and a tennis player. We're talking about if we could partner with the high school or a group to renovate the tennis courts or the outdoor court area at the middle school... if we were going to redo the entire tennis courts at the high school, let's say with 2 tennis courts and 4 pickleball courts, uh, with concrete, which is kind of the ideal scenario, is in the ballpark of $700,000.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Sherry Powell

“The one thing that my boyfriend is obsessed with in Kenai is those fish. He can't stand that they are rusty.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “Currently, I spoke with the Kenai Community Foundation today about trying to present a project to them to get funding from that group. They have funding that can be used for improvement at Leaf Hanson.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Tyler Best “we'll be voting on this plan to get it forth to council. And then we could do a work session at a set time... we could sit down and really hash out flowers, uh, we could really hash out Christmas light replacements, or see what those design elements are.”

Kenai: 09/08/26 Beautification Commission Meeting · Sep 8, 2026

Kris Ranney “I am generally in favor of development again, but tax on property is better than no tax at all. And if it goes to proposals, if someone has some magical ideas, they can put in a proposal.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Michael Shum

“my intention with the property is to to, um, just kind of preserve it more than anything because it's a— it's part of this, the history of the town.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Michael Shum

“I'm not quite sure where any access into those lots of disposal would come from, except for through my property. And my neighbor, Bod Moore, as well, where we have an easement together. So it just kind of makes sense to me that, um, that, that block, it's only one lot, would be completed and, um, would just be absorbed, I guess, into my property”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Michael Shum

“I own the new build at 305 Davis Avenue, which— and I'm the one who put in for this proposal for the bid for the lot for disposal through the City of Cordova.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Mark Hall “it's the only applicable piece because it's too— it's a substandard lot size, can't be used. And the only person that can use it would be the applicant.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Mark Hall “I move to recommend the City Council dispose of Lot 1, Block 26, original town site, approximately 6,740 square feet in size, as outlined in COB Municipal Code 7.40.060.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Kris Ranney “all those in favor of, um, the motion to dispose of Lot 1, Block 26, um, original town site by Option 4, sealed proposals, lease or purchase the property”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

Mark Hall “I move to recommend the city council dispose of the requested portion of ATS 2020, approximately 1,116.2 square feet in size, is outlined in Municipal Code 7.40.060.”

Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 08, 2026, at 6:30 pm · Sep 8, 2026

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