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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.
John Sims
“Information that we have since received from them is that they do not plan on starting their exploration or their production.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“We have not received any discretionary gas sales from HEX since July 26th. We are receiving 8 million a day from them, 8.1 million a day, which is their firm volumes. We were expecting more than that per what we viewed as our contract rights.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“So as has been publicly noticed, we are in the middle of an arbitration with HEX to try and get the gas that we expected from them.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“If both Chugach Electric and MEA those exchange agreements actually come to fruition and we do that, we are still about a BCF short.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“the commission denied our initial petition for reconsideration— excuse me, our petition for, uh, determination of prudency.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“Is it full? Is CINGSA for right now? Representative Fields, through the chair, it is not. It is about maybe half. I don't know the exact number.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“We have restarted conversations with Chugach again, and we are waiting back to hear their proposal on what they can do in this different timeframe.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“back in April when we spoke to a number of you down in Juneau, we were expecting gas to start flowing in our system by September 1st from Blue Crest, and we were expecting about 1 to 1.5 BCF of gas. We now know that's not possible for that September 1st delivery to start.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“we are working on an exchange agreement with Matanuska Electric.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
John Sims
“What we are trying to do contractually is they will give us 1.2 BCF in exchange for us sending that same volume back to them by March of 2028. So we're not receiving gas that we get to keep and just, you know, use for our customers.”Alaska Legislature: Special Coverage - August 20, 2026 2:00pm · Aug 20, 2026
Andy Josephson
“But I wanted to take 30 seconds to talk about Ms. Curtis. So I just want to thank her for her state service, for her exemplary performance and integrity.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Andy Josephson
“She stood up for us, and she stood up for the power of the auditor under law, um, even when it was under attack. So she will be missed.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Andy Josephson
“I'm certainly not going to object. I support Mr. Lindahl fully, and I congratulate him.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Gray Jackson
“the motion is approved and the committee will place the name of Mark Lundell in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor. And I'll transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and the Senate for consideration and a vote by the legislature on the appointment. But please note, if the 34th legislature does not convene before the conclusion of its term and therefore does not vote on this nomination, I will submit the committee's nomination to the incoming presiding officers for consideration by the 35th Legislature.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Gray Jackson
“As noted during our July meeting, after 34 years with the Division of Legislative Audit, serving 12 of those years as a legislative auditor, Chris Curtis submitted her letter of resignation to the committee in June with an effective date of August 30th. In response, a recruitment was initiated and a job announcement was posted to Workplace Alaska for 3 weeks. 3 Weeks. Last Thursday, a subcommittee comprised of myself, Vice Chair Fields, and Representative Kopp interviewed Mark Lundahl for the legislative auditor position. Mr. Lundahl was the only applicant determined to meet the qualifications for the position.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Gray Jackson
“I move and ask unanimous consent of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee place the name of Mark Lundahl in nomination before the legislature for appointment as legislative auditor and authorize the chair to transmit the committee's nomination to the presiding officers of the House and Senate.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Gray Jackson
“On August 13th, a subcommittee of Vice Chair Fields, Representative Kopp, and I, as mentioned, we interviewed Mr. Lundell, and after the interview, we determined that we wanted to move his name forward to the committee to be the State Auditor. I followed through with checking the references that he presented to us, and every one of those references recommended him with flying colors.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Gray Jackson
“Also, under Alaska Statute 24-20251, because the legislature is not currently in session, Mr. Lundell will begin carrying out the duties of the legislative auditor on August 31st, 2026, and will serve as acting legislative auditor pending consideration of the nomination by the legislature.”Alaska Legislature: Joint Budget & Audit 8/20/26, 10:30am · Aug 20, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“I got one more thank you, and you guys know what it is. It's last but not least. It's actually last but best, and that is my wife Julie.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“And we're going to win the general election with you.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We made the Final Four. But look, we are just getting started.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We've had hundreds and hundreds of our campaign volunteers working, knocking doors. Julie and I have been knocking doors with them, phone banking out of their kitchens, 4x8s being put up in the wind, in the rain.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“this army of volunteers— and it's an army, right? We're going to expand that. We're going to build that into the next phase of this campaign. You are our superpower.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“This is the secret weapon.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We're going to redouble our efforts. We're going to need all of you to talk to your neighbor, your cousin, the guy in the shop who might be undecided, who maybe didn't vote today.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We've got a long campaign. And I got great news. I made the Final Four.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“Big Lower 48 liberal money doesn't knock doors. It doesn't do phone banking. You guys do it. It doesn't put up signs. So starting tomorrow, this incredible group, our volunteer group— and again, I can't thank you enough.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We are going to win with all of you. We are going to win for Alaska in November, and we are going to win for the great country, the United States of America that we love.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“tomorrow the campaign moves into a new phase, right? The primary ends, the general starts. The choice in my view is clear.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We are going to do it. Alaska can't be bought. Can't be bought.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“We don't need all the money. We need you. This is the superpower of winning elections, our volunteer grassroots force. I can't thank you enough.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“This is what we need to win the election.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“Julie, I think— not I think, I know— just represents Alaska with class and dignity and strength.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“the battle has been joined. We made the final four. Thank you very much on that. And we are going to work. We're going to work hard.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Dan Sullivan
“we're going to be outraised. We're going to be outspent, right? The lower 48 liberals are dumping tons and tons of money into this race. We can't match them.”Dan Sullivan campaign: Senator Sullivan’s Election Night Speech · Aug 19, 2026
Rob Allen
“there'll be better maps. We'll get better intel out. We'll get better numbers on— structures in there that have been lost. Right now we've been too busy trying to save the structures that are still there to get a good count on what has happened inside that footprint.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“I was on the phone immediately with Cato when he had felt, uh, their computers shut off and shut back on.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“we did put a pretty good size evacuation box in right away. One of the things we'll be doing now is we've had an opportunity to get some ground established. We'll be looking at shrinking the box.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“All our focus has been today, for the most part, is everything inside that area from the Alaska Highway to Fox, um, Red Fox, and trying to keep those homes that are still in there protected”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Emery Johnson
“We do have life and property as our primary objectives. We are on day 2 of an active firefight, and so we are in initial attack”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“They knew that it was a power line issue. They went out right away to take a look, and by the time they got from the station to their vehicles, the fire was called in. By the time they got to the fire, it was 15 acres and going through to 20.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“still focused on initial attack, still trying to figure out what we have out there, trying to get an anchor point established to get moving forward. As Jake's team rolls in and starts to move up, you'll see a lot more progression as we start putting some line on the map and getting some things secured.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“The big shift that you'll see between now Tomorrow, Jake Livingston, who is the Chief of Fire Operations for Division of Forestry— he's my boss, so I'm trying to do a good presentation here— will be bringing one of the Alaska Complex Incident Management teams in.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Jake Livingston
“what we are planning on doing is just building off of what has already been established. Here with, with, uh, Rob and Cato and all the people working for them. And, uh, you know, just keeping those priorities of life, property, residences going directly after the edge of this fire, keeping it as small as possible.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“We ended up pulling engines off the Kenai, off of the Matsu area, and Fairbanks all collapsed into this area to start helping to pick that up.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“We've got 4 crews coming from Dawson, from Canada, to help. We've got the 2 Q400 air tankers in today.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“2 Water scooping aircraft are overnighting in Whitehorse and will be here tomorrow. We're bringing back our crews that have been in the Lower 48, so we have 4 of them will be trickling in over the next 2 days to start filling up in here.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026
Rob Allen
“The task force of engines came up from, um, Girdwood, Chugiach, Anchorage, and the Matsu.”Alaska DNR Forestry: Tok Community Meeting for the Mukluk Fire, August 18 · Aug 18, 2026