Rep. Kito’s Newsletter: Southeast Spotlight: late summer update
August 21, 2015
Dear Neighbors,
I hope you are enjoying the final weeks of summer. Don’t forget: with school starting again, be sure to keep an eye out for kids and drive safely. Thank you for checking out my recap of some of the activities in the Capitol, around our communities, and across Alaska.
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Rep. Guttenberg’s Newsletter: Costly Legislative Lawsuit on the Horizon
August 20, 2015
On Tuesday leg council announced plans to sue Gov. Walker in an effort to block his authority to expand Medicaid in Alaska. This comes as no surprise considering the opposition the Governor faced since he first introduced Medicaid expansion into the budget during the regular 90 day session. It was blocked by a few and has landed us where we are today—about to spend half a million dollars during a deficit budget on corporate lawyers to carry out a lawsuit against an expansion that would bring in federal money to the state and create thousands of jobs.
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Rep. Wool’s Newsletter: Why is the State of Alaska Suing Itself?! And Fox Spring Update
August 20, 2015
It’s been a pretty bizarre week in the Legislature. The Legislative Council voted 10-1 to sue the state to attempt to prevent Medicaid expansion from providing 40,000 Alaskans access to healthcare while saving the state millions of dollars a year. I won’t go into all of the details about why expansion is good for Alaska and good for Fairbanks, but you can read the article I wrote for the Fairbanks Daily News Miner last month.
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Note from Rep. Gara: Medicaid Lawsuit Wastes State Money
August 19, 2015
Getting the Feds to pay for what the state used to pay for was once on Page One of the Alaska playbook. But yesterday some legislative leaders voted to spend $450,000 of your money on corporate law firms to sue Governor Walker on, well, a policy decision he made that saved the state money by leveraging those federal funds. To be exact, $145,000,000 in federal funds that would create 4,000 Alaska jobs, and ripple through our ailing economy.
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Rep. Josephson’s Newsletter: Conferences & the Ambler Mining District Road
August 14, 2015
Over the past couple of weeks I have been in and out of the state attending conferences in the Seattle area. These conferences allow like-minded policy makers (and also those from opposing positions) to gather to discuss issues, strategies, and network with each other. I tried to organize my conference schedules so that they would all take place around the same time. This way I could spend more of my time here in Alaska.
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