Rick Perry is not the only Governor that should be indicted for abuse of power

[J_J_]

hard to believe, but Alaska's governor is even worse


This guy is just opening corrupt, worked for Exxon against the state of alaska after the oil spill, then went on to by a lobbyist for Conoco, then governor when Sarah quit....

Fired assessor claims Parnell aims to stack board for oil industry
http://www.adn.com/article/20140212/fired-assessor-claims-parnell-aims-stack-board-oil-industry

McGee said he received a phone call from a state official in late January informing him that he was to be replaced, but there was no explanation why he was removed. He said he believes the administration is “stacking the board in favor of industry.”

The industry has argued the assessment board has valued the pipeline billions too high. Last year the board set a value of $11.9 billion on the pipeline, while the industry argued for $2.3 billion. McGee said the oil industry failed to get a lower pipeline assessment from the board, which in the past has been staffed chiefly by Alaska appraisers and assessors, but “now they’re trying to replace the board members and see if they get a different result.

“I don’t like that. I think that’s bad public policy and a dangerous thing to have happened,” he said. “With two board members closely associated with industry, I think they would find industry’s argument a lot more persuasive than we have in the past, and that concerns me,” he said.

The governor’s office has not responded to repeated requests for comment on why McGee was fired. A statement Thursday from the governor's office said the two new appointments are to "bring a fresh perspective to the board" and were made without consultation with the oil industry.

Attorney Bill Walker, an independent candidate for governor, said he was disappointed to hear that Parnell had removed McGee, a man who Walker said had become assessment board chairman because he is “one of the preeminent appraisers in Alaska.

“It is shocking the influence the North Slope producers have over this administration,” said Walker, who has represented Valdez in the pipeline valuation cases.

[L0oniX]

1. Mike Gravel said it first "follow the money".

[Cicada]

4. I worry this loose standard will be misused

With this theory I think about all politicians could be indicted - not a good idea.

[J_J_]

2. this governor and legislature just passed a bill to give record breaking tax breaks to oil companie

He just gave them $2 Billion of alaska's money and they are just lying about it, it is ridiculous.

Two conoco philips employees (currently employed!) in the legislature cast the deciding votes

[AndreaCG]

3. Andrew Cuomo has some explaining to do too.

[J_J_]

5. You are here If leaders had done their job, Alaskans wouldn't be voting on oil taxes

Forced to vote because the majority and this administration treated the legislative process as a sales pitch not an analysis, and got exactly what everyone knew it would all along: Its own way. It also got lots of outraged dissent.

Forced to vote because lawmakers with obvious and direct conflicts of interest voted on legislation that would create hundreds of millions in direct and immediate benefit to their own employers. They asked to be excused from voting. They were denied. Oil taxes or not, Alaska's legislative conflict of interest procedures are a true and complete disgrace.

Forced to vote because of economic and fiscal analysis that was withheld, incompletely understood, or simply not done during deliberation. New information, new studies, and fresh nuances about how SB 21 behaves are being discovered and examined right now, in the weeks before Tuesday's primary. Consider that for a moment. There are rather glaring aspects of the current tax structure and its effect on state finances that lawmakers did not consider before voting on it.

http://www.adn.com/article/20140816/if-leaders-had-done-their-job-alaskans-wouldnt-be-voting-oil-taxes