Protests have greeted Gov. Dunleavy as he makes the case for budget cuts.
By Zachariah Hughes March 27 at 4:42 PM ANCHORAGE — It was an unusual scene for a warm March day downtown: a protest.
Standing on the bed of a pickup truck, Kendra Kloster of the advocacy group Native Peoples Action assailed potential cuts to the Alaska Marine Highway System, which people depend on in the rural southeastern island communities where she grew up.Dunleavy has been traveling the state to sell residents on his plan for deep budget cuts. Inside, Dunleavy and members of administration explained the rationale for their proposal for almost two hours.
One of the central campaign issues was, and remains, the size of the Permanent Fund Dividend, what Alaskans refer to as the PFD. For decades, a share of the state’s oil wealth has been invested, and a portion of those earnings is paid out to Alaskans each year. Dunleavy campaigned on a promise of restoring PFDs that his predecessor had limited to help pay for government services, and reverting to an older formula for calculating how much the annual transfer should be to each Alaskan.
Programs that benefit small rural communities in what Alaskans call “the Bush” stand to be severely impacted, many of them after several years of budget reductions already. “I want to like Dunleavy, but I’ve got to be honest, I don’t like the cloak-and-dagger stuff,” Benneville said, adding that there was “something very un-American” about it.
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