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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts) Fri Jul 15, 2016, 08:47 AM Jul 2016

Joe Miller really wants to fire Gov. Walker, and here's his plan to do it

A protest in downtown Anchorage Monday night urging people to sign an application to recall Alaska’s governor was lightly attended. The political news website The Midnight Sun tweeted a rally participant count of 19. KTVA reported more than two dozen protesters.

Former Republican U.S. Senate candidate Joe Miller is leading an effort to oust Gov. Bill Walker over his veto to cut Alaskans’ Permanent Fund Dividend checks in half. It’s spawned the website recallgovwalker.com and the Facebook page Recall Gov Bill Walker.

“People depend on the PFD. We live in a state where the cost of living is 25 percent higher than other states. People use that PFD for their heat bill. We’ve had people write us that they might not be able to get medical care that they need, or their children won’t be able to buy school clothes,” Miller said during a phone interview Monday before the protest.

“There’s just an extensive list of injuries that people are going to be sustaining as a consequence of what the governor has done,” he continued.

Read more: http://juneauempire.com/local/2016-07-12/joe-miller-really-wants-fire-gov-walker-and-heres-how-hes-going-do-it

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Joe Miller really wants to fire Gov. Walker, and here's his plan to do it (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2016 OP

Joe Miller is now, and always has been, an idiot. raven mad Jul 2016 #1

Joe Miller wants "free stuff" PJMcK Jul 2016 #2

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

1. Joe Miller is now, and always has been, an idiot.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 08:58 AM

Jul 2016

Irony? I agree with him on this. If Walker wanted to "fix" the "crisis", he wouldn't be giving billions of dollars in tax abatement to the big oil companies that operate here.

A single week's profit (net, not gross) for BP/ExxonMobile/etc. exceeds many country's annual net.

And no, they won't go running away with their tails between their legs - we have the product. No more giveaways? Fiscal problem solved.

PJMcK

(22,886 posts)

2. Joe Miller wants "free stuff"

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 09:00 AM

Jul 2016

Funny how that works for Republicans. They say that Democratic candidates promise their constituents free goodies that they haven't earned. Yet now, Alaskan Joe Miller is upset that the checks Alaskans received during the oil boom should continue even though the price of Alaskan crude has plummeted.

Mr. Miller, that's called the free market. If you lived in the reality-based world, you'd understand that your checks for all these years were nothing more than the socialistic policies that you say you hate.

Republicans are hypocritical idiots.

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