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...always be a need for elected officials to be constantly on guard for the sense of privilege that can sneak up on anyone who is given even a modicum of power. Gene Therriault is Senate Republican Minority Leader and represents North Pole.
...the high road as a Republican for the last year and a half," said Sen. Gary Wilken, R-Fairbanks. Senate Republican Minority Leader Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, turned out to be VECO Corp. CEO Bill Allen's chief nemesis during last...
...caucus support the legislation sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairwoman Lesil McGuire, an Anchorage Republican. Minority Leader Ethan Berkowitz called her introduction of the bill a "cynical manipulation" of the political process. McGuire...
...has bipartisan support, and bipartisan opposition in the Senate. Sen. Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, the Republican Minority Leader, joined Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage, in opposing it. Legislative sessions where shortened from the...
...said. There was only a single vote against the budget, from Sen. Charlie Huggins, R-Wasilla, the Senate Republican Minority Leader. He objected to the budget not containing money to open the Goose Creek Prison in the Mat-Su Borough. Instead...
...90-day session cap. As the Senate passed midnight without adjourning or voting to extend the session, Senate Republican Minority Leader Con Bunde, R-Anchorage, noted the Senate was "for the first time ignoring the 90-day limit." Stevens...
...wage, adjusted for inflation, is barely higher than it was three decades ago. Now comes Mitch McConnell, Republican minority leader in the Senate, to argue that the rich and super-rich must keep their tax cuts. Oddly, on a recent Sunday's...
...average or even high prices, the new tax brings in less than PPT was expected to last year, he said. Senate Republican Minority Leader Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, said oil companies complaining that ACES meant a "second" tax increase...
...keeping the PPT as it is, some Minority Republicans in the Senate have been outspoken advocates of a gross tax. Republican Minority Leader Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, and Sen. Tom Wagoner, R-Kenai, are backing a gross tax. "A gross tax...
...coalition that controlled the Senate under the leadership of Senate President Lyda Green, R-Wasilla. Senate Republican Minority Leader Gene Therriault, R-North Pole, said he was concerned about the level of spending and questioned whether...