# lieutenant (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lieutenant. Page: Feed: --- ## [2026 election: New poll shows Hobbs leading Biggs in Arizona Governor's race](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/election/2026-election-new-poll-shows-hobbs-leading-biggs-arizona-governors-race) _2026-08-21 · Kenneth.Wong@fox.com (Kenneth Wong) · Latest News | FOX 10_ Incumbent Katie Hobbs has a double-digit lead over her Republican challenger in the Arizona governor's race, according to a new poll, and officials with the poll have an explanation behind the numbers. ## [Sullivan tries to distract from Peltola's primary victory](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/20/sullivan-turns-up-heat-on-petersburg) _2026-08-20 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The Mensa members in Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign coterie think that the people who voted for Petersburg Dan Sullivan are so stupid that they voted for the wrong Sullivan by mistake. Were it not for all those dumbbells who couldn’t read the ballot, Sullivan would only be about 4,000 votes behind Mary Peltola, instead of 7,000, according to the Sullivan, Dan S. campaign. ## [Feds trying to crush Dan J. Sullivan because he had the gall to challenge Dan S. Sullivan](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/19/am1lfa52my3iweegp6yagjq167olq8) _2026-08-19 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The president of the United States and the Justice Department, with the full support of Sen. Dan Sullivan, are abusing our justice system to intimidate Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg and violate his civil rights. That’s the only way to interpret the news that broke on Election Day that a federal grand jury has issued subpoenas to try to prosecute Petersburg Sullivan for having the gall to run… ## [2026 Election: FL results shape midterm matchups](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/fmc-ak2aicq5bwh1mqdr) _2026-08-19 · Latest News | FOX 10_ In Florida, progressive candidates are gaining steam as seven nominees prepare for upcoming midterm races. This comes as control of Congress remains on the line in November. Reporter Rebekah Castor has more. ## [Haney's cheap shot against Pepper McFarland in House race](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/18/haneys-cheap-shot-against-pepper-mcfarland-in-house-race) _2026-08-19 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Former Assembly Member Barbara Haney, a Republican state House candidate in House District 33, didn’t bother to check the facts before passing along false information from Facebook, an attack on one of her opponents in the race, Fairbanks teacher Pepper McFarland, an independent. ## [Republicans push pipeline propaganda](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/16/rci5x0m4te0z83u89vbd264mob67mn) _2026-08-16 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The gas pipeline garbage ad, paid for by Interior Republicans, a group chaired by former school board member April Smith, is dishonest and inaccurate. Appearing in a season of stupid ads created with AI, it is unbelievably stupid. Cynthia Henry, the GOP national committeewoman, is a deputy treasurer of the group, along with GOP activist Fred Vreeman. Smith is the treasurer. They are responsible… ## [Fairbanks Daily News-Miner needs our help](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/15/fairbanks-daily-news-miner-needs-our-help) _2026-08-15 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ From here on the News-Miner will be in the hands of a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that deserves community support. Without it, we will not have a newspaper at all. ## [Crucial campaign finance measure on the ballot Tuesday](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/13/j3irlg9mlk5n5w0hgidvxd9q1gjsxe) _2026-08-14 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ One of the most important items on the state election ballot Tuesday is Ballot Measure No. 1, which would bring back campaign contribution limits in Alaska. This is not to be confused with Ballot Measure No. 2, which is not on the ballot in Alaska until November. ## [Who leads 2026 Texas Senate race? Latest Paxton vs. Talarico polls](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/election/texas-senate-race-polls-paxton-talarico) _2026-08-13 · Aaron.Barker@fox.com (Aaron Barker) · Latest News | FOX 10_ Polls have shown the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Texas is in a dead heat. ## [2026 AZ governor's race: Hobbs, Giles address key issues](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/fmc-girc30fb0ziy4aaw) _2026-08-13 · Latest News | FOX 10_ From inflation and immigration, to data centers and Arizona's water crisis, Governor Katie Hobbs and her Lieutenant Governor running mate, John Giles, joined AZAM to address key issues that matter to your wallet, your home and the community. ## [Unlimited Mobile Internet, One V-SIM (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KtdM5LVrjMO6) _2026-08-13 · **Sponsored**_ Automatically switches across T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon; no throttling, no contract. ## [Dahlstrom claims legislator violated state ethics law with pointed email](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/12/o84oehqiwwb36g74597a5nzc22jgfw) _2026-08-12 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, who has crowned herself the queen of the speech police in Alaska, needs a lesson about freedom of speech. ## [Lindsey Graham's sister Darline advances to GOP runoff for US Senate](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/lindsey-graham-sister-darline-advances-gop-runoff) _2026-08-12 · Daniel.Miller@fox.com (Daniel Miller) · Latest News | FOX 10_ Sen. Darline Graham and Rep. Ralph Norman will face off in a Republican runoff election for South Carolina’s vacant U.S. Senate seat, one month after the sudden passing of late Sen. Lindsey Graham. ## [Lt. Governor tickets finalized: What it means for voters](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/fmc-1be9dv1gj0o07u8i) _2026-08-12 · Latest News | FOX 10_ In a historic first for Arizona, voters will choose a lieutenant governor in November. So what does this mean for swing voters? Stan Barnes, founder of Copper State Consulting, breaks it down. ## [2026 Election: Katie Hobbs picks John Giles as her lieutenant governor running mate](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/election/2026-election-katie-hobbs-picks-john-giles-her-lieutenant-governor-running-mate) _2026-08-12 · Megan.Spector@fox.com (Megan Spector) · Latest News | FOX 10_ Governor Katie Hobbs has tapped former Mesa Mayor John Giles as her lieutenant governor running mate in the 2026 Election. ## [2026 Election: Katie Hobbs picks running mate](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/fmc-6ohup83k9c2ax4pk) _2026-08-12 · Latest News | FOX 10_ Governor Katie Hobbs had made her pick for lieutenant governor, over a week after her Republican challenger did the same thing. FOX 10's Megan Spector reports. ## [Judge blocks Trump’s mail-in voting executive order again](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/udge-blocks-trumps-mail-in-voting-executive-order-again) _2026-08-11 · Nick.Viviani@fox.com (Nick Viviani) · Latest News | FOX 10_ President Donald Trump’s executive order barring the U.S. Postal Service from delivering mail-in ballots to anyone not on a list of eligible voters compiled by the federal government suffered another legal setback. ## [Gov. Hobbs names John Giles as running mate](https://www.fox10phoenix.com/video/fmc-s2c42y61rsv3nkf6) _2026-08-11 · Latest News | FOX 10_ Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has officially announced her pick for lieutenant governor. John Giles, the former Mesa mayor, will serve as Hobbs' running mate in the November election. ## [Delaware law, not Alaska law, would govern any Glenfarne buyout](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/10/dunleavy-falls-flat-on-gasline) _2026-08-10 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ One of the secret agreements between Glenfarne and the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation deals with what the state would be required to pay Glenfarne if AGDC decides the company needs to go. “The repurchase price is based on the value Glenfarne has added to the company,” according to a leaked document that says Delaware law, not Alaska law, would govern the matter. “If there is a dispute on… ## [Sullivan buries the truth of Iran debacle with avalanche of words](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/8/sullivan-bombards-alaskans-inboxes-with-world-class-word-salad) _2026-08-10 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ As with every other contentious topic during his 12 years in the Senate, Sullivan thinks that responding to critics of the war in Iran with an avalanche of words and digressions about the gas pipeline, ANWR, etc.—assembled by a committee of his employees—will bury readers so thoroughly that all recipients of the missive will surrender and beg for mercy. ## [Don't let Elon Musk buy Alaska—Vote No. on 2](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/8/dont-let-elon-musk-buy-alaskavote-no-on-2) _2026-08-09 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The supporters of the campaign to repeal ranked choice voting are groveling before the world’s richest man as Elon Musk tries to buy a voting system that pleases him in Alaska. With this move, the Republican campaign against ranked choice voting becomes an effort by Musk to buy a voting system in Alaska that meets with his approval. ## [One platform, from silicon to agent (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/PnBMDinwTIxG) _2026-08-09 · **Sponsored**_ Serverless inference plus Inference Router to optimize cost and latency at scale. ## [Dan Sullivan will get a pass for casting deciding vote on Todd Blanche](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/7/dan-sullivan-gets-a-pass-on-todd-blanche) _2026-08-07 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Alaska news organizations covered the predictable “will she or won’t she” story of Sen. Lisa Murkowski and the confirmation of Todd Blanche. But they failed to even mention the name of Alaska’s junior senator, who is running for reelection and is more important in this debate than Murkowski because Sullivan will cast the deciding vote to make Blanche the attorney general. ## [Trump shakedown of mining company led to approval of Ambler road permit](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/5/ambler-mining-promoter-had-to-surrender-a-share-of-company-to-get-federal-permit) _2026-08-06 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, Rep. Nick Begich the Third and Gov. Mike Dunleavy heaped effusive praise on Trump last fall for approving the Ambler permit, but never mentioned that it was a federal shakedown of private industry that made it happen. ## [Al Rowe would have been a 'new kind of lieutenant governor'](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/4/1xpydf1cvt2zjhw77oq7j96ewxb5qb) _2026-08-05 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Most of the people who run for lieutenant governor in Alaska like to think they will be allowed to do more by the governor than run elections and maintain custody of the state seal. They will reinvent the role of the lieutenant governor. It almost never works out. But in the case of Al Rowe, we really would have had a “new kind of lieutenant governor.” Exactly what kind is hard to say. Explosive?… ## [State politics has had plenty of turkeys. But only one Dux.](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/3/x6q6ldnsscjucsn9htprfg8gfijpbl) _2026-08-03 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Submitted for your approval: The second-greatest ad campaign for a lieutenant governor candidate in Alaska history. ## [Dunleavy put gasline project cost at $65 billion to $70 billion](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/8/2/dunleavy-put-gasline-project-cost-at-65-billion-to-70-billion) _2026-08-03 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Perhaps auditioning for his next role at a Council on Foreign Relations event June 12, Gov. Mike Dunleavy meandered across a range of international topics with vague and superficial comments that Donald Trump would approve on Greenland, the war in Iran, relations with Canada and more. What he said about the cost of the gasline, does not bode well for the project. Asked about the fall elections and… ## ['Yeah, that's bullshit. OK? You could quote me. That's bullshit."---Gov. Mike Dunleavy](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/21/dunleavys-bullshit-attack-on-wielechowski-giessel-deserves-more-attention) _2026-08-02 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Here is a portion of the transcript, recorded for posterity by a Juneau reporter, of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s gasline emissions at the conclusion of the last special session. ## [The sound of Alaska politics in 1974](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/31/au6u4cra548wbhih8rr4dmwz5rne0v) _2026-08-01 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Just before the 1974 primary election in Alaska, Michael Carey sat down with a tape recorder to record ads by state and local candidates on KFAR and KFRB radio in Fairbanks. The recording you can listen to here provides a good snapshot of the political situation in Alaska 52 years ago. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59f229bd2aeba5312c87df44/t/6a6d424432067566f7fb4f1e/1785545326556/Larry+Carpenter+B-Line.mp3) ## [Alaska's failed leadership and the Southcentral gas crisis](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/30/638vpqid7zn27nkmjlq87khnz7imp0) _2026-07-30 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Enstar, which is owned by TriSummit Utilities of Alberta, has opted to act like a political branch of the Dunleavy administration, focused on spreading hysteria about the gas supply situation in Southcentral Alaska instead of a solution. Nothing the Legislature could do this summer will change the energy picture for this winter and beyond, contrary to the claims by Dunleavy and his allies. ## [Cynthia Henry didn’t mention how Trump raised energy prices in Fairbanks](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/29/cynthia-henry-leads-the-blame-game) _2026-07-29 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Cynthia Henry, one of the leaders of the Republican Party in Alaska, has joined the “Build the Line!” cheerleading squad, now claiming that members of the Senate majority are the only thing standing between Alaskans and a blissful era of cheap energy. The Republican National Committeewoman for Alaska, she put her name on a shameless Daily News-Miner letter to the editor that blames Sen. Scott… ## [Sullivan has nothing to say about Trump's war in Iran](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/27/htrzf7hhcz49wqz54xu8zsf6k0kwd5) _2026-07-27 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The most striking element of Sullivan’s presentation was his inability and/or unwillingness to talk about the president to perhaps the friendliest audience that he could have anywhere. It’s bizarre that Sullivan would not address an audience of loyal Republicans—including what Sullivan called an “all-star” list of local co-hosts—about how proud he is to stand with Trump. ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qjbjm5kqIfED) _2026-07-27 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [State improperly deletes naturalized citizens from voter rolls](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/24/state-illegally-deletes-naturalized-citizens-from-voter-rolls) _2026-07-25 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The lieutenant governor has only one job—other than looking after the state seal—and Nancy Dahlstrom isn’t getting the job done in supervising the Division of Elections. In removing thousands of names from Alaska’s voter rolls, Division of Elections Directory Carol Beecher admitted to legislators this week, the state used old data that hasn’t been checked. ## [Hilcorp says it 'contributes' $1 billion in taxes and royalties](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/23/hilcorp-says-it-contributed-1-billion-in-taxes-and-royalties) _2026-07-23 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ Hilcorp opposes the proposal that owner Texas billionaire Jeff Hildebrand be forced to start paying an oil tax that has always applied to ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil. The proposal is “punitive” and aimed at Hilcorp and Hildebrand, according to one of Hildebrand’s Alaska executives. ## [Ohio Dan can't stop talking about Petersburg Dan](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/22/zgqqrk1vv8k0my4pfc3eruxvlwdpy8) _2026-07-23 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ The Wall Street Journal transcript of an friendly interview by Kim Strassel with Sen. Dan Sullivan has her pausing for an ad at one point and saying, “When we come back more with Dan J. Sullivan, Senator for Alaska about his race for reelection.” The Journal audio has the correct middle initial, but it’s noteworthy that even a stalwart Wasilla supporter of Sullivan’s like Strassel can get the… ## [Glenfarne never ordered the pipe it claimed to be ready to buy](https://www.dermotcole.com/reportingfromalaska/2026/7/19/glenfgarne) _2026-07-21 · Dermot Cole · Reporting From Alaska_ On November 19, 2025, the president of Glenfarne told legislators that the company was so optimistic about the Alaska LNG project that it would spend hundreds of millions of dollars of its own money to order pipe and get it shipped to Alaska. This was supposed to happen before the state agreed on a property tax break. The pipe was never ordered. The company did not spend hundreds of millions.