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1. @GovDunleavy named former Gov. Sean Parnell and former Sen. Mark Begich last March as volunteers leading the economic stabilization team. #akleg #akgov https://gov.alaska.gov/newsroom/2020/03/17/governor-dunleavy-announces-alaska-economic-stabilization-team/
2. In April, former Gov. Sean Parnell was hired at the "discounted hourly rate" of $450 an hour and in September, Begich was part of a group hired at $12,500 a month in September to promote the gas line. #akleg #akgov
3. The gas line corporation is to meet Thursday on the new Dunleavy gas line plan, which is based on getting federal $$. One slide notes the firms employing Parnell and Begich without mentioning them by name. Or that the contracts were signed months ago. #akleg #akgov
4. This has the appearance of something that the state was trying to hide from the public. Odd since one of the Parnell/Begich jobs was to improve communications. Jeff Landfield just got the Parnell/Begich contracts today. https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/mark-begich-and-sean-parnell-firms-awarded-contracts-with-agdc/
5. The combined cost of the Parnell/Begich contracts is close to $250,000. On March 17, when Parnell and Begich were named to lead the economic stabilization team, Gov. Dunleavy said they were doing so as volunteers. #akleg #akgov https://gov.alaska.gov/newsroom/2020/03/18/%F0%9F%8E%A5%F0%9F%93%B7-3-17-covid-19-press-briefing/
6. The gasline promotional contracts, which call for Parnell and Begich to push the project, should have been released months ago by Dunleavy. #akleg #akgov
7. Why were Alaskans never told by the Dunleavy administration that a former governor and former U.S. senator had been hired for $250,000 to promote the Alaska LNG project? #akleg #akgov
8. Parnell and Begich went from volunteer "economic stabilization team" leaders to state consultants—charging the discount rate of $450 an hour in Parnell's case—promoting the gas line for the Dunleavy administration.
