Republican gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson is one of the most outspoken candidates promoting the delusional “full statutory Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD).” She frequently references all of the tired arguments for a full PFD, something that Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) has also done but has been unable to deliver on in his nearly eight years as governor.
But there may be another reason for Wilson’s support for a full PFD.
Reports on the Alaska Court System website that list PFD garnishments show Wilson had more than $2,400 total garnished from her 2023 and 2024 PFDs.
The garnishments stem from a 2022 lawsuit filed by Shoreside Petroleum against Wilson, her mother Roberta Zipay, and Denali Disposal – a trash company owned 75% by Wilson and 25% by Roberta Zipay.
Zipay’s 2023 and 2024 PFDs were also garnished for the same amount.
In October 2022, Shoreside Petroleum filed a debt collection lawsuit against Denali Disposal, Wilson, and Zipay. None of them ever responded to the lawsuit. This resulted in a motion for default judgement that was granted on December 6, 2022. A motion for final judgement was granted on February 2, 2023.
It’s not clear why the lawsuit was filed, but it was likely related to money Denali Disposal owed Shoreside Petroleum for fuel. The Landmine was unable to reach the owners of Shoreside Petroleum or their lawyer. We will obtain all the relevant court documents next week when the court is open.
Bernadette Wilson did not provide comment by the time of publication.
Wilson provided the following comment after the article was published:
We are incredibly blessed that we survived draconian COVID lockdowns. Like so many businesses across Anchorage, our business took a huge financial hit. My heart breaks for businesses that were not so fortunate and had to close their doors. Anchorage has still not fully recovered.
Across Alaska, I see business owners whose true strength has been measured not by their good times, but by the challenges they have overcome. I look at our president, who has declared bankruptcy multiple times, and see a man who has taken wisdom learned from his struggles and put it to use, becoming one of the best presidents this country has ever had.
The final judgement against Wilson, her mom Roberta Zipay, and Denali Disposal – for more than $57,000 – was entered on May 9, 2023.
In July 2023, Shoreside Petroleum attempted to start collecting payment. On August 16, 2023 a “no funds” return of service for a bank sweep was posted on Court View.
On September 29, 2023 more than $3,000 was swept from a Denali Disposal account. Shoreside continued to try and collect the money, which led to the eventual PFD garnishments. The judgement was satisfied on September 23, 2025. Wilson had filed to run for governor four months prior.
Wilson has repeatedly stated that she is one of the few candidates who has signed the front of a check and not just the back of a check. It looks like she is also one of the few candidates who has had their PFDs garnished to satisfy a court ordered judgment. It’s no wonder she is such a staunch advocate for a full PFD!
As someone who has had many PFD’s garnished for back child support I say so what? My arrears in back support took my dividend every single year for over 18 straight. But my daughters deserved every penny much as the business Bernadette owed deserved to be paid as well. My arrears have long since been paid off, because while I may have been behind due to reasons no one needs to really know, I was not a dead beat dad. And it sounds like despite owing a judgement of $57k Bernadette’s bill was paid in full in Sept of 2025.… Read more »
What it actually sounds like is she still can’t run a business to stay out of the red post Covid either. Why would you trust a candidate who can’t manage her business and its finances to run an entire state? She can’t respond to a lawsuit on time or pay her bills on time. And you should have paid your child support on time. No payment and late payment hurts the other party. Wilson hurt another business that employs Alaskans. She should be called out for something like this. So this does matter you piece of toast.
I never said I was voting for her, trusting her to run anything, or making my post in any sort of political affiliation at all. You assuming any of those things is purely out of blind hatred for her political affiliation but has nothing to do with me. Just like your saying my being behind in child support somehow makes me a bad person. As I said it’s no one’s business why I was behind but there’s a hundred valid reasons people get behind that don’t make them bad people. Maybe they are severely injured and can’t work for a… Read more »
Happy Mother’s Day to your ex, your children’s mother. That was thoughtful of you. even though you were behind; you filed for PFD’s anyway. Lot’s of men don’t do that. You did anyway. You are the second man I heard filing anyway just so his ex and child could get the surprise check in their mail. However she used them its not any man’s place to condemn because I know there are mothers who were incredibly selfish but blessed in that their father of their children he has a sense of responsibility and will to do right and at least… Read more »
Don’t be too quick to dismiss Bernadette despite her critics which are many We know that Anchorage is dying. We know that Juneau our capital is a dead town. We know that the private sector that funds state government is limping along and showing signs of strain and collapse because of the weight of government over it, we know AKDemocrats control Juneau, Anchorage, and the legislature, we know that anyone who are like Bernedette they are strongly against is a threat to their leadership and the life they want from all of us: our Labor, not to own anything, and… Read more »
Sorry hoss,
Having the state pay your bills doesnt make you or anyone else“more like the rest of us”
Do you get a tax return? Do you use it to pay bills or any other sort of expenses you have? So the federal government pays yours by that logic. Do you take any sort of tax deductions when filling? Your deductions equate to government covering your expenses, or paying your bills as it were. And news flash, the state may run the accounts, but the money belongs to the citizens. Governments are supposed to work for the citizens, at least here in America. The taxes they collect to pay for things, come from citizens. The investment funds they use… Read more »
That is the stupidest retort my dude. You get a tax return because you actually have the government too much of your own money throughout the year, and after the amount returned to you is based on the allowable deductions by law. Don’t like it? Blame tax law and do something to change it. And if as you say, elected officials have the job of managing public funds, Wilson is still the last one to trust with public money if she can’t manage her own business and finances.
Again, I was never arguing for her election, or giving her my trust in business practices, or even defending her character. My argument was that the reporting of her having PFD’s garnished to satisfy a debt she incurred, regardless of the avenue said debt was deemed an acceptable garnishment reason, and also barely covered a small portion of the overall due yet as of late last year the entire debt is paid in full spoke more towards her being more like every day other citizens. Anyone that has owed debt, may have fallen behind in paying that debt for whatever… Read more »
“………Do you get a tax return? Do you use it to pay bills or any other sort of expenses you have? So the federal government pays yours by that logic………”
I agree with Tina’s comment above praising you for filing for a PFD knowing that it will go to your kids, but your logic here is false. A tax return is your money (withheld from your income by the payer and sent to government before it’s due) returned, not a freebie like a PFD.
Quite honestly this entire argument has nothing to do with my original post any way. My response was a gut reaction to your attempt at slandering me for having PFD’s garnished for my child support. So if I had gotten them instead and spent them on t.v.s or snow machines or vacations etc so on then that’s ok, but because they went to my children, or my ‘bills’ as you worded it, I’m not like ordinary citizens? Implying that I am actually less than? Make that make sense for me. Free money or citizen owned really doesn’t matter in regards… Read more »
Also I’d like to point out that those garnished PFD’s did not pay off my child support obligations. Not even close. Like Bernadette’s garnished PFD’s those checks barely paid a small potion of my over all support obligations. Not half, not a quarter, probably not even an eighth of my overall owed amount. A small portion. And yet I’m completely paid up and have been for a long time since. Yes, those PFD’s helped towards what I owed but they benefitted my children far more than anything the amount they took off my owed amount benefitted me
“………My response was a gut reaction to your attempt at slandering me for having PFD’s garnished for my child support……..”
But I did not do so! Indeed, I praised you like Tina for applying for a PFD knowing that it would be garnished and given to your children’s care. You did the moral thing, as she noted, and I agreed.
I did write that I was pleased that PFDs are garnished for back child support, but I also know that many deadbeat fathers would not apply intentionally in anger. You clearly don’t do that.
My apologies Reggie, I had been confusing you as the poster of this original comment “…… Sorry hoss,
Having the state pay your bills doesnt make you or anyone else“more like the rest of us”……” which prompted my tax return rebuttal. That was in fact Sbxtr, and not you. My mistake.
And to expand further, before you attempt to claim government funding from oil taxes, and other various taxes like alcohol, tobacco, and weed is not citizens money, it too is in fact from citizens. We pay those taxes. The oil taxes is for resources that belong to the citizens of our nation. It’s not the governments, it’s ours, we the people. I am so sick and tired of people using government funding and the citizens getting this funding as some sort of insult or insinuation it makes people less than. All government funding is in fact OUR money. So when… Read more »
“………It doesn’t belong to our government, our government belongs to US!!!…….”
NEWSFLASH:
“Government” is an entity, just like an individual or corporation, and it “belongs to US” just like you belong to it. Try to argue otherwise if ever drafted into military service.
Good luck with that…………
Your draft argument here, while perhaps seemingly spund to prove your point, does not retain to me for several reasons and therefore irrelevant. First off, at 48 I’m well beyond draft age. They don’t want aging liabilities on the battle field. Secondly at this stage of life I have medical issues that would prevent me from ever passing a physical or meeting the conditioning requirements for the military. They don’t want liabilities that might drop dead during simple training exercises much less in the heat of a battle. And finally, the penalty for refusing to be drafted is up to… Read more »
“………avoiding a draft wouldn’t be the end all be all you make it out to sound like. Sure there would be possible repercussions doing so, but if one is willing to accept those punishments the threat of a governmental draft isn’t as worrisome as you think……..” You (and I) might be the last to be conscripted, but history proves that losing nations can and do conscript both boys and old men, and that included here with the Confederate States of America 162 years ago. And that does not negate my point. You do not own the government. At best, you… Read more »
I agree, I am but one individual with but one vote to cast. And alone, I do not stand much of a chance against most other individuals having the health issues I do at this point in my life, much less the ever reaching hand of government. But our forefathers understood that government control can be a dangerous thing. That is why they drafted the constitution and established our government in such a way as to grant the people the power to elect people for the positions of power we felt would best represent our interests as a people under… Read more »
And the state is not providing my PFD to anyone but me anymore. My children are now grown adults, ages 31 and 25 by the years end. But even if they were not as I said, my support has long since been paid in full. Yes, I was fortunate to have PFD money allocated to them when it was. But that was years ago. But make no mistake, those garnishments paid only a small portion of my obligations. Not half, not a quarter, probably not even an eighth of my total amount. A small portion. But my kids deserved it… Read more »
J – If you’re down at the Nesbitt, take a lookie-loo at Allard’s latest, she’s also being hauled in to court again for not paying her bills. Again.
What’s up with these MAGA’s who don’t keep their word ? Why should any person trust them, especially with money ?
Bernadette Wilson wrote that Donald Trump is “one of the best presidents this country has ever had.”
I paid over $5.00 for gasoline yesterday. These highest costs for gas in this country are due to the unreasonable war Trump (and his sidekick Pete Hegseth) started for no good reason. It should come as no surprise that the average Alaskan, like me, cannot afford this.
Trump is a pompous buffoon and Dan Sullivan and his Republican US Senate buddies need to confront “their dear leader” and major league grifter to get our country back on track.
“……… It should come as no surprise that the average Alaskan, like me, cannot afford this……….”
I can, and I will, but then, I’m not average in any way, shape, or form, and I want to see Iran buried for good.
That’s the.ol’ spirit, All for All and One for One, eh Reg ?
I don’t understand what you mean. Obviously, Trump isn’t burying Iran like I would. I’d smoke ’em until crispy, so it isn’t “all for all”.
And he’s not going to either
Nobody’s perfect. He’s more merciful than I am. By far. With oil storage nearing capacity full with the blockade preventing shipment for the past few weeks, this is the perfect time to firebomb Kharg Island with napalm. The island would burn like Hell for months.
You must be very relieved that Trump is POTUS and his mercy and restraint are saving your (and Iran’s) day.
G.S. I had 500 gallons of heating oil delivered a few weeks ago and it cost me $800 more than the delivery a couple months earlier. Trump is sticking his greasy little fingers into my wallet to distract everyone from the Epstein files and between gasoline and heating oil I’m going to be down $3000 or more by the end of the year.
Always nice to see the party planne!
Oops. Party planner.
I hereby nominate Jeff Landfield as the Alaska investigative journalist of the century thus far. Just the news that Wilson is a Zipay earns it for me. The exposure of PFD’s as a tool of garnishment for somebody running for governor is icing. And getting somebody to acknowledge in the comments section that his PFD’s have been taken for years as back child support makes my day as well.
Thanks, Jeff. You’re Superman today.
Go Shelley!
Don’t forget that Bernadette Zipay Wilson’s judgement was satisfied (paid off) at around the time she filed to run for AK governor. Would she have acted in this responsible manner if she did not declare her candidacy?
What on earth does her blubbering about Covid times have to do with a $57,000 debt she couldn’t bother to address until she wanted a clean record for candidacy?
And who paid the debt, anyway? Is that a legitimate campaign expense?
Covid serves like global warming/climate change as the “other guys caused it” beyond-anybody’s-control excuse for everything.