Governor Mike Dunleavy’s (R – Alaska) November correspondence, obtained by the Alaska Political Report, includes a letter to the American Medical Association (AMA) nominating Alaska’s Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anne Zink for an Outstanding Government Services award. According to the AMA website, nominations were due by November 5, 2021. The awards will be announced on February 15 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington D.C.
The AMA awards include seven categories, one of which is a career public servant at the state of local level.
In the letter, Dunleavy wrote how Zink has worked “tirelessly to help the people of Alaska handle the COVID-19 pandemic.” Zink. who became Alaska’s chief medical officer in July 2019, became the face of the Dunleavy administration’s response to COVID-19 when it began in March 2020.
Dunleavy has been criticized by some of his conservative supporters for how they feel Zink has handled COVID-19, but he has stood by her in the face of that criticism.
Well, finally he has done something commendable. Maybe if he hadn’t surrounded himself with bad advisors ( Babcock, Stevens ,Vincent-lang,Arduin,etc.,he could have made a half decent gov. . Too bad.
But he surrounded himself with those advisors in the first place because he’s a huge, lumbering dumbass. I don’t think his administration ever stood a chance.
Regarding public health, Dr. Zink deserves something for being the voice of sanity in Dunleavy’s otherwise insane asylum. Dunleavy in his letter claims that: “…modern medicine is much like art…” No Governor, medicine is applied science. Dunleavy and his ilk want to believe that medicine is just as subjective as “art” and therefore their ignorance is on par with science. Freudian slip?
Lynn, did you get tired of ADN for spewing your hatred? Thank you Governor Dunleavy. Dr. Anne Zink is a treasure.
So already the “joint award” for both of them propaganda is starting. Dr. Zink is indeed a “treasure” especially when compared to the dullard Governor. I will not thank, nor should anyone else, the Governor who utterly failed to support Dr. Zink efforts once the phone from Trump headquarters rang and he was told to “keep the COVID going”. He has done a marvelous job of doing that.
There you go, assuming. You haven’t changed. I never said anything about a joint award.
I am not “assuming” I am “observing”. You wrote about thanking the Governor in this context. If you only wanted to thank Dr Zink, as I do, then perhaps you should not have mentioned the guy who seems to go out of his way to frustrate her efforts. No buying what you are selling….
Sorry, but as I read the letter, it was Dr. Zink who “champions the idea that modern medicine is much like art.” So it was not the governor who was the inventor of those words. Please at least get the facts straight.
The fact is Dr. ZInk never might not have ever said she champions the idea that modern medicine is much like art. If she actually said that, wouldn’t there be a quotation from her to support that assumption by whoever wrote the letter? Facts are not the same as assumptions.