The August primary is more than nine months away, but the attacks are already starting in the crowded Republican filed for governor.
In a bizarre press release, Crooked Adam Crum “demanded” that Treg Taylor “immediately cancel his upcoming Washington, D.C. fundraiser co-hosted by former Attorneys General who have openly opposed President Donald J. Trump and the America First Agenda.”
Crum then went on stroke Trump in a way that would make even the most ardent Trump supporter uncomfortable. You have to read the press release to understand how truly loose it is, especially the part about Crum standing “shoulder-to-shoulder with President Trump and all that he’s doing to fight for our country.”
Crum and Taylor are two of a dozen Republican candidates running for Alaska’s open governor’s seat next year. Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) is termed out.
Both held positions in the Dunleavy administration. Crum served as Health commissioner and then Revenue commissioner. Taylor served as attorney general.
The Republican gubernational candidates are all seeking the coveted Trump endorsement. Crum, and his high priced lower 48 consulting firm Strategic Impact, apparently feel that attacking Taylor for holding a fundraiser with Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr is a good strategy for getting Trump’s attention.
Sessions and Barr both served as attorney general in the first Trump administration but later got sideways with Trump – Sessions for recusing himself from the Mueller investigation into Russian collusion in the 2016 election and Barr for not agreeing with Trump about irregularities in the 2020 election.
A 90 degree January day in Anchorage is more likely than Crum getting Trump’s endorsement. The Landmine broke the story about Crum quietly investing $50 million from the Constitutional Budget Reserve in a private equity scheme before departing as Revenue commissioner. Governor Dunleavy’s office has since contracted a national law firm to investigate what Crum did.
In May, the Landmine published a story about how Crum was caught taking an unauthorized family vacation to Hawaii during the legislative session while he was Revenue commissioner.
When asked abut Crum’s press release, a spokesperson for the Taylor campaign told the Landmine, “Treg Taylor has proudly stood with President Trump and the America First agenda. As Attorney General, Treg went to war with the Biden administration and defended Alaska. Adam Crum’s desperate attacks are nothing more than an attempt to distract from his own mounting issues.”
Crum was recently in D.C. claiming he had meetings at the White House about the governor’s race. He left out that Trump and his team were in Asia while Crum was in D.C.
I wonder who’ll get the Nick Fuentes endorsement ?
Alaska politics never fail to entertain — nine months out and the GOP race is already getting messy. It’s fascinating how chasing Trump’s endorsement still seems to outweigh real local issues.
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Sprunki Retake
“………It’s fascinating how chasing Trump’s endorsement still seems to outweigh real local issues……..”
It’s not much different than politicos in both parties chasing “conservative values”, then governing from the left after being elected. In the case of Trump as a strongman, they’d better chase his endorsement, or they run from a disadvantage. The same is true of Democrats getting blessed by their machine with hidden strongwomen.
I’ll say it again for the slow learners – if you like Trump, not piecemeal policy like stricter immigration enforcement, or tariffing foreign imports, but the man himself, the demagogue, the charlatan, the man who was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for 15 years and ran “beauty pageants” with him. You are more likely than not: a misogynist, a fascist, and someone who does not deserve either trust or love.
I don’t like Trump at all, but I thank God he’s president, not Killary or Kamala, and I’ll take a much more aggressive policy of ICE enforcement, please.
So a convicted felon who is a pedo and a perv is more you speed. Why am I not surprised by this ?
I have a wife and kids and there is nothing in this world that would convince me to vote for a convicted serial rapist.
You read poorly, and your emotions (“surprise”) are meaningless. Again:
I don’t like him, just as I don’t like you. I just dislike Killary, Lunchbox Joe, and Kamala even more, and I appreciate the fact that Trump is running his agenda down your throat while you whine.
You don’t like Trump at all but you appreciate his agenda.
You don’t even know what you stand for ya d@mn fool
Correct, I don’t like Trump at all (never did), and I thank God for his agenda and aggressive action to enact it. I know exactly what that means, and I hope (and suspect) he’s really going to kick it into overdrive after the 2026 mid-term election, so if your ass is sore now, it’s going to get ripped wide open a year from today. The fan isn’t even on high yet, and the poo is piling up. Better get your Helly Hanson’s ready…………….
Correct, I don’t like Trump at all (never did), and I very much appreciate his agenda and aggressive pursuit of that agenda. By approving his agenda and pursuit thereof, I very much know what I stand for: his agenda, which matches mine in many areas. And the very fact that you’re upset about that pleases me immensely.
You’re an idiot if you think your words affect me in any way. What a doofus
You type that as if your words have any affect on me? And I’m the “doofus”?
I could care less about you and your feelings.
So you care a little bit then at least about Reggie’s feelings?
yah, don’t forget the beauty pagents. Trumps pick pre-ordained, 4 foot seven in ten inch heels.
That press release makes me want to vote for Taylor.
I swear to Christ, that outfit Crum’s wearing was sold as a child’s Halloween costume.
Does no one in his family talk to him?
Don’t swear unto a name of which you hold no faith to personally Dan, doesn’t look very “tolerant” of you, which after all, is a big priority of your guys team right?
Oooh, look who thinks they made a funny!
So sweet!
(BTW, Jesus Christ, no idiot, would have appeared on some toast to his husky child Adam and told him it’d be a sin not to make a quick detour to Walmart’s Big But Not Tall rack, before a button in that coat takes some believer’s eye out.)
Two men wasting their time who’ll Never be governor
Don’t make Treg mad.
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Apparently a word from the boy can get you cancelled just like what happened with Suzanne Downing at “Must Read Alaska”.
(https://www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/09/08/suzanne-downing-resigns-from-must-read-alaska-ending-decade-long-era-for-conservative-media-site/)
We see considerable affection for trumps immigration policy, you know the one where he goes after criminals? Onliest thing is 75 %of deportees have no criminal record.
So trump changed his mind and said they couldn’t target agricultural workers , And then he changed his mind again
Check your food prices