I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. I came down to Florida to see some family. And I’ll be honest, the 80 degree weather is just incredible! Governor Mike Dunleavy (R – Alaska) appointed now-former Representatives George Rauscher and Cathy Tilton to the vacant Senate seats, and they were both easily confirmed on Saturday (11/29/2025). Their House seats are now vacant and will need to be filled. And the drama within the Republican House minority continues as they abruptly met and elected a new minority leader and whip last night, but several members did not attending the meeting.
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Stable Senate and Loose House
Now-Senators Cathy Tilton (R – Wasilla) and George Rauscher (R – Sutton) are the newest members of the State Senate. They were appointed by Governor Dunleavy this week to fill the seats of Shelley Hughes and Mike Shower, who resigned to run for governor and lieutenant governor (Shower is the running mate of Bernadette Wilson). Senate Republicans confirmed them at a meeting on Saturday at the Anchorage LIO. They were sworn in immediately after.
Now that the Senate minority is back at six, they will need to elect a new minority leader as Shower was the former minority leader. While Senate Republicans might take their time to elect a new minority leader, House Republicans wasted no time electing a new minority leader after the ouster of Representative Mia Costello (R – Anchorage) as minority leader last week.
On that note, I have a correction from last Sunday’s column, that included the following:
Other than the speaker coup in the early 1980s, no one I spoke with could remember a time when a minority or majority leader was ousted in the middle of a Legislature. The House minority is severally fractured and it’s not clear who will be their new leader, and how they will keep the group together. It could get very loose next session!
That is not accurate. You may remember, as I did when I was reminded, that Costello was actually ousted as Senate majority leader in 2019 after she joined dozens of legislators in Wasilla for the fake special session Dunleavy called. The majority of the Legislature met in Juneau while some rogue members went to Wasilla. Costello was punished for going to Wasilla and replaced by Senator Lyman Hoffman (D – Bethel).
Last night, ten of the 17 remaining House Republicans met on Zoom. The meeting was called just hours after Rauscher and Tilton were confirmed and sworn in. Representative DeLena Johnson (R – Palmer) was elected the new minority leader and Representative Justin Ruffridge (R – Soldotna) was elected the new whip (he replaces Tilton).
But it’s more interesting who was not at the meeting: Representatives Sarah Vance (R – Homer), Jamie Allard (R – Eagle River), Kevin McCabe (R – Big Lake), Rebecca Schwanke (R – Glenallen), Frank Tomaszewski (R – Fairbanks), David Nelson (R – Anchorage), and Will Stapp (R – Fairbanks). Some had prior commitments and some are on vacation. It appears at least one of them gave someone their proxy, but most of the people I spoke with were cagey about what exactly transpired. What is known is Representative Jeremy Bynum (R – Ketchikan) used some secure app or link to let members vote “securely.” Sounds Soviet as hell to me!
With ten members at the meeting, they had the required ten votes to elect Johnson and Ruffridge. But even though they had the votes does not mean they should have rushed to hold the meeting. By doing so, they further alienated the conservative bloc in their caucus (Allard, Vance, Schwanke, Tomaszewski, McCabe). It’s not a secret that McCabe also has ambitions to be minority leader. By rushing to the vote, the conservative bloc was prevented from having one of their own run against Johnson. She would have still prevailed, but it probably would have smoothed things over.
For some context, if those five were to break off from the minority (taking it from 19 to 14), the minority would lose two seats on the finance committee as well as seats on the other committees. That would be very loose!
While it’s clear a group in the minority had the votes to oust Costello, it appears they did not consider what would happen if Costello voluntarily stepped down when they confronted her (see the “House Republican drama” section of last week’s Sunday Minefield for a detailed breakdown). Now things are even more chaotic within the fractured Republican minority.
And things are about to get even more complicated. Dunleavy now needs to choose replacements for Tilton and Rauscher, both Mat-Su seats. Those replacements will need to be confirmed by a majority of House Republicans, which include Representatives Louise Stutes (R – Kodiak) and Chuck Kopp (R – Anchorage) – members of the majority but Republicans.
So with 19 total Republicans in the House (17 minority plus Stutes and Kopp), the replacements will need 10 votes to be confirmed. It’s feasible that Johnson and her faction could use support for her as a test for confirming the replacements. It’s also possible that significant pressure could be put on Representatives Jubilee Underwood (R – Wasilla) and Elexie Moore (R – Wasilla) – who were in the meeting and voted for Johnson – by those upset that the conservatives were excluded.
Normally, the Mat-Su delegation sticks together. But now with the drama between Johnson and McCabe, that is not currently the case. The replacements for Rauscher and Tilton, whoever they will be, are in for a rude awakening. And you can take this to the bank, the meeting where Republicans will vote on the replacements is going to be loose as hell! Stutes and Kopp are going to have front row seats to the best show in town. They should bring plenty of popcorn. Maybe Bynum can run the vote again with his “secure” app.
This Week’s Loose Unit
This week’s designee was shoo-in until some last minute drama. Chugach Electric’s Facebook post claiming “locals in the area” started a fire that caused a major power outage in Anchorage is maximum loose gaslighting. Just how much do you think they are paying Julie Hasquet to write this garbage?
“Locals in the area.” What an absolute joke. Chugach Electric, via Democrat spokesperson Julie Hasquet, is part of the attempted gaslighting taking place in Anchorage that tries to convince residents that vagrants aren’t terrorizing our city. pic.twitter.com/SlOJOC0Ia4
— The Alaska Landmine (@alaskalandmine) November 25, 2025
Anyhoo, the House Republican minority drama that unfolded yesterday was way looser than Chugach Electric’s loose Facebook post. So this week’s Loose Unit is the entire House Republican minority. They have 19 members, the most possible for a minority. If they could just avoid the drama and stick together, they could be a real force. But they seem more interested in palace intrigue and knifing their own. Classic Loose Unit behavior.
Like former Representative Jesse Sumner last year, Representative David Nelson seems to have figured it out. Homie is out next year. A very wise decision, David. Rauscher and Tilton got out too!
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If you have a nomination for this week’s Loose Unit, or if you have any political news, stories or gossip (or any old pics of politicians or public officials) please email me at jeff@alaskalandmine.com.
-Landfield
An excellent point.
The Soviet Union, which ended in 1991, is very well known for having conducted elections via secure apps and links.
In fact, when historians write about the elections conducted by the Soviet Union, they focus almost exclusively on the secure apps and links the Soviets used.
Such an obvious parallel.
This blog’s comment thread is dedicated to indefensible petty grievances.
“Indefensible Petty Grievances” would be a good title for a McCabe biography.
Hi Mark Kelsey! Ooh, Ooh, another cool unoriginal joke, do it again, do it again!
Huge thanks to Landfield for the play-by-play, because without it no one would believe the Alaska Legislature is this screwed up. Honestly, we are not ready for anything President Trump is trying to get rolling in Alaska, we can’t even get the legislators together on the playground in a civil manner. Sad ass day for Alaska to see!
…..but several members did not attending the meeting.
Grammerly would have caught that
Senate Republicans confirmed them at a meeting on Saturday at the Anchorage LLO.
But even though they had the votes does not mean…
But Grammarly like them much missing commas so don’t rush out abuse it Sunday night Anchorage Spenard Lumber.
Grammarly and/or ChatGPT
Enough already with the grammarly bit.
That’s about the limit of the “Reverend’s” productive input.
So says Alaska’s most prolific internet troll
I come in a close second to the Editor with his McCabe Derangement Syndrome.
You’re up to your eyeballs in highballs again
Highballs beat derangement.
Hi Jeff,
An observation: Intrigue and ego no doubt play a huge role in politics. ‘Twas ever thus. But there are also substantive issues at play, and within the House minority there are genuine differences over major policy choices. The August override vote on education funding – which split the minority – was a harbinger of the current unrest. Dunleavy has less than a year left in his second term. How do Republicans want to position themselves on the most pressing problems facing the state? It’s not some petty playground fight, at its heart are decisions that impact all Alaskans.
Very well said. The current reshuffling of the minority can easily be seen as separating those who understand the message Alaska voters have sent from the obstructionist radicals who still haven’t learned that voters expect more than divisive, performative culture-war nonsense.
So what might you have to say for yourself when all the acclaimed “obstructionist radicals” get reelected in their respective House Districts next November? Will it be that the tens of thousands of Alaskans who voted for them are themselves obstructionist radicals as well, who don’t “understand the message” and are only interested in “divisive, performative culture-war nonsense“?
Your self-righteousness tied to arrogance (which is also tied to ignorance), and personal vendettas blind you, my young padawan!
I stand by what I posted, and unlike you, I’m not afraid to use my real name because, also unlike you, I have nothing to hide. Too bad you can’t say the same.
Hypothetical questions have no bearing on this conversation anyway. But I understand how it might be personally traumatizing to you to discuss the ramifications of out-of-touch extremists being marginalized in their own caucus.
Yes, please continue to beat your chest and boast about being the ONLY person in these comment threads that uses their real name (yeah newsflash, your butt-buddy Dan Svatass isn’t a real person in case you didn’t know that), I’d give you your ribbon if I could. It’s a completely fair and reasonable question to ask and that you should swallow your pride enough to answer. The House Republicans you take issue with will more likely than not be reelected, and you have no answer for it, I’m just calling you out accordingly. While you continue to be the lone… Read more »
Weak. Butt-buddy? Homophobe. Anonymous, venoumous homophobe. When you choose to not be anonymous, and you can make comments not revealing your weakness, then we can get on with constructive back and forth.
It’s called sarcasm Hugh, and if you’ve read most of Marks comments in general you’d know that I was quite respectful in wording my last comment the way I did… nice try though at the cleverly made but inaccurate assertion of my sexuality, not sure why you want to bring that up but okay. I’m not a homophobe, I mean I really have no reason to have anything against you or the people of your community like you, we just don’t think or live the same way that’s all, it’s a free country though, do as you please ma friend!
I don’t know. Anyone using Butt-Buddy, even as a “joke” just doesn’t qualify as someone anyone wants to listen to. And I didn’t talk about your sexuality at all. I was talking about homophobia. Or my sexuality. So, that’s kind of the point. They clearly are top of mind for you. And it shows transparently.
If you want to hyperfocus on one sentence of my two-paragraph comment, that’s on you. You’re the reason people can’t civilly engage or attempt humor in this country anymore and it’s just sad. You’re so bent over me using such a pedestrian dig in a comment thread? You sure don’t mind not keeping your tongue tied back reasonably when it comes to Trump I see, your hypocrisy knows no bounds, do better Hugh.
Your external awareness, self-awareness, and judgment are lacking. That’s unfortunate. I stand by what I wrote.
What’s unfortunate is I’ve been the only one between the two of us who’s actually trying to keep the conversation focused on the original argument and not throw out irrelevant distracting comments like ones sexuality or one’s perceived understanding of the others “awareness“, whatever you meant by that.
I standby what I said as well, tis a shame we traded comments for nothing.
Settle down, Hugh – we’re not begrudging you the company of your butt-buddy(s).
Wow. There are some really cool people on here.
Don’t hold your breath waiting for an honest conversation from someone who changes his fake name as often as he does. Definitely a weak, insecure person with something to hide.
So how come you guys don’t harp on everyone else you interact with on here that quite clearly isn’t using their real names either, what gives other than being cowards? The day you can legitimately cite to me the international internet OR Alaska Landmine website bylaw/regulation that requires me to participate in a given comment thread with my real identity, will be the day I respond to you as such. Until then, please keep dodging my legitimate criticisms and arguments about policy and hyperfocus on my (and me only apparently, amongst EVERYONE else in this comment thread) identity and who… Read more »
“Everybody does it, so it’s okay.” Rep. Kevin J. McCabe of Big Lake also favors that lame and dishonest excuse for his bad behavior, too. Probably just a coincidence.
Using a fake name to engage in honest debate is one thing. Using multiple fake names just to troll and discredit anyone who disagrees with you is a completely different thing. But I don’t expect someone apparently as narcissistic and deeply dishonest as you to ever concede that. Regardless, you have no moral high ground here. None.
Oh I get it, the acceptance of the use of an anonymous name is set by standards you personally have made with no other point of reference or authority to standby, got it. I rest my case you not so anonymous coward.
You aren’t worth the keyboard made in China you type on. Now, go on enjoying your fruitless Frontiersman/Phony lawsuit awards retirement bud.
“………Don’t hold your breath waiting for an honest conversation from someone who changes his fake name as often as he does……….”
Like JJAlaska/JjAlaska/JJalaska/Jjalaska/jjalaska?etc/et al? Is all that you, too, brave Editor? Some of you use identical, unique vocabulary.
“…….venoumous homophobe………”
LOL! Non timeo venenatos homosexuales. Eos tantum odi………
As I stated earlier before you polluted yet another thread, the current reshuffling of the House minority can easily be seen as separating those who understand the message sent by Alaska voters from the obstructionist radicals who still haven’t learned that voters expect more than divisive, performative culture-war nonsense.
Any thoughts on that, anonymous coward? Any thoughts on this being little more than Rep. Kevin J. McCabe of Big Lake being forced to eat a big fat karma sandwich? It certainly couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.
What, Mark, you don’t have enough room for McCabe and me to take up all that guillible real estate in your mind? Didn’t realize I needed a DEC permit to dump my free speech on a particular public comment thread, you evidently own subsurface rights to! And as I too stated earlier – my only response to your initial comment is that you must believe that the tens of thousands of Alaskans who will likely re-elect the Republican Members of the House Minority you take issue with must also be “obstructionist radicals” who don’t “understand the message” and are only… Read more »
“…….. your butt-buddy Dan Svatass isn’t a real person in case you didn’t know that…….”
Yeah, he is! He lives in Vegas. Google him up.
Am confused by ““Locals in the area.” What an absolute joke.” The subsequent post by Chugach Electric does not contain your quote. Kindly correct or make your point more understandable.
You can find this post on Chugach Electric’s FB page, a post made on 11/25 at 11:06am. Do better Martin. “Midtown Outage: 1:40 am Wednesday – All repairs completed and power restored to those impacted by the Tuesday fire. 7:13 pm: Crews are still working to restore power. We will update when there is new information. 4:20 pm: Crews continue to make repairs to the equipment and infrastructure damaged by the fire. 11:30 am: Power has been restored to the traffic and street lights on Tudor. 11 am: Due to a fire started in our vault on Tudor Road, Chugach… Read more »
“………Am confused by ‘Locals in the area'”……….
Translation:
“Street urchins”. “Criminals” that pretty much own Anchorage, and whom Anchorage loves so dearly.
Get accustomed to it………….
Yes, I read that, but there is nothing specific, yet Landfield, you and others seems to automatically infer the worst motives. It could have been anyone with almost any motive or just a plain accident of some sort. People are to quick to condemn ‘the other.’
“……….you and others seems to automatically infer the worst motives………”
I inferred no motive whatsoever. I simply translated the term “locals in the area” to “street urchins”. Of course, I could be wrong. It could have been a local homeowner and businessman who started the fire. It could have been school children. It could have been the state senator for the district And if you believe any of that, then you’re one of those folks who I described who love such street urchins so dearly, and again, “get accustomed to it”, cuz you appear to want it.
You very clearly “simply translated the term” to “criminals”. That’s pretty much the definition of “inferring motive”. Not sure why you can’t just own it when it’s right there in black and white.
“……..You very clearly “simply translated the term” to “criminals”. That’s pretty much the definition of “inferring motive”………” A bank robber robs a bank. It is a crime, making him a criminal. Why did he rob the bank? That would be the “motive”. Well, he could have robbed the bank to acquire money to “get rich”. He could have done it to obtain enough money to survive, since he can’t get a job due to his extensive criminal background. He might have robbed the bank because he hates the bank manager and wants to hurt him and his organization. He might… Read more »
To be fair to Mark, you and I may be the only ones in this state who even know/remember that he was an editor for a paper that nobody even reads/read anyway! ADN isn’t much better but they’re at least recognized, you think they’d hire him? Lol
“……..you and I may be the only ones in this state who even know/remember that he was an editor for a paper……..” I’m not sure if it was you or somebody else in the comments on another Landmine story, but I was referred to the lawsuit he’s engaged in regarding McCabe’s Facebook page. It caused me to google him up. I remain astounded and wondrous over his roles at the Frontiersman. He was editor, then publisher, but now writes community articles on restaurants and social activities. Considering his behavior here, I must wonder if he lost his lofty position due… Read more »
Of all the really dumbass things you’ve posted, anonymous coward, this might be the stupidest. Two things come immediately to mind:
1- If the best you can do is flimsy and long-winded semantic hair-splitting, you’ve already lost the argument.
2- Delivering a condescending lecture on vocabulary when you don’t know the difference between mute and moot does the opposite of making you appear more intelligent.
“Vocabulary”? I was musing on behavior, not vocabulary.
Speaking of behavior, what do you know about McCabe being placed on proficiency watch and forced into early retirement by Atlas Air? You seem to know everything about him. Don’t you think routine simulator training seems like a strange place for him to melt down? Do you think alcohol had anything to do with it?
“……..Speaking of behavior……….”
LOL……..is Jon Jones related to JJ/Jj?
I have no clue about McCabe and his employment history, and nor do I care. As far as alcohol is concerned, I subscribe to Winston Churchill’s wisdom when a woman approached him at a social event and loudly proclaimed that he was drunk. He replied in the affirmative, but then noted that, “in the morning, I shall be sober, and you, Madam, will still be ugly.”
It’s looking like McCabe Derangement Syndrome is a permanent disability, unlike alcohol intoxication, although both disabilities make their respective abusers look like assholes………….
So are you just straight-up going to not own the fact that you were wrong and that Landfield was in fact not misquoting Chugach’s own words in their public post you can still find right now?
In a political society that has justified all sorts of death, destruction and civil right violations over the past quarter century by referring to the subjects or victims as “terrorists” (sometimes appropriately), it saddens me to see Landfield use that language to describe “vagrants”. I am certain that Jeff understands that very few homeless or housing unstable residents of Anchorage participate in activity that could be described by the most paranoid among us as “terrorism”. So, why use that word? There are real challenges we face in Alaska regarding homelessness and petty crime. I don’t dismiss those. But, if this… Read more »
Actually Dan, the real “terrorists” are not the hobos, wackos, winos and junkies. It is in fact the apologists, the grifters, the do-gooders and the assembly.
If members of Anchorage’s assembly can now be regarded as “terrorists”, the word plainly has lost all meaning.
RIP “Terrorists” 2025.
Terrorism:
“……..the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims………”
Is setting a fire to public infrastructure in hatred toward society for not giving you free housing “the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims”?
Is vandalizing public property, using flags and flagpoles to assault cops, and attempting to overturn a lawful election because you don’t like the outcome “unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims”?
Maybe, but firebombs hurled at federal courthouses, ICE facilities, and federal law enforcement officers most definitely the unlawful use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims, and if state and local officials refuse to cooperate in halting such violence, it should be expected that the feds will eventually assert federal supremacy.
I’m looking forward to aggressive federal supremacy. Imagine what that might look like for Anchorage, whose northern side is completely bordered by a military reservation loaded with armed federal troops. It could get…………..ugly……………
The brand of legislative buffoonery and self-dealing reported earlier this year by Dermot Cole sheds a lot of light on why Rep. Kevin J. McCabe of Big Lake just got marginalized in his own caucus. “(McCabe) had no idea that the FEC has no role in state elections and no power to regulate state elections. Contrary to his claims, the APOC does not duplicate what the federal agency does. He was completely wrong. … What we learned from this amendment is that multiple members of the Legislature are ignorant about an elementary aspect of state government. … But Kevin kept… Read more »
I never much paid Kevin McCabe any attention. He serves a different district than mine, and he never served in a major legislative leadership role that I knew of. But this relentless, deranged campaign against him has piqued my awareness. I now support him, not because I like him, but because I feel a responsibility to oppose the Politics of Derangement.
Thanks to the zealots for this political awakening.
Here here Reg, here here!
Hey Reg/Chad/Jon, etc. looks like you’ve been very busy here. Nice try with trying to claim a sudden Road to Damascus moment with your obvious support for the corrupt McCabe. After your countless highly emotional and very personal posts here defending McCabe and deflecting from his bad behavior that you couldn’t dispute, I doubt anyone bought your earlier BS about not supporting him. McCabe has no one but himself to blame for being snubbed for the Senate seat and caucus leadership. You can’t treat people like he does and expect them to turn around and support you. His shabby treatment… Read more »
“………your countless highly emotional and very personal posts here defending McCabe…….”
Actually, I’ve been defending myself from you and your cabal of political zealots. Any small hint of opposing your extremism draws fire.
I shoot back.
“Actually, I’ve been defending myself”
That might be the most honest thing you’ve ever posted here Reg/Chad/Jon/Kark/Kev.
It’s 100% true. I post something, and I get attacked. So should it be any surprise that I reply? Do folks expect one to simply cower in the corner and stop replying?
You mean cower like a coward behind all of your fake names? Looks like you excel at that. You certainly excel at stalking my posts and trying to shout down anything I post. That’s the opposite of defending yourself. But it’s been clear for several weeks now that no one should expect the truth from you.
“…….. You certainly excel at stalking my posts and trying to shout down anything I post……..”
Thank you for the compliment. I’ll continue to improve, too, because it’s a worthy mission.
“I never much paid Kevin McCabe any attention.”
Liar. It seems your only mission here is to defend him, regardless of how desperate it appears. I imagine that’s a lot easier to do when you’re an anonymous coward hiding behind a lot of fake names.
“………It seems your only mission here is to defend him……..”
Not at all. My mission here is to poke you deeper into your pit of fire where the worm never dies. McCabe? Pffft. He’s just a bald headed fart like you, but exhibiting better behavior.
Seems like the Politics of Derangement, or TDS, or anything with derangement in it is quick shorthand for dismissing opposing views. Pretty convenient. Shorthand, memes, etc as opposed to actually listening or accepting a contrary view as just that, a contrary view, a different perspective.
“………Seems like the Politics of Derangement, or TDS, or anything with derangement in it is quick shorthand for dismissing opposing views……….”
It looks like a complete form of insanity. A severe separation from reality.
Sounds like McCabe’s really dirty chickens are coming home to roost. Unable to see the very clear writing on the wall, or the consequences of his own bad behavior toward others, he continues to fuel division and disunity. It’s almost as if he’s willing to burn everything down simply because he didn’t get his way. What a baby.
100 percent correct. Former Rep. Charisse Millett nailed it when she called McCabe out publicly for being a divisive whiner after he lost his bid to be minority leader over the weekend. McCabe took to Facebook to air his grievance about being overlooked for Palmer Rep. Delena Johnson, prompting Millett to reply: “She IS the best choice and not a bully, and does not attack other caucus members. Kind of refreshing!!”
Sums up McCabe and the often hostile approach to others that prevents him from getting the approval he seems to crave.
Delena Johnson was my representative, I’ve worked with her in the past when she was the mayor of Palmer, I’ve met and talked extensively with her husband, and I found them both to be absolutely wonderful people, and she is a delightful public servant. I support her fully. However, I’ve seen no evidence that Kevin McCabe is “hostile” or that he “attacks” others, and the evidence I’ve seen in these comment sections on the Landmine of “hostile” zealots “attacking” McCabe like rabid dogs is far more disturbing than the claims these people make against him. Political derangement has become a… Read more »
“I support her fully.”
Good. Then we agree that Johnson and Ruffridge are much better, more honorable people than the divisive, selfish, and malicious McCabe. Unlike him, they understand public service and are smart, common-sense policymakers, just like the other responsible adults in that caucus who knew better than to support an intellectual lightweight like McCabe.
I don’t write anything about McCabe being “divisive, selfish, and malicious”. That’s your derangement. I wrote that Delena has been my representative in the Legislature, I’ve dealt with her in. the past, and I like her a lot. Naturally, I would support her in a leadership role, and if she was to surrender that role in the future after there was a new meeting among the minority legislators in a fresh vote, I’d be fine with that, too. I’m not like you: a deranged zealot.
Well would you look at that, Reg was right again! Hi “JJ” (Mark Kelsey), how’s that for some irony? At least I own the fact that I participate in these comment threads under a fake name! Lol
As far as Alaska politics go, if you’re having to reference Charisse Millett in any way to make your point, you’ve already lost the argument…
Thanks, Reg/Chad/Jon/Kark/Kev, etc. If you have to hurl baseless attacks against the messenger because you can’t dispute the message, YOU have lost the argument.
Hi Mark Kelsey!
“……… If you have to hurl baseless attacks against the messenger because you can’t dispute the message, YOU have lost the argument………”
Not if the messenger is insane.
Agreed Reg. You notice on multiple instances now that “JJ” (Mark Kelsey) has yet to deny that we’re calling him out on being the same person? I’d say that adds another feather in our caps for this Landmine battle against the deranged desperados of the Alaska left but this week’s wasn’t even a challenge for us this time!
I googled up “JJAlaska” “JjAlaska” “JJalaska” “Jjalaska” “Mark Kelsey” and boy, oh boy, did I hit a goldmine. This cabal follows each other around like a multi-personality disorder in three different Alaskan news blogs: The Alaska Watchman, The Alaska Landmine, and Must Read Alaska. If JJ/Jj comments, you’ll find Mark there as well. They’re twins, complete with different JJ/Jj/etc typos. The vast majority of their comments are to drag the subject of Kevin McCabe into the comments of any story they can.
This is pretty disordered behavior. McCabe must have done something to the Editor to warrant such derangement.
The guy is certainly a max-level troll, gotta give him that. He spends 90% of his attacks on me for commenting on these threads as “an anonymous coward” and then switches over to his alternate personality, “JJ” once a particular thread isn’t going his way anymore, and he clearly hasn’t had any answers to you. Yeah the disordered behaviour thing is almost like noneother we’ve seen in this state before honestly, can you imagine unjustifiably suing someone in civil court, winning thousands of dollars, and then STILL going after that person and finding a reason to bring them up in… Read more »
“……..Would be impressive if it weren’t downright frightening……..”
Unfortunately, we’re seeing more and more of this kind of psychosis nationwide, if not worldwide. I’d liken it to demonic possession. It’s a near complete takeover of one’s behavior driven by hatred or a drive to control something that goes beyond all reason. I find it terrifying.
Here’s the Sunday Minefield from Sept. 11, 2022, exposing Rep. Kevin J. McCabe’s self-dealing with his property taxes. Over the course of nine years, while the Mat-Su Borough’s honest taxpayers were paying full freight for their properties, McCabe and his third wife pocketed around $20,000 in profit because of a long outdated and grossly undervalued appraisal. “… property tax dodger Kevin McCabe was the leading contender for this week’s Loose Unit … Last week Suzanne Downing wrote an article that claims McCabe (R – Big Lake) was the victim of a “weaponized” assessor’s office. They came out to look at his 40-acre property that has… Read more »
Be sure to check out the comments, too. There are some beauties.
Yeah. Mark and Jj again. Over 3 years ago.
Nothing to say about McCabe being a tax “cheat” or whatever Landfield called him? Imagine being such a self-dealer that instead of making the tax situation right before running for office, when he might expect more scrutiny, he hid his tax bill on the borough’s “opt-out” list, so it doesn’t turn up in the public database if you do a search by owner. That’s what’s called “consciousness of guilt” in legal circles.
“…….Nothing to say about McCabe being a tax “cheat” or whatever Landfield called him?………”
Nope. Nothing to say at all. You have plenty to say for the entire planet. Carry on, Editor………..
Looks like the arsonist McCabe is continuing to inflame the recent division in the house minority caucus. Word on the street is he’s behind Suzanne Downing’s push to redo the leadership balloting from last weekend when McCabe was rejected by a majority of his caucus in favor of Delena Johnson. It seems a little silly of McCabe to want a do-over when there’s no chance the outcome will change and he will suffer the embarrassment of rejection a second time. To paraphrase one of the writers on Downing’s blog, McCabe is not the adult in the room. He’s the reason… Read more »
Hi Mark Kelsey!