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22nd legislature - Governor

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Purse Snatcher Awards

(Votes cast in this column favor new taxes, deficit spending, more expensive government, unsustainable

budgets, or permanent fund raids.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did NOT vote

(Votes cast in this column are

for Legislators who for one reason or another simply

failed to vote!

 

Super Saver Awards

(Votes cast in this column favor a

smaller, more efficient government, and against new taxes, or permanent fund raids.)


 

Knowles/Ulmer

HB 96 $45,000 plus to purchase the

Jesse Lee Home in Seward

HB 103  $4,648,254,600 ($4.6 BILLION dollar

Operating Budget for fiscal year 2002)

HB 104  $146,277,500 ($146.3 MILLION dollar

Mental Health Budget for fiscal year 2002)

HB 117 $28,160,769 Supplemental spending bill

HB 193 CLOSED PRIMARY ELECTION additional cost

to administer a closed primary system are $5,200

in even numbered years, and $269,500 in odd numbered years!

HB 208 $222,200 plus for cost of shellfish farm leases

HB 225 Alcohol TAX

CSHB 334 - $1,100,000 GRANT to oil industry

for promoting ANWR bill with 50/50 royalty split

HB 344 Driver's License TAX up 50%

HB 403 - $5,052,746,700 ($5 BILLION)

Operating Budget for fiscal year 2003

HB 404 - $140,069,400 mental health

budget for fiscal year 2003

HB 525 $123,914,500 BONDS (debt)

instead of cash for transportation projects

HB 528 $316,328,401 gives away ports and

harbors plus $millions to utilities.  Also gives

UAA $14,000,000 to buy one portion of a mall 

in Anchorage that was purchased a few months

earlier by some clever investors for only $7,000,000!

SB 29 Capitol Projects (the PORK) FY 2002

$1,529,315,682 (1.53 BILLION dollars)

SB 115 - $102,800 extends storage tank assistance fund board

SB 153 - $2,000,000 + more money for storage tank loan fund

SB 291 $161,240,230 due to Governor Knowles

overspending the FY 02 budget

SB 2001 $18,250,000 for changes to pioneer homes

HB 2002 $236,805,441 BONDS (debt)

instead of cash for schools & museum projects

HB 2003 BONDS (debt) would now  pay for

school construction & maintenance

SB 2006 Capital Projects (the PORK) $1,290,378,015

SB 2009 $21,000 over six years

to pay for new veterans advisory council

SCR 28 $480,000 forms and pays

for a new salmon industry task force

HB 3001 $6,003,100 in fees each  year

for extending the regulatory commission of Alaska

 

HB 349 Designed to make state

government more efficient

 

Note: To view the official source documents containing legislative voting records go to the BASIS program on the State of Alaska website and type in the bill number (s) of interest. 

 

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