The silence of the mayors …

What is so special about June 9?

Ask your local mayor.

You will be told that is the day the governor will sign off on the state budget.

The following day is the day that they, the mayors, will be free to speak their minds regarding the gubernatorial race. However, until the governor signs off on the budget, they will keep their silence.

Until June 9, Gov. Sean Parnell can still act to cut any appropriation from the budget passed by the legislature. The mayors feel that if they show their support to another gubernatorial candidate, then their city may suffer the veto pen of Gov. Parnell. They will keep their mouths shut hoping that he will not hear of their intent to support other than he.

Let’s see, the mayors have to keep quiet or Parnell will whack their appropriations from the state budget. Well, he can hardly send the disaffected to the guillotine, can he? After all, we are civilized.

Would Gov. Sean Parnell just be content to send those disaffected mayors and their advisers to Sarah’s fish camp gulags? It is well-known, at least imagined anyway, that Sarah Palin established a gulag archipelago al la “A Day in the Life of Ivan Ivanovich” fame to deal with her political enemies and detractors. Surely, a few years on the fish line up to one’s butt in fish guts would cool the ardor of any opposition political malcontent?

Maybe the mayors need not worry. It seems that Gov. Parnell has just hired another adviser to advise him on the affairs of the military, something he hired Tom Katkus to do as adjutant general and commissioner, DMVA.

Hmmm. I wonder how the decision of needing a new military adviser speaks to his confidence in Katkus?

Parnell intends to hire Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom at $96,000 per year to be the new governor’s military adviser. Parnell had previously hired former Sen. Gene Thierrault as his oil and gas adviser when he already had a pipeline adviser/czar and the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority.

This governor seems to have a problem with making decisions. He has to have advisers. Or, he has seen too many old movies about royalty and has taken them to heart.

Gov. Parnell still maintains Sarah’s cabal at the Climate Change Sub-Cabinet. A collection of soothsayers who believe man affects the climate on this ball of dirt more so than the sun and geologic processes.

The fanaticism exercised by the climate change folks is matched only by those of DNR and by Parnell who swear AGIA will produce a pipeline.

Now, Parnell has a military adviser to give balance to the unbalanced in his royal court.

Listen to the governor when he speaks. If he starts to use the royal “we,” as do the English royalty, someone needs to call API. It will be time for a trip to the rubber room for this guy. If anything should grate on his Irish ancestry, it is the specter of royal anything.

One thing is certain, I do not think Gov. Sean Parnell will be happy with the disaffection he will suffer in the provinces of Alaska represented by the mayors. There is disaffection and insurrection brewing.

Alaska does not need a governor who needs multiple layers of advisers. That need speaks to a lack of confidence and knowledge. That these advisers come out of the legislature is indicative of this guy needing to surround himself with cronies of his ilk.

After June 9, the mayors will be silent no more.

‘Tis the rising of the moon, Sean. The mayors’ declarations of support for their gubernatorial candidates may very well echo the sentiments of their constituency.

Larry Wood is a Palmer-area business man.