The Mystery of Prop 4 Solved? Strange Typo Suspected…
The mystery of Prop 4 may finally be solved. Remember Proposition 4? That was the Clean Water Act that would have prohibited large mines from contaminating salmon fisheries with nasty chemical toxins.
And then remember when some mystery reporter popped up at a press conference and said “So by the way Governor, what do you think about proposition 4?” And we all went, “Who the heck is THAT guy?” because nobody had ever seen him before, which is really odd, considering the size of the Anchorage, and the fact that if you’re a journalist, people pretty much know who you are.
And after the journalist of mystery asked the question, the governor said:
“Let me take my Governor’s hat off for just a minute here, and tell you personally, Prop 4, I vote no on that. I have all the confidence in the world that the Department of Environmental Conservation and our Department of Natural Resources have great, very stringent regulations and policies already in place. We’re going to make sure that mines operate only safely and soundly.”
And then, just like the elusive Lamont Cranston, better known as “The Shadow” who had traveled to the Orient to ‘learn the secret of clouding men’s minds’….the journalist of mystery vanished, never to be seen again.
And the governor told everyone to vote NO on Prop 4, and the people obeyed, to the shock and dismay of all who had believed it was going to pass. A nice last-minute ad campaign featuring the governor’s picture and her anti-clean water views probably helped.
“Can she really ‘take off the governor’s hat’ in the middle of a press conference,” we all wondered? Didn’t seem very neutral. And it sounded an awful lot like the governor was using her position to influence the outcome of an election. So a complaint was filed with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, but the powers that be didn’t see it that way and the complaint didn’t stick.
But here’s where the mystery may be solved. For everyone who was stunned at the outcome, I submit to you Exhibit A, in which it looks suspiciously like the complaint was filed with the WRONG governmental agency. The paperwork was supposed to go to the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Instead, it went…(insert loud ominous organ chord)…HERE:
Yes, that is a screen capture of the actual document… In light of this newly revealed procedural error, I demand a do-over! And what kind of complaints does this commission usually hear, anyway? Maybe we don’t want to know.
I am confused. The paperwork indicates that it went exactly where you said it was supposed to go. ?? Am I reading this wrong?
HAHAAAAA. Ok, clicked the link, my bad.
HA! Too funny! Yeah, I don’t want to know what complaints they usually hear either.
I do find basic typos in pubLic documents like that to be really depressing–shows a real lack of attention that shouldn’t be present in gov’t work.
Trivia: Brian Kraft was one of the original Anchorage Aces hockey team players back in the early nineties – he scored plenty of “hat tricks.” He owns a tourism company and lodge.
I thought we had her by the short hairs for a moment.
Too funny!, I was watching CNN a week or so ago and they made exactly the same typo on a HEADLINE, gotta wonder where their heads are.
Just curious, was that supposed “journalist” a plant by the Palin camp?
Cathy from Colorado
DING DING DING we have a winner!!!
Her “camp” does this kind of crap all the time. it may not be quite as obvious as the above example, but you can find little planted questions and statements from them every where if you only look and listen hard enough.
(Bangs head on the desk YET again) You know that thing whereby the brain inserts what it wants to see? Well, I looked at this about 6 times before I saw the omission. I think I need to go outside for a while and give my sore head a break.
Just Curious: I noticed the name of Thomas Daniel listed as Commission Attorney. Is this the same independent attorney who ruled and wrote the opinion on Celtic Diva’s complaint? If so, it doesn’t look like he is so unbiased to me. If this is him, apparently, he gets a lot of work from the state of AK.
I knew Alaska was different from the rest of us…but know you needed a Pubic Offices Commission. Wonder what they do all day…
Could have been worse. Could have said “Pubic Orifices.” Just sayin’….
I’m sure the reporter was a plant also. You betcha (wink, wink).
Did the mystery reported have a shaved head?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7rUB5nXooc
Took me a while to find the typo.
Even though attention was drawn to it!!
Agree about the do-over, but I’m still confused about the mystery reporter. Does the document reveal who it was?
No, the document does not reveal that. There are some interesting speculations about who it may have been. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/karl-rove-sarah-palin-tim_b_175557.html AKM
Well, it sounds like this needs to go to court in a lawsuit at this point.
That may explain why Sarah has been awfully crabby lately!
London Bridges
OOooo!
The Alaska Pubic Offices Commission, I believe, handles dress code complaints. You know, cleavage, shortness of skirts, tightness of jeans. That sort of thing. Someone should alert Andree MacLeod so that future inquiries can be appropriately directed. The Executive obviously doesn’t have jurisdiction anymore, and that’s a good thing!
@the problem child: ROFLMAO!! You should repost on the open thread. Andree has been hanging over there.
You see on these ‘ Law & Order’ or CSI shows where the criminal gets off if the Police file the wrong paperwork or there is a ‘clerical error’…
Sort of like you file a complaint against someone and spell their name wrong.
The person can say ‘ legally’… THAT is NOT my name. You have no case. (on TV )
AKM… you may have a point about the do-over. Ask Rex Butler
I’ve been doing too many monthly reports today. 5 times I looked at that before I saw the typo!.
We may laugh, but where does this leave us on Prop 4? We’re trusting Palin and her appointees to protect Alaska’s water? All I can keep thinking is “Where is Jay Hammond when you need him?” Wish another Jay would emerge to undo all the harm her 4 years will have done.
I used to work in ticketing in Anchorage; I was the one who entered in the info that would appear on a ticket.
Alaska Public Radio contracted with us to print 1000 tickets to a benefit concert they were hosting.
You got it, 1000 tickets went out that said “Alaska Pubic Radio presents”.
My boss never let me forget it, until a few thousand tickets were sold for the “Grace Adkins” concert in Kenai…(in case you don’t know, the country singer is named Trace Adkins, and is in fact a man, definitely not a “Grace”
As long as we’re laughing about Pubic Offices, I’ll describe my lowest moment as a Biology Teacher (in a former life). I was supposed to make diagrams of the human male and female reproductive system on special paper for the photocopier. So there would no mistake, the correct side of the paper was marked is almost invisible ink. I made my diagrams, then lo-and-behold. The so called invisible markings on the paper also printed very clearly, labeling each organ “this side up ” looking like directions for use. We did not use the diagrams in class, but they remained collectors’ items among the faculty.
That is hilarious. Very sad, but hilarious none the less. Seems proof reading has become a lost art.
The clerk who accepted that pleading needs a good slap upside the head. That type of sloppiness and lack of attention to detail is unacceptable.
oh goody, more trouble in saradise while the cats away……..
LOL…..oops, no we don’t want to know what the Pubic dept specializes in, lol…..thanks for the laugh AKM
thanks for that link to Tim Griffin story by Shannyn…….that’s a good one!!! to keep referring back to.
It’s not uncommon to see things like that in Court documents. The name of the Court is something you see so often that even when you do proofread it, you don’t see it. I know it too having been a typesetter. Now of course they depend more on spell-check which would not have picked it up. Spell-check is depended on too much instead of younger people actually learned to spell.
I had my worst experience before the days of computers. Those grand old days of boat anchors called typewriters. Add to the setting that you could not use photocopied document submissions to the Court either which meant original and carbon copies. If you needed too many copies of a document, you had to prepare it twice. Xerox hadn’t refined itself yet!!
Worked for a law firm where the lawyer was eventually appointed to the Supreme Court of the province but while he was a partner in the firm, those deadly typewriter keys can bite you — BAD!! Real bad!!
His middle name was Tucker! The index finger did not co-operate. No need to tell you what I renamed him. It wouldn’t get past the spam monster anyways!! Yes, erasers had been invented by then!
Shortly thereafter, he agreed to use the initial T. I wonder why!!
Alaska Pubic Offices Commission: The office where they came up with Abstinence Only as a form of Birth Control.
when I was managing editor for a chain of newspapers (many years ago), I removed the work pubic from the spellcheckers on every single company computer. Got tired of seeing so many headlines about the Pubic Library
I’ve always felt prop 4 was the foulest of Sarah’s follies. The day I saw her face next to the Prop 4 initiative I knew all of our hard work had been destroyed to protect the one thing in Alaska that is most sacred, the Bristol Bay watershed.
If you click on jo in AK I have a few photos at the end of my June blog from India ……..
Just have to add another “Pubic” story. I used to work in the office of a Symphony Orchestra and in getting ready for an upcoming concert, thousands of flyers were printed up and distributed throughout the community. The flyer had gone through countless reviews, including by the printer. No one picked up on the large type announcing that the concert would be broadcast by National “Pubic” Radio. No one, that is, except a member of the public who called the office laughing hysterically to ask if we realized what we had done. Red faces throughout followed by more hysterical laughter.
Thanks Jo very nice pictures.l really enjoy Shannyn Moore and her radio show and her articles. You guys are lucky to have her up their and we are lucky she knows people in the lower 48.She sure knows how to follow up on things and in this day and age their are few journalists who investigate and follow thru on what they find out and print the truth
Took me till Ripley said something before I looked at the words instead of just scanning it.
Canadian Neighbour & justafarmer Wow… I think I will be deleting “pubic” and #ucker from my assistant’s spell check ASAP. She’s awesome, and also proofreads extremely well, but why let that happen under any circumstances…
the problem child,
Kinds of words that you wouldn’t think of until someone points them out!!
You ‘t’uck the sheets in!! or The sheets have been ‘t’ucked in!!
Add in a few variations!!!
I have a bone to pick with the guv….and it’s not the pubic bone. It involves hats, shoes, pants and emails.
Palin’s swollen head is way too big to fit the “governor’s hat”……but her feet are way too small to fill the “governor’s shoes.” Who the heck voted for this inappropriately proportioned politician for governor anyway?? Shouldn’t a true pubic servant at least fit the hat and shoes of the office?
Seems she’s getting too big for her britches, too. In fact, there are grave questions if she wears the britches in her family. Perhaps the Alaska Pubic Offices Commission IS the best venue to evaluate these nether issues after all.
Finally, there is the rumor that the Empress actually has New Clothes…..making hat, shoes, and pants moot. Even the average pubic citizen would be able to evaluate the nether issues if that’s true….Palin did campaign on “transparency,” so there should be no outrage against the pubic on her parts.
And what about those private emails which should legally be pubic, eh??
I know you’ll join me in sending beaucoup kudos to Andree for working tirelessly to get these privates out into pubic exposure!
Thank you, AKM, for addressing this important topic concerning the pubic welfare!
tee hee. Sure does raise the credibility of the APOC, eh?
Why can’t they identify the “mysterious” reporter? Wasn’t the press conference video taped?
How can a “stranger” get into a governor’s conference without being i.d.’ed by her staff or security?
When this issue came up a while ago, and ADN was covering it, I did some posts and said…”this is a set-up!” An idiot could tell she had someone planted in that conference to ask that question.
Assuming any governor would want a “clean water act,” why ever did this person ask such a question?
Can’t anyone find him/her?