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Trump Shakes Down All Of Alaska After Murkowski Rejects Trumpcare
By Darrell Lucus on July 27, 2017

Donald Trump is a petty and vindictive man. That’s been established for a long time. But one state may be about to find that out literally. Nope, not sapphire-blue California or purplish Nevada–but crimson-red Alaska. After one of its senators voted against Trumpcare, the White House threatened to yank critical jobs and infrastructure from the Last Frontier.

But the White House’s private reaction may have been even more chilling. Alaska’s junior Senator, Dan Sullivan, told the (Anchorage) Alaska Dispatch News that on Wednesday afternoon, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called him with a warning–the people of Alaska were going to pay dearly for Murkowski’s refusal to support Trumpcare.

This exchange sounds like something you’d expect from a crime family–which is fitting, since Trump’s approach to governing is akin to that of a mob boss. What Zinke effectively did is tell Murkowski and Sullivan that unless Murkowski toed the line and voted for Trumpcare, Alaska was likely to get the equivalent of a horse’s head in its bed.

http://www.liberalamerica.org/2017/07/27/trump-shakes-down-alaska-murkowski-rejects-trumpcare/