Lyman Hoffman

My name is Darren Deacon.

I was running for a Senate seat F, uh, Lyman Hoffman's old position and, um, just wanted to call in and, uh, Wish everybody a happy fall.

It's starting to snow.

Hasn't really been sticking, though, you know.

What do we do with the surplus? And asking questions about the surplus, it's a very dangerous precedent, both from the standpoint of what happens in FY27, and as importantly, what that leads to if you think you've got a surplus and you spend it on creating additional programs and additional spending, what that does in future years.

This is a classic example of what we've seen over and over and over again in the past, where any time that there's any form of surplus, Natasha von Imhoff's comment of, oh, we've got so much money we don't know what to spend it on, or Lyman Hoffman or Donnie Olson, oh, they're just rubbing their hands together spending this surplus.

But this is the worst of both worlds.

This is not just spending a surplus on a one-time thing.

And a lot of the problem with in-state refining, the reason why it ends up often being more expensive is just it's really expensive to run a tiny little refinery compared to the stuff you see in Tacoma.

And so I think that like one of the final things that Lyman Hoffman, Senator from Bethel, who's retiring this year, longtime guy, you can like go back and like legislative pictures like decades.

And he's, you know, a young man in the back.

And now he's the you know, he's been like the dean of the Alaska legislature for like 15 years basically now.

CJ McCormick, stole over $5,000 from each and every one of us.

And Bryce Edgman, who's running for Lyman Hoffman's old seat, stole over $20,000 since 2016 from all of us.

There's no reason to vote for the same thing if you already know what the result's going to be.

I was just sitting here looking at the numbers, and Nellie this year voted to steal $2,700 more or less.