Hello Alaska with Matt and Pat
Sep 11, 2026 · 48 min · 7 segments
Matt and Pat work through yet another round of drama in Alaska's race for governor, discussing whether Treg Taylor got special treatment by getting back into the race despite intentionally ignoring…
Pat RaceHostSo we closed last week thinking that, you know, 5 p.m. on Friday, we had a set election set slate of candidates for the gubernatorial election in Alaska and then rolls in at like 10, 15 p.m. We get an email from Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom, who, as lieutenant governor, gets to oversee elections in Alaska.
that she reversed her decision to disqualify Treg Taylor for refusing to properly disclose his $1 million in rental income.
You reconnected me this week and you were like, do we need to do an extra episode? emergency episode kind of on this and i go pat i am so mad right now let's talk about it yeah
well i'm i'm glad because i like it when you get worked up and i'm excited to hear what you have to say i was talking to my friend brandon uh probably five minutes ago before on my way over here and I mentioned Trey Taylor and he had not heard the news yet.
So like this is still percolating, right? Like a lot of people went out for Labor Day weekend and they had trips and are just coming back and settling into catching up on work emails and things like that.
They knew that he'd been kicked out and then they went on vacation and then came back and they're like, what?
So for the quick, I guess, history, which really starts all the way back in 2025 when he filed to run for governor, Taylor owns a 230-something unit apartment building in Anchorage.
And under Alaska law, you are supposed to disclose all your financial income, sources of all your income.
And the way that works in law is that that means you have to disclose who you're renting to.
And Oftentimes, it's actually kind of interesting because you'll see legislators renting from other legislators or staffers or something like that, and you can take a look at it.
In this case, Taylor is argued that, well, yeah, you might have to disclose for your single renter, but because he has 230 renters, he doesn't have to disclose their names.
APOC last year, that's the Alaska Public Offices Commission, he went to them, asked for an exemption on this rule.
He was kind of claiming that, you know, people were harassing people or something.
So we closed last week thinking that, you know, 5 p.m. on Friday, we had a set election set slate of candidates for the gubernatorial election in Alaska and then rolls in at like 10, 15 p.m. We get an email from Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom, who, as lieutenant governor, gets to oversee elections in Alaska.
that she reversed her decision to disqualify Treg Taylor for refusing to properly disclose his $1 million in rental income.
You reconnected me this week and you were like, do we need to do an extra episode? emergency episode kind of on this and i go pat i am so mad right now let's talk about it yeah
well i'm i'm glad because i like it when you get worked up and i'm excited to hear what you have to say i was talking to my friend brandon uh probably five minutes ago before on my way over here and I mentioned Trey Taylor and he had not heard the news yet.
So like this is still percolating, right? Like a lot of people went out for Labor Day weekend and they had trips and are just coming back and settling into catching up on work emails and things like that.
They knew that he'd been kicked out and then they went on vacation and then came back and they're like, what?
So for the quick, I guess, history, which really starts all the way back in 2025 when he filed to run for governor, Taylor owns a 230-something unit apartment building in Anchorage.
And under Alaska law, you are supposed to disclose all your financial income, sources of all your income.
And the way that works in law is that that means you have to disclose who you're renting to.
And Oftentimes, it's actually kind of interesting because you'll see legislators renting from other legislators or staffers or something like that, and you can take a look at it.
In this case, Taylor is argued that, well, yeah, you might have to disclose for your single renter, but because he has 230 renters, he doesn't have to disclose their names.
APOC last year, that's the Alaska Public Offices Commission, he went to them, asked for an exemption on this rule.
He was kind of claiming that, you know, people were harassing people or something.
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