{"id":48999,"date":"2019-06-05T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/governor-to-hold-pro-pfd-rally\/"},"modified":"2019-06-05T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T21:20:00","slug":"governor-to-hold-pro-pfd-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/governor-to-hold-pro-pfd-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor to hold pro-PFD rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As lawmakers are split on what to do with the Permanent Fund Dividend, the governor is keeping the pressure on to give Alaskans a full dividend.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Mike Dunleavy&rsquo;s administration announced Wednesday that there will be a rally at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Everett&rsquo;s Mat-Su Valley Resort in Wasilla to encourage legislators to decide on a $3,000 PFD. The event, called &ldquo;Rally to Restore the PFD,&rdquo; is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I invite Alaskans to join me at a rally in support of a full PFD under the formula we&rsquo;ve followed for more than 30 years,&rdquo; Dunleavy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>One of Dunleavy&rsquo;s key campaign promises was to provide a full PFD after the Legislature voted to cut the amount of the PFD the past three years to help balance the budget. He&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/all-or-nothing-dunleavy-vows-to-veto-senates-new-pfd-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\">pledged to veto<\/a> anything but a full, $3,000 dividend.<\/p>\n<p>The rally comes just two days after the Alaska Senate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/behind-the-gridlock-two-arguments-divide-senate-on-pfd\/\" target=\"_blank\">was unable to decide<\/a> on a PFD amount during a floor session. The Senate was just one vote short of passing a $3,000 PFD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&rsquo;s hosting it in the Mat-Su. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":49000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[34,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48999"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}