Mike Dunleavy has appointed ally Mike Porcaro, a longtime GOP advertising consultant and talk radio host, to a highly paid job as a commissioner at the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.
Fishing boats wait to deliver their catch of sockeye salmon behind the tender Billikin on Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at"The Y" in the Naknek-Kvichak district near Naknek in Bristol Bay.
Porcaro will work remotely from his home in Anchorage, continue hosting his daily radio program from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and run his advertising agency outside work hours, he said. In a prepared statement, a Dunleavy spokesman, Jeff Turner, called Porcaro a “longtime Alaskan and successful business owner with comprehensive knowledge and participation in Alaska’s business, nonprofit and public policy spheres.”
“It just seems like an odd appointment to me when you have no knowledge of the fishing industry,” she said.over the past decade as its purpose, and workload, have evolved. A pair of critical audits around that time suggested that CFEC’s highly-paid commissioners could be reduced to part-time or replaced by members of the governor’s cabinet.
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