RFK Jr. to appear on Bob Bird’s ‘Talk of the Kenai’

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be the Thursday, April 4 guest on The Talk of the Kenai, heard on KSRM Radio 92 & 92.5 FM, online at www.radiokenai.com.

The station serves the central and southern Kenai Peninsula communities, and is heard in Anchorage and the MatSu Valley. It airs Mon-Fri from 3-5 p.m. Alaska Time. Kennedy will be on the show Thursday, April 4 from starting at 3:15 p.m.

The show’s host, Bob Bird, has been chairman of the Alaskan Independence Party since 2020, and has been at the microphone on “The Talk of the Kenai” afternoon talk show for over seven years. Bird was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1990 in the Republican primary against Ted Stevens, taking 34,000 votes against Stevens’ 81,000, and again in 2008 as a member of the AIP. Stevens’ narrow loss to Democrat Mark Begich that year is attributed to Bird’s presence on the ticket.

Kennedy’s recent vice-presidential pick Nicole Shanahan will be discussed, as well as how Kennedy’s ticket, now top-heavy in environmental reputation, will affect Alaska’s resource development. Bird will also quiz how a Kennedy presidency will deal with abortion, the Jones Act, border security, weaponization of the Justice Department, digital currency, Indian Health and VA Services and the 90/10 revenue split promised Alaska at statehood.

The Alaskan Independence Party came into existence because of the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act [ANILCA], which prevented resource development on nearly all federal lands. This consists of about 65% of the state. That year Alaska voters approved a citizen initiative that read: Shall the Alaska Statehood Commission be convened to study the status of the people of Alaska within the United States and to consider and recommend appropriate changes in the relationship of the people of Alaska to the United States?

The AIP maintains that in 1958, by treaty obligation in the U.N. Charter, the U.S. was obliged to grant Alaska and Hawaii the same options as it had offered to Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines and the Virgin Islands: territory, statehood, commonwealth or independence.

No presidential candidate, Alaska governor, state legislature, or either of the two major parties have ever pushed for this claim. The AIP believes that the 1980 initiative demonstrated that the people of Alaska called for it, and was completely ignored, and that Alaska’s economic troubles would be solved by the state making this claim, forcing the federal Congress to be more respectful of Alaska’s rights, and no longer treated as a 2nd class state.

Kennedy is also hopeful to be placed on the presidential ballot in Alaska under the AIP banner, Bird said. “Kennedy’s courageous stand in the face of withering criticism during the Covid vaccine scam was ahead of its time,” said Bird, “and reflected the libertarian values of our party.”

“The AIP has placed Constitution Party presidential candidates on the ballot before. Our upcoming convention should decide this matter on the floor, and therefore the radio appearance by Mr. Kennedy will help the delegates answer this vitally important question,” said Bird.

The AIP convention is scheduled for Fairbanks on Saturday, April 13 at the Round Up Steakhouse from 10 a.m. to – 5 p.m.