Court RecordAlaska Superior Court
She Wouldn't Pay Her Bills — So the State Took Her PFD
- In 2022, Shoreside Petroleum sued Wilson, her mother, and her trash company Denali Disposal over unpaid fuel bills.
- Wilson never answered the complaint in time. The court entered a default judgment of roughly $57,000 against her.
- To collect, the state garnished her Permanent Fund Dividend two years running — 2023 and 2024. Her mother's PFD was garnished too.
- Wilson now runs the loudest campaign in Alaska for paying out a full statutory PFD. Hers had to be seized to pay a court judgment.
Source: The Alaska Landmine — PFD garnishment records
Federal CourtD. Alaska · 2018
She Doesn't Cherish Our Historic Markers
- In November 2017, Wilson's company hauled off Spenard's landmark neon palm tree sign during a federal cleanup.
- Her defense: she says she was told the sign was debris.
- A federal judge disagreed, ruling the sign was government property and ordering it returned.
- A piece of Anchorage history, treated as trash — and it took a federal court to get it back.
Source: Anchorage Daily News — Judge orders return of the neon palm tree
Public RecordPolitical History
Her Politics Run Closer to the Democrats Than She Admits
- Wilson's long-term partner was Chris Tuck — the Democratic leader of the Alaska House.
- On the radio, she spent years co-hosting a daily show with Democrat Ethan Berkowitz, who went on to become Anchorage's Democratic mayor.
- She built her public profile in partnership with Alaska Democrats, then rebranded as a conservative outsider when it was time to run.
- Republican primary voters deserve to know which one is the act.
Source: Juneau Empire — profile · ADN — KFQD coverage
On VideoAnchorage · Aug. 9, 2022
She Ran Interference for Lisa Murkowski
- August 2022, a gas-price event on Jewel Lake Road that Wilson was running as state director of Americans for Prosperity. Lisa Murkowski turned up.
- When a Project Veritas journalist moved to question Murkowski about ranked-choice voting, Wilson stepped in and shut it down — "This is our event."
- It is on tape. Alaska conservatives watched it and asked the obvious question: why was Bernadette Wilson shielding Lisa Murkowski?
- The senator who ranked-choice voting saved got cover that day — from the woman now asking Republicans to trust her.
Source: Alaska Watchman — Project Veritas video coverage
Professional Record2015 – 2023
Bernadette Wilson is Not Easy to Work With
- Dropped by KFQD. The station declined to renew her contract for 2016. Management said they were taking the morning slot in a "different direction" and that her show was not bringing in the revenue to stay on air.
- Out at Americans for Prosperity. Hired as Alaska state director in September 2021, gone by April 2023 — roughly eighteen months.
- By her own account, AFP never told her why she was let go.
- A radio station that wanted her gone. A national organization that cut her loose without explanation. Alaska's governor has to hold a coalition together for four years.
Source: The Alaska Current — KFQD departure · Must Read Alaska — AFP exit