I've resided in Alaska for over 10 years, years ago, ...so the subject of this thread naturally interested me. I was there during the time Jay Hammond, a popular and well loved Governor, sat in Juneau. Later, ...he sat in a cabin for many years in the Alaskan wilderness.
After him, we got a slew of oil-elected leaders in Alaska. Oily folks who lick the grease off the boots of the Oil Corporations.
Murkowski and Ted Stevens are career government agents of the Special Interests.
It's tough, in a State brimming with oil, and believe me, they have hardly even scratched even 1% of the total reserves there, ...to have a truely genuine self governing situation.
The past 100 years, Oil has been (and still is) the main commodity used to create the wealth of the power monger meglamaniacs of our world. They see representative government as a threat to their monopoly on power.
"Do no evil" is a good personal anthem to have. I hope the future Alaska Governor sings that tune. Representative Government by the people for the people is what's good.
Recently, Murkowski has been singing the same oily dirge the Oil Men sing, who want to sloppily exploit the Noth Slope and Arctic Wildlife Refuge under GWB's new sloppy environmental rules. Result: a pure and prime region trashed by greed. A fast buck. They do the same thing to the world's forest reserves. A State Governor's job is to preserve the resource for the good of the people there effected most.