Apple I appreciate what you are trying to do in this thread. I've lived in Alaska for about 20 years now, minus a 3 year stint in Oregon, and you are giving some accurate insight to how things are up here.
Good chucks of Alaska are underdeveloped we have villages struggling to heat their homes in the winter, and keep their generator running. In my town, Kodiak, they replaced one of the main roads through town, they had to dig down 5-6 feet to remove the original timbers that the Russians had used when they built the road. We also have a 'bridge to nowhere' it was built prior to my arrival but use used to connect the main island to a smaller one to have easier access to a larger boat harbor. Its become more developed over the years with two research facilities and the seaplane port. With out the bridge our economic growth, and now research would have been stunted.
I really didn't care about the governor race the last go, didn't really care much about Palin in till a few months after she took office. A friend who has dealings with the state legislature, after the trip he gave a report of a couple of things, but what stood out to me was about Palin.
He made the comment that the democrats found it much easier to work with her then the previous admin. Where Murkowski would be hard to work with, stone wall, and uncompromising - Palin wasn't. She was willing to work with 'the other side' to come to an agreement. In places she wouldn't sign off, it wasn't " not going to do it" to "this is reason why i'm not signing..."
That is the kind of person i want in politics.
Good chucks of Alaska are underdeveloped we have villages struggling to heat their homes in the winter, and keep their generator running. In my town, Kodiak, they replaced one of the main roads through town, they had to dig down 5-6 feet to remove the original timbers that the Russians had used when they built the road. We also have a 'bridge to nowhere' it was built prior to my arrival but use used to connect the main island to a smaller one to have easier access to a larger boat harbor. Its become more developed over the years with two research facilities and the seaplane port. With out the bridge our economic growth, and now research would have been stunted.
I really didn't care about the governor race the last go, didn't really care much about Palin in till a few months after she took office. A friend who has dealings with the state legislature, after the trip he gave a report of a couple of things, but what stood out to me was about Palin.
He made the comment that the democrats found it much easier to work with her then the previous admin. Where Murkowski would be hard to work with, stone wall, and uncompromising - Palin wasn't. She was willing to work with 'the other side' to come to an agreement. In places she wouldn't sign off, it wasn't " not going to do it" to "this is reason why i'm not signing..."
That is the kind of person i want in politics.