Letter to the Editor by Barb Lander, Ketchikan Daily News, July 3, 2010
Editor, Daily News:
Bill Walker, Republican gubernatorial candidate, deserves your consideration. He is a lifelong Alaskan. Like most real Alaskans, he has a broad background. Most recently he has worked as a lawyer focusing on oil and gas issues, but he has also done construction, commercial fishing and worked as a laborer building the pipeline.
I met Bill Walker by accident and couldn’t care less about a candidate I’d never heard of. I didn’t care much about oil and gas issues either; I didn’t connect them with financial solvency. I am from Ketchikan; oil and gas is a mainland Alaska issue.
But as a registered nurse, I do care about healthcare; I was on my way to Juneau to lobby in support of healthcare issues. Walker listened to my spiel, just as Sean Parnell had listened two months earlier. Walker contacted me with good questions and suggestions five times over the next three days and again a month later when my legislation passed. He heard and understood what I said.
Walker campaigns unabashedly as a one-issue candidate: An all-Alaska liquid natural gas pipeline. He wants to make energy affordable for Alaskans. Bill knows that Alaskans and their can-do attitude can combine cheap energy with Alaska resources and make this state an economic powerhouse. Affordable energy will make everyone’s life better: food, transportation and home heating will be cheaper; the benefits go on.
As my chance meeting with him illustrates, he cares about all issues that affect Alaskans but understands that taking care of anything else is going to take a steady, reliable income. His plan will insulate Alaska from the economic woes plaguing our country and world.
We need Bill Walker for governor while we still have a vibrant state to save; before we are bogged down in the economic woes that plague many other states; before Alaskans face a state income tax; before fiscal necessity shuts down our schools and hospitals and returns our transportation infrastructure to pioneer days.
Please vote for Bill Walker in the Aug. 24 primary and again in November. He has an Alaskan plan.
Barb Lander
Ketchikan
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Bill Walker, Republican gubernatorial candidate, deserves your consideration
Letter to the Editor by Barb Lander, Ketchikan Daily News, July 3, 2010
Editor, Daily News:
Bill Walker, Republican gubernatorial candidate, deserves your consideration. He is a lifelong Alaskan. Like most real Alaskans, he has a broad background. Most recently he has worked as a lawyer focusing on oil and gas issues, but he has also done construction, commercial fishing and worked as a laborer building the pipeline.
I met Bill Walker by accident and couldn’t care less about a candidate I’d never heard of. I didn’t care much about oil and gas issues either; I didn’t connect them with financial solvency. I am from Ketchikan; oil and gas is a mainland Alaska issue.
But as a registered nurse, I do care about healthcare; I was on my way to Juneau to lobby in support of healthcare issues. Walker listened to my spiel, just as Sean Parnell had listened two months earlier. Walker contacted me with good questions and suggestions five times over the next three days and again a month later when my legislation passed. He heard and understood what I said.
Walker campaigns unabashedly as a one-issue candidate: An all-Alaska liquid natural gas pipeline. He wants to make energy affordable for Alaskans. Bill knows that Alaskans and their can-do attitude can combine cheap energy with Alaska resources and make this state an economic powerhouse. Affordable energy will make everyone’s life better: food, transportation and home heating will be cheaper; the benefits go on.
As my chance meeting with him illustrates, he cares about all issues that affect Alaskans but understands that taking care of anything else is going to take a steady, reliable income. His plan will insulate Alaska from the economic woes plaguing our country and world.
We need Bill Walker for governor while we still have a vibrant state to save; before we are bogged down in the economic woes that plague many other states; before Alaskans face a state income tax; before fiscal necessity shuts down our schools and hospitals and returns our transportation infrastructure to pioneer days.
Please vote for Bill Walker in the Aug. 24 primary and again in November. He has an Alaskan plan.
Barb Lander
Ketchikan