In response to a Friday, July 7, well-written article by Juneau Empire’s James Brooks, “House lawmakers pessimistic about deal on drilling subsidies” let’s analyze how much all the special sessions, per diem, and lack of interest in passing a budget in 90 days as well as the $37 million for the Legislative Information Office in downtown Anchorage debacle and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill has cost Alaskans.
It is clear to many Alaskans that the self-licking ice cream cones from up north have conflicts of interest because they are tied to the purse strings of the oil companies and this legislature isn’t going to make any decisions that affect a compromise of reforms to Alaska’s subsidy of the gas and oil industry. It is clear that the oil companies care only about profit and not our natural resources.
Let’s support a ballot to the people and let us vote on it. We will get a voter turnout and take care of business.
Captain Loretto Jones,
Juneau