I urge all Alaskans to vote Yes on Ballot Measure 2 this week to help keep the future of our coastal lands and waters in the hands of Alaska’s citizens. It is in our best interests to restore Alaska’s Coastal Management Program.
In 1976, Governor Hammond proposed a coastal management program for Alaska so that Alaskans would have a voice in managing our coasts as new development occurred.
• Alaska’s coastal program protected our precious coastline and way of life successfully for over 30 years;
• It is supported by well-respected Alaskans, including Alaska Senate President Gary Stevens (Kodiak), Former State Senator Arliss Sturgulewski (Anchorage), Representative Bryce Edgmon (Dillingham), and Former Mayor and past Permanent Fund CEO and AFN President Byron Mallott (Juneau/Yakutat);
• It allows local citizens to have a voice in what happens to our coastal lands, waters, and those that inhabit them;
• It provides a “one stop shop” for those who wish to develop to help them figure out the complicated permitting processes required for development.
Alaska has more coastline than any other state in the nation yet right now it is the only coastal state without a coastal management program. We had such a program successfully for 30 years.
• The Coastal Zone Management Act uniquely requires the federal government to follow what the state and local citizens decide;
• In 2011, the Legislature and the governor failed to agree on conditions for extending Alaska’s coastal program and the program expired;
• Through Ballot Measure 2, we now have a chance to regain our influence in federal government decisions about our coastal resources.
With corporate wealth spending over a million dollars on expensive newspaper, radio, and television advertising to influence the few who usually vote during the August election, our hope is to get as many voters as possible out by August 28th to VOTE YES on Ballot Measure 2. Make that miracle happen by telling everyone you know to vote TODAY THROUGH August 28th. Go to http://www.elections.alaska.gov/vi_ea_ev_ip_about.php for information on the days, times and locations for early voting. Your vote CAN make a difference. Thank you!
• Mills lives in Juneau
Comments (19)
Add comment"One stop shop"?
Or "one shop stop"?
Proposition 2
We Alaskans need a voice in the way our costal waters are used. Vote YES on Proposition 2!
Regurgitating talking points.
Bet you she didn't write it.
This proposition is bad for Alaska. Vote NO.
Prop 2 is about taking power from elected representatives of the people, local and state, and giving an unelected board veto power over local projects.
Cathy Munoz piece in the paper today is right.
Billboard
We Alaskans have a voice. It's called zoning and land use powers of a borough. This gives our local elected officials NO additional authority. There is nothing, nothing, that this proposition adds to the powers of Juneau managing it's coast. But it does take away some of our local control by giving veto power to an unelected statewide board that can overrule our local assembly and planning commissi
Way to go girl!
Thanks for your insightful opinion piece Marianne. Alaskans do need a voice in what happens off our coasts. Vote Yes!
I am not living in 1976, with Governor Hammond.
I am living in 2012. I think it is time to shed the skin from the previous century and come to terms with the present.
Is this the same Marianne
Is this the same Marianne Mills, Vice President of the liberal, agenda driven League of Women Voters club?
Perhaps that would have been a helpful, juicy tidbit to include in her "opinion" piece, which is full of incorrect statements.
It's always good to know where a person sits before they tell you where they stand.
I do not view the League of Women Voters
as 'liberal' or 'conservative'. In fact, in my view, the League has refrained from being attached to any political spectrum.
Every citizen has a voice.
"Agenda"
I love how if a person/politician/organization has an "agenda", that's a bad thing.
I, too, prefer that they have no plan at all and just sort of wander aimlessly from one issue to the next.
I have not experienced the "aimless" wandering from one
issue to the next. For the most part the contributors to this forum are pretty fixed on certain views. Could you elaborate?
Rough cut: All I can say is I tried.
Now I can have some fun.
Sarcasm
Sarcasm, Ken. No surprise that it went right over Rough Cut's head, but I would have figured you would have picked up on it.
I guess my point is, if an organization is not trying to accomplish something, why have an organization in the first place? When I see "agenda" used in a derogatory sense by our knuckle-dragging mouth-breather friends, I'm pretty sure it just means, "Their agenda doesn't match up with my narrow-minded world view."
Sorry, sarcasm does not transfer well in print. My bad.
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The League of Women Voters
has done a good job facilitating the democratic process and helping us understand the candidates, the ballot measures, and disseminating information that helps voters. Mills doesn't identify herself with the group, just as Fredriksson doesn't identify himself as co-chair of the No on 2 campaign, but it speaks well for them that one of their number supports this initiative, which also seeks to deal as many local people as possible into the process governing resource development in our state.
For "concerned" and others:
"Sec. 46.41.180. Construction with other laws.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to (1) diminish state jurisdiction, responsibility, or rights in the field of planning, development, or control of land or water resources, submerged land, or navigable water; (2) affect in any way any state requirement imposed under a federal authorization or federal waiver of sovereign immunity; or (3) diminish the zoning or planning authority of municipalities under AS 29"
Short Cut, You're wrong.
Short Cut,
You're wrong. Calypso isn't never right.
J.E. Fume...
That's a double-negative...
I sometimes think that
people just refuse to read beyond the numbers (sec 46.41.180, for instance)--their minds blank out or something.
Well, get used to it, if you want to deal yourselves into the democratic process---Get used to reading laws. People, many of whom we know here is this state of small towns, spent many hours putting these things into words so that you could give them an up or down vote.
The words of this initiative are straight and to the point, but more than a million and a half dollars are trying to make us into a state of illiterates.
I know that Big Oil runs the state, but how Alaskan is it that it runs our vote?