Vote on subsistence
Letter to the Editor
Frank Murkowski's position on subsistence is as murky as his economic plan. Murkowski wants rural voters to think he supports subsistence rights and white urban Republicans to think he does not. In truth, of course, it is the GOP-controlled Legislature, working behind closed doors, that has blocked a public vote on subsistence for the past eight years. Gov. Knowles and the Democratic minority have fought hard to let the people decide the issue in a fair and open election. An overwhelming majority of Alaskans want a public vote on subsistence.
Fran Ulmer firmly supports holding a public vote on subsistence. She doesn't tell voters in Kotzebue one thing and voters in Wasilla another. Let's keep Fran in Juneau and Murkowski in Washington, D.C. And let's have a public vote on subsistence in 2004.
Scott A. Sterling, chairman
Alaska Democratic Party
Wasilla