My family and I live in Cordova and we, along with the rest of our town, are still reeling at the reality of no ferry service for the next seven months. I would like to know why Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, as well as Rep. Don Young, have not gotten involved. I am still in disbelief of how Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s 22 supporters in the Legislature have failed Cordova and towns like us. One of our Congress members must intervene.
Speaking of Dunleavy’s 22, folks like Sen. Shelley Hughes, Rep. Laddie Shaw, Rep. Mark Neuman, etc. failed Cordova by not voting against Dunleavy’s vetoes. I am glad Rep. Shaw was not confirmed to fill Sen. Chris Birch’s spot. That would have been blasphemy, considering Birch was for a smaller dividend while Shaw is for a $3,000 dividend. The 22 all will be remembered at reelection time, because of their cowardice of staying in Wasilla instead of voting. Alaska banded together and rose hell by calling and writing our legislators. Senate Bill 2002 was created and, thankfully, some of the vetoed items were still funded.
Alaska, we need to continue to band together and recall Dunleavy. We will be in a second round of collecting signatures; please go and sign the recall so this can go to a vote by Alaskans to get him out of office. The commissioner of the Department of Transportation needs to go also.
This is all over a stupid big dividend. I have asked this once before and I will ask it again: What would Jay Hammond think of all of this?
Whether you want to believe or not you have sealed Cordova’s fate — our schools’ sports, businesses, Costco runs, medical appointments. Some of our businesses spend thousands of dollars monthly for supplies. We were asked to write; we did. We were asked to testify and we did. For what? Nothing happened! If anything, it got worse for us.
At this point, Cordova will not have the ferry back until May 15. Are you kidding me? We are a fishing town; fishermen depend on the ferry to start coming over as early as April to start preparing for the season and the first fishing period of the season is around that time. Those fishermen and women will not have the time to prepare.
If I know Cordova as much as I do, we will not give up. We will continue to fight.
— Dave Craig
Cordova
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