If we are to make Alaska great again, it will not be through Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s failed leadership.
Twenty years ago last August, I arrived in Alaska with two little girls and a dog. I drove our truck from our last home in Laramie, Wyoming, and we rolled onto a ferry of the Alaska Marine Highway System in Bellingham, Washington. We slept on the decks for three days and arrived in Haines. We felt like immigrants coming to a new land.
Those two little girls are now graduates of the University of Alaska School of Nursing. They are Alaskans and we all want to stay. To me, both the university and the Alaska Marine Highway System are two things that make Alaska great and tie our diverse population together.
Gov. Dunleavy has shown that he intends to do irrevocable harm to both institutions and many others. He is a divider who is trying to buy votes with our Permanent Fund dividend. He awards no-bid contracts to political cronies and cushy state funded jobs to out-of-state political operatives and to unqualified local hacks. He is unfit to serve and a danger to the future of our Alaska.
— Ted Wittenberger
Eagle River
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