Education: Demand Excellence

I want to be the ‘education’ governor. Alaska is a great state, and a great state has to have a great public education system, from preschool all the way to college and graduate school.

Energy

High energy prices are straining your family budgets and hurting Alaska businesses. I will work to get us affordable gas from a North Slope pipeline, promote energy-saving investments, and support cost-effective renewable energy.

Ensuring Safe Communities

You want to be safe in your home and safe in your community, and you want criminals to be caught and kept off the streets. That’s what I worked to do as a state prosecutor. That’s what I do today as a state senator – and that’s what I will do as your governor.

Equal Rights

Our constitution’s promise of equal protection under the law is still in the process of fulfillment. It seems as though each generation must renew the effort, expanding the boundaries of equality through activism and political discourse.

Strategic Gas Initiative

We need to create an emergency storehouse of natural gas for Southcentral Alaska. Neither a bullet line, nor a spur line from a big pipeline is going to get here fast enough to fix our problem. Many people have studied the issue and the conclusion is that it is not so much gas supply, but rather gas deliverability, which is at the root of the problem.