Ray Metcalfe

Bottom line: When found, the giant pools of oil on Alaska’s North Slope are enormously profitable.

We need to get over the Lower 48 mentality that public ownership of our resources and the infrastructure to deliver it to market is tantamount to communism.

On one hand, I admit that casinos bore me to tears, but the “clang clang clang” of slot machines was inescapable.

We could have fixed this for a fraction of the money already spent chasing a constitutional amendment.

Sound like anyone you know?

Alaskans have never received fair market payment for any resources we let nonresidents and foreign corporations take from our state.

Muzzling those who fill the airwaves with misinformation would violate their right to free speech.

This table-turning revenue trick is why the state is broke.

Allowing oil companies to continue fleecing Alaska rather than financing education, infrastructure, ferry systems and dividends is insane.

Whistleblowers need access to a people’s grand jury with authority to consider and investigate issues.

If we don’t manage our resources, our resources will be managed for us by people who want to make as much as possible while paying us owners peanuts.

I hope Democrats never forget, and never forgive, Mark Begich for making Mike Dunleavy our governor.

Getting the dirty money out of politics and ending pay to play has been my No. 1 priority for 30 years. I was the whistleblower who helped the FBI and federal prosecutors convict Veco Corp. owner Bill Allen for bribing your legislators. Six legislators were convicted of accepting bribes in exchange for their vote to tax … Continue reading US Senate race: Challenger Ray Metcalfe, Democrat

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