The last time I visited our representatives in Washington, D.C., Don Young never showed. Instead, he sent an assistant from the South who had never been to Alaska and could not answer any of my questions. During that visit, I overheard him and other non-Alaskan staffers refer to Don Young as “the King of Alaska.”
The experience was insulting.
We have only one representative in the U.S. House, so we’d better make sure she listens to us and delivers. Don Young hasn’t listened or delivered for quite some time.
Don Young doesn’t show up to vote. Because of his ineptitude and numerous ethics violations, he’s lost all his committee chairmanships and is ineligible to ever get more. Even Republicans don’t want him on committees. In short, he cannot do anything for us. All he does now is spend our taxpayer dollars on jaunts around the world.
We don’t need a “king.” We need a representative. I’ve known Alyse Galvin since our children attended elementary school together. I watched her lead Great Alaska Schools to save more than $200 million in budget cuts. She has an incredible ability to work with people from a wide range of backgrounds, interests and opinions to find common ground so that things get done.
That’s what Alaskans need: someone who knows us, cares about us, works for us. That’s who Alaskans need as our sole representative in Congress: Alyse Galvin.
Marybeth Holleman
Anchorage
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