jojobo1-
my remarks about the PFD came from 2 places-
1- I’m an at age where I whiz right out the door without my lunch, my shopping list, etc and find I need to set booby traps and draw deep lines to keep myself on track with what I ought to be doing…
2-it wasn’t explicit enough perhaps, or only to Alaskans, but most of my concerns about the PFD have to do with the alarming number of Alaskans who don’t pay one bit of attention to what our state or federal representatives do AS LONG as it does NOT endanger, diminish, or threaten their dividend in any way.
In relation to Senator M- it is not only her “oily donors” she is appealing to… it is an altogether too large a number of voters who don’t give a darn for anything except their own lil selves.

That’s about all you really needed to say about Lisa Murkowski. She talks a good game at times, but she ALWAYS votes the straight Republican line. She said nice things about Sotomayer and then voted against her confirmation.

Lisa won her re-election pretty handily last time she ran. I’m hoping that her next election campaign will be much tougher.

I do too… I have the same expectations of the folks we hire to conduct our public business as you do.

I don’t think Senator M realizes that the watered -down convoluted logic she is bringing to this set of questions regarding climate change and business may well spell failure to achieve anything meaningful on either front .

By hanging onto the ideas which are part of what we need to change AND accepting , to some extent , that the climate change model has merit she becomes a roadblock to the hard questions we need to address. She APPEARS, to some folks, to be balanced in her approach and so… here we are , again, urchy-scurching our brakes and trying to edge around another clump of cement in the road…

By AK hanging onto the idea we are still pristine we lose some of the sense of urgency to march out and really look at what’s going on… from indicators of climate change to damage over the next hill done by resource extractors who soothe us with tales of corporate responsibility and stewardship…

AKM-
This guest post here that we are on ( adopt-a senator-our Murky ) is pretty sensible . Thanks!

The one thing which may elude folks away from AK is that if Senators M and B ask for more assistance for moving villages affected by climate driven change, it will likely be in the context of the special federal relationship with tribal entities which exists as opposed to an Alaska-centric request.

Sorry, I’m not very awake this morning…….foggy head.

Alaska PI, very good points. We all need to be talking to everyone we can about climate change. Keep the conversation in the forefront, we need more people convinced it’s really happening and on board for real change.

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Nope- Say No…
not as simple as that…
PFD is a fund which is self sustaining (sorta) now by virtue of being managed like an investment fund.
Also- contrary to to what people think Alaska is NOT prisine…
hasn’t been for awhile.
There are still plenty of bits and pieces which are but, no, it’s not pristine.
THAT notion is something AK REALLY needs to dump …