Oil Taxes on the Table Monday
This is it, everyone. It all comes down to this weekend. The Senate is likely to vote on the historic oil wealth giveaway this Monday. It is time to stand up for Alaska’s future.
You have homework.
Alaska owns its oil. That means YOU own YOUR oil, and the wealth it provides your state. Where you put your money is squarely where your values are. Do you want money for schools, for roads, for infrastructure and for jobs, or do you want your money to fill the bulging pockets of the wealthiest multinational corporations in the history of the world?
Your senators need to hear that you are paying attention, and that you expect them to stand up and reject this historic giveaway of our resources. They need to hear that you expect them to stand up for YOU.
E-mails help, but are not enough. Call your senators and tell them to show some backbone, to stand up and demand a better deal for Alaskans. Tell them not to go down in history as one of the 11 votes for this epic giveaway of our oil wealth. This giveaway, with no strings attached, is not what we want. Don’t make it easy for them to support the agenda of oil over the agenda of you.
Senator Click Bishop – 800-336-7383
Senator John Coghill – 877-465-3719
Senator Mike Dunleavy – 907-465-6600
Senator Fred Dyson – 800-342-2199
Senator Dennis Egan – 855-465-4947
Senator Anna Fairclough – 800-861-5688
Senator Peter Micciche – 800-964-5733
Senator Cathy Giessel – 800-892-4843
Senator Charlie Huggins – 800-862-3878
Senator Pete Kelly – 907-465-3709
Senator Lesil McGuire – 800-365-2995
Senator Kevin Meyer – 866-465-4945
Senator Donny Olson – 800-597-3707
CLICK HERE TO E-MAIL ALL KEY SENATORS TODAY
Don’t forget we wouldn’t be in this crisis if the conflict of interest rule had any teeth. The practice of declaring a conflict and then being asked by your fellow conspirators to vote anyway needs a court challenge immediately.
With a successful court challenge it might be possible down the road to roll back part of the damage should this bill pass.
Any lawyers on the forum? If not, I’d settle for Ray Metcalf, Ray, are you here?
John Schroeder
Try these addresses – cut and paste.
sen.click.bishop@akleg.gov, sen.dennis.egan@akleg.gov, sen.john.coghill@akleg.gov, sen.mike.dunleavy@akleg.gov, sen.fred.dyson@akleg.gov, sen.anna.fairclough@akleg.gov, sen.peter.micciche@akleg.gov, sen.cathy.giessel@akleg.gov, sen.charlie.huggins@akleg.gov, sen.pete.kelly@akleg.gov, sen.lesil.mcguire@akleg.gov, sen.kevin.meyer@akleg.gov, sen.donny.olson@akleg.gov
Hey! How did the Mudflats get a photo of my storage room?
The e-mail link doesn’t work! Anybody know why or what to do?
If contacting our elected officials could offset the bribes and corruption of Juneau’s gilded pigs, we would have had running water and working sewer in every home in Alaska by now.
A rich state keeping its citizens poor. I would laugh if I wasn’t crying.
We are living in an Ayn Rand novel. Greed and selfishness good; compassion and community bad.
I’m a New Yorker, but if I were Alaskan, I’d be calling my senator, and emailing every single one. Go to it, Alaska. Health and peace.
The sellout is nearly complete. Next year, they’ll give them the Permanent Fund – because, hey! They really, really want it!
I’m sorry, but I totally disagree. We have to make some hard choices with limited resources and only $60 billion or so in the bank, and an ever dwindling annual surplus. We can support education, law enforcement in rural areas, repairing roads, fighting domestic violence, and other things that make this state a wonderful place to live. Or we can give money to our corporate sponsors who will pay us big bucks after we retire from the legislature so we can enjoy playing golf in Arizona and Hawaii. Really, there is no question as to which we will choose. We didn’t knock on doors for days on end during the campaign just to vote for things that would help our constituents while sacrificing our own personal interests. And with Veco gone, and with those silly rules about accepting free meals and gifts from lobbyists, how else is a legislator supposed to make a buck in this town?
You disagree? We’ve had decades of low to zero taxes and TAPS throughput still declined. Under ACES, Alaska’s enjoyed record employment the last three consecutive years due to, according to Petroleum News, exploration and development not seen since 1969! ConocoPhillips made between 5 and 10 times more profit in Alaska than the Lower 48 last year. Every quarter since ACES passed in 2007 they have at least doubled their investment in Alaska.
Disagree if you want, ignorance is bliss and you’re allowed your opinion, but at least educate yourself on the facts. SB21 is a billion dollar giveaway. If you want to increase production, tie new tax breaks directly increased production. If SB21 passes, last one left turn out the lights
Kelly…he was being sarcastic.