Replies

Well, I know someone from Alaska too, my cousin Elaine. She lives in Anchorage. This is an excerpt from the letter she wrote to me:

Nikos

As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin, Senator McCain's choice for VP. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I along with countless others up here are happy as a bear at the beginning of spawning season. We're ecstatic that he picked her.

The most accurate description of her is that she's a down to earth “real” person. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to preserve our natural wildlife here.

For example, when the caribou and even domestic wildlife, like dogs and farm animals were being ravaged by packs of wolfs, she supported a bill that allowed aerial hunting of them. Aerial hunting of these predators from helicopters and airplanes I know, sounds like an inhumane way to kill predatory animals, but up here it's the most cost effective and safest way, for hunters, to do this. These animals were so over populated they were threatening children and people working up here. I'll be happy to send you some information on this subject.

Before Sarah cameinto office, we had the lowest rate of high school graduation in the country, but she's improved that already. Sarah got the oil companies to kick in more to our state treasury. They didn't like the idea of paying more taxes, but on the other hand, Sarah streamlined the process so that they're now able to access oil and gas fields formerly not available to them. The increased revenues for the state are being used to improve our schools. And by the way, she even gave each of us $1800 when her budget was in the black at the end of the year.

In a time when our nation needs to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, she not only talks, but she takes action. She has been a strong supporter of increased drilling for oil and natural gas, but she's a strong advocate for other forms of renewable sources to. She's for wind, solar and geothermal. She's also for building more nuclear plants. She's shown that you can do this and still be environmentally sound. Do the people in the lower 48 think we'd let someone run this state who was not a good custodian of our land and waters?

Dear Fellow Freepers, I can post the rest of the letter if you'd like me too, but I think you get my drift.