At a Tuesday debate, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Republican Charlie Pierce both held up “yes” signs when asked if they'd vote for a new constitutional convention. Independent Bill Walker and Democrat Les Gara held up “no” signs. (via AlaskaBeacon)
Gubernatorial candidates at an Anchorage debate on Tuesday use signs to indicate their votes on a ballot measure about a new constitutional convention. Opposing the idea of a convention to rewrite the state’s constitution are, from left, former Gov. Bill Walker, an independent, and former state Rep. Les Gara, a Democrat. In favor of the convention are incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy and former Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Charlie Pierce, both Republicans.
“We’ve never been closer to a gasline than we are today,” he said, touting past permitting, federal loan guarantees and ongoing meetings in Asia and Texas. Former Rep. Les Gara, the Democratic candidate for governor, scoffed at Dunleavy’s promise of a big announcement. “You have to get out of the 1960s mindset. If you’re just going to promote the same old project, it’s not going to happen, just like it hasn’t happened,” Gara said. He urged the use of emerging technology to sequester carbon resulting from natural gas production. “The world is asking for clean energy. They’re not asking for 1960s energy anymore.”
Walker said he coped with hard fiscal times. When he got into office in 2014, Alaska North Slope crude was selling for $26 a barrel. He said he helped shepherd in a to drawing from the Alaska Permanent Fund, the state’s oil-wealth fund, that brought a $4.3 billion deficit to about $1 billion and drastically reduced the state’s dependence on fluctuating oil revenues. The new system depends on drawing a fixed percentage of the fund’s total market value each year.
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