[Wildalaska]

To all of those who live in less enlightened areas...heres a letter form one of our State Reps to the newspaper...

Daily News Letters
(Published: July 26, 2003)
Rep. Croft stands by decisions on concealed guns, Permanent Fund

When I started in the Legislature, a good friend told me that government should be "liberal with our rights, conservative with our money."

Recently, my legislative actions on constitutional rights and the people's money have come under fire from editorials printed in this paper. An ADN editorial on June 16 did not like my defense of Second Amendment rights in Alaska, in particular allowing Alaskans to carry a gun generally without government permission or precondition. Earlier, a Voice of the Times editorial did not like my defense of the Permanent Fund dividend, particularly the idea of requiring a vote of the people before any change in the dividend.

After giving it some thought, I stand by both positions and, in fact, see them as related. The Alaska Constitution guarantees our individual gun rights and states that our natural resources are held in common by the people. Individuals can forfeit their gun rights by their conduct -- committing a felony, for example -- and Alaskans may decide to let the government use some of the dividend money for other purposes. But the point is that the people start with the right or the money, and these things only get in the government's hands by conduct or consent. My actions last session tried to put the dividend and our Second Amendment rights in the hands of the people first. I stand by them.

-- Rep. Eric Croft

Anchorage

[4v50 Gary]

Croft for President.

[Cal4D4]

I think Alaska should annex Kali...whataya think of Baja Alaska? I like the part about the people having a hand in the nat'l resources.

[BB93YJ]

Dear God, please create more statesmen, (not politicians) like him!!!
Amen.

[stevelyn]

And guess what???????? He's a democrat.:scrutiny:

[mtnbkr]

And guess what???????? He's a democrat

Lately, I've come to the conclusion that good politicians can be from either party. This Croft guy proves it. Our gov, Mark Warner, is a democrat, yet he's been a pretty good one so far. He pushed through legislation that allows CCW in regional parks (something prohibited by many local govts). He also seems to understand the concept of cutting costs vs raising taxes. I'd vote for him next time around (voted against him this time because I didn't trust him).

Chris

[stevelyn]

mtnbkr:

That was my point. On this forum and others I hear and see "conservative" and "republican" as being the gun owners' friend. "Liberals" and "democrats" as being the enemy. The truth be known is that "socialist" is the real operative label for our enemies - proponents of the nanny-state.
The only real friend gun owners have in politics are those with "Libertarian" philosophies and take seriously their oath to the Constitution.

[Silver Bullet]

The truth be known is that "socialist" is the real operative label for our enemies - proponents of the nanny-state.
"Socialist" or worse. But you're right, it is not in our best interests to automatically label individual Democrats as our enemy. Many of them are more of an ally than many RINO Repubs.

[Moparmike]

Dear God, please create more statesmen, (not politicians) like him!!!
Amen.

Dear God, if you create the requested statesmen, would you be so kind as to send a few to Arkansas as well?
Amen

[foghornl]

Many of them are more of an ally than many RINO Repubs. Wanna see the picture definition of RINO ? ?

Open your Websters Unabridged to RINO. There you will see the Group Portrait of Ohio (US) Senators Voinovich, DeWine & Guv. Booby '
Flip Flop' Taft.

Dear God, if you create the requested statesmen, would you be so kind as to send a few to Arkansas as well?

Ohio could use a busload of them, too. see above.

[themic]

mtnbkr, agree with you on governor warner. didn't vote for him, but love pretty much everything he's done. he cut so much spending, virginia is accidentally going to have a small surplus this year, without reaising taxes. and he hasn't hesitated about signing pro-gun laws in virginia, not once. if virginia allowed people to have two terms as governor, i'd vote for him next time. as it is, this is one democrat i'd like to see going places.