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From: koan	9/11/2012 6:44:59 PM
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In 1974 we had an election for governor between a hard right fellow Wally Hickel (Palins patron) and Jay Hammond a liberal Republican. Hammond won by 274 votes. That election was critical. From Weavers book p.75 "Looking now at the state in its post Palin phase it is hard to imagine the political climate of the 1970's, an era in which a cadre of progressive young democrats controlled the legislature and allied with a progressive Republican governor to adopt strict environment laws, raise oil taxes and enshrine a constitutionally protected savings account. The outcome mattered. Over the next four years of his second term, Hammond gave his blessing to a federal bill setting aside eighty million acres of national parks and refuges, protected the permanent fund, and opposed a wide range of scattered brained ideas."

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