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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (298347)	5/4/2016 2:41:40 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541921

I said I didn't word that post well. When I said a state dominated by liberals, I meant we had the power at the moment. And we have had the power at the most crucial moments many times and in many places between our statehood in 1959 and 2000.. Our Constitution was put together by a bunch of liberals like Ernest Gruening, one of only two senators to vote against the Tonkin Gulf resolution. Or Sen. Mike Gravel who was an anti-Vietnam war Sen. And who in 2014 plans to run up pot company-lol. If one examines our state closely they will see it riddled with very liberal influence even though the state as a whole is very red. We did a lot by out thinking the RW and outmaneuvering them. Our history is checkered with really strong liberals exercising power at crucial times. We've always been a very conservative state, the liberals managed to win key positions time and again by out thinking the Republicans. Senators Earnest Greuning and Bob Bartlett two of the most liberal senators ever to have served. Then there was Bill Egan who was a very liberal governor that I think served for 12 years? Tony Knowles another liberal governor who served eight years. Gov Bill Sheffield 8 years. And between the years 1968 and 2000 we had a lot of liberal governors, including one Republican liberal J Hammond who lived in Naknek with his Inuit wife. Alaska has been a good state for seeing what liberals can do even against a very conservative backdrop. From statehood until about 2000 the liberals managed to wield great influence. We probably have the most sophisticated state constitution in the country because it was put together by hard-core liberals in 1959. And many of the laws and things we managed to put together like the permanent fund stand still today. And even in this last election we outmaneuvered the Republicans by joining forces with an independent Bill Walker. We let him be governor and we took the Lieut. Gov. slot and the first thing Bill Walker did was give an Executive Order to allow Obama's Medicaid to come in. The tea party governor who replaced Palin would not allow the Medicaid program and of course our right wing legislature would not even think about it and has been fighting the Executive Order ever since in the courts.