House District 22: Anchorage: North Muldoon
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Ted Eischeid
(Dem)
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Stanley Wright
(Rep)
How do you plan to address the challenges of funding, teacher recruitment and retention, and ensuring educational equity across remote, rural and urban communities in Alaska in order to improve overall educational outcomes?
According to the U.S. Energy Administration in 2023, Alaska generated about 25% of its total electricity from renewable energy sources. What other alternatives do you think would help with our energy issues?
What options would you suggest where Alaska can increase our state revenue?
What could the Alaska legislature do to help restore voters’ trust in the integrity of our elections system?
Do you support or oppose continuation of our current open primary/ ranked choice voting election system. Why?
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First, I believe we should actually “put kids first” and support their education as our top priority. To improve public education we should raise the Base Student Allocation, simply to make up for the inflationary pressures school districts have been suffering through since the BSA was frozen in 2017. We should also expand public education to make sure it serves the needs of more students by increasing access to career and technical education. Related, we have to clarify for parents all the constitutional public education options they have. Finally, we should focus on recruiting and retaining quality educators by expanding benefits to include access to a defined benefit pension and improving housing options for staff working in rural AK.
Alaska can and must become a leader in renewable energy. We should prioritize transition to renewable energy sources, using legislation and budgetary tools. One thing we can do is provide low cost financing for residential and commercial renewable energy conversions, including solarization. We have seen some promising wind and solar farm projects, and we should continue to build out these opportunities, especially given the opportunities to support these efforts from the federal Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Now is the time to diversify and strengthen our south central energy systems to meet our needs as we create energy stability that our citizens and businesses can depend on.
My top preferred way to grow revenues in the short run is to claw back some of the oil tax credits we’ve given to the oil industry, such as reducing the $8/barrel oil tax credit to $5/barrel which was earlier an acceptable tax credit to the oil industry. Likewise, closing the S-Corp loophole will restore the revenue the state lost when BP sold its interest to Hilcorp. Finally, in the long run it would be prudent to grow the Permanent Fund corpus to a level so that we could use the investment gains to stabilize government revenues and insulate us from the “boom and bust” resource economic cycles.
We need to remove barriers to voting, making it easier and more convenient. I think this should include making vote by mail standard and reducing unnecessary voting restrictions that cause ballots to be rejected by instituting better ballot curing processes. Indeed, the current House majority killed an election reform bill that would have improved our elections while removing barriers to voting. In my HD22 we need this kind of election reform because too many of my neighbors are being disenfranchised in trying to exercise their right to vote.
I support continuing the current open primary/ranked choice voting (RCV) election system. This system has been excellent at electing more moderate candidates who are willing to work with other parties to advance what’s best for Alaska. My voters are telling me that they want me to "work across the aisle" and pass compromise legislation that address the issues they face. RCV helps achieve this goal.
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