Contributed by Lawrence D. Wood
I am running for HD 25. My priorities are the following:
CHILD SAFETY: I will work to see that armed security is present in every Alaska school and that school security is upgraded.
It is time Alaska’s school security became a priority and not an afterthought. Schools should have unbreakable glass, single point of entry with a remote-controlled lock, voice intercom at the point of entry and a camera at every door showing a view of the approach to that door, and armed staff and armed security.
How to pay for it? The federal Department of Homeland Security has been giving out Homeland Security Grants to secure critical infrastructure against terrorist attacks since 2001.
I will support SB140 to prevent biological males from competing with biological females in female sports. Biological males have >20% lung capacity and >35% upper body muscle mass than the average female. Transgender hormonal treatments do not erase the X chromosome. The World Rugby Association has barred biological males from competing with biological females.
BAR TREATMENT FOR TRANSGENDERISM FOR MINORS: I will work to make it illegal for minors to have treatments for gender dysphoria using hormone blockers or other hormone treatments while a minor, because of the detrimental health effects of the treatment, the increased potential for suicide, the lack of maturity to make one’s own judgement in such a life altering decision, and the usually transitory nature of gender dysphoria.
EDUCATION: The goal/prime mission of education is literacy. Every child should be able to read independently by the 3d grade and be able to express themselves in writing by the 4th grade. At present, the education in Alaska is 47th and 4th grade reading is 50th. This is failure.
How can we improve education? Stop taking federal Dept. of Education (DoEd) money which amounts to 3%-8% above the state funding. This money is not necessary and does not put one teacher to work in a classroom. This is how Common Core, Critical Race Theory, Transgenderism and the LGBTQ agenda has gotten into our schools.
I will work to end the NEA’s influence in the classroom. I will further work to end DoEd funding. How our kids are educated is up to the parents, not the DoEd, the unions or the state.
PFD: I support the statutory PFD formula and will work for full PFD payment and payment of monies owed Alaskans. The PFD is best stimulus to the economy.
COVID RESPONSE: The 2020-2021 COVID Emergency Response was the proverbial cluster fornication. Fauci lied, people died. The Legislature ran, and our governor managed the 4th most restrictive mandates in the United States. People in hospitals and nursing homes were forced to remain separated from their loved ones. Those with illnesses requiring regular treatment went without those treatments. Lockdowns, masking and social distancing reduced the IQ of kids under 5 years by 21 points. We were used as guinea pigs, lied to and our concerns ignored.
Experimental vaccinations were imposed without recourse and without long term studies to determine safety.
Fear was used to motivate us into compliance with the mandates.
I will work to see that our rights are considered in any emergency mandate, that our Legislature maintains the 30 day oversight of any emergency declaration by a governor, restore the doctor-patient relationship to end any threat of a centralized dictatorship by unelected medical or other so called experts.
I fully support SB156 to end mandatory vaccinations. No one should lose their job for a shot that is an experiment.
SECOND AMENDMENT: I fully support the Second Amendment, I carry daily.
TRANSPARENCY IN GOVENRMENT: I will work to end redacted FOIA responses by the state and local governments. Nothing government does should be redacted to deny the public full information.
TERM LIMITS: I will work to enact term limits.
MOVE THE LEGISLATURE: I will work to enact legislation to move the Legislature out of Juneau to Anchorage or the Valley.
STATEHOOD COMPACT: I will work to restore the state’s management over all lands comprising Alaska and fish and game management per the Alaska Statehood Agreement and to restore the homesteading act that existed under the Territory (160 acres).
VOTING: Require photo ID, full chain of custody, no electronic voting, only in person, or absentee ballot.
HUNTING/FISHING: Alaskans first.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: I support a constitutional convention to remedy the shortcomings in the state constitution.
BUSINESS/RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT: I will work to deregulate, and to end the duplication of business licensing. The state license should be the only license required.
My business was in mining and environmental reclamation. I fully support resource development.
ALASKA RAILROAD: I will work to restore the ARR track to Sutton and to extend the track to Tok and Valdez. The ARR was to support development of our resources, not to only act as a taxi for fat tourists.
INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT: I will work to keep our roads maintained and to expand airports and harbors.
CHICKALOON TRIBAL POLICE EXPANSION: I oppose any attempt to expand the police powers of the tribal police beyond original land grant lands holdings.
EMERGENCY RESPONSE: I will work to restore the Alaska State Defense Force as an armed state military response asset.
SOUTHERN BORDER RESPIONSE: I will work to encourage the governor to provide law enforcement and organized militia assets to assist the State of Texas in its declaration of an invasion. The drugs and criminals flowing across the southern border reach Alaska.
JUDICIARY: I will work to require the courts to decide constitutional issues by text, history and traditions as did the SCOTUS in the recent Dobbs and Bruen decisions.
God, Family, Country.
Please vote.