Gov’t Regs Not the Place to Make Women’s Health Decisions
January 7, 2014
Today, democratic legislators Representative Geran Tarr, Representative Beth Kerttula, Representative Harriet Drummond and Senator Berta Gardner spoke out against the governor’s bureaucratic intrusion into Alaska women’s personal health decisions. The Parnell administration recently finalized regulations allowing government bureaucrats to determine which circumstances determine whether a woman’s abortion procedure is medically necessary, a determination previously left to health professionals.
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Note from Rep. Gara: Voting No On Ballot Measure 1: The Constitution Shouldn’t Be Messed With
October 25, 2012
How thrilled are you about the prospects that extremists would re-write our Constitution? I don’t know about you, but that would be, well, pretty schmucky.
Ballot Measure 1 shows up every 10 years to ask if you want a “Constitutional Convention” to re-write our State Constitution. This week I had dinner with a state Founding Father, Vic Fischer, who helped write the constitution. He and his Convention peer, Republican Jack Coghill, think letting people into the Constitution to push their pet peeves is a bad idea, especially in times when extremists on either side have pet peeves they want in the Constitution. The Constitution should be a regal document, not one with extremist ideas in it.
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Democrats Introduce Measure to Turn Windfall Profits into Endowment
January 14, 2011
Constitutional Amendment would secure savings, provide earnings to invest in Alaska JUNEAU – Today, Representatives Berta Gardner and Mike Doogan (both D-Anchorage) introduced a constitutional amendment to turn part of the state’s savings into an endowment and put the earnings of the fund to work meeting Alaska’s needs and inflation-proofing the fund. Windfall …
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