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Mead Treadwell is the solution to three-way gov. race

Published 11:37 am Saturday, July 14, 2018

By Orin Seybert

Five candidates running for Alaska governor, at left, squared off in Naknek at the Bristol Bay Fish Expo. From left are Gov. Bill Walker, former Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, Anchorage businessman Scott Hawkins, former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy and former Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich. The debate was moderated by KTVA’s Rhonda McBride. (Molly Dischner | Alaska Journal of Commerce)

Five candidates running for Alaska governor, at left, squared off in Naknek at the Bristol Bay Fish Expo. From left are Gov. Bill Walker, former Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, Anchorage businessman Scott Hawkins, former state Sen. Mike Dunleavy and former Anchorage Mayor and U.S. Sen. Mark Begich. The debate was moderated by KTVA’s Rhonda McBride. (Molly Dischner | Alaska Journal of Commerce)

Rep. Les Gara wrote an excellent opinion piece in the Juneau Empire recently. He quite rightly pointed out that if it comes to a three-way race in November, Begich and Walker could likely split the vote, allowing Sen. Mike Dunleavy to win it all.

Dunleavy would make a very poor governor. He has been stripped of his position in the Senate majority caucus, and his only answer to solving our fiscal crisis is to continue cutting the budget, which is already to the point of hurting our educational and health care programs, among others. His stated answer is to “find new revenue sources,” without a hint of what these sources might be.

There is an obvious solution to this situation, and that is to support Mead Treadwell for governor in the primary.

Orin Seybert,

Anchorage

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