The Alaska Dispatch, quoted below, suggests that the Governor could compromise in an effort to bring ‘peace’ to the Capitol.  This writer humbly suggests that the peace was threatened by those wishing to establish an unusually powerful Coastal Policy Board concept.  Advocates of a Coastal Policy Board have threatened House and Senate leaders with opposing their House and Senate organizational effort next year and with more actively siding with environmental activists against future development projects.  With such aggression, compromise is not needed.  Courage is needed.  The bullies–not the bullied–threaten the peace.  This weekend, we will see if our Legislators succumb to the power grab or summon the courage of patriots to protect the future of their state and the integrity of Alaska’s constitutional government.  -dh

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1.  In recent days we have posted links to stories and editorialized about the effort of coastal elected leaders to transfer sovereign powers from the State to a local ‘Coastal Management Board’.  See our SB4 warning.

2.  We have also warned Alaskans about companion House and Senate Concurrent Resolutions which could be the most unique efforts in Alaska history to use a resolution process for creating a state bureaucracy–immune from state administration oversight–while bypassing the Governor’s veto pen.  The resolution(s) would commit the Legislature to a position in support of global warming agendas; admit the state has no plan for dealing with that phenomenon; conclude that Alaska’s animals, people and government are hurt by global warming; and order a legislatively organized and funded task force to coordinate with any public and private entities in the world it wishes, to assemble a ‘commission’ whose work could further compromise the sovereignty of Alaska if not America.  This task force concept would also give its members and staff license to speak for the State of Alaska  (See our HCR22 and SCR17 warning.) without restraint even though their positions might differ from the Administration’s–or even the convictions of the majority of the Legislature.

Alaska Dispatch, by Rena Delbridge.  Gov. Sean Parnell (NGP Photo-r) and North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta (NGP Photo-l) met twice Friday morning on the highly charged issue of local voice in Arctic affairs, offering some hope that the differences can be resolved without breaking apart legislative work in the session’s final two days.  "It is a desire on my part that peace break out in the (Capitol) building," Parnell said in an interview late Friday. "When it comes to this issue, this issue has split members on both sides of the aisle, all regions of the state. And I thought it was time for the state’s leader and the North Slope Borough’s leader to get together and declare better communication is coming."Find more about those fractures here.  …   If the coastal zone bills hit his desk, would he veto?  "In these halls I don’t use that word too, too often before I see the final product, because it would get waved in my face if something changed," Parnell said. "I’ve already said I oppose it. I have not made that a secret."