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Bruce Walden
Bruce Walden (Republican Party) ran for election for Governor of Alaska. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Bruce Walden was born in Kokomo, Indiana. Walden served in the Indiana National Guard and in the U.S. Army from 1981 to 2001. His career experience includes working as a contractor with Triple Canopy and an author. Walden served as deputy chairman on the Matsu Borough Planning Commission.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Alaska gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2022
General election
General election for Governor of Alaska
The ranked-choice voting election was won by Mike Dunleavy in round 1 .
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Total votes: 263,752 |
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Governor of Alaska
The following candidates ran in the primary for Governor of Alaska on August 16, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Dunleavy (R) | 40.4 | 76,534 |
| ✔ |  | Les Gara (D) | 23.1 | 43,660 |
| ✔ |  | Bill Walker (Independent) | 22.8 | 43,111 |
| ✔ |  | Charlie Pierce (R) | 6.6 | 12,458 |
 | Christopher Kurka (R) | 3.9 | 7,307 | |
 | John Howe (Alaskan Independence Party) | 0.9 | 1,702 | |
 | Bruce Walden (R) | 0.9 | 1,661 | |
 | William Toien (L) | 0.7 | 1,381 | |
 | David Haeg (R) | 0.6 | 1,139 | |
| William Nemec II (Independent) | 0.2 | 347 | ||
| Total votes: 189,300 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jim Cottrell (R)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Campaign website
Walden's campaign website stated the following:
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Security of our people Security of our people: families, and children. In spite of the ending of Roe Versus Wade, Alaska remains a pro-abortion state. Human Trafficking is running like wildfire in Alaska and has to stop. Drug Trafficking hand in hand with the dumping of illegal aliens into our state by the Biden administration goes unchecked. Every Alaskan, if any, left behind in Afghanistan by this president must be accounted for, by name. Are your children, your families, your property safe in Alaska? Roe versus Wade was overturned. This is something for which we can all rejoice. The taking of an innocent life I find repugnant. But we have taken a long-overdue step in the right direction. The decision puts the responsibility of the matter back on the states. Using the bully pulpit of the governor, I will lead in an effort to abolish abortion in our state. If we ask God’s Blessings upon our beloved state, but turn a blind eye to this institution, we ask in vain. All Americans have the Fourth Amendment right to be “secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects…” If we have a right to be secure in our houses, how much more so that tiny, innocent life secure in the womb? At the same time, we have a federal government that apparently, purposely locked the country down for the better part of two years over a virus that ultimately has been defeated through herd immunity just like so many others. We predicted it would be so, and we were proven right. At the same time, we were told to mask up, stay at home, and take a so-called vaccination that has been proven in many cases to be deadlier than the disease it was supposed to treat. We have had young folks, particularly girls, seized from their homes. What is more, take a drive through Anchorage in the wee hours and see how many people you see dancing down the middle of the street so stoned that they do not know where they are. We see those sitting on the street corner or in front of the door of our local convenience store rolling joints in violation of the law- and this in plain view, in broad daylight and in open defiance of the law. I ask you, is this the Alaska you want? If you want to smoke your stuff that’s your business. That has been no problem since the Raven decision of the early ‘70s, but do it in your home. But that’s not even the worst of it. There are those pedaling their poison to our children. Meth labs right in small town Alaska go at full production and nobody seems to care. Fentanyl coming from China, floods our streets and we do not see it as the pushers know how to make it into pills that look like actual medicine, but in the end it is poison and there is enough in America to kill every American several times over. It is pushed with impunity. It is not time for focus groups. It is time for leadership. Here we are in Alaska, 4,000 miles from the Rio Grande. We are safe from the border crisis, are we not? Neighbor, the border runs right through the parking lot of your favorite retailer. Do not doubt it. Biden is moving these people directly into your backyard. We will prove this to be true and you’ll see it. “Well, it’s not my fault” no longer works as a valid excuse. A governor’s first job, and most important job is to protect his or her people. Has there been an accounting of Alaskans (if any) left behind in Afghanistan? I was told that the question had not been asked as it was not the administration’s job to keep track of the location of 720,000 Alaskans. Again, has the question even been asked? No. Apparently not. The fix:
If we do not have free and open elections, we have no country. Without them, we no longer live in a free republic. If you are paying attention, you see rather clearly how the whole election from the local elections right to the Biden election went. Biden is now seated in the White House and there’s little that we can do about that at just this moment, though we are going to become part of a quickly growing trend in this country. Think of this: From the founding of our nation until the 1840s when Telegraphs began to be commonly used, all elections were done by hand count. And all the results were delivered either on foot or on horse back and it worked just fine. After the invention of the telegraph and then the telephone, voting was still done in person except in extreme cases (soldiers in the Civil War obviously could not run home to vote and voted absentee) but the results were transmitted by electric conveyances. When I was a child in school, in the 1972 elections we were were taught how the “computer voting machines” worked. And indeed when I first voted in 1980 we were using these, now archaic machines. But one stepped in, threw his or her levers of choice, and when happy with their decision, they threw another lever and the vote was punched into a card, which then fed through the machine and was counted right there, and the vote was set in stone so to speak. But it worked. The votes were sent forward by honest means. In the most recent elections, we’ve had a push to vote by mail based on a very questionable emergency brought on by a virus that I contend was purposely released by the Chinese. That’s another story for another paragraph. Early voting has, as I predicted it would, led to the ability to manipulate the vote and we’ve seen this over and over. We have election day, not election month and we’ve got to get back to that and we will under a Walden/Lange Administration. The convoluted, overly-wordy ballot measures such as Ballot Measure 2 which got you this abominable Ranked Choice Voting have got to be done away with. No more such things on the ballot that are designed to confuse the voter. I know many who voted for BM2 who thought they were voting against Ranked Choice Voting and that was the point. Meanwhile, the Dominion software apparently eases the theft of elections and it must be done away with. There are those, even on my side of 99% of issues, who say Dominion had nothing to do with that. But friend, if the box into which you drop your ballot is not on line, but the vote is then fed into another which is online, you are asking for vote theft. Both Tanya and I propose that votes must be either the old style card/computer style as described above or strictly hand-counted.
We will look at the real cost of the Knik Arm Bridge and we will build it. Alaska will become a leader in the Cut and Cover roadway industry by building such systems to move traffic through Anchorage and other such places but in new and innovative ways. Proven “Theater of Operations” bridge and road construction will open up the Western Susitna Valley as well as other areas and will skirt around the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge. Our roads here in Alaska, that is the ones that actually exist, are in pathetic condition. Why is this so? We pack the dirt down hard, then lay non-reinforced roadway right on top of it. The result is that with every hard rain season, every frost heave and every earthquake turns those cracker-like roads into something akin to a moonscape. In most states, likely all other states, roads are reinforced with Rebar and road mats. Road mats, or road reinforcing mats, are those fence-looking contrivances over which concrete is poured and which hold the concrete together. But even with that, the earthquakes and frost heaves would destroy our roads. So, we take a cue from the folks in Scandinavia and places like Northern Germany. We begin to rebuild our roads a bit at a time, making them very deep, maybe up to 3 feet deep and reinforced with Rebar and road mats at the six inch and two foot level. Thus the road will rise and fall as a unit, not crack apart like a Saltine. The obvious question is this: How can we afford this? The answer is rather simple. We change the way we do business and the way we build roads. The four-lane highway between St. Louis and Minneapolis was built systematically and in such a way that from the moment it began, construction never stopped or took a break until completion and it moved forward at about a foot per minute or faster. If they can do it, we can do it. If we can build an oil pipeline using 1970s technology, and inventing new technologies along the way, but doing so systematically, we can do this. We will cease to argue about it and we will build the Knik Arm Bridge. It is time, and far past time for such a bridge. The Matsu and Anchorage will continue to grow and if we do not do something that growth will choke us out. But, before we do that, we will look at the real price of the bridge. We are given figures and often, maybe usually, they are correct, but we’ll find out for sure. Then we’ll act. However, this alone gets you only part of the way. When we build it, it must be at least four lanes if not six, and if only four must be given room to expand side to side at some later date. But traffic coming off said bridge will funnel thousands of cars directly into downtown Anchorage causing another major issue. So, we will develop the technology and systems to become the world leader in the Cut and Cover industry. Two lanes will peal off of the bridge and traffic will be filtered into downtown. The main road, however, will continue southward under what is now Minnesota coming out at Westchester Lagoon temporarily, then going subsurface again just under where one approaches West High School. Then it will continue on as a Cut and Cover Roadway to the vicinity of International Airport Road. The same would be true for the roadway as it becomes I Street coming north into downtown and then on to the Knik Arm Crossing. A similar C&C can allow the eight lane Highway to Highway project to be completed and the construction would move forward at an easy twelve feet per hour, and eventually, perhaps as fast as a foot per minute. In places like the Western Susitna Valley, where we wish to open up farmland and facilities for industrial level greenhousing and hydroponic farming of foodstuffs, roadways can be put into place using “theater of operations” road construction systems such as Envirogrid and Bailey Bridges. Envirogrid is the system used by Combat Engineers to build airfields on which one can land C130s. It can handle anything Alaska can throw at it and costs $200,000 per mile to lay. Not the $5 million plus per mile we pay for two lane roads now. Bailey Bridge can be built to handle two lanes of traffic for less than $3,000 per linear foot and accomplished with hand tools and done in hours, maybe days, not months and years, and is built on one side of a stream and pushed across a bit at a time. For those who say that new ideas for road construction cost too much, I say that we should do what we can afford, but do it right this time.
One of Alaska’s greatest weaknesses will become our greatest strength. We approach this knowing it is about the student, not the teacher, not a union. These students are our future. And we approach the situation with the understanding that the P in PTA is for Parent. The parents are the ones responsible for their child’s education. As a soldier I was taught that you never point out a problem without offering a solution. I hope to do so here. My ideas may not be the best ideas possible and I am happy to hear all ideas. But ultimately, the yea or nay falls upon the desk of the governor of our state. There was a time when Alaska had an education system turning out graduates ready to take their place in the world. Nowadays, we graduate kids who go on to university and have to take remedial Math and English as they learned so little here. We spend more than twice as much as our next closest competitor and our education system ranks close to last… or dead last in the entire nation. As a soldier, I learned to look at my own weaknesses and strive to make them strengths. THIS we will do, Alaska. But how? I spent my time in school (pre-college) in the late ‘60s through the ‘70s. All of it before the invention of the Department of Education. We had schools that demanded much, but delivered much. Perhaps the way we were taught was the best way possible. Perhaps there is something better than what we had. But one thing is sure; the way we are doing it now is not the best way possible. And as I pointed out to one voter, if we are not striving to be number one, we are losing ground. It seems that we’re not even striving to be number forty-nine anymore. There are organizations for home school kids that allow for such things as extracellular sports, proms and all that. But Mom and Dad at home are the ones who say what their kids are to be taught. It must be remembered by the voter, the parent, and the teacher that education is about that student. It is not about a top-heavy bureaucracy. It is not about the teacher. It is about that student. Why? Because our generation will one day pass from the scene and if we do not set our kids up for success we doom our nation. Alaska is doing an abysmal job of preparing our student. We can get our feelings hurt by what I just said, but we’ve got to get out of the business of being offended by everything we hear. It is time to face facts and right wrongs. So, how do we fix it?
The Permanent Fund Dividend must be restored, and every dime stolen from the Alaskans must be repaid. The Permanent Fund is hovering around $85 billion right now and if they paid out every dime owed to Alaskans we’d still have around $74 billion in there. With oil prices rocketing skyward under the… well, the folks in the White House, we’d make that back up in no time. Many Alaskans rely on that infusion each year. At the founding of our country, one of the popular battle cries was Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny. We say that we have no state tax in Alaska, but this is not accurate. Because we do not have mineral rights to the property we think we own (don’t fool yourself. You pay rent on your land), the state pays us a dividend of the money collected on Alaska’s oil… in theory. In the administration of the last governor, Bill Walker strangely discovered he could simply confiscate money guaranteed to Alaskans and it has not been fixed yet. And yes, I know that was done by the legislature in cohorts with that man. It was not just him. But the buck stops on the governor’s desk. Say, “Well, Bruce, at least we have representation in Juneau.” Are you sure? When you have people who promise to restore the dividend and dozens of other promises, then they go to Fortress Juneau, and forget every promise (neither party is clean), you are not being represented. The one hope is that we live in a republic, and in a state with a republican form of government, and we can elect better people, right? Sadly, we return the same people to Juneau, we elect their son, daughter, whoever, or we move those from one office to the other like we are in a shell game. We keep doing the same things and expecting a different outcome. In psychological circles this defines insanity. So, it is time for new thinking and new blood. I asked our current governor why the situation is what it is, and his response was that it is not his fault, it is the fault of the legislature or certain ones therein. That excuse works for a while. Seven years into the problem, I’m no longer buying- are you? First off, I do not see the governor “Trump-Stumping” for better legislators. But you will see me doing it. Second, if the legislators will not give you back what is yours, I will go to each district, and call them out by name and tell exactly what they are doing and how they are living in Juneau. Third, I will convene the legislature in Wasilla. Let them gavel in and gavel out. Let them go home and become comfortable, and then I’ll reconvene the following week in Fairbanks. The next week in Utqiagvik. The next in Wainwright. Then Sleetmute. Can you say, Kiska? I can make this just as uncomfortable as they wish. I am a career Green Beret and I can happily live indefinitely in a tent and eat MREs if it takes it. But the main thing, my friends and neighbors is that we have- you have- got to elect better people. A few years ago, a legislator from another state said that if you want to find legislators and such you don’t find them in the White Pages. Well, I disagree. I say that it is exactly where you find them. More accurately, I will tell you the most likely place to find that person. He or she is very likely the person that meets you in the mirror each morning. What is more, this November we will have the opportunity to vote for a Constitutional Convention. We have shied away from this in the past. That time has passed into history. It is time for Alaska to rethink the way we do business and it is time that we put into place a Constitutional Amendment defining the exact process for the PFD and ensuring the payout of same. And while you are at it, we need to re-look at how we appoint and retain judges here, but that’s another issue. But you had better see to it that the right people show up at such a convention. We can no longer accept business as usual, but we must be on top of our game, give up a little sleep and convenience. Alaska, you deserve better than most of this crew and we’ll find better. This I vow to you on my honor.
There is a coming backlash and a demand for fossil fuels. We will extend the rails from the nearest point now existing to Deadhorse and on to Utqiagvik. We will liquefy natural gas on the Slope, move it to the more temperate South by rail and over the top of Alaska during ice-free months to a storage farm on the Aleutians. We will not accept a dime from China and we will not sell to China. Here we are, two years into an exaggerated pandemic. And after what I am convinced was the theft of the last presidential election, we find ourselves buying fuel from other countries when only a scant year and some months ago, we were exporting fuel. The people of the world are waking up, and they are throwing away their masks, but more importantly, they are throwing off their blindfolds. With gasoline prices going up to over $4.00 per gallon, and likely much higher, the demand for fossil fuels will become great, and possibly violent. I will not only sign an executive order, but will enforce the same, opening up oil fields here. When we became a state it was on the promise that we would be allowed to develop our natural resources. This right has been greatly curtailed by the Environmental Protective Agency, an agency dreamed up by a president, likely out of good intentions. However, the EPA has became an organization of thugs enforcing the will of those who would kill industry in our great state. The state of Alaska has some of the cleanest burning coal on earth. Indeed, it is rare compared to the dirtier stuff. I can name only three places in which it might be found, although I’m sure there are others. There is Alaska, Indonesia and Utah of which I’m certain. When Clinton was in office he declared the clean burning coal fields of Utah a national monument, while apparently receiving money from certain rather unsavory characters in Indonesia. We will begin moving our coal. Paul Harvey once said that Alaska had enough clean burning coal that was easily gotten at to run the entire nation for 500 years. He went on to say that we had enough of the stuff that is not as easily gotten at to run the nation for 8,000 years. Where his figures came from, I do not know, but I trusted that man. We have oil discoveries happening left and right and there’s easily enough to keep the existing pipeline going for another forty years, and likely much longer than that. But we have on the Slope, trillions upon trillions of cubic feet of natural gas. Now, let us say that we have a gold claim. The gold is there, but the only thing we have to make the tools by which we’ll extract it are made of silver, but there’s silver lying about everywhere. As it is not worth as much as the gold, we use that to extract the gold and then when the gold is gone, we sell the silver. Silly scenario, but I hope you follow me. That gas on the Slope is sitting at about 6,000 PSI. This gas can be used to push the oil out of the ground and sent to market. However, some of that gas might be sold. Kokomo, Indiana, where I grew up was founded (unknowingly) on a sea of natural gas. Gas was piped within the city, but to my knowledge every cubic foot that left the area went by rail. I say we do the following:
We will bring jobs not only into the rail belt but throughout the state by “bush-sourcing” tech support. My “Gray-Gold” initiative will ease the transition of good ideas to reality. Our greatest natural resource is the gray organ between the ears of our people. We will remove every obstacle possible. A few years ago, I was appalled when the state senate passed the bill making the 30.06 the official rifle of the state of Alaska and initiating Alaska Marmot Day as an official thing- this as our economy circled the drain and while having a very limited time to pass legislation. Folks this is what they thought was important and both were proposed and passed by my fellow Republicans. As I’ve said so many times, we can do better than this, and you deserve better than this. Right now, after well over a year of folks being laid off, or staying home as a result of this covid overreaction, our neighbors have become comfortable living off of unemployment and welfare. This was planned, I am convinced, but it does not change what we must do. First off, right this moment we have plenty of jobs to be had. Very few city blocks go without a single “help wanted” sign in some window. But we will close the spigot off of which these folks are feeding. It’s time to get back to work, friends. When folks walk away from their welfare handout, they will be looking for jobs. On the other hand, in many, if not most, of the rural villages there is very little work in any case. I have some proposals addressing this.
The Western Susitna Valley lies awaiting our farmers, and new farmers from outside our state to move in and begin cultivating. Much of that will be done in hydroponic greenhouses, but we MUST become self sufficient. At the same time we will seek to have the Jones act repealed or at least altered.
We lose a large part of our high school graduates each year as there is nothing for them here. We will give special tax breaks to construction companies willing to build small temporary houses for this generation on a zero-down contract. One of Alaska’s greatest problems is that we lose our best and brightest each year on graduation day. Many of these young folks go on to military careers, a thing that is honorable and inspires me. It must be remembered by those who bad-mouth this upcoming generation, that for every young person who decides to make a bad decision, I can name you several who did a good thing, for instance, stepping up for God and Country. Be that as it may, many join the military and leave us, and many others go to college outside of Alaska (frankly, who can blame them? When UAA nearly had “its credentials” taken away, we have much room for improvement). Many simply leave Alaska to look for gainful employment elsewhere and again, who can blame them? Many leave the state because they have no way to develop credit here and therefore have no chance of buying a home for many years to come. Still far too many begin a life of aimless drifting, drugs, prostitution and other vices as nobody bothered to tell them of their immeasurable worth. I know these are high-sounding words, but as I approach 60 and am a grandfather, I see the young folks through a different lens. I am no longer that young person. But I see these young folks and I see my own kids. And some times I see myself at this age. We will do great things here in Alaska and jobs will be created, but what for the young person just graduating? I will talk about a thing I wish to do, and yes this is my own idea, but it is not a thing that the government can do. However, again, if you give me the bully pulpit of the governorship, I promise you that I will facilitate this.
I will take the defense of Alaska against some outside force very seriously. I started my Army career as an Artilleryman in the Indiana National Guard in 1979. But I began my active duty career as an Arctic Paratrooper in Alaska’s Charlie (Airborne) 4/23 at Fort Richardson. After my tour in Alaska I was rotated to 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, NC, where I arrived just in time to take part in Operation Urgent Fury in Grenada (Oct/Nov1983). I got out after that, and immediately regretted it, so I came back in with an eye toward going Special Forces. But the recruiter told me I had to be an Engineer as SF needed no Infantrymen at that time. In his defense, he likely really thought he was right, but that was the year (1984) when SF became its own branch. So, I reenlisted onto active duty and attended the Combat Engineer course at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. I wound up in 27th Engineers, again at Fort Bragg, and ultimately got to the the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1987 graduating the SF Weapons Sergeant course in September ‘87. Later, in 1995, I returned to Bragg to attend the Operations and Intelligence course and was awarded my MOS. At that time, I was likely the only soldier I know who had five combat MOSs. I was school trained as (in chronological order) a 13B, 11B, 12B, 18B, and 18F. I retired on June 30, 2001. And just over two months later, our nation was attacked. I served with a contracting agency named Triple Canopy in the early days of the Iraq War. When I left Iraq, I looked around me and thought, “This is the best military, the finest troops in all branches I’ve ever seen.” Sadly, those days are long passed. We have highly motivated people in our military, and in Alaska’s military. But we do as we have always done, and we have trained and equipped from the wrong end. The generals, admirals and other high-ranking folks are the right people to make the decisions when it comes to strategy. But when it comes to the day to day existence, the things that motivate the soldier (replace that with Marine, Sailor, Airman, Coast Guardsman, and Guardian) we always get it wrong. Alaska has a very small Army National Guard. But we have the 11th Airborne Division, right? In World War Two, the Alaska National Guard was deployed leaving Alaska to defend itself and that was when the Alaska Territorial Guard, the Eskimo Scouts were created by Colonel Marvin “Muktuk” Marston, often aided by Kermit Roosevelt, son of President Teddy Roosevelt. Our military began to languish under Obama, but Donald Trump began putting meat back on the bones of our military. Sadly, he did not get to complete the job- yet. Then came Joe Biden and the job of the military went from the defense of the homeland and our allies to social engineering. And Alaska, you were left out to dry. I am a career soldier. I know my craft. And what I propose herein I propose as a career NCO, not some high ranking officer sitting in an ivory tower. Senator Sullivan called in the heads of the military branches and told them to begin preparing for warfare in the Arctic. However, we are already seeing what I knew we would. Off-the-shelf thinking is getting us into trouble… again. Humvees and Strykers do not work in Alaska. They are fine in town and on the highways. They are worthless in snow and tundra. But as usual, these are the go-to work horses in the minds of those at the top. Alaska’s Airborne National Guard troops lost their jump status under Obama. We will fix that very quickly. The Alaska State Defense Force, a patriotic unit gets precious little support. We are going to fix that by calling for the reconstitution of the 38th Special Forces Company right here to train those troops. The airborne troops in the active military are under-equipped and unable to move to the remotest parts of the state and fight on foot. As a former Arctic Paratrooper I know whereof I speak. Please follow these bullets and see my proposals.
Friends, if you are paying attention to the world, you know that the world is a powder keg right now. If you think Alaska is not a tempting target, you are not paying attention. I foresee a time very soon when we’ll have outside special operations personnel conducting limited warfare right here to take our eye off the ball as they hit other targets.
We will find a way to protect our home grown fishermen from the factory ships that come from outside of our state and nation and take Alaskan-hatched and Alaska-bound fish. We list all the industries in Alaska and we name fishing as part of the list. But, frankly, that’s a bit misleading. We do have commercial fisherman who are from Alaska and work in Alaska. I know some of them. But we have factory ships that drag nets that are measured in Kilometers, and they show up from other states, or countries, with their own crew on board, scoop up Alaska-hatched, and Alaska-bound salmon and other fish, take them back to their home ports and Alaska is left out. Mind you, many, possibly most of these were hatched in hatcheries right here at the expense of Alaska. At the same time, we have smaller Alaskan fishing vessels that do work here, but their catch is pitifully limited. And at this same time, many Alaskan fishermen who use the salmon run to feed their family have to do without. In the Lower-48, many fishermen catch fish, and may eat for a day. In Alaska, our catch is a large part of our food budget for a year. There are also fishing guides, who do what they do. They help our economy to some degree too, as those outside sport fishermen spend money here. Bottom line, we have got to find a happy medium in which all three segments of the fishing industry are satisfied. I will bring in local experts to help in this regard, but be advised; the majority of attention will be given to local self-supporting fishermen and Alaskan industry fishermen. This applies to hunters and hunting guides as well. When Alaskans cannot get a bead on a bull moose that is within legal limits while industry guides fly outsiders all over the state, taking the trophies and leaving Alaskans hungry, we have another problem, but we’ll deal with that too. We must find a way to satisfy all parties, and we must have help from the federal government to keep interlopers out of Alaskan waters. As I said in the beginning, the first and greatest priority of a governor is to protect his or her people. This includes safeguarding their job security and their ability to feed their families. This we will do.[2] |
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| —Bruce Walden's campaign website (2022)[3] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Walden-Lange Alaska 2022, "About Bruce Walden," accessed July 25, 2022
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Walden-Lange Alaska 2022, “Priorities,” accessed July 21, 2022
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