Michael Albertson are you saying Alaska is doing so bad because the state owns the mineral & subsurface oil and gas rights and they are badly managed by the bureaucrats? 

Maybe it is finally time for the people to vote and demand the Alaska government give the mineral rights to the people of Alaska if that will help find the success that Texas and the other oil states has because they allow the people to own these mineral rights with the land, communism never worked well in America! 

Was it Richard Nixion in 1959 with the big oil companies that let this state government own mineral rights and control of Alaska? 

Alaska needs leaders that will give the Alaskan people the mineral rights, land oil money! They took the oil rights from you so take it back now, it is yours for the taking!!