text: WelfareState, Corporate Edition, I came to Alaska and invested in the 1983 State Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale and won my first oil lease. Since 1983 we have spent millions of dollars in Alaska with the state and local Alaska business owners and never took one penny from the state or anyone in Alaska. 
  
  I have never "whined about wanting more money but be clear we do spend our risk money in Alaska, I can give a long list of Alaskans we spend money with for the work they do that helps us make Alaska more productive! You are being abusive with your reference "carpetbaggers"!
  
  I want the abusiveness of some to stop and that is why I feel Alaskans should control the land and the money not controlled by bad people that abuse people, ok?
  
  I add value to the Alaska business community but some want to stop investment in the state, why? 
  
  I helped cause over 4 million barrels of oil to be produced from a old abandoned discovery at Redoubt, 25% of this oil money goes into the Permanent Fund!