{"id":10512,"date":"2016-10-18T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/house-candidates-to-work-with-white-house-to-advance-alaska\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T15:00:49","slug":"house-candidates-to-work-with-white-house-to-advance-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/house-candidates-to-work-with-white-house-to-advance-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"House candidates to work with White House to advance Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

ANCHORAGE<\/strong> \u2014 The two main candidates for Alaska\u2019s sole U.S. House seat vowed Monday to work with whoever wins the presidential election to advance Alaska\u2019s interests in resource development.<\/p>\n

\u201cI won\u2019t be happy particularly with one of them being elected, and won\u2019t be too happy with the other one,\u201d said Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, without naming either presidential candidate.<\/p>\n

Young, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. House, is seeking his 23rd term.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve worked with eight presidents, and I\u2019ll work with a ninth president to make sure Alaska\u2019s properly represented,\u201d he said during a candidate forum in Anchorage.<\/p>\n

His main challenger, Democrat Steve Lindbeck, said America really only has one choice for president, Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have one candidate that we know is completely unfit to be the president of the United States of America or to be our commander in chief,\u201d Lindbeck said of Clinton\u2019s challenger, without naming Republican Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to need to make sure as Alaskans that we keep her accountable, that she can understand our needs in Alaska, that we will stand up to the Democratic party on some occasions where they don\u2019t meet the needs of Alaska, particularly around oil and gas development and other resource issues,\u201d Lindbeck said.<\/p>\n

Another candidate at the forum, Libertarian Jim McDermott, wanted the Anchorage chamber audience to know there were other presidential candidates in the election besides Clinton and Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t officially heard that Gary Johnson has dropped out of the race, so I just wanted to let you know he might still be on there,\u201d he quipped about the Libertarian presidential candidate, adding that Jill Stein of the Green Party will also appear on many state ballots.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou do have choice,\u201d he said. \u201cIsn\u2019t that awesome?\u201d<\/p>\n

During the hour-long forum, candidates introduced themselves and answered a series of questions.<\/p>\n

Young touted his experience and leadership in the House, saying he\u2019s passed 79 bills during his tenure.<\/p>\n

But Lindbeck questioned why more hasn\u2019t been done for Alaska\u2019s interest, especially in the last two decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith respect to Congressman Young, his party has been running Congress in both houses for most of the last 20 years, and we still don\u2019t have ANWR. We still don\u2019t have a gas line. We still have a timber industry going down. We don\u2019t have sufficient broadband access across Alaska,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t have ice breakers. We have not renewed the Magnuson-Stevens (fishers) Act. We don\u2019t have a Law of the Sea treaty we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Young said he\u2019s passed a bill to open ANWR, or the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to drilling 12 times in the House. The bill stalled 11 times in the Senate. And the only time it did pass both bodies, President Bill Clinton vetoed the measure in 1995.<\/p>\n

Lindbeck said he supports both offshore drilling and along refuge\u2019s coastal plain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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