Letter to Editor: Misuse of State Funds: April 26, 2004
The following is a Letter to the Editor, Anchorage Daily News
Dear Editor,
The State of Alaska has no business spending over a million dollars in state funds to campaign for changing dividend calculations to a percent of market value (POMV). Wordmeister spinners can label it "educating" - but political campaigning by any other name is still political campaigning. Dress a pig in a tuxedo, and it’s still a pig.
Should those of us who campaign for the legislature call our political advertising "education," and get campaign funds from the state? Absolutely not, and neither should the Permanent Fund trustees. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits or demerits of any proposed POMV plan. Personally, I think some variety of the POMV plan may be OK, but that doesn’t mean the state should be spending the public’s money to sell any plan to voters.
There's no shortage of organizations and individuals with strong opinions, pro and con, about the Permanent Fund and what to do with dividends. These entities should put their private money where their mouth is, and raise their own campaign dollars for television, radio, and mailers. “Tain’t fair” for the state to subsidize either side of the POMV debate - it’s a misuse of scarce state funds, and I’m “agin it.”
Bob Lynn
Dear Editor,
The State of Alaska has no business spending over a million dollars in state funds to campaign for changing dividend calculations to a percent of market value (POMV). Wordmeister spinners can label it "educating" - but political campaigning by any other name is still political campaigning. Dress a pig in a tuxedo, and it’s still a pig.
Should those of us who campaign for the legislature call our political advertising "education," and get campaign funds from the state? Absolutely not, and neither should the Permanent Fund trustees. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the merits or demerits of any proposed POMV plan. Personally, I think some variety of the POMV plan may be OK, but that doesn’t mean the state should be spending the public’s money to sell any plan to voters.
There's no shortage of organizations and individuals with strong opinions, pro and con, about the Permanent Fund and what to do with dividends. These entities should put their private money where their mouth is, and raise their own campaign dollars for television, radio, and mailers. “Tain’t fair” for the state to subsidize either side of the POMV debate - it’s a misuse of scarce state funds, and I’m “agin it.”
Bob Lynn
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