We can only hope this election cycle will result in a dominant nonpartisan coalition in the Alaska House of Representatives.
As a registered Republican, I have experienced severe cognitive dissonance since Donald Trump became the malignant darling of the GOP.
Reflecting on Ralph Waldo Emerson’s wise essay on the hazards of the hidebound: “A silly consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.” Then, at the DMV, I transitioned from a minority Republican voter affiliation to a plurality nonpartisan designation.
In the primary election, I was pleased to vote for a nonpartisan candidate for the Alaska State House, Walter Featherly. The Alaska Senate Bipartisan Coalition is offered as a beneficial national model in terms of avoiding tribal legislative deadlock. This favorable development is a product of ranked choice voting. to submit via any web browser. Letters under 200 words have the best chance of being published.
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