A plea to get citizens involved. Our assembly likes to punish those who don’t vote as they wish or do as they wish. First example, they are trying to keep the Haines Police from responding outside the town site, thereby trying to put fear into those who didn’t vote as they wanted them to vote. Another example is the $2 a pack extra tax on cigarettes because smokers didn’t quit smoking as they wished. This is how we go from democracy to a dictatorship. When we have way less than 50 percent of people vote maybe we as secretly want a dictatorship. At minimum, citizens need to vote. The vote of the people is the most powerful thing we have in this country, don’t give up your power, don’t get tired and say to hell with voting. Voting even with all the effort to manipulate it is still the fairest thing we have in this country. Every politician is afraid the vote will go against them.
Thanks for reading, Leonard Dubber