John Binkley is a tool, in my opinion.
Here's a copy of an email that I just sent to a gubernatorial candidate that's too chicken to attend a public debate here in Fairbanks on natural resouce policy. My comments in the email stand: If he can't attend a meeting in his own hometown and garner the support needed to come of out that debate with good polling numbers, how then can he expect to be a successful governor?
Binkley, you're a tool.
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Subject: You've just lost a vote.
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 18:14:48 -0800
From: Ken Woods
To: john@binkleygovernor06.com,
curtis_thayer@binkleygovernor06.com,
bill_gordon@binkleygovernor06.com,
bob_jacobsen@binkleygovernor06.com
I'm from Fairbanks, and while I don't consider myself to be a greenie tree-hugger, I think environmental policy is an important issue, one worthy of discussion and public debate.
I just read an article in the Fairbanks News-Miner which said that Binkley has declined an invitation to debate natural resource policy at
UAF. (text and URL included below)
It should be known that your decision to decline this debate has caused me to actively not support you for governor. Evidently, you don't think that this is an important enough issue to for you to discuss. Therefore, you're not my choice for this office.
The Rumor Mill has it that every time you give a speech (in public) or debate (in public), your polling numbers decline. If you're not able to benefit from attending a public meeting in your hometown, how do you expect to govern effectively from Juneau?
Ken Woods
(907)452-xxxx
Copy posted to http://www.80below.com
http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~3287698,00.html
Candidates to debate natural resource policy
Gubernatorial candidates are scheduled to debate natural resource policy issues Monday at University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Candidates Eric Croft, Ethan Berkowitz, Andrew Halcro and Sarah Palin have confirmed they will take part in the debate sponsored by the Resource Management Society student organization at UAF.
John Binkley declined the invitation, according to his campaign headquarters in Anchorage. Gov. Frank Murkowski was not invited because he not an active candidate or announced if he will run for re-election, according to the society's student director, Jason Mercer.
The debate is scheduled from 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at Schaible Auditorium at UAF and is open to the public.
The Resource Management Society will provide about five questions to each candidate before the event that they will discuss as a panel at the event. After the formal question and response period, audience members are urged to ask candidates questions pertaining to natural resource management.