Sean Parnell for Governor (Draft 1)

I am running for governor and you should vote for me because I am an awesome AP English student. No, not really, but Sean Parnell is running for governor. If you don’t know, our current governor is republican Sean Parnell. He took over Sarah Palin's run in 2009 and was formally elected in 2010 for a full five years of governorship. In his recent years of office, Parnell has made advancements toward public safety through the Choose Respect program as well as increasing Village Public Safety Officers' ability to serve rural Alaska, and promoting Alaskan's education through the Alaska Performance Scholarship and Alaska Education Opportunity Act. Also, the deficit that Alaska faces was not created by Parnell's governorship, but will be combated, in fact he already has a plan to attack the deficit using the More Alaska Production Act otherwise known as Senate Bill 21. If Sean Parnell were to stay in office then he could further these advancements and provide a much needed stability to the governor position.

As high school or middle school students we can all relate to the upcoming doom of college. For upperclassmen senioritis and the impactful decision of choosing a college is well upon us and one of the factors that we must consider is the Alaska Performance Scholarship. This scholarship was created by Governor Sean Parnell to help us get an education instate. As the cost of education prices sky rocket, check books often become tight- but with up to $4,755 a year in scholarship money this scholarship will help take you to college. It promotes Alaskan’s education, and Alaskan jobs. Further, Parnell not only backs immediate college bound students, but he also supports career technical fields. The Alaska Education Opportunity Act provides for a way in which you as a student could take classes on for example welding and receive dual credit; so that by the end of your four long high school years you could be completely certified in a career and begin working, and collecting pay checks right away. 

Public safety has been one of Sean Parnell's key priorities that he has gone after during his five years of governorship. For the past few years we have all participated in the Choose Respect March. You know the day when we get to skip half of the school day to unload in front of the National Park Service Building. It is generally freezing cold and blowing wind, but we march. We march all the way to the Elks (a whole four blocks!) to listen to guest speakers on domestic violence, and generally a messenger from the governor or some other state official.  The small tromp that we are involved in is a state-wide movement created by Sean Parnell. He has taken it upon himself to raise domestic violence abuse awareness. Another bill, house bill 199 passed by Sean Parnell supported Village Public Safety Officers ability to carry firearms. This provides necessary protection for the officers from the men and women that they must confront during their job.
Economy. One of Alaska's major economic influences is natural resources, primarily, oil. "New Money" also stimulates the economy. Eight billion dollars has been committed by publicly traded companies to extract the oil from Alaska. The Alaska Production Act stimulates and supports the new money coming into our economy by providing a tax incentive for outside companies to spend their money here in Alaska to extract oil rather than somewhere foreign where we would not reap the benefits.  Oil production has been declining at a rate of 6 to 8 % a year, this past year; for the first time in 10 years oil production declined by only .13%  practically flat lining. Sean Parnell's plan is to rely on new production and new revenue. He will also reduce spending eight billion dollars in 2012 then reduced it to 5.9 billion this year. They did this by addressing the unfunded pension liability. It was at a debt of 12 billion dollars; Parnell payed down that debt by taking 3 billion dollars from our Federal savings into paying off that debt.
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Websites:
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http://vimeo.com/alaskagov/videos
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http://www.alaskabudget.com/fiscal-gap/
http://www.oildecline.com/
http://www.adn.com/article/20140818/alaska-oil-production-continue-decline-company-officials-testify
http://vimeo.com/101380085
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http://www.adn.com/article/20130821/re-examining-alaska-domestic-violence-crime-and-punishment
http://www.adn.com/article/20140816/gov-parnell-vote-no-one-alaska-s-future