- Stuart

Air Lift

       You think your life is tough? Working long hours for meager pay, rising food prices, and gasoline up to $3.00 a gallon. Now trust me when I say that’s nothing; I want you to imagine yourself living in a tiny village in western Alaska, where there is almost no connection to the out side world. A village where almost everyone is a subsistence fisherman, gas costs $10.00 a gallon, and your entire lively hood depends upon you having a good fish run. 
Jay Ramras a three time reelected state legislature who is currently running as the republican candidate for leutenant governor. Jay got his start in politics when he was just in high school “I became involved in politics at a very young age” he stated proudly “I registered republican when I was 18”.
Several years ago 11 fishing villages in western Alaska were stricken with an inadequate fish run. With the villages made mostly of subsistence fishermen their entire lives were dependant upon the fish run. The villages were starving and there were no roads connecting with the outside world there was not much that could be done.
Motivated to help jay and others decided to help, with no roads leading to the villages the only way to get help in was to fly it into the village.  
"In my six years of legeslture probably the best thing I’ve done.” said Jay as we talked about his efforts to get relief to the villages. To me that is what the focus of government should be, the politicians working for the people, and never the other way round.  That is the corner stone of democracy that the government serves the people, and that the power ultimately lies with the masses.