Policies of the American Party of Alaska...

The American Party of Alaska is exclusively for the citizens of Alaska, not corporate or special interests. 

Alaskan citizens are directly under assault from organized corporations and special interest groups which are creating major damage to our fiscal policies and the protection of our resources. The citizen of Alaska and their individual rights have become prey to these vested interests. 

The Permanent Fund and the Dividend Program

The PFD program:

For the last 10 years the Alaska Legislature has sung the tune of corporate and special interests to the detriment of the PFD and the lawful distribution of these funds. The legislature has chosen to ignore existing law and have raided the fund taxing directly every eligible Alaskan to the tune of over $14,000 Instead of passing current legislation to redefine the payout of the PFD.

The majority legislature in both the Senate and House have protected their members by avoiding new legislation as they fully know that any representative who would go on record to redefine the PFD program would be subject to being held accountable to the citizens through elections. It has been politically expedient of them to simply ignore existing law and garner substantial portions of the citizens money without accountability to the law. 

The Permanent Fund corpus:
The principle of the Permanent Fund was placed, by the citizens, in the State Constitution in order to protect this resource from the greed of current and future politicians. In 2018 the legislature passed a POMV model which draws 5% from the overall resource of the Permanent Fund and Earnings Reserve account. There is a question if this draw is constitutional as it utilizes the corpus as part of the POMV draw. This act was never ratified by a vote of the citizen. Although the 5% draw currently does not violate any monies within the corpus itself, there is a risk that it may if the earnings from the Permanent Fund were diminished and could not generate enough money to cover the draw. 

Additionally, there is current proposed legislation which would eliminate the Earnings Reserve by rolling all collected revenues directly into the Permanent Fund corpus, thus extinguishing any need for the Earnings Reserve. 

The American Party of Alaska is adamantly opposed to:

1) Legislators ignoring existing law governing the PFD distribution
2) Eliminating the Earnings Reserve account and drawing directly
from the Permanent Fund corpus without a vote of the people.

Fish & Game resource

All fish and game of the State of Alaska belong directly to the citizen, not corporate or special interests. The citizen elects the governor and representatives of government to protect, with priority, the resources of Alaska
for the individual citizens of Alaska. 

It is overtly clear that corporate and special interests, through financial campaign support, have taken control of this vital resource. The end result of this corporate management is a severe loss of the resource. One only needs to focus on one aspect of this resource, the depletion of King Salmon, to determine that management is defined by corporate greed, not by proper resource protection and certainly not by a citizens priority.

The American Party of Alaska stands firmly on the principle that all fish and game resources belong directly to the citizens of Alaska as a priority. We support individual harvesting as the highest priority. 

The American Party of Alaska is also adamantly opposed to trawler by-catch which is depleting the adjacent oceans of Alaska. We demand our US delegation to refuse any personal campaign funding from corporate interests and sharply focus on protection of Alaska oceans which are the birthing zone of our once rich fishing industry. Alaskan fish for Alaskan markets must be our highest priority. 

The Tongass Forest resource:

Given the current ruling of the Supreme Court governing resource development The American Party of Alaska encourages value added development of our abundant wood resources. We encourage private industry to utilize our wood resources to create value added products to create a thriving robust private economy.