Aug. 18, 2010
To the editor:
I am writing to support Jay Ramras for lieutenant governor. Jay has been an outstanding advocate for Alaska’s education system and has served as chairman of the House Education Committee. He has been a strong supporter of the parents’ right to choose the educational setting that best meets their children’s needs. He has been a strong supporter of the local schools and the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Jay Ramras has been a successful businessman in Alaska. He hasn’t lusted in the lap of federal grants, but made an honest living as a business owner. He took a small little chicken wing shack and has made it a phenomenal Fairbanks icon.
Just think, he could use those talents toward promoting the state of Alaska. We need economic development in Alaska, and we need jobs. Imagine his talents working for Alaska.
Fact:
Harvard $37,012 Grad rate: 98%
drop out rate 2%
U of Alaska - Fairbanks $5,398 Grad rate: 28%
drop out rate 72%
And Jay supports education.... with who's money?
$2,500 of each $3,000 you spend on 1,000 gallons of fuel at 3 bucks a gallon goes in to the state's till to pay for among other things and running the U of A.
Jay supports the socialist idea government can make jobs... it makes jobs all right!
Jobs for drones. [drones are sterile]
I guess those kids buy a lot of chicken wings.
They are good.
At least they are getting something of value for their borrowed money! A side from day care.
Jay gets huge credit for being a successful business man. However, the state of Alaska is not a chicken shack. Unfortunately, from Jay's ads it looks like he's planning on running Alaska the same way you'd run a chicken shack: with tacky, cartoony logos, silly antics, and costumes. Now, that's totally appropriate when you're selling chicken bits. But it isn't statesmanship. And Jay is no statesman.
I don't think he supports the Teacher's Union at all. Are his establishments filled with any Hotel or Culinary unions?
So what if he supports the right to choose where parents school their children. By taking you children out of mainstream public schools a person is saying that their children are too good for that system. Elitism is what I would call it. The rich and elite don't send their kids to public schools.
As an Interior delegate I sure hope that he was "a lusterer of Federal and State money" , because that is what we put him in there to do. That is get money for the interior, otherwise it would go to Anchorage.
Ursula I don't get what you are saying, other than plugging a friend....