OIL COMPANIES AND LEGISLATORS
By Ray Metcalfe
July 22, 2000

Unhappy with the closed primary, the Governor, and a legislature controlled by Oil companies and the Religious Right? Then checkout the Republican Moderate Party. The Republican Moderate Party is an entirely NEW political party!

We are NOT associated with the REPUBLICAN PARTY OF ALASKA.

In November of '98, we earned recognition as a separate political party and secured a place on the ballot for our future candidates. We split from the Republicans and formed a new Party for three reasons.

1. To create a new home for those Republicans unwilling to stay in a Party that has been taken over by people from the Religious Right who are determined take away many of our individual freedoms.

2. The Republicans closed their primary, to make it much harder for anyone to win the Republican nomination to be on the general election ballot, without first pledging to vote for the social agenda of the Religious Right. The Republican Moderates believe that all primaries should be open to all voters.

3. Ironically, the Republican Party sold its soul to get the money to get their right wing candidates elected. They, and most of their elected legislators take enormous amounts of money from an oil industry willing to fund any campaign for any politician willing to give them our resources for less than they are worth. We couldn't in good conscience remain part of the machine that helps them stay in power.

The Republican led legislature has given away oil leases that were worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They gave them away for free, without competitive bid, to oil companies raising money for Republicans. Giving away of Alaska's resources, combined with billions lost due to unwarranted tax breaks, has resulted in a "Budget Gap." Rather than demand our fair share for our resources to make up the difference, the elected Republicans are proposing raids on our Permanent Fund and new ways to tax you. In the mean time, their un-elected Party leaders spent more time at their last convention hammering out their Party Platform statement on bestiality, homosexuality, fornication, and adultery than they spent on the subject of how to balance our state budget.

(Bestiality, that's sex with animals! So much for part three of the Sourdough Tests.)

With your support, we can change things. Now that the Republican Moderates have achieved party status we are now positioned to deliver a wake up call from YOU, to the legislature. Please consider our Party's commitment to open meetings and honest government and lend your support to our candidates, all of whom have contracted in writing, to abide by our Party's commitments and principles. Make your vote count! VOTE Republican Moderate!

Our Party Principles read as follows:

• Pursuit of Happiness. The right to live your life as you wish limited only by your obligation to respect the rights and freedoms of others in their pursuit of their own vision of happiness.
• Right to Privacy. Privacy in one's home, privacy between patients and doctors, privacy in any area of ones personal life. Government has no business intruding, uninvited, into the conduct of personal decisions over one's own destiny.
• Level Playing Field. A government that ensures all persons an equal chance to improve their lot in life through fruits of their labor. Zero tolerance for political corruption or favoritism among competing individuals or industries.
• Equal Rights. Equal rights for all citizens, no exceptions, and no exclusions.
• A Compassionate Government. A government that responds to the needs of its citizens with a balanced provision of safety nets, helping hands and boosts, when appropriate, all mixed with a fair measure of tough love that demands personal responsibility from those who are able.
• Intellectual Integrity. Republican Moderates will always put the People's interests before the Party's interests. Good ideas will be applauded, regardless of which party proposes them. Wrong doings will be judged for what they are rather than blown up or minimized because of the party affiliation of the person who did wrong.
• Pledge of Honesty. Our candidates come with a bit of a warranty. For the privilege of running under our banner, we require our candidates to agree in writing, to abide by the above principals and promise to step down if the Party ever finds that they have been dishonest, unethical, or strayed too far from our principles. It's our "CONTRACT WITH ALASKA" and our candidate's "BADGE OF HONOR."

Our candidates come with far more assurance that:

"What you see is what you get!"

We, as a Party, require all of our candidates to promise in writing to abide by our "CONTRACT WITH ALASKA." Our CONTRACT consists of two parts:

(1) A promise to measure the worth of legislative proposals by the degree to which they uphold our "PARTY PRINCIPLES."

(2) A "PLEDGE OF HONESTY," promising to step down if the Party ever finds out that they have been dishonest, unethical, or strayed too far from our principles.

The REPUBLICAN MODERATE PARTY will vigorously pursue the ouster of any legislator found in violation of our "CONTRACT WITH ALASKA".

Just like the little engine that could !!!

We don't need a majority to have impact. We only need enough seats to deny each of the other parties a majority! Our Republican Moderates can then select the brightest minds from both sides of the isle, to form a coalition absent radicals from the Left or the Right.

Republican Moderates favor an open tolerant government. We're best described as moderately conservative on fiscal issues and moderately liberal on social issues, with a twist of Libertarianisms.

We support choice, equal rights without exclusion, and a level playing field without tolerance for corruption or favoritism. We want a principled legislature that does all of its business in the light of day!

Our candidates running for the legislature are:

David Guzy for Senate Seat I vs. John Cowdery (R) and Sarah Scanlan (D)

Dawn Mendias for Senate Seat M vs. Greg Garcia (G), Rick Halford (R) Incumbent, and James Della Silva (D).

James Price for House District 9 vs. Hal Smalley (D) Incumbent, and the Republican nominee.

Chuck May II for House District 10 vs. Joe Green (R) Incumbent.

Ray Metcalfe for House District 17 vs. the Republican nominee.

Kenneth Terry for House District 24 vs. the Republican nominee, including Pete Kott (R) Incumbent.

Your VOTE for a REPUBLICAN MODERATE candidate will promote change and send a powerful message from the people that you will not accept business as usual from the state legislature.

Your help and your support can insure that even more REPUBLICAN MODERATE candidates step forward in the next election.

YOUR Republican Moderate candidate is ready to deliver for YOU!

The REPUBLICAN MODERATE PARTY
Together we can build the future!

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