Supports Moreno
Dear Editor: I have a long history of encouraging women to run for leadership positions. This goes back to urging Alice Johnstone to run for Assembly in the ’70s. And most recently for Heather Bauscher to lead our Sitka Fish & Game Advisory Committee. So, it is with great pleasure that I am endorsing my friend and strong leader Rachel Moreno for Assembly.
I have known Rachel for 30 years. I am impressed with her kindness, strength, commitment to Sitka, and her interests from health care to tourism. While I like all three of the candidates for Assembly, Rachel gives me a rare opportunity to vote for a strong Indigenous woman with decades of experience facilitating civil dialogue and solving complex problems. She is a leader we need to face the challenges ahead.
Eric Jordan, Sitka
Vote!
Dear Editor: The Sitka public has an opportunity to vote on the sale of our public lands, the former Sitka Community Hospital building and adjacent lots, in this upcoming election on October 5, albeit, an advisory vote which is ‘‘not binding,’’ as we have been informed on numerous occasions.
Our Assembly members are elected to represent the people of our community. In the words of the Declaration of Independence, ‘‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness-That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,’’ which clearly states that is is by ‘‘consent of the governed,’’ that government must act at all.
Should the majority vote yes to sell the property, it will never again be a public, and income-producing, asset for our City. In my opinion, it would be wiser to continue with the lease agreement, and revisit the lease at the end of its term. Either way, let your voice and vote be counted. When this advisory vote is tallied, it will be interesting to see which Assembly members vote by consent of the people.
Karen Lucas, Sitka
