Blog: Capital Focus
Tensions over timelines
Published Sunday, July 13, 2008
Frustration over what some are calling a “filibuster” on the TransCanada vote was the context Sunday for an accusation from Rep. Les Gara that Rep. Jay Ramras was part of the problem.
Gara claimed in a letter to House Speaker John Harris that Ramras told him he had the “right to delay a vote on this project so he could go home tonight.”
Ramras replied in an e-mail to the News-Miner that he was indeed going home, but denied that his doing so would affect the timing of a vote in any way.
From what I can tell, decisions on timing will be made by legislative leaders and Ramras is not to blame (or credit) for any delay in the vote. What he said or didn’t say to Gara is beyond me.
The point is that frustration is growing.
How about if Ramras goes home and never comes back. And uh...can home be some place other than Fairbanks?
Voted for Jay in the past elections, won't do it again. He has picked his friends, oil, and they are not my friends. Will even contribute to a yellow dog if necessiary. MRD
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