LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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U.S. Rep. Don Young, seeking his 22nd term in Congress, stopped by Sitka Saturday, joining the crowds in the street at the season’s end celebration, and capping his day with a speech at a National Rifle Association dinner.
Rep. Don Young talks at the Sentinel office Saturday. (Sentinel Photo)
His Sitka visit was part of a Southeast campaign swing in which he had already been to Ketchikan and Juneau as well as Metlakatla, Craig and Klawock.
In an interview with the Sentinel he talked about what he sees as the biggest issue for voters in the House race, in which he is opposed by Democrat Forrest Dunbar.
“Do they want someone who can do the job or do they want someone who barks at the moon,” Young said.
“I’ve been very successful,” he said, stating that he has had more of his bills signed into law this year than any other Congressman. “And I take a great deal of pride in that. I like what I do and I’m very good at it. If I wasn’t I would not have been elected as many times as I have.”
He said the House, with its Republican majority, has been doing its job, and blamed the gridlock in Congress on Senate majority leader Harry Reid for refusing to put House-passed bills up for a vote or allow amendments that would allow measures to go to conference committee for negotiation.
“I’m just arguing this is Harry Reid’s fault, that he doesn’t want the deliberative body to work any more,” Young said.
“It’s sort of sad because we used to have a legislative body running this country. We’ve allowed the president – not just this president, but he’s just as bad – to let the executive branch and its agencies run the country.”
In President Obama’s first four years, Young said, 628 laws were passed by Congress. By comparison, he said, executive agencies passed 13,884 laws in the same four years. Executive branch regulations are laws, “even though they’re not voted on by the people. They can shut you down, they can fine you,” he said.
It is executive over-reach that makes the Second Amendment rights for citizens to bear arms important now more than ever, said Young, who is a member of the NRA board. He said he is bothered that “every federal agency has its own police force.”
“For who do they have these police forces? Is it against the terrorists? No. It is against the citizens of the United States.”
Asked for comment about the U.S. Senate race in Alaska, Young said “I think Mark (Begich) makes some bad votes, but overall I think he’s done a decent job. But until we get rid of Harry Reid, we’ve got to have a Republican Senate.”
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March 2004
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50 YEARS AGO
March 1974
Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.