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Dear Friends of the AIP:
Why should we allow unelected bureaucrats decide the fate of the AIP?
We ought to look upon the dissolution of the AIP's mindless, lazy and cowardly leadership merely as a mass resignation.
IF --- and I mean IF --- there is support, I would issue a call for a statewide convention and re-constitute the leadership.
The bureaucracy informed me that they will relegate all AIP registrants as "Undeclared" in 30 days. Time is essential, but then again, it might be too late.If that is the case, we would have to start a states' rights party from scratch. Or, maybe not. There would be plenty of avenues to pursue to keep the 19,000 membership intact.
If not, the task would be monumental and a convention would have to enjoy more youthful leadership, guided by the experienced Old Guard. We might even re-name the party, but never surrendering the vital principal of the four (4) options denied us at statehood.
Perhaps the Alaskan Statehood Party. [ASP]. As in, we have never been a full-fledged state, thus requiring a new statehood vote.
Or, Alaskan States' Rights Party. [ASR]
That was the entire purpose of the AIP. Not secession, but a recognition of a flawed, incomplete and illegitimate statehood, THAT HAUNTS US CONSTANTLY in today's political miasma.
Shelley Hughes understood that, and likely other gubernatorial candidates do, too.
If the GOP adopted the cause of the flawed statehood act, and made it a part of their platform, the AIP could die in Peace, but I doubt that Republicans, as a group, could bring themselves to do that.
I am looking for replies. If there is merely a weak one, so be it.
When Lynette Clark died during Covid, I said, "I will not go down in history as the man who killed the AIP."
That dishonor belongs to John Wayne Howe, supposedly a die-hard acolyte of the late, assassinated Joe Vogler.
Howe instead turned out to be a vain and incapable chairman, who merely liked to see his name in print. He never left Fairbanks, nor answered an email, in the party's last 2 years.
With sincerity, honor and devotion to freedom,
Bob Bird and Mark Chryson
Former Chairmen of the Alaskan Independence Party
for the former home page click here:
The Alaskan Independence Party can be summed up in just two words:
ALASKA FIRST!
Until we as Alaskans attain our Ultimate Goal, the AIP will continue to strive to make Alaska a better place to live with less government interference in our everyday lives.
1) Remain a Territory.The call for this vote is in furtherance of the dream of the Alaskan Independence Party's founding father, Joe Vogler, which was for Alaskans to achieve independence under a minimal government, fully responsive to the people, promoting a peaceful and lawful means of resolving differences.
2) Become a separate and Independent Nation.
3) Accept Commonwealth status.
4) Become a State.
