ALASKA REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM
PREAMBLE
The United States of America and State of Alaska were founded on the fundamental principle that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
Therefore, the mission of the Alaska Republican Party is to protect our natural rights; advocate sensible, fiscally-sound solutions to challenges facing our state and; serve as Alaska’s leading grassroots political organization.
As such, we seek to elect and appoint to public office Alaskans of high integrity who support and advance policies consistent with our mission and platform.
We are strengthened by family, faith, freedom, personal responsibility and accountability. Accordingly, we wish to secure and provide to succeeding generations an enduring heritage of political, civil, and religious liberty.
PLATFORM
1. JOBS AND THE ECONOMY
Republicans steadfastly believe the free enterprise system is the best way to organize economic activity. We value a strong work ethic, safe work places and a well-trained, educated work force.
We advocate statutory and regulatory policies, tax structures, budgets, and regular audits that results in judicious spending, prudent capital and infrastructure investment, affordable energy and a jobs-friendly business environment.
We believe private land ownership and the sanctity of private property are foundation to a strong economy.
2. NATURAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES
Republicans champion Alaska’s sovereignty and management authority over its lands, navigable waters and resources. We challenge the federal government to live up to its contractual obligations under the Alaska Statehood Act and other federal laws.
We support and defend active management of, and access to, Alaska’s natural resources and advocate reasonable incentives for the responsible development and utilization of these resources. We support the transfer of federal and state lands into private ownership.
We defend the Alaska Permanent Fund as an effective means to convert a non-renewable State resource into a multi-generational growth asset. We believe this instrument was designed to help fund public expenditures while also providing a meaningful dividend to qualified Alaskans.
3. EDUCATION
Republicans support access to quality education predicated on parental choice and control, competition and accountability.
We support teaching the historical Judeo-Christian foundation of our country emphasizing the original language and intent of the U.S. Constitution in addition to U.S. and Alaska history, cultures and geography. We also support evidence-based reading and mathematics as well as proactive patriotism in our schools including the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance.
4. HEALTH AND FAMILY
All people are created in the image of God and are sacred regardless of age or infirmity. Therefore, Republicans support and defend the sanctity of life from conception until natural death. We oppose abortion, infanticide, sex reassignment surgery of minors, and government funding of these practices.
We value individual liberty in the face of overreaching government mandates. We believe parents hold primacy in deciding the health care needs of their children.
We affirm the family – defined as people living together related by blood, marriage or adoption – as the foundational unit of society. We embrace the historic definition of marriage – expressed by Alaska voters in our State constitution – as the union of one man and one woman.
We believe Title IX was enacted to protect and promote biological females’ access to educational and professional opportunities.
5. JUDICIARY, LAW AND CRIME
Republicans advocate a judiciary that supports a strict, literal interpretation of the U.S. and Alaska constitutions and recognizes the sovereignty of our laws and states’ rights. We support criminal justice reform with greater public participation and transparency in judicial selection.
We support strong mandatory minimum penalties for all violent felony crimes, including sex offenses. We support public registration of persons convicted of child-molestation, and vigorous enforcement of laws to prohibit the production, sale, and distribution of child pornography.
We support the federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the right of people to actively participate in their faith and to conscientiously object to participating in activities that violate their religious convictions.
We support legal immigration, the rule of law and law enforcement. We believe punishment must be commensurate to the crime. We also believe victim’s restitution and work programs are constructive facets of the criminal justice system.
6. NATIONAL SECURITY AND VETERANS’ AFFAIRS
Republicans believe in peace through strength. We believe a strong state and federal military, secure borders and support of freedom-seeking people are essential to Alaska’s and America’s defense. We believe every citizen has the responsibility to defend Alaska, Alaskans and our liberties.
We stand with all federal and state service members who serve, or have served, our state and our country and commit to support them and their families. We advocate stationing state defense forces, the United States Coast Guard and U.S. armed forces in Alaska. We believe Alaska is geopolitically strategic and possesses unique training opportunities. We also believe defense of Alaska and the Homeland is strongest when it is accomplished using a layered approach leveraging both federal and state forces and authorities to do so.
We believe election integrity is a national security concern directly relevant to the preservation of our Constitutional Republic.
7. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
Republicans believe the proper function of government is to protect the inalienable rights of its citizens as enumerated in the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Rights in our State constitution.
We believe our citizens and institutions must be honored, respected and defended, in part, by government observing its own constitutional limitations.
