Kenai Peninsula residents will decide between four candidates tomorrow for who will represent House District 30.
The candidates voiced their opinions about whether the state should use taxpayer dollars to help fund non-profits.
Democratic candidate Shauna Thornton…
Thornton: “I think yes and no, it’s not a clear-cut answer. But when you start doing that you need to find the balance or not balance so that you’re not giving anybody specific treatment over another.”
Republican candidate Gary Knopp…
Knopp: “[An] example is the Kenai Peninsula Tourism and Marketing Council, we use taxpayer dollars to promote marketing for the borough instead of creating our own department to market the borough. CARTS, which promotes transportation, receives federal and state funding, grant funding, and occasionally municipal funding. They provide services that in some cases should be better served than what we can do as a public entity.”
Non-partisan candidate Daniel Lynch…
Lynch: “To be brief I’ll say no I don’t agree with it much, a case by case basis.”
And the Alaska Constitution Party’s J. R. Meyers…
Meyers: “I’m also philosophically opposed to state tax dollars funding non-profit corporations. I do support programs such as Pick.Click.Give. and I do support local initiatives but no it’s not the business of the state of Alaska to be supporting non-profit entities.”
District 30 is the most highly contested race that Kenai Peninsula residents will weigh in on in the state’s House of Representatives tomorrow.