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position in the Tongass manageinent debate, you would behave as a 

 Senator for all of the citizens and hold everyone to the same 

 rules. I believed you were fair and swore it to others. 



But here I sit today, in a hearing you rigged to make it 

 seem like all the people of the Tongass want to cut it down for 

 money. And I among all those I talked to am alone in this seat, 

 trying to speak for everyone you excluded by changing the rules 

 at the last minute. What can I say to them but I am sorry I 

 trusted you. After hearing you say for years how unfair it is to 

 move Tongass reform legislation without hearing from the people 

 of the Tongass, I still cannot believe that you are trying to 

 present Southeast Alaska in a, like a false front town in a 

 Hollywood western, where everyone works in a pulp mill and nobody 

 wants to save Lisianski, Kadashan, Naha, Karta, Nutkwa, Sarkar 

 Lakes, Chuck River, Duncan Canal, or Kuiu Island for their 

 children. 



Senator Murkowski, for years you have been ignoring the 

 voice of lots of people of the Tongass. And as the roads and 

 clearcuts march across each island the voices get louder. When 

 hundreds of letters come to your office from your own 

 constituents, asking you to protect some of the Tongass, you say 

 that the real people of the Tongass are too busy working to 

 write. But when you get a company petition from Wrangell, you 

 wave it around as proof of your cause. When your own biased 



