You know, we're so, Alaska is so isolated and it is such an effort and expense to come to the lower 48. And many of us have very close ties and family ties with folks in the lower 48. But We just really are kind of our own place, our own country. We kind of are a lot like Texas, where we're kind of like a nation state in our own mind. But I am very prideful of the way that we work together session after session. And I understand you had Calvin Schrage here on your program talking about this Alaska model of bipartisanship. (08:13–08:24)
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Asserts that Alaska is like Texas in considering itself a nation state in its own mind.
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