They don't want someone in office who truly signifies change, ... They want to hand-pick the candidates so they end up with someone who won't threaten the status quo here.

The image problems Alaska faces, and the global misconceptions of Alaska, are as great today as when Alaska was mislabeled Seward's Folly.

If people in the U.S. and Canada had an accurate view of the success of democracy, political stability and economic prosperity in Mexico, it would improve their views on specific bilateral issues like immigration and border security.

The most extreme poverty Mexico has was pretty much what I knew about Mexico.

It's not that we invented this.

And then using tested methods.

We only read about problems on the border, drug smuggling, poverty and immigration, and we don't see that Mexico in many ways is a solution for the United States as much as it is a problem.

Alaska has this enormous wealth in resources, but it's greatest wealth is it's image.

Because immigration ? when you talk about Mexico in the United States ? that's the pink elephant in the room.