Hugh and Mary Jane Fate most certainly are and have been a credit to my hometown and to Alaska in general.However, I really wish that people would stop glorifying AWHF as if it were something important.When I see that they’ve inducted Orah Dee Clark, Carol Comeau and Leah Peterson for their accomplishments in education, but not Marie Drake, Dorothy Novatney or Susan Stitham, it’s perfectly reasonable to ask why anyone outside of Anchorage should care about this group of Anchorageites awarding/rewarding themselves.

Responding to Snowman, I saw little to none of Sullivan on the campaign trail two years ago, but plenty of the Fates standing in for them. That may very well speak volumes about the whole “Ohio Dan” thing. I already voted for Hugh Fate. Twice, in fact, in 2000 and 2002. But that was when he was running his own campaign, not standing in for a son-in-law who won due to tens of millions of dollars in spending rather than caring to actually engage the voters.