Koncerned wrote: 
"That’s right, shoot the messenger. Does it really matter where he lives? Refute his comments if you can. Shooting the messenger does little to advance the discussion."

Of course it matters where Donkel lives - and it matters where you live too Koncerned.  I live in Alaska and find Donkel's abhorrent comments illogical in the main. Donkel  argues that the State of Alaska should be giving corporations welfare because the corporations will then help us because we gave them money; that's a bunch of BS. Donkel has been arguing against cuts to credits and tax deductions for oil corps for some time.  There are  a bunch of outside corporations that want what we have.  It's the same if you talk about fish or if you talk about "resource extraction in AK,"  ask any native living in a village what they think about the views of folks like Donkel.   Have a look at Steven Haycox's books, ALASKA AN AMERICAN COLONY or FRIGID EMBRACE; POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT IN ALASKA.