Lisa will bea consensus builder

To the editor:

I consider myself a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. I voted for Lisa in the primary. This U.S. Senate election is now a true conundrum. I can’t bring myself to vote for either candidate. If I vote for Lisa I take the chance of splitting the vote and McAdams wins. If I don’t, there is no good outcome.

My vote will go to Lisa. A letter to the Editor of the Anchorage Daily News, post primary, stated that “poor leaders are elected by those who don’t vote.” I truly believe that is exactly why Mr. Miller garnered the majority in the primary. My take is that McAdams will be an Obama rubber stamp and Miller a Tea Party obstructionist. Lisa, on the other hand, will be a consensus builder — a trait badly needed in Washington.

I dropped my Republican affiliation two years ago when it was clear that the party in which I grew up had been hijacked by the far right and now the Tea Party. Too many candidates pandered to these groups in order to get elected. Watching Lisa in the Senate leads me to believe she is her own person within the basic GOP framework.

If you agree that good government is fiscally conservative, business friendly, compassionate for the truly deserving, and that the business of government does not belong in one’s personal life that harms no one, I’m asking that you help me “write history” one vote at a time, your vote.

Jennie Lee Schrage

Wasilla