Look who’s backing Nygard

To the editor:

Crystal Nygard is running for the Matanuska Electric Association board with plans for cleaning up. How can she bring needed change to MEA’s way of doing business, considering her campaign is supported by those who represent MEA’s history of contentious politics? Crystal has received at least $950 in donations to her campaign so far from members of MEA management and their families, including: $200 from MEA house counsel Jim Walker (the board is supposed to do an annual evaluation of the counsel, by the way), $250 from Kristie Babcock (wife of assistant general manager Tuckerman Babcock), and a total of $500 from Lyda and Curtis Green (mother- and father-in-law of Tuckerman Babcock). Add in an additional $500 from former board member Aaron Downing (who just finished suing our co-op) and his wife, and that’s at least $1,450 from folks who represent business as usual for MEA. I have to wonder what she plans to clean up?

Judy Olson

Wasilla