Jeremy Hsieh caught up with independent candidate for governor Bill Walker while he was campaigning in Juneau on Monday. He talked about his plans if he's elected and reflected on his previous term.
, maybe build a cabin, as a sort of therapy to get away from the pressures of being governor and to reflect. Did you end up building a cabin?Actually, I built a lot more than the cabin. I added on to our house in Anchorage, I added on 1,000 square feet on our commercial building in Valdez. And I did build a cabin. I call it construction therapy. I am a carpenter, my passion. And so I thoroughly enjoyed I didn’t need 21 votes in the House or 11 in the Senate to do what I was doing.
There’s a vetting process we do through the Judicial Council, vet folks and send names on to the governor. So by the time it would get to me — I appointed 27 judges — so by the time they would get to me, I knew that they were qualified, etc, and passed all the different hoops to get there.
I mean, Speaker Chenault and I did not get along. We were each having press conferences about each other, press statements about each other. And so I joined his bowling team in the legislative bowling league. And he was a little surprised to see me the first night I was there. We became pretty good friends. He’s a great bowler, phenomenal bowler. I’m not. And he’s from Nikiski, where they had a bowling alley, and Kenai. Valdez didn’t have a bowling alley.
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