I am running for Governor for one very simple reason:  Alaska’s needs leadership now to secure our future.

I believe in Alaska and I care deeply about our future. We need to take charge of our future and chart a course that will ensure we have a strong economy years from now, quality jobs for Alaskans, and an education system and quality of life that will keep our young people here at home.  We need to create that future, it won’t just happen on its own.

To use a term from my aviation industry career, our state’s leadership seems to be on auto-pilot.

We seem to be gliding aimlessly toward some future day of reckoning, without a sense of urgency to tackle the real challenges and opportunities that confront us.

I have the skills and the vision to preserve and secure our future – and I promise to be a proactive leader who will take the initiative and pursue the policies we need to achieve our goals.  But it will take real Leadership Now, not leadership on auto-pilot that waits for ideas and direction to come from somewhere or someone else.

This will be a  campaign where we can discuss the issues that face our great state in a positive and constructive way. We will educate and inform the public about who is the best candidate to serve Alaska’s future.  I am excited to take that step as a Republican candidate for Governor.




Ralph Samuels

“We must take the opportunity to look forward not just one year or even five years, but ten and twenty years ahead to ensure we are making the right choices for Alaska’s future.  I believe we need leadership now in order to ensure that strong future for our state.”

Ralph Samuels, statement announcing his candidacy for Governor,December 8, 2009 Anchorage