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| | Alaskan Independence Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30) |
 | | Although the origins of the Alaskan Independence Party, or AIP, date back to the early 1970s, it wasn't until 1984 that it became an "officially recognized" party by the State of Alaska. |
 | | Among the issues advocated by the party: the direct popular election of the state attorney general and all judges, the right to keep and bear arms, the privatization of government services, the right to home schooling by parents, and a constitutional amendment to ban property taxes. |
 | | In 1990, he left the Republican Party seven weeks before the election and ran for governor as a candidate of the Alaskan Independence Party (AIP), carrying the three-way race with 38.9% of the vote. |
| www.akip.org /intro.html (1675 words) |
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