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TED AND FRANCOISE GIANOUTSOS’ 2010 CAMPAIGN
FOR ALASKA GOVERNOR AND U. S. SENATE
January 21, 2009

Welcome to our 2010 campaign for Alaska Governor and U.S. Senate. This is a continuation of our longtime efforts to open ANWR in the most beneficial way for America, for Alaska, and for wildlife with the coincident creation of the N.E.W. National Endowment for Wildlife, and to ensure the BEST benefits for our serving military, veterans, AND their families.

We are running again in 2010 because ANWR is still closed and because America’s serving military, veterans, and their families are still getting the least, not BEST, benefits that both Democratic and Republican politicians can get away with providing.

Our Alaska Congressional Delegation does NOT want to open ANWR in the most beneficial way for America, Alaska, and wildlife with the creation of the N.E.W. – National Endowment for Wildlife. And, they most certainly do NOT want us, their own constituents and fellow Alaskans, to personify the high wildlife ground on ANWR. They simply do not have the strength of character to do what’s right with respect to ANWR and us.

Lisa Murkowski has finally achieved the Murkowski senior senate seat dream. Frank succeeded in beating a Stevens father/son senior senate seat succession with a Murkowski father/daughter senior senate seat succession. Great for the Murkowskis, not so good for Alaska!

Frank hustled Alaskans on ANWR for 22 years in the Senate, and on a gas line for another 4 years as governor. So far, Lisa has followed in her father’s failed ANWR footsteps for 6 years in the Senate – the last 2 years of her father’s term and 4 years of her own. No doubt she wants to sit in the now Murkowski senior senate seat for the next 40 years talking ANWR and pondering – her favorite senate activity.
Don Young loves to claim that he passed ANWR legislation 10 times in the House. What he will not tell Alaskans is that his meaningless one-house low ground pyrrhic “victories” were doomed to failure in the Senate. Young knew this full well and indeed reveled in the Senate failures of his ANWR legislation. It allowed him to talk ANWR and do pork like Stevens.

But, like Stevens, Young is caught up in corruption investigations that cost Stevens his Senate seat and cost Young his committee seniority standing. Don never wanted to open ANWR in the right and most beneficial way with us. In his newly diminished status he is even less likely to do what’s right on ANWR with us.

Mark Begich had not been in office one day as senator before voicing other priorities than ANWR that was his number one campaign concern. He too, like Lisa, wants to sit in the Senate for the next 40 years talking ANWR. So much for our delegation pulling out all the stops to support our N.E.W. – ANWR efforts!

We still think that Sarah and Todd Palin could lead an Alaska nationwide grassroots effort to open ANWR with the N.E.W. Unfortunately, Sarah is stuck on a non-existent gas line. She has put the gas line cart before the ANWR oil horse. It’s oil, not gas, that is the driving economic force in Alaska.

There is no gas line, but we do have the world’s largest diameter oil pipeline that is unfortunately flowing at 2/3rd empty. Open ANWR and fill our very much existing oil pipeline, and you automatically TRIPPLE Alaska’s oil revenue. Obviously, opening ANWR also coincidentally facilitates ANY gas line – all-Alaska LNG, trans-Canada, over-the-top, etc. But Sarah, like our delegation, refuses to support her own constituents N.E.W. – ANWR efforts.

That’s why we are running again in 2010. As Governor and Senator, we will lead an Alaska N.E.W. – ANWR grassroots nationwide effort to open ANWR. We also will do whatever we can to make Alaska an active co-owner partner in our Alaska refineries, and to expand them to produce all of the gasoline, diesel, Avgas, etc. that Alaska needs.

We believe that Alaska is the natural home for large cars, SUVs, trucks, motor homes, campers, boats, and small private planes. Alaska is one-fifth the size of America and has only 1/500th of its population. Alaskans so-called carbon footprint is negligible and will remain so.

Indeed, our view on Global Warming/Climate Change is that it is a convenient celebrated cause that sounds good but doesn’t feel good. It demands that the majority of Americans reduce their lifestyle to benefit a small group of vocal American elitists and the world in general, 96% of which is not American.

Climate change is a celebrated cause much like communism that also sounds good but doesn’t feel good. That’s why communism has failed. Capitalism, on the other hand, not only sounds good, more importantly, it feels good as it allows people to satisfy first their needs and then their wants as they pursue their happiness. Capitalism succeeds in fulfilling human desire. That’s why America is the envy of the world.

Climate change lays elitist green guilt on average Americans who want nothing more than to freely pursue their happiness in the lifestyle of their choice. That is especially true here in Alaska in a beautiful but harsh environment where living well requires machines that consume oil that we produce in abundance.

Personally, we are grateful for the oil that has fueled our lives together for the past 46 years. As Americans, oil has fueled our freedom, heated our homes, and cooked our food. Oil has fueled our large and comfortable vehicles, transported us to work, and on vacation. We are happy to have been blessed with such a good lifestyle.

As Alaskans, our pursuit of happiness is even more rewarding in such beautiful surroundings. Elitist greenies, don’t lay your tired self-serving green guilt on us – we don’t buy it!

We believe that all Alaska-produced fuel - gasoline, diesel, Avgas, etc. – should be sold to Alaskans for a buck-a-gallon and that the state should not only help produce the fuel that Alaska needs but also subsidize the price to achieve a buck-a-gallon cost for Alaskans. Large comfortable cars, trucks, motor homes, boats, and planes and the cheap fuel to run them should be the norm of an Alaska oil-state lifestyle.

As in our past 3 campaigns we neither ask for nor will accept any campaign contributions from anyone. Our 2010 campaign for Governor/Senator is Internet-based. Our website adequately presents our candidacies. Our non-partisan ballot petitions will place our names on the November 2010 general election ballot.

Alaska is more internet-connected than any other American State. If Alaskans like our 2010 campaign for Governor and Senator they have the means at their fingertips to spread the word about us at no cost.

We are not running a traditional campaign with staff, pollsters, ads, fundraising, etc. We are running for only one term to do two good things. That’s it! That’s our contribution to our country and our state. If Alaskans support our efforts they will surely find a way to elect us.

Thanks for your consideration and your help!

We have left portions of Ted’s 2008 senate campaign up on our Web site to state our views on ANWR and to identify ourselves. The following information is excerpted from our 2008 U. S. Senate campaign Web site.

OPENING ANWR IN THE MOST BENEFICIAL WAY FOR ALASKA

In 1999, we moved from Virginia to Alaska. As registered Republicans we became strong supporters of, and major campaign donors to, Frank Murkowski, Lisa Murkowski, Ted Stevens, and Don Young. We were constituents of all of them. We spoke with them many times at fundraisers and other campaign events. We literally put our N.E.W.-ANWR strategy, and ourselves as its personifiers, into their hands in 2000, 2001, and 2002.

If ANWR had been opened with our winning wildlife N.E.W. strategy, America would today be much better off with our Alaska oil pipeline full to its 2 million barrels per day capacity. Wildlife would be much better off with a multi-billion dollar National Endowment for Wildlife.

The mistaken notion that it would take 10 years for ANWR oil to benefit America is pure poppycock. In the 1970s using 30-year old technology, 800 miles of oil pipeline were laid across Alaska in 18 months. Laying 80 miles of connecting pipeline from ANWR to the main line would surely take a lot less than 10 years!

Alaska would have received far more oil money. The gas line would have been much father ahead with abundant ANWR oil and gas available. Alaska would have had many, many more oil billions for the best health care, best education, and the best infrastructure to benefit all Alaskans.

My wife Francoise and I personify N.E.W.-ANWR, because we have already done similar wildlife-based legislation once. We pushed the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Act through a divided Congress in a few months in 1983-84.

It passed unanimously with 60 co-sponsors, including 22 chairmen and the leaders of both parties in both the House and Senate. We succeeded because we credibly personified the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation legislation. No other couple in American history has ever done anything like that either before or since – and that is a historical documented fact! (CLICK HERE to see 20 additional wildlife conservation documents.)

Nothing is more important to Alaska’s future than opening ANWR in the most beneficial way. It is the key to more Alaska oil and gas production, both onshore and offshore. It creates the National Endowment for Wildlife (N.E.W.) that will conserve Alaskan and American wildlife and wilderness forevermore. It places Alaska in the forefront of promoting energy conservation and alternative energy development. It greatly expands the Alaska Permanent Fund to benefit present and future Alaskans.

OPENING ANWR IN THE MOST BENEFICIAL WAY FOR AMERICA

Oil is the lifeblood of the American way of life. It fuels our national security, our economy, and our infrastructure. In short, oil fuels our lives, our liberty, and our pursuit of happiness. This fact of life will likely remain true for decades to come. The more American oil and gas produced - the better, especially for the environment!

America has maintained a military presence in the Persian Gulf for more than 60 years, since the Second World War. We will continue to do so for many years to come. America is in Persian Gulf countries to protect our oil lifeline for our national security.

Opening ANWR is not only good for wildlife, and good for Alaska. Opening ANWR is especially GOOD for America!

OPENING ANWR IN THE MOST BENEFICIAL WAY FOR WILDLIFE

Wildlife and wilderness are the essence of Alaska. All other underground natural resources like gold and oil are, no doubt, economically and strategically beneficial. Nevertheless, it is the wildlife and wilderness natural resources that will always define Alaska.

In Alaska, wildlife is the high ground and oil is the low ground. That is especially true in ANWR – the largest wildlife refuge in the United States. Oil is the low ground because people do not relate positively to the crude oil itself, which is dirty and stinky. They only relate positively to the benefits of oil because it fuels their lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. But there is a disconnect in peoples’ minds between the oil that they don’t like and the benefits that they enjoy.

There is no disconnect in peoples’ minds concerning wildlife. Humans are genetically programmed to relate positively to other mammalian creatures like mama caribou and her babies, and especially to the cute and cuddly bears. This is true even though we humans do not relate positively to insects, reptiles, birds, and fish. The positive human feelings towards other mammals give wildlife the high ground and oil the low ground in the ANWR “debate”. ANWR is only about oil and wildlife – always has been and always will be!

The truth is that ANWR oil and gas can and should be responsibly produced. Alaska has done so in Prudhoe Bay – America’s largest oil field – for 30 years.

A WINNING HIGH GROUND STRATEGY TO OPEN ANWR

A N.E.W.-ANWR Alaska grass roots campaign will open ANWR in the most beneficial way and will succeed with the active participation of thousands of motivated Alaskans in the nationwide PR campaign and the application of enough Alaskan surplus oil money to get our Alaskan high ground message to all Americans to convince them that we Alaskans are proposing a good thing for not only Alaska and wildlife, but especially for America.

A N.E.W-ANWR campaign should:

* Post details of our proposed N.E.W.-ANWR legislation and the changes as it goes through the legislative process.

* Post suggested “talking points” for participating Alaskans to use in contacting lower-48 Americans about the N.E.W.-ANWR legislation.

* List the contact information (who they are, e-mail, snail mail, fax, telephone, etc.) state by state of every relevant elected official in America as well as every media outlet, blogger, and business/professional opinion leaders.

* Motivate Alaskans to pick and choose whomever they wish from the lists posted and contact them as often as they wish in their own words about the benefits of N.E.W.-ANWR to America, Alaska, and wildlife.

* Ask Alaskans to request that the Alaska legislature provide 100 million dollars as soon as they convene in January 2011 to fund the beginning stage of the N.E.W.--ANWR nationwide PR campaign with another 100 million to follow, if needed, in April before they adjourn. Also, to ask the Alaska legislature to pass ASAP conforming state N.E.W.-ANWR legislation to facilitate congressional N.E.W.-ANWR legislation.

* Require that only Alaskan PR firms be involved in the N.E.W.-ANWR campaign and that only Alaskans appear in all commercials developed by these Alaskan-owned PR firms. Ask Alaskans to volunteer to appear in these ads and commercials.

Indeed, who knows better than Alaskans how to best open ANWR responsibly and create a National Endowment for wildlife at the same time? After all wildlife and wilderness is the essence of Alaska, and every Alaskan knows that because we live it every day!

PROPOSED OPEN ANWR COMMERCIALS

The following five proposed Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos “Open ANWR Commercials” are but a few of the many commercials featuring other Alaskans that can be make to help open ANWR.

COMMERCIAL #1 – “Originators, National Endowment for Wildlife”
Scene: Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos at the head of the Alaska oil pipeline on the North Slope with Francoise sitting on the pipeline, ANWR behind her, and Ted standing at her feet. They are dressed in their matching polar fleece “warm and fuzzy”, black, gray, and white parkas printed with silhouettes of parading bears, moose and wolves. Background music is memorable catchy clips from the overture to Rossini’s “Barber of Seville”.
Commentator’s voice-over says: “Here’s what a well-known, wildlife conservationist Alaskan couple has to say about opening ANWR to oil and gas development.”
(Ted and Francoise smiling and Ted saying:) Hi, I’m Ted Gianoutsos and this (Ted putting his hand on Francoise’s knee) is my wife Doctor Francoise Gianoutsos, also known to her students at Central Middle School of Science as Dr. G!
(Camera shifts to close-up of Francoise and she says) We have been together for 45 years now, are lifelong hunters, fishers, and wildlife conservationists. We founded the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation 25 years ago. We are life members of the National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, and the Izaak Walton League of America.
(Ted pointing behind Francoise) Many years ago, we came up with the idea of a National Endowment for Wildlife, N.E.W., as the lasting legacy of the responsible development of ANWR’s natural energy oil and gas resources.
(Francoise patting the pipeline next to where she is sitting, and saying) Alaska’s oil pipeline is flowing at 2/3rds empty. The N.E.W.-ANWR legislation will fill this pipeline with ANWR oil, create the NEW - National Endowment for Wildlife - promote energy conservation, help develop alternative energy, and reclaim the North Slope of Alaska.
(Close-up of Ted) The N.E.W.-ANWR legislation is GOOD for America, GOOD for Alaska, and ESPECIALLY GOOD FOR WILDLIFE!
(Camera shifts to frame both, Ted turns toward Francoise, reaches up both arms to her, she slides down into Ted’s embrace saying a loud and emphatic, “AMEN!” with a big smile, and Ted kisses her.)
(Ted and Francoise turn to face camera with big smiles, with inside arms around each other and outside arms raised in wave, camera pulls back, OPEN ANWR NOW! caption over appears over Ted and Francoise’s head. Music builds to a crescendo.)

COMMERCIAL #2 – “Founders, National Fish and Wildlife Foundation”
Scene: Ted and Francoise standing on either side of the 40x40 inch framed National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Act that is positioned on an easel between them. Caption identifies Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos, Founders of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
(Francoise says) 25 years ago we put our money where our mouths are for wildlife, and founded the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.
(Ted says) This act was unanimously passed by Congress. It was co-sponsored by 60 members, including 22 chairmen and the leaders of both parties.
(Francoise says) Since then we have been working tirelessly to create the lasting legacy of responsible ANWR oil and gas development – a National Endowment for Wildlife.
(Ted says) Responsibly producing ANWR’s oil and creating the National Endowment for Wildlife is good for America, good for Alaska, and especially good for wildlife!
(Francoise ends by saying) Please join us in asking Congress to unanimously pass the N.E.W.-ANWR legislation that will create a National Endowment for Wildlife.

COMMERCIAL #3 – “The Greenies would drill ANWR too”
Ted and Francoise holding up their life membership certificates in the National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation, and the Izaak Walton League of America.
(Ted says) Hi, I’m Ted Gianoutsos and this is my love and wife of 45 years, Francoise.
(Francoise says) We are life-long wildlife conservationists. In addition to founding the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, we are life members of the National Audubon Society, the National Wildlife Federation, and the Izaak Walton League of America.
(Ted says) We strongly support responsible oil and gas production in ANWR that will create the National Endowment for Wildlife.
(Francoise says) The leaders of Audubon, Wildlife Federation, and the Izaak Walton League have long opposed responsible oil and gas development in ANWR to raise funds.
(Ted says) But, when we asked executives in these organizations of which we are life members if they would drill ANWR if their organization owned it they all said, “Yes, of course we would for the billions in royalties. But we don’t own it and we raise millions in opposing drilling”.
(Francoise says) Unfortunately for wildlife, these organizations prefer a multi-MILLION dollar ANWR fundraising cash cow to a multi-BILLION dollar National Endowment for Wildlife that will do far more good for wildlife conservation.
(Ted ends by saying) Please join us in supporting the N.E.W.-ANWR legislation that creates the National Endowment for Wildlife!

COMMERCIAL #4 – “Oil fuels our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness”
Scene: Ted and Francoise on the North Slope at Prudhoe Bay. Both wearing their “warm and fuzzy” black, white and gray wildlife parkas. Ted wearing blue Air Force Veteran baseball cap and Francoise wearing an Alaska baseball cap. Background: oil production facilities at Prudhoe.
(Ted says) Hi, I’m Ted Gianoutsos. I was born in Massachusetts in 1942 during the Second World War. My parents were Greek immigrants who came to America for a better life, liberty, and to pursue their happiness. I volunteered for military service during the Vietnam War. This is my love, Francoise.
(Francoise says) I too was born in 1942, but in a small village in Normandy, France near the invasion beaches. I met and married Ted 45 years ago while he was based in Normandy with the U. S. Air Force. I also came to America for a better life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
(Ted says) For all of the 66 years that we have been alive, America has had a military presence in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf to protect our oil lifeline that literally fuels all Americans’ lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
(Francoise says) Even though they are loath to admit it, oil also fuels ANWR drilling opponents’ freedom to rant, rave, and fundraise!
(Ted says) We can develop ANWR’s oil and gas responsibly. The N.E.W.- ANWR bill does just that and at the same time creates the lasting legacy of ANWR’s responsible oil and gas production – the multi-billion dollar National Endowment for Wildlife.
(Francoise says) Oil will continue to fuel all of our lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness for a long time to come, and the more of our own American, indeed Alaskan, oil that we responsibly produce the better.
(Ted ends by saying) Please join us in supporting the N.E.W.-ANWR bill that also creates the National Endowment for Wildlife. It’s good for America, good for Alaska, and especially good for wildlife! Thank you.

COMMERCIAL #5 – “Alaska Oil Fuels the American Dream”
Scene: Ted and Francoise in a new Chevrolet Corvette convertible with the top down on a beautiful day along the Turnagain Arm of the Cook Inlet between Anchorage and Girdwood, Alaska. The commercial opens with a long shot of the car winding down the highway with a caption of “Alaska oil fuels the American dream”. As Ted and Francoise pull into one of the many scenic pullouts along the road the camera comes in for a close up shot as the car stops with the mountains in the background. Ted and Francoise are wearing their matching beige suede windbreakers. Ted has his blue and white U.S. Air Force baseball cap on and Francoise has her colorful, blue-patterned, summer-in-Deauville, Hermes scarf over her hair. They both remove their sunglasses, smile, and look into the camera.

(Ted says) Hi, we’re Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos. We are Alaskans and lifelong wildlife conservationists. Alaska oil has been fueling the American dream for more than a quarter of a century, and can continue to do so for a long time to come.
(Francoise says) And what is more typical of the American dream than going for a ride on a beautiful day in a Chevy Corvette with your sweetie?
(Ted says) The N.E.W.-ANWR legislation will responsibly produce much more Alaska oil and will also create the National Endowment for Wildlife.
(Francoise says) Alaska oil fuels our American lives, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. The N.E.W.-ANWR legislation is good for Alaska, good for America, and especially good for wildlife.
(Ted says) Please tell Congress and the Media that you support the N.E.W.-ANWR legislation.
(Francoise says) Leave the bicycles to kids, and the “guilt-pedaling” greenies. Enjoy the American dream.
(Ted ends laughing and saying) Amen, my love, AMEN!
They both replace their sunglasses and Ted accelerates swiftly out of the pullout and down the road with camera pulling back to a long shot with a caption and voice over saying “Alaska oil fuels the American dream, support the N.E.W.-ANWR legislation”.

Note: The vast majority of Americans want to enjoy the American dream that oil has fueled for all of their lives. This commercial - together with the other 4 proposed commercials that reinforce our credible personification of the highest wildlife and oil grounds in the so-called “ANWR debate” - will go a long, long way to opening ANWR to responsible oil and gas development.

 

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“TOGETHER”

(Note: A June 2008 submission to the Anchorage Daily News for their “Together” section. Also included are three photos – one when we were engaged in the fall of 1962, one when we were married on July 1, 1963, and one as we are today.)

ENGAGED 1962	MARRIED 1963	TODAY

Together. Sometimes, togetherness forms the very core of a couple’s existence. That is the case with Ted and Francoise Gianoutsos. Both were born in the middle of the Second World War in 1942 on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Francoise was born on a cold January 21st, in Normandy France. Ted was born on a hot August 5th, in Massachusetts.

They started their life together 20 years later in 1962 on a Normandy beach just a few miles from where American troops had stormed ashore to liberate France from Nazi tyranny. At 10 o’clock on the morning of the sixth of July, Francoise was sitting on the beach with a group of her university friends. Ted was sitting nearby with 2 fellow Airmen on a Fourth of July 3-day weekend pass from the airbase where they were stationed with the U.S. Air Force.

Ted walked over and sat down next to Francoise. Before saying a word they gazed into each other’s eyes and both knew instantly that they would spend the rest of their lives together. They knew that they were soul mates. They were married a year later on July 1st 1963, in Deauville France.

Togetherness seemed natural to them. Both their fathers were born in the 1890s. Their mothers were born in 1912 and 1913. Their parents both married in the 1930s. Both couples were married for more than 50 years.

Ted and Francoise grew up watching their parents work every day, together. Ted’s parents ran a small mom and pop grocery store/restaurant that was open 7 days a week. Francoise’s dad was a country veterinarian whose wife helped in a practice that was also a 7-day a week proposition.

Ted and Francoise put each other through school in the 1960s earning 6 college degrees. Together, in the early 1980s they founded the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. It is the only time in American history that a couple has pushed an entire generic wildlife act through a divided Congress that passed unanimously with 60 cosponsors including 22 chairmen and the leaders of both parties. At the same time, both Ted and Francoise lost their federal civil service jobs in Washington D.C. because they stood up against corruption.

They drove from Virginia to Alaska 9 years ago, living in their car. They ran as a team for the U. S. Senate 4 years ago for one reason, to open ANWR in the best and most beneficial way for America, Alaska, and wildlife with the creation of a National Endowment for Wildlife as the lasting legacy of responsible ANWR oil and gas development. They both ran for Governor and Lt. Governor of Alaska 2 years ago for the same reason.      

Today, they are again running as a team, Ted for Governor of ALaska and Dr. Fran for U.S. Senate, to achieve the best and most beneficial ANWR legislation. They even have a website that is simply called tedandfran.com.  Every day, they work to do something good for their country, their state, and for wildlife. As they have for 45 years, they do it in the only way they know how. Together!

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