Name: Blake Gettys: What Shelley is bringing up is bigger than all those. A gas line's a gas line. Oil line's an oil line. This would be tying Alaska into world commerce.
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Description: What Shelley is bringing up is bigger than all those. A gas line's a gas line. Oil line's an oil line. This would be tying Alaska into world commerce.

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Blake Gettys

14:10 - 14:26

“What Shelley is bringing up is bigger than all those. A gas line's a gas line. Oil line's an oil line. This would be tying Alaska into world commerce.”

Speaker: Blake Gettys
Timestamp: 14:10 – 14:26
Transcript: Shelley Hughes campaign: Instead of Alaska being at the end of the road, Alaska will be the door to the globe
Community: Alaska News
Location: Alaska
Captured at: August 6, 2026

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What Shelley is bringing up is bigger than all those. A gas line's a gas line. Oil line's an oil line. This would be tying Alaska into world commerce. So you could leave Nome and actually take a train all the way down to Florida.

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