Advocating for 8(a)
November 1, 2009
Political inquiries into Native business gives Greg DuMontier Opportunity
By Tony Hall
This summer, a U.S. senator from Missouri led an effort to characterize what an Alaska 8(a) corporation looks like. The way some saw it, Sen. Claire McCaskill shaped an image of a shady con-artist operating barely within the rules of the game and dancing on the edge of illegalities at the expense of decent, honest small-business operators.
“The question is: how long will we continue to have a preference in the law that squeezes out good companies when a lot of companies in many, many states in this country have the willingness to work for the government for less to provide the same service,” McCaskill says on her website.