Chair of the Anchorage Assembly, Debbie Ossiander, receives her holiday lump of coal in the form of a dismissal from her leadership duties. Buh-bye!

After months of battles over the budget between conservative and liberal members, Assembly Chair Debbie Ossiander was voted out of her leadership role in a surprise move.

The move was very much a surprise. Even some on the Assembly say they didn't know about the move to kick out Ossiander as the Assembly leader until it happened at the end of the meeting.

Ossiander has voted with the conservative minority on many crucial budget votes.
The six liberal-leaning members say removing her as Assembly Chair better reflects the Assembly's overall vision.

Assembly member Matt Claman, who brought the motion to reorganize, said it's typically expected for the majority on the assembly to elect a chair that reflects its views. "The period of time in which Ms. Ossiander was chair is best viewed more as an anomaly," Claman said.

This is LONG overdue, in my opinion. LONG overdue!

Debbie Ossiander has played the spoiler repeatedly. Consistently siding with the minority, and our morally crippled mayor, time and time again in direct opposition to the will of the majority now in power.

Perhaps the worst example of her incompetence and lack of ethics was during the summer when she allowed people bussed in from the Valley to argue against an equal rights ordinance that would have protected the LGBT community from discrimination in Anchorage. Ossiander, against all logic, allowed people who DID NOT EVEN LIVE HERE, to tie up the Assembly for 20 weeks as they waved their bibles in the air and talked about how the homosexuals were going to corrupt their children and force the city to have unisex bathrooms. (Complete bullshit!)

In case you missed that episode, my daughter and I made this little video of the madness that engulfed our city during that time.



Did you see the hate? Well so did we. For months we were subjected to that kind of uneducated, simple minded rhetoric, from people who DID NOT EVEN LIVE IN ANCHORAGE!

And that was directly because Debbie Ossiander allowed them to participate. Which slowed the process down to a crawl.

And then, after all of that, the ordinance passed! However Ossiander, doing the bidding of Jerry Prevo and his minions, had slowed the testimoney to go on long enough for the new mayor, Dan "slimeball" Sullivan, to be sworn in and he, of course, immediately vetoed the ordinance.

And that is how Jerry Prevo, Dan Sullivan, and their trained monkey Debbie Ossiander continue to allow the people of Anchorage to be oppressed despite the will of the majority.

I have a number of friends in the LGBT community, and I can honestly tell you that they are still suffering PTSD from the unfiltered hate they were subjected to during that horrible summer of 2009, and THAT is directly the fault of, the now dethroned, Debbie Ossiander.

So my only question is, what in the hell took so long?

You can read my friend, and fellow PTSD sufferer, Shannyn Moore's take on this reorganization here. And AKMuckraker has much to say about it right here as well.