Mayor Sullivan do you consider this "quantifiable evidence" of hate toward the gay community in Anchorage?

From KTUU:

Investigators say the cause of a Friday morning fire in Mountain View is suspicious, while neighbors fear it might be a hate crime. A gay pride float caught fire, days before its debut in the 4th of July parade.

The fire scorched the sides of two houses, destroying a garage and the adjacent float. But those who built the float say they won't let the incident damage their pride.

"Our parade float is here in their driveway, where we build our parade float every year for the gay pride parade for the Imperial Court of All Alaska," said float builder Scott Koeller. "The float is gone. It's all burned up, toasted."

It took 10 long days to build the gay-rights float, and now there's hardly any time to get a new one by the 4th. Despite that, the plan is to make a statement by rebuilding the float using ashes and charred pieces from the old one. They'll call the new creation "Phoenix Rising."

"It will be amazing, I'm sure, because everything was destroyed, everything," Butner said. "All the signs and stuff we had, all of the boas, everything is gone."

Every year, Butner and her husband help build the float -- with the tools now destroyed in the garage fire.

"Why hate? I mean, you know, what people do in the privacy of their own home, it's their business, not -- you know, I guess I just don't understand some of these people," Butner said.

Last year Mayor Sullivan vetoed an ordinance that would have banned discrimination against gay people in Anchorage. He gave the following reason:

"My review shows that there is clearly a lack of quantifiable evidence necessitating this ordinance"

I wonder if THIS would serve as evidence to change the Mayor's mind about discrimination toward the LGBT community?   Adding this incident to my loss of work after it was learned of my support for the gay community and that is two pretty clear incidents of property damage and financial harm due to discrimination in less than a week.

Somehow I think that there are many, many more that we will simply never hear about.