Perhaps the most important choice is for a new mayor to replace Dan Sullivan, possibly the worst mayor we have had in the last twenty years.
The choices for that position are as follows.
- Jacob Seth Kern
- Dustin Darden
- Amy Demboski - Anchorage Assembly member
- Timothy Huit
- Christopher Jamison
- Samuel Joseph Speziale III
- Ethan Berkowitz - Former Alaska House of Representatives Minority Leader
- Andrew Halcro - Former Alaska House of Representatives member and 2006 Alaska gubernatorial candidate
- Dan Coffey - Former Anchorage Assembly member
- Paul Bauer - Former Anchorage Assembly member
- Lance Ahern
- Spencer Halgren
If you know any of the names on that list it is most likely that you will recognize Andrew Halcro, who ran against Sarah Palin and Tony Knowles for Governor back in 2006, and then became a blogger for a time, and Ethan Berkowitz who ran against Don Young in 2008, and lost after an aggressively disputed tally of the votes.
Dan Coffey is the guy caught on tape talking about buying votes and Amy Demboski is the Anchorage Assembly member who introduced an ordinance in response to our new pot legalization law to forbid the sale of marijuana within city limits. So you can imagine how popular she will be.
Currently it is suggested that the race is too close for one candidate to emerge victorious after today's vote, which means we can all look forward to a runoff election, one that will most likely have Berkowitz facing off against Halcro.
Personally I think we desperately need a Democrat in the Mayoral office, after eight years of Dan Sullivan, and will vote accordingly.
There are also several bonds on the ballot, and several school board candidates to choose from.
Whatever your political affiliation and position on the issues please make sure to vote today.
P.S. You can find more about the candidates and bod initiative here.
On Friday, President Obama formally sent Congress recommendations to set aside a majority of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as wilderness, finalizing a request first announced by the White House in January. The protections would ban oil and natural gas drilling across some 12 million acres, a level of protection that has drawn — and will likely continue to draw — staunch opposition from Republicans in Congress.
ReplyDelete“Based on the best available science and extensive public comment, the Service’s preferred alternative recommends 12.28 million acres — including the Coastal Plain — for designation as wilderness,” Obama’s letter reads. “This area is one of the most beautiful, undisturbed places in the world. It is a national treasure and should be permanently protected through legislation for future generations.”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/06/3643159/anwr-protections-finalized-obama/
If they disapprove, he can simply make it a National Park.
DeleteHe has the power to do that and doesn't need Congressional approval to do so.
Dan Sullivan, Mayor of Anchorage since 2009.
ReplyDeleteMcoldfart is running again in az. He should ask sarry to campaifn with him!
ReplyDeleteSay, Gryphen, are you able to confirm or refudiate this weird rumor apparently circulating on the interwebs:
ReplyDelete"Severe libertarian and winner of 2013's America's Top Ophthalmologist reality show Randall "Ayn Rand" Paul has announced his candidacy for presdient of the United States of Amercia in 2016. In an admirably honest recognition that he has no chance of winning the nomination or the general election, Paul is also running to retain his junior senatorship from the Kentucky, notable for being the only American state beginning with the letter K, besides Kansas and Konnectitcut. Paul is also believed to be simultaneous planning runs for mayor of Louisville, KY; Commissioner of Streets and Sanitation for Nashville, TN; Auditor General for Diddler County, LA; Assistant Director of Weight and Measures for the state of Arkansas; Special Events Coordinator, City of Dayton, OH; Chairman, Hawaii Statehood Bicentennial Celebration 2259 Long Term Planning Committee; Assistant Commissioner, Pittsburgh, PA Commission to Eliminate Potholes; plus several low profile school board and community beautification committees across the country.
Unnamed sources within Paul's campaign explained that "the senator enjoys campaigning. The food is good, the travel arrangements always comfortable and paid for by others and it beats working for a living."
Seems plausible to me, but it could also be some internet hijinks and/or tomfoolery, also too. I'm taking it all with a grain of salt plus a couple squirts of Sriracha Sauce.
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Nice try, Beldar, but you literally could not be more wrong!
Delete2259 is Hawaii's TRIcentennial year, not BIcentennial.
smh
If I still lived there, I'd be voting for Halcro just like I did for governor.
ReplyDeleteI have no faith in the people of Anchorage any more and fully expect they'll vote again for the most amoral person they can dig up- and that will mean Mayor Coffey.
DeleteBut it's nice to see Jacob Seth Kern getting his traditional mayoral airing.
After watching the debates last night, I'm convinced Amy Dembowski is looney. She is anti equal rights for LGTB and using religion as her shield, comes across as if she has a huge chip on her shoulder, and her voice was enough to make me want to scream.
ReplyDeleteYEAH! That voice is in the Palin class, isn't it? Most annoying, with the continual random breaking into and out of a raspy falsetto.... ugh
DeleteChecked the results this morning.
ReplyDeleteOh well.......