On second thought, Fairbanks Assemblyman Brett Rotermund has decided he won’t resign from the Fairbanks North Star Borough.
Last week, Rottermund resigned after a vote was taken by the Assembly to censure one of the conservative members of the Assembly, Barbara Haney, after a citizen associated with the Assembly’s Presiding Officer Savannah Fletcher had filed a complaint about an opinion column that Haney had written in the local newspaper, the Fairbanks Daily News Miner.
Rotermund at the time he resign last week said he would not be part of an unconstitutional action to violate someone’s First Amendment rights.
After the weekend had passed, however, Rotermund had heard from many people in Fairbanks, from both sides of the political spectrum, asking him to rescind his resignation. He did so in an email to the Borough Clerk.
The resignation, after all, would not be final until the Assembly meets again on Aug. 8 and votes on whether to accept it. Now, the Assembly won’t have to do that.
Assembly Presiding Officer Savannah Fletcher, who started her career with Black Lives Matter and who is an attorney for the radical Northern Justice Project, has worked to smack down any opposing voices on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and across the state. She has gone after conservatives, such as Rep. David Eastman, Rep. Kevin McCabe, Sen. Lora Reinbold and the MatSu Borough Library Committee.
Rotermund said that in hindsight, he should have just announced that he could not participate in the unconstitutional action, and leave it at that. But hindsight is 20-20, he said on Monday, as he began his work day after chilling over the weekend at his cabin.
The people of Fairbanks rallied for him, he said, and he realized he can’t fight corruption if he walks away. The Assembly, Rotermund said, needs to have a dissenting voice.
Excellent decision! We are fighting these left wing radicals all across the Country and thin skin is not an option! Rather, intelligence, facts and righteous opposition to the extreme leftist “views”. They are not coherent to be presented as ideologies They are views and they are warped, at that because they are not based in reality. Nor fact.
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Fairbanks elected Rotermund. They get what they deserve. The Defenders of Democracy must punish those who shine the spotlight of truth at what they do. Even when doing it in the full light of day and not just in the dark where they can hide. If the Anchorage Assembly can do this, why not the Fairbanks Assembly? Democracy does not die in the darkness. It dies with the leadership of these leftist nutcases.
Was disappointed that he took the quitter route..glad to see him change his tack to more of a warrior than a sore loser…now, give ’em hell, Rottermund! 👏 💪
Good on you, Brett.
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Thanks for staying the course.
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Looks like Peoples Assembly Presiding Officer Savannah Fletcher is Somebody Important only because her law license is useful to certain donors and extremists.
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Could Lawyer Fletcher’s Big Stick, this valued ability to smack down opposing voices on the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and across the state be neutralized through streams of ethics complaints, disbarment petition(s) filed with the Alaska Bar Association?
Love it!
Rotermund stole the show from Marxist Savannah Fletcher, just long enough for her to salivate over the prospects of a near-packed Left-wing Assembly. Castro’s granddaughter nearly had a commie’s orgasm. Back to your little red book.
Didn’t get the attaboys he was expecting?
Barbara Haney won!
That’s the clear outcome for the idiot communists on the Assembly. All the time and effort spent by
Savannah Fletcher and her little band of Marxist lemmings produced a hilarious result, displaying the Democrats’ position on free speech. This sets the stage for the fall municipal elections, and of course, Mike Cronk’s run in November to snuff out the little DEI lawyer from Havana.
Are you being serious right now? Do you really think this kind of nonsense if going to win an election? I’m a moderate republican and this is why I will probably vote for her. I don’t know anything about either of the, but all his supporters seem to have brain worms.
I hope if he is staying he gets vigorous and outspoken about protecting Bill of Rights among the assembly and public.
What corruption? The Borough has a legal obligation to investigate complaints, they fined her $1 and moved on…..Corruption where?
And when he changes his mind again?
Excellent decision.
Let’s give Brett a plug for his business- Bulletproof Trailers. He is extremely knowledgeable and does excellent work. Running a business full time and serving on the assembly is a lot of work. Couple that with an assembly leadership that behaved as badly as they did last week- it has to take a toll.
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