Many conservatives have had criticisms of Nancy Dahlstrom, who is running for Congress and simultaneously serving as lieutenant governor of Alaska.
One of the criticisms is that she hasn’t really done anything. Dahlstrom filed for Congress in November after serving as lieutenant governor for a year. Before that, she was the top official at the Alaska Department of Corrections.
But while she was commissioner of the Department of Corrections for Gov. Mike Dunleavy, she was in charge of a vast many lives during the Covid pandemic. Back then, she made sure prisoners were not allowed to see their families or lawyers for over a year.
When she finally eased up on what was a hard year of extraordinary confinement for many, Dalhstrom put in a condition: Prisoners could only see their families if the prisoners got the full series of Covid shots and waited two weeks.
This was a form of medical coercion.
Prisoners could not see their children. They could not see their wives or husbands. Not their mothers, fathers, sisters, or brothers. They could see no one from outside the prison unless they submitted to what was being marketed by the federal government and Big Pharma.
The coercion demanding they take the needle if they wanted to ever see their loved ones again is all laid out in the press release from April 19, 2021:
That means for over two years, some prisoners didn’t get to see anyone who cared about them unless they took the shot. Few of them would have had the information needed to make an informed choice.
Under the policy, even the inmates that were fully vaccinated were not allowed to hug their visitor or even touch them. Visitors had to undergo screening procedures and wear a mask at all times.
Dahlstrom also prevented prisoners from seeing their lawyers, saying that in order to see their attorney, they would have to get the full Covid shot series.
Anchorage Superior Court Judge Una Grandbhir put an injunction on Dahlstrom’s no-lawyer order after a group of attorneys sought injunctive relief. After all, there are constitutional questions about being locked up and not being able to consult an attorney.
Back then, the public and public officials were frightened by the Covid pandemic, which came from Wuhan, China, and the information they were receiving from the federal government in 2020 and 2021 was dire.
Like the Biden Administration, some Republican officials made decisions based on the advice of health officials like Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical advisor to the president from 2021 to 2022. Some may have made decisions they later might have come to regret. They were scared, decided to play it safe, and thought they were doing the right thing, based on the information they had.
Dahlstrom was one of those who was tasked with making such life-altering decisions and these were the decisions she made. No announcement has ever been made by the department rescinding the Covid vaccine mandate.
Maybe people should not commit crimes, then this would not be an issue
Did Trump vet this endorsement at all? What the…
she doesn’t care about anything but her own career. the DOC job was just a job to check off in a laundry list of “to do” to move up the ladder
The Left’s corruption has no bounds!
Many in leadership are drinking COVID-19 Kool-Aid. It makes for a nice payday.
She just keeps getting worse and worse.
Another Dunleavy Democrat.
We called her the Covid Nazi. Like a fat, German prison guard in a Concentration Camp. The real Nancy Dahlstrom.
One of many egregious decisions made by the Dunleavy administration.
I’m glad to see this is getting coverage, but what about at the time when we were fighting these clear infringements of the Constitution and personal liberties? Lora Reinbold stood with us. Which other Republican officials did?
In response, Dunleavy unleashed on her, publicly accused her of misusing state resources in questioning his not-so-constitutional policies, like this one.
At the time these inmates and their families and so many others were abandoned by our party under misguided notions of needing to support the Dunleavy Administration because it was “Republican”.
After Dunleavy’s complaint, Sen. Reinbold lost her committee chairmanship and was even kicked off her committee, her valid concerns were swept under the rug, and the violations continued unabated.
This is how we end up with the current administration still out marketing Covid vaccines today. Years after we discovered that they are anything but “safe and effective”, our state still proudly declares today “COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. They are available for everyone aged six months and older.” (‘https://health.alaska.gov/dph/epi/id/pages/covid-19/vaccineappointments.aspx)
Kudos to the four other Republican legislators who stood with us this year in voting to finally put a moratorium to state marketing of Covid vaccines that are neither safe nor effective.
The vote was 5-35.
Correction: the vote was 8-32 this year.
‘https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Journal/Pages/33?Chamber=H&Bill=HB%20268&Page=02171#2171
Whoops! No vote for you! I really dislike authoritarian vaxxers. That puts her at the same level as tampon tim. While you’re at it “Nancy”, why don’t you take every booster, twice while you’re at it.
Disappointed – vaccine mandates are wrong.
I wish Nick Begich had a history in a governance or representative role so we could see what choices he would have made.
I remember Begich calling out Don Young for the vaccine mandates in his office. At least some people were standing up for personal rights.
Look everyone, there’s a lot of fake news going around about Nancy. The bottom line is this, she has been endorsed by DJT, the leader of our party. She will be instrumental in the his next administration. Everyone he has endorsed and who he will put in his administration have a specific roles to play in the fight against the Deep State. You may not like her much, but we need everyone DJT endorses to win if we ever want to get our country back. He has a plan. Most of us may not understand it, but he has a plan. Support DJT or support the Deep State.
DJT 2024!
Trump may have a plan but he picked some of the biggest losers to put in his administration in 2016. I support Trump but he has a poor track record of getting the right people around him.
The conservative movement doesn’t belong to Donald Trump. He belongs to us.
Sorry – we’re not Democrats or North Koreans. We support Trump but he’s not “Dear Leader”.
Oh please. People need to stop relying on political saviors to do the thinking for them, right now more than ever. Trump has most definitely made some mistakes, unfortunately this is one of them.
Yes because nothing says fighting the deep state like imposing vaccine mandates!
hill clearly you are not from alaska. there isn’t any fake news about nancy, just facts.
Stay out of jail if you want to see your family & we the people should be mad at those who released COVID onto the public to steal an election. We was all learning how to deal with COVID Monday morning quarterbacks give me a break. Don’t put Nancy under the bus because you all are stuck on stupid. The governor & Nancy if not for them Lisa would already have us all woke. List Lisa or nicks accomplishments I am waiting to compare our list. Stuck on stupid got us all here.
She ran for safety, not for the Constitution. She’s not a leader. Nick Begich called out Don Young for having vaccine mandates for his staff.
Sympathizing with prisoners is hard, but the heartbreak of mothers not being able to visit their sons and daughters for so long is, well, reminiscent of something a Nazi would do.
Hard NO on Nancy.
This isn’t fake news. The government documents are right there. We don’t want government controlling us. This shows us who Nancy Dahlstrom actually is under pressure. No thanks.
Not surprised. Her campaign team is a who’s who of Niki Haley people.