The Anchorage Assembly is set to approve a $175,000 sole source contract to a former member and campaign contributor during Tuesday night’s meeting.
The award will go to QD Consulting, founded and led by former Mayor and former Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson, to steer the Anchorage Childcare and Early Education Board and Fund.
The contract, detailed in Assembly Memorandum No. AM 375-2025, is valued at not-to-exceed $175,000 for a year of executive leadership from May 1, 2025, to April 30, 2026. The Assembly meeting starts at 5 pm in the ground floor chambers of the Loussac Library on 36th and Denali Street. The agenda is here.
The Assembly documents say QD Consulting is the only outfit capable of handling this contract. With this sole-source award, Quinn-Davidson will have racked up $210,000 from her friends on the Assembly since 2024.
The ACCEE Fund, born from Proposition 14’s passage in April 2023, aims to bolster childcare and early education across the Municipality of Anchorage. QD Consulting, under Quinn-Davidson’s leadership, laid the groundwork for the fund from October 2023 to August 2024 through a prior contract with Alaska Children’s Trust.
During that time, they assembled an implementation team, sniffed out community needs, and drafted a budget and strategic plan to get the fund operational.
Now, with the board ready to execute its 2025 vision, they will hire an executive director, launch new programs, and navigate municipal red tape.
“Due to experience and history, the board believes that QD Consulting, Austin Quinn-Davison, is the only person who can navigate this path with them to ensure the plan is executed efficiently and on track.”
“QD Consulting, led by Austin Quinn-Davidson, is uniquely qualified,” the memorandum states, citing their “experience and history.”
The contract will see QD Consulting bill hourly, capping at $175,000, to guide the ACCEE Board through its critical first year of execution.
This isn’t the first time that Quinn-Davidson has been rewarded for donating generously to the campaign coffers of the liberal Assembly members. After leaving the Assembly to become interim mayor, she then left office and opened up a consultancy in 2023. She won her first sole-source contract from her former assemblymembers in 2024 for $35,000.
The claim that only Quinn-Davidson’s firm can handle this role is specious.
Quinn-Davidson, who became mayor when former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz was caught in some compromising positions, famously held a drag queen party for children at her home, posting the photos online of the drag queens mimicking strip club dancers performing for tips. She was heralded by the Left as Anchorage’s first openly gay mayor.
Wow, money laundering, favoritism and conflict of interest all in plain sight. And leftists will clap like seals for it without consideration. That is ok I guess. The city will eventually collapse and the people who vote for this mess will be the first to be affected by the fallout. People better learn some good survival skills for the dystopia that is to come. The homeless vagrants already have a head start, they just need to learn proper sanitation and they will be the next in line to rule Los Anchorage.
Let er rip!
Corruption.
Exposed.
Criminal.
Graft.
Indict.
Convict.
Imprison.
This is an easy game to play. When wanting to use a very specific vendor, one writes the proposal so only that specific vendor can meet said proposal.
It can be something as simple as the color ink used by a company in a bid. Or a requirement for a particular kind or amount of coffee makers. Or, my personal favorite, left handed screwdrivers.
It would be more intellectually honest, and in keeping with the desires of the people who actually bother to vote for the Politburo to just declare themselves rulers for life.
Follow the money….
Making their voters proud and stupid at the same time
“uniquely qualified” = has the same lame thoughts we do, is a solid socialist & will do what she’s told.
Hope she doesn’t spend it on Ozembic.
Anchorage is lost. Voter turnout is dismal, and the people who do show up keep electing the same union-backed, NGO-controlled leadership. Liberal nonprofits and special interests run the city—and now, it’s spreading across Alaska.
There’s no accountability, just excuses. Former Assembly members are cashing in through nonprofits they founded while in office or shortly after leaving. Hundreds of thousands in “nonprofit” salaries with no real results.
It looks like fraud, smells like fraud, and probably is fraud.
These aren’t builders or leaders. They’re takers—useless consumers draining Alaska while posturing for out-of-state donors and left-wing groups like Arabella Advisors. And Alaskans are paying the price.
Agree that Anchorage seems lost, rather hope a Genesis 3:19 redux isn’t in the works.
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Respectfully remind that we know only what we’re told about voter turnout by unelected officials who count votes for the Assembly candidates for whom they work.
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We know ballot chain of custody is lost from the moment voters receive mail-in ballots, which means ballots can get lost, stolen, or changed anywhere on their way to being counted, which affects voter turnout stats.
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We know election observers have no idea what they’re observing which means computerized vote count can shift right in front of them, affect voter turnout stats, and they’d never know it.
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We know Alaska election officials pay to outsource voter-roll accuracy to leftist-controlled ERIC, but they don’t know what ERIC does with voters’ registration data, or cross-check ERIC for accuracy which could affect voter turnout percentages with no one knowing why.
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We know states pulled out of ERIC because they didn’t know or like what ERIC did with sensitive voter-registration data.
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We know power and money, like what School Board members used to steer million-dollar contracts to union-only shops, could be a persuasive motivation to corrupt elections because folks who aren’t on board with such things obviously can’t be allowed anywhere near the shady benefits from such things.
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Remember the Great Alaska LeDoux Vote Experiment? We still don’t how many illegal aliens, dead folks, or clearly unqualified voters infest voter rolls, whose “votes” are available to steer elections in the desired direction, whose presence may inflate voter rolls enough to make it look like a smaller percentage of qualified people actually voted for LeDoux.
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We don’t know how many ballots were tossed or lost by the city’s amateur handwriting “experts” who can’t testify in court as handwriting experts, but can “curate” or toss votes opposing Assembly candidates for whom they work, or ballot propositions their Assembly bosses want.
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We don’t know what election officials told former mayor Bronson when he asked who stuck the thumb drive in the computerized vote-counting gear while it was counting votes and why the person did it.
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We have no reason to trust voter turnout numbers, or election results if: (a) they can’t be verified accurately or independently, (b) the mail-in ballot process is flawed from the beginning, and (c) we have no reason to trust officials who work so hard to mislead and dictate to us about nearly everything else.
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Maybe the stats are close to the truth; voters reached acceptance of Stage IV electoral corruption because, lacking something resembling divine intervention, it’s incurable?
So agree with all. Until our elections are cleaned up it will continue to be more of the same, Anchorage especially. Why do conservatives there not push for a ballot initiative to at least rein in the ‘cheat by mail’? That alone could make a difference for elections there. Might even increase turnout if such a proposition were on the ballot.
Yeah! We need to fight this! In fact, someone should set up a fake church in the Lower 48 to illegally funnel money through so we can run a campaign against this sort of thing!
Wow. A woman who held a drag queen event in her driveway for all the neighbors to see – whether they wanted to or not – is going head up “Childcare and Early Education Board”. The people in Anchorage who do not vote are responsible for this Assembly and this total and complete waste of money. Protect your children.
Sick.
Freak.
Disgusting.
Consequences?
More evidence of the graft, fraud and racketeering being committed by these criminals on our assembly, who have stolen even more money from the homeowners in the form of higher taxes every year. This a criminal RICO violation and should have been prosecuted back when Dunbar was still involved.
But of course Dunbar was involved so it wouldn’t be. The left have no moral or ethical absolutes. Their foundation is relativism so truly anything goes as long as the end goal of power and control can be achieved. Cleaning up our elections, ridding Anchorage of mail in voting, except in specific circumstances, would go a long way in bringing the voting back to a reflection of the population.
Disgusting, but not new.
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Remember Anchorage School Board essentially sole-sourcing contracts over a million dollars by voting unanimously to steer them to a union-only shop?
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This corruption might slow down somewhat if State law required revenue sharing to be reduced by, say, ten times the amount of any sole-source contract.
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Couldn’t happen here of course, but what if it did?
Grifting Commies gonna Grift and Commie.
Nothing will happen to QD or the Assembly.
Point of order: AQD was ACTING Mayor of Anchorage. To me that’s a different job than ACTUAL mayor like Dave Bronson. Just saying…
Beats work if you can get it. Too much woman for any man, she makes the rockin’ world go round!
lol.
Nothing will come of these sole source contracts to actual assembly members or former members/mayors . Vvoters will keep voting these clowns back in as many times as possible.
FYI: To be a certified “handwriting expert” in the court of law – American Board of Forensic Document Examiners (ABFDE) is accepted as expert testimony. See ‘https://frostbrowntodd.com/is-your-handwriting-experts-testimony-admissible/
You will not be a handwriting “expert” in a few days/hours by taking training or workshop to become a Muni ballot signature expert. What a joke! See ‘https://abfde.org/certification/
It is not unusual for the Muni to award these kinds of contracts. I have seen a few. What distinguishes this stinker is the size of the contract – at $175K, this is someone’s full time job. (I guess the fancy position with the Biden Regime did not develop for AQD). Also of concern is that it appears to delegate, in the entirety, the executive function regarding this program to a private entity. An honest Municipal Attorney should address that element.
But that would require an honest Municipal Attorney.
There is NO honest muni attorney within the current corrupt administration.
Heads on pikes.
Here, here.
Mayor Lafrance is using a page out of the Biden’s playbook on the national level.
He awarded Stacy Abrams a multi million dollar contract related to the so called “climate crisis” without performance requirements which means it is just a gift.
That is why DOGE is so important and the lefty looneys are losing their minds over their cash cow drying up.
At least Anchorage can rest assured the young children will have a full curriculum with drag queen performances and a story hour to develop proper imagination.
This is the same thing that Susan has s stated for some time now,years as a matter of fact. We need to get a real investigation going on this and I mean now because this is not just a municipal issue even though it’s easier for them to fudge the numbers because it’s all mail in and held in spring.
This is a state issue think about it look at what happened with the ranked choice voting proposals we voted and they were decided by one tenth of one percent both times 2020 and 22 and not sure of the years by the outcome is the same and what in the hell are the odds of that.
What was it you reported about our 8.? To 13 percent ghosts vote that shows up to save any state or local special interests programs they want to ram down our throats it’s time for a federal investigation on this because the lieutenant governor not the attorney general will do anything about it both parties are involved. It’s time folks these lefties are taking our monies, liberty and sovereignty without our voted permission and it needs to end now. You can bet that Bill Walker got his help into office through this same little voting peculiarity and what happened to the PFD? Now do you understand why this needs to be corrected ASAP it is time to ask for a federal investigation on the matter and who better than Musk’s team there are people that need to go to jail for this thank you for listening Lord Bless and Keep You Always Amen Amen Amen!!!
It’s so in your face now. It isn’t just the Assembly granting this cronyism…but the total lack of shame of AQD for even proposing it
And when my renters in Anchorage see a $100 per month increase a the lease renewal, I will be happy to explain it to them.