Over the past five years, the Anchorage consulting firm Agnew::Beck has received nearly $487,000 in noncompetitive bid awards from the Anchorage Assembly. It’s a left-leaning group that helps prop up the leftists who dominate local government in Anchorage and in smaller towns across Alaska.
The Anchorage awards are listed for things like “Affirmative Action” and “Downtown Anchorage Market Data.” The group also got money to help figure out who to give alcohol tax funds to; and then there’s the $304,776 noncompete contract for a Covid analyst at Agnew::Beck.
During that timeframe, one of its employees became elected to the Anchorage Assembly. And the gifts just kept on coming in, as the grants went out.
When the competitive bids are added it, the amount of taxpayer dollars going to Agnew:Beck exploded to over $800,000 in taxpayer money.
Now-Assemblywoman Anna Brawley was a project manager for Agnew::Beck Consulting, resigning from that job after being elected in 2023 to represent West Anchorage in the position left vacant by Austin Quinn-Davidson, who started her own consulting company and now gets sole-source awards from the Assembly, like this one from 2024.
What goes around, comes around. In 2023 when Brawley ran, Agnew Beck “team members” contributed to their teammate’s campaign. Since she took office, the money kept flowing. And Anna Brawley made these contributions to others since getting elected:
Agnew::Beck makes its money off of pass-through taxpayer dollars through contracts with local and state government, as well as with nonprofits that are also funded by taxpayers through government grants.
For instance, the Haines Borough awarded the company $99,600 in 2023 and another $78,130 in 2024.
A list of Agnew::Beck’s clients is at this link.
(Editor’s note: The company has changed that URL for that page since this was published. It is now: https://agnewbeck.com/clients-weve-helped/ . For posterity, we’ve pasted the client list at the bottom of this story.)
The sole-source contract won by former Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson in 2024 can be seen here:
| Anchorage, AK | No | General Government | 2024 | 11 | QD Sole Source | Non-Competitive(Sole Source) | QD Consulting Austin Quinn-Davidson | $ 35,000.00 |
It appears former Assemblywoman and Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson will be using the same tactic to squeeze Anchorage taxpayer dollars out of the Assembly. Here is her campaign finance report of donations made to candidates, as found at the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Quinn-Davidson and her wife gave campaign donations to five of the 12 members of the Anchorage Assembly in 2023 before getting her $35,000 reward in 2024. Those candidates are Zac Johnson, Karen Bronga, Anna Brawley, Chris Constant and Felix Rivera.
The Anchorage-based consulting company states that “equity” is core to its mission: “Working alongside our clients to grow healthy, equitable, thriving communities.” This may make it ineligible to receive any federally sourced grants during the Trump Administration.
Agnew::Beck client list:
Over 20 years, A::B has partnered with hundreds of clients. We are honored to support their work.
- Alaska Conservation Foundation
- Alaska Department of Corrections
- Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
- Alaska Literacy Program
- Alaska Marine Conservation Council
- Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority
- Alaska Native Justice Center
- Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium
- Alaska Peer Support Consortium
- Alaska Youth and Family Network
- Aleknagik Traditional Council
- Aleut Community of St Paul Island Tribal
- Aleutian Housing Authority
- Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
- Anchorage Assembly
- Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness
- Anchorage Community Development Authority
- Anchorage Community Land Trust
- Anchorage Health Department
- Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center
- Anchorage School District
- Arc of Anchorage
- Arctic Slope Regional Corporation
- Asa’casarmiut Tribe
- Association of Alaska Housing Authorities
- Association of Alaska School Boards
- AVCP
- AVCP Regional Housing Authority
- Bartlett Regional Hospital
- BBEDC
- BBNA
- Bethel Community Services Foundation
- Big Sky Community Housing Trust
- Blaine County Housing Authority
- Blue Lake Rancheria Tribe
- Boise Bicycle Project
- Boise Elevated
- Boise School District
- Boise State University
- Camai Community Health Center
- Capital City Development Corporation
- Casey Family Programs
- CATCH Program
- Catholic Charities of Idaho
- Catholic Social Services
- Center for Safe Alaskans
- Central Bering Sea Fishermen’s Assoc.
- Change 4 the Kenai Coalition
- Chickaloon Village Traditional Council
- Chignik Bay Tribal Council
- City of Boise
- City of Caldwell
- City of Cordova
- City of Dillingham
- City of Hailey
- City of Idaho Falls
- City of Ketchum
- City of Manokotak
- City of North Pole
- City of Palmer
- City of Soldotna
- City of Valdez
- City of Wainwright
- City of Weiser
- City of Whitefish
- College of Western Idaho
- Cook Inlet Housing Authority
- Cook Inlet Lending Center
- Cook Inlet Tribal Council
- Copper River Basin Regional Housing
- Covenant House Alaska
- Donlin Gold
- Downtown Boise Association
- Doyon Foundation
- Eastern Aleutians Tribes
- Fairbanks North Star Borough
- Girdwood Health Clinic Inc.
- Gulkana Village Council
- Haines Borough
- Hamakua Institute
- Idaho Botanical Garden
- Idaho Children’s Trust Fund
- Idaho Commission on the Arts
- Idaho Federation of Families for Children
- Idaho Office for Refugees
- Idaho STEM Action Center
- International Rescue Committee Boise
- Jesse Tree of Idaho
- Juneau Housing First Collaborative
- Kenai Peninsula Borough
- Kenaitze Indian Tribe
- Ketchikan Community Reentry Coalition
- Ketchum Urban Renewal Agency
- Knik Tribal Council
- Knik Tribe Benteh Wellness Center
- Kodiak Area Native Association
- Koniag Education Foundation
- Mammoth Lakes Housing
- Maniilaq Association
- Mat-Su Basin Salmon Habitat Partnership
- Mat-Su Food Coalition
- Mat-Su Health Foundation
- Mat-Su Senior Services
- Municipality of Anchorage Health Dept
- NAMI Alaska
- National Park Service, Alaska Region
- Native Village of Chenega
- Native Village of Eyak
- Native Village of Iliamna
- NeighborWorks Alaska
- Nevada County Public Health
- North Slope Borough
- North Tahoe Community Alliance
- Northwest Arctic Borough
- Norton Sound Health Corporation
- Nuvista Light & Electric Cooperative, Inc
- Olgoonik Corporation
- Partners for Progress
- Pedro Bay Corporation
- Petersburg Borough
- Providence Health and Services, Alaska
- PWS Regional Citizens Advisory Council
- Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska
- Rasmuson Foundation
- Recover Alaska
- Set Free Alaska
- Seward Community Health Center
- Shoshone-Bannock Tribes
- Sierra Business Council
- Sierra Community House
- Sierra Watershed Education Partnership
- SILC of Alaska
- Sitka Homeless Coalition
- Snug Harbor Seafoods, Inc.
- South Peninsula Hospital
- Southeast Alaska Independent Living
- Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference.
- Sprout Family Services
- Standing Together Against Rape
- Tahoe Prosperity Center
- Tahoe Truckee Airport District
- Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation
- Tanana Chiefs Conference
- Teck Alaska Incorporated, Red Dog Corpora
- The Alaska Center
- The Kuskokwim Corporation (TKC)
- The Nature Conservancy Idaho
- The Nature Conservancy of Alaska
- thread
- Tlingit Haida Regional Housing Authority
- Town of Truckee
- Tribal Government of Saint Paul Island
- Truckee Donner Land Trust
- Truckee Tahoe Airport District
- Truckee Tahoe Workforce Housing Agency
- True North Recovery
- Tulalip Tribes
- Tundra Women’s Coaliton
- Twin Hills Village Council
- Tyonek Tribal Conservation District
- United Way of Anchorage
- United Way of Treasure Valley
- Univeristy of Idaho
- University of Alaska Anchorage
- University of Alaska Fairbanks
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- USDA Forest Service
- Valley Regional Transit
- Voice of Arctic Iñupiat
- Volunteers of America Alaska
- Working Against Violence for Everyone
- World Wildlife Fund US Arctic Program
- Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center
- Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation
If the few conservatives who are on the assembly had done this, there would be a barn-burner of an investigation, huge public outcry, Channel 2 would be up in arms and linking arms with the ADN to publicly tar and feather that republican(s). But in this case, it’s the (D)ems. It’s (D)ifferent when they do it. We could complain about it at the Assembly meetings, but they’d censor us. Perhaps Dunleavy could put the Troopers on the case?
Looks like they took the link down
A list of Agnew::Beck’s clients is at this link.
Nice work SD, these left-wing nuts were hoping to never be found out!
But all the worthless dimlibbys in Los Anchorage will keep voting these fools in!
Incredible, I bet greg & frank are good with it though!
“People” are not voting in this left Assembly. They are winning because of Vote by Mail. The first year, 2018, Vote By Mail was adopted in Anchorage, our Assembly flipped from centrist to far left. They own the voting process with the Clerk working directly for them. The Clerk is required to validate if a person is a resident in Alaska but they do not do this! They use the voters rolls from Alaska which shows more people on the voting rolls in Alaska than residents. There are multiple addresses that people claim are their residences but in fact are businesses. A report from a few years ago had one address, an apartment suite, showing 20 people using the same address and same apartment building. When a proposal in 2019, was submitted to stop vote harvesting to the Elections Commission, it was summarily ignored by the Assembly and Committee. The Clerk, Barb Jones, changed the election observers rules and now it’s impossible to see what they are doing. In 2022, they allowed a thumb drive to be inserted into the vote counting machine during the election. The Bronson Administration sent a letter to the clerks office asking the who, what, why, the thumb drive was used. The Clerk, Barb Jones, ignored the letter and the Assembly went directly after Bronson. They changed MOA regulations to say they had the authority to “removed” a Mayor. This all happened after he questioned the thumb drive and the election. The Assembly is a corrupt as ever! They do want they want because they own the voting process and count the vote. Nothing will change until democracy is restored and vote by mail is removed from Anchorage. BTW: Citizens did not vote for this change. The Assembly of 9 people instituted the Vote by Mail in Anchorage. Elections matter!
Well said. It is time to investigate the Assembly and the budget of Anchorage for the past 8 years.
It is a good return on your investment to donate 900.00 and get 35,000 back.
Could someone explain to me in 1 sentence what these Agnew::Beck people do? Their website is all jargon.
Best I can tell, the double colon means they are full of cr*p.
CORRUPTION!
By the Democrats!
And Trump is going to kill it and hang it on public display.
Low awareness of how things really work and being stuck in the mainstream media is the progenitor of these obvious abuses.
Liberals are absolutely living in the matrix!!
The client list page has been removed. See https://agnewbeck.com/clients-weve-helped/.
It is still there: ‘https://agnewbeck.com/clients-weve-helped/
Comparing it to Wayback Machine captures of the previous URL (the last one’s dated March 21, 2023) confirms a rapid rate of growth in recent years, which it appears was the point of this story.
This is a running RICO violation in violation of 18 US Code 1962. The assembly has colluded to misappropriate funds in all manner of misdirection, false identification of recipient, false claims of actual costs, and collusion to enrich certain members with appropriations they later collected in another position. The US Marshall’s office should waltz into the chambers of Loussac and cuff 4-5 of those criminals right off the bat.
So much for due process or the rule of law.
They sound like the proverbial ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’. Read their ‘about us’ page. I would say leftist cult training program. https://agnewbeck.com/about-us/
They have an office in Soldotna? I guess that helps explain the Peninsula’s leftward tilt a lot better than Matt Tunseth’s constant agitating on social media.
The name Cowboy Bill Watts probably doesn’t mean much to your readership, but his autobiography was a fascinating read. In describing the latter part of his business career, he discussed dealing with consultants. He broke it down very simply: the purpose of a consultant is to tell people what they want to hear so they can get the next contract.
Yes, exactly. A government consultant never comes in and says “no you don’t need anything. Everything looks great and you could actually do more with less.”
And this firm looks like a way to justify every single leftist initiative by any means possible… showing that their ideas work, showing that communities need more involvement from leftists, showing organizations how to pander to the community so they are equipped to tell the community what parts of the community wants to hear so they can get behind everything needed to validate and stoke the flames… all in effort to satiate leftist desire to prove they are right to be so arrogant.
They outsourced governing. That’s multiple organizations in multiple states… unelected bureaucratic. I didn’t vote for any of them… TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242
Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. I think it takes it out of Alaska jurisdiction to prosecute- joy.
No wonder nothing changes.
Where oh where is Whidbey TheDog?
Why is he totally silent on this particular story???
Suzanne, let’s chat about to best expose this Doge Alaska about the assembly antics. So corrupt! John
The former Clerk Barb Jones was a real rascal. Am certain she received plenty of bounty from her dealings of throwing our elections and screwing Mayor Bronson.
She is a less than trustworthy person
She was hooked with an umbilical cord to the Assembly.