By GLEN BIEGEL
It’s the day of reckoning: Tuesday, April 5, 2022. I need your vote for Anchorage.
No, not for me, but for those who will stand in front of the monolithic block of leftists who run our city on the Anchorage Assembly and the Anchorage School Board.
America has always been a country where we welcome diverse opinions, views, and cultures. We kept that view of self-determination because we believe in the infinite value of each individual, our individual liberty, and limited government.
What we see now from the left is shocking: Critical Race Theory, Defund the Police, Cancel Culture (if you speak out, you lose your job), stopping debate by screaming down opponents (have you taken a look at college campus activities lately?), weak on crime, weak on education, going $67 million over budget for the Anchorage School District, and upending our strong mayoral form of government with a liberal Assembly supermajority.
It’s time to vote. Right now, today, this very minute. We have a good group of common-sense candidates running who can help to restore the balanced approach that Anchorage has enjoyed in the past:
Rachel Ries and Mark Anthony Cox for School Board. These are area-wide seats. Vote for both of them.
Kevin Cross, Liz Vazques, Kathy Henslee, Stephanie Taylor, and Rany Sulte for Assembly.
And if you are a private sector union member, do you really support the leftist candidates? Are you for radical environmentalists killing jobs, Big Tech controlling speech, endless mask mandates, travel restrictions, and vaccine passports? Well, I guess I never knew you. You don’t think independents, conservatives, and liberty minded-folks are on your side? You couldn’t be more wrong. We ARE your side.
This is not time to shut up, give up, or put up with failure. It’s time to show up, Anchorage.
This is the last day to vote. When you mark your ballot today, you can drop it off at the secure drop boxes; mailed ballots have to be postmarked today. If it’s late in the day, you will have to take it in person to the Airport Post Office and be sure you have a postal worker cancel it with today’s date on it.
Glen Biegel is a talk show host and cyber security professional in Anchorage.
