Candidate Alexander Rosales is learning the hard way how viscous politics can turn even for a seat on the Anchorage school board. Rosales is challenging school board incumbent and the teacher’s union backed Margo Bellamy for her seat.
Rosales has been labeled a white nationalist and Nazi sympathizer.
Liberal agitator Ivan Hodes, who has a long history of attacking conservatives as racists, has unleashed a barrage of accusations against Rosales.
Hodes is calling for Bellamy supporters to show up Thursday night at a Hillside Home and Landowners Association (HALO) candidate forum at the Alaska Zoo and confront Rosales for his “White Nationalists” ways.
Labeling conservatives “White Nationalists” is a common tactic among many on the left but seems to be losing its effectiveness. Especially from vicious partisans like Hodes who have a long history of making such attacks. Hodes’ social media posts are loaded with racially obsessed accusations.
On a recent post on the liberal social media platform, BlueSky, Hodes accuses Republican Rep. Jamie Allard of Eagle River of naming her dog after a Nazi sympathizer. That so-called Nazi sympathizer is conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, who heads up Turning Point USA, a prominent conservative group. Hodes also accused DOGE head Elon Musk of being a Nazi.
Hodes clearly seems obsessed with Rosales with dozens of negative and nasty posts about the candidate. Most accuse Rosales of either being a Nazi or a racist.
As of this writing, Margo Bellamy has yet to condemn Hodes’ unfounded and vicious attacks on her challenger, Rosales.
Rosales is an Air Force veteran and has never run for office before. He says he’s taking the attacks in stride even though he has received death threats. He is of Hispanic heritage, with a father born in Mexico and a grandmother who was in Dachau concentration camp in Germany. His great grandparents were in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He said he is decidedly anti-Nazi.
“It’s frustrating because people in my campaign are also getting threats as well,” said Rosales. “I’m OK with people attacking me, but it’s unfair for my supporters.”
Rosales says Bellamy can’t run on her record so she has to rely on unfounded personal attacks from surrogates like Hodes.
“We are last in the nation with test scores and near the top in education spending,” said Rosales. “They’re talking out of the side of their mouths. They have to attack me. That’s their only play.”
Rosales says he’ll keep working hard sharing his message. As a father, he says doing better with education is important to him. He says our kids deserve better than this low ball political mudslinging.
“I hope their attacks don’t work, but it’s going to take me getting in front of as many people as I can showing them I am not the person they say I am,” said Rosales.
If Hodes is successful in getting a strong showing of Bellamy supporters for Thursday night’s candidate forum, Rosales could be walking into a political buzz saw. Rosales says he’s ready and does not regret his school board candidacy and his first foray into politics.
“There’s always the haters coming out,” says Rosales.
Dan Fagan reports for Must Read Alaska and hosts a morning drive radio show between 7 and 9 a.m. on 1020 am 92.5 and 104.5 f.m. on KVNT. For news tips email him at [email protected].
If he speaks Spanish, he needs an ad on Spanish radio!
why?
we are in America, no mexico!
The lefts default positions are slander and violence
How generous of you, as the Left has to actually rise up out of their cesspool of morally superior hate to even get that far.
Just sickening! Mr. Rosales, I hope you keep on ‘fighting the good fight!’ Thanks for stepping up!
Situations like this are why actual nazis don’t take either side seriously
When the opposition attacks the messenger instead of the message, intelligent people realize the argument has been lost. Hodes doesn’t seem even to know what Alex’s message is. Give Hodes a long leash. Let him scream at the sky. And let Belamy never condemn it to show her message – justice for all…except folks who disagree with her.
Something needs to be done about these deranged leftist lunatics. Can’t people be sued for slander anymore?
I would absolutely love for Mr Rosales to sue me for slander; in fact I sent him an email to that email effect giving him my address, to make it easier on the process server.
That would be funny to see the look on your face in court when you lost, Ivan.
A question here Mr. Hodes, can you please give us a definition of what YOU consider to be “a Nazi”?
It is always interesting when I hear someone calling others that term and I wonder how they arrive at that assessment. What factors determine this designation in their mind.
Please enlighten us….we’ll wait!
I’d like that, too.
Highly dysgenic leftist types like Ivan Hodes should be thankful that the last actual Nazis are well into their 90’s and he’ll never actually encounter one. Take a good look at old photos of SA and SS men from the 1920s and 30s. Whatever their politics, the rank and file were hard men – brawlers, veterans of the trenches of World War I – easily the nastiest conflict of the 20th Century.
Now witness Mr. Hodes attempting public speaking on Youtube eight years ago.
‘https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fADsnVd7yw
That sad guy would piss his pants before the gloves were even on.
In addition to being viscous, Alaskan politics can be vicious, corrupt, ridiculous, shallow, and numerous other nasty things.
I appreciate and applaud his ability not to react to such nonsense. I think if you combine this with his solid conservative views on economics, you can see he is in this for all the right reasons.
Right now, Anchorage needs new blood on the school board. We need fresh perspective.
I also believe Dan, in his article, is right on in pointing out the fact that his opponent has not condemned these comments. She is happy to stay silent and let them run.
With a long list of problems attached to Margo Bellamy which I am sure we are all aware of there’s no need to spell them out here. I think it’s time to try something new.
Just my opinion.
If you want to support Mr. Rosales further here is link to his campaign page.
If it can’t be posted in comments just do a search of his name and it comes up.
‘https://www.alexforschoolboardak.com/
“Everyone who opposes the culturally, socially and nationally destructive and suicidal policies of the lockstep radical left is a Nazi!”
– every radical leftist
No litigation required, as the recent election of President Trump is proof of that. The party of corruption, lies, hate, and character assassination is imploding for all to see, so stand back and let them comment suicide all by them selves
Yep I agree, the democrat party is be-clowning themselves at every turn from acting like children during the state of the union, to demanding Elon Musk to stop uncovering horrendous waste, fraud and abuse of precious taxpayer money, virtue signaling support for women, while thinking men in women’s sport is A OK….no wonder their approval rating is only 21%!
Increasingly, those who lean communist are incapable of distinguishing between “Nazi” and “not a communist.” Anyone who does not believe their Marxist ideology is automatically labeled “fascist”.
Interesting that Mr. Rosales was a no show at the HALO candidate forum on Thursday night.
I’m glad people still run against the incumbents. But I have zero hope that any of these seats will turn. We are living in a communist regime here in Anchorage. The voters love it. They only want more spending, more failure, more DEI from our school board and that is what we will get.
It’s the usual playbook of the Left. Anyone not a member of the Maoist Red Guard Cadre is a Mega MAGA RacistBigot
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