Irony alert: Senate candidate tries to ban comments on her campaign Facebook page

Irony lives in 2024 — at least when Fairbanks politics meets Facebook.

In recent days, a business owner from North Pole, Alaska began educating the public about the donations to Senate candidate Savannah Fletcher’s campaign. 

Recent filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission show that Fletcher’s campaign for state Senate has indeed received more than $4,000 from Kristen Schupp, who is noted for filling the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly meetings with pro-Hamas testimony and resolutions, when she is not on a rampage about conservative Assemblywoman Barbara Haney.

North Pole resident Keith Fons posted clips of Schupp’s Pro-Palestine testimony and screenshots of her and her husband Robert Burgess’s donations to Savannah Fletcher, as well as to House candidates Joy Beth Cottle and Ashley Carrick.  Burgess is a school board member in Fairbanks and works for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation.

The donations to Fletcher are particularly large, as seen in these screen shots of filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission:

In an attempt to silence Fons, Fletcher or her surrogates reported Fons’ posts to Facebook moderators as hate speech and had his comment blocked him from Facebook. She already blocks him from her Facebook campaign page.

He appealed the matter to Facebook management and his opinions were restored.

Fletcher is the presiding officer of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly and is a false-flag “undeclared candidate” for the Senate Seat being vacated by Click Bishop. She has paid the Alaska Democratic Party for campaign services and has been seen doing shifts at the Democrats’ booth at the Tanana Valley State Fair.

The matter is particularly pertinent, given the recent cases that Fletcher has been handling as a radical attorney on the behalf of the Northern Justice Project.

In two of these cases, she went after seated legislators who blocked opponents who had been trolling their official social media accounts. Now, Fletcher is doing the same thing, although to her campaign page, as differentiated from an official government page.

Keith Fons runs a delivery service in North Pole and helped organize the American flag convoy to Denali National Park and Preserve, after the park management told a private contractor to stop flying the American flag on vehicles driving the Park Road.