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Health is important (but not that important) to Anchorage Assembly fixated on crippling Mayor Bronson appointees

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Health is important (but not that important) to Anchorage Assembly fixated on crippling Mayor Bronson appointees

The mission of the Anchorage Health Department is critical in this era of a global pandemic, with possibly more pandemics to come. But to the Anchorage Assembly, health is evidently not that important. They’ve been unwilling to confirm a Department of Health Director for nearly half a year.

On Tuesday night’s Assembly agenda, Joe Gerace was up for confirmation. But at the last minute, an anonymous person lodged a complaint about Gerace, who has been interim health director since the Assembly drove off the former director, David Morgan.

The Anchorage Assembly majority of nine decided to table the Gerace nomination and take up the anonymous allegation in executive session at 10:30 am on Friday, even though Gerace was willing to speak to the allegations on the public record Tuesday. There’s no indication that Gerace will be confirmed on Friday or if his confirmation yet delayed.

The Assembly and those attending the meeting seemed surprised by the guerrilla attack on Gerace, who has an extensive resume in health, law enforcement, and the military. Some of them said they had been on board with the nomination of Gerace, until the two allegations showed up.

A last-minute attack from an anonymous person.

A former employee is making a claim, and another person is making an anonymous claim made on his confirmation day, Tuesday.

All over but the shouting: Redistricting board finishes Senate map, Democrats complain, quarrel, threaten, play race card

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All over but the shouting: Redistricting board finishes Senate map, Democrats complain, quarrel, threaten, play race card

Although the Democrats did very well with the new political map for the House of Representatives, when the Senate map was voted on, they were exceedingly unhappy.

Nicole Borromeo and Melanie Bahnke, members of the Alaska Redistricting Board who represent the interests of Democrats, could not accept that they didn’t have the votes to steer the Senate map to their liking, as they had done with the House map. In the end, even after they played the race card, the 3-2 vote finalized a Senate map on Tuesday.

Borromeo was especially dramatic and loud in her opposition, using the Democratic playbook that has everything about race.

“It opens the board up to an unfortunate and very easily winnable argument about partisan gerrymandering,” she lectured. “I don’t believe that any of the arguments that she [Board member Bethany Marcum] put on the record, and more importantly the sound sound legal advice that we got from counsel in executive session, supports this pairing.

Borromeo said, “It defies logic that we would do minority reach into South Muldoon and pair it with a very white District 8 miles away on the highway, that crosses one mountain range, and expect the courts to believe with any satisfaction that we have satisfied the public trust in the process.”

South Muldoon is 56 percent white, but to Borromeo is is all about the 44 percent nonwhite.

In the end, Board Chair John Binkley had to shut the agitated Democrat women down, and get the map voted on, as Wednesday is the deadline for the maps to be completed. The final action of the board is to sign the proclamation and adjourn.

The work of pairing Senate districts to the new lines ended with some unchanged Senate-House combinations, while others will look new to voters. All Senate legislators but Donny Olson will have to run for reelection, due to the new district lines.

In Southern Southeast Alaska, the Senate District that now has Sen. Bert Stedman representing it, has the House members Rep. Dan Ortiz and Rep. Jonathan Kreiss-Tompkins, as before. And Sen. Jesse Kiehl of Juneau still has Rep. Andi Story and Rep. Sarah Hannan in the downtown Juneau district.

In the Kodiak-Cordova area, Sen. Gary Stevens stil has Rep. Louise Stutes and Rep. Sarah Vance in his district.

Kenai Sen. Peter Micciche is paired with the same lawmakers, Rep. Ben Carpenter and Rob Gillham.

Anchorage is where it gets interesting.

South Anchorage Sen. Roger Holland has a different district, with Rep. Laddie Shaw in one House seat and one open House seat.

In South Anchorage, Sen. Natasha Von Imhof and Sen. Mia Costello have been pushed into the same Senate district. Rep. Tom McKay is in one of those House seats and Reps. Matt Claman and Sara Rasmussen are in the other House seat inside that Senate district.

In Midtown Anchorage, Elvi Gray-Jackson is still the senator, but paired with Rep. Harriet Drummond in one House district and Rep. Andy Josephson and Rep. Chris Tuck smooshed into the other.

Common buzz around the Legislature is that Rules Chair Bryce Edgmon (previous House Speaker) has no affection for Tuck, and ensured that his appointee on the Redistricting Board, Nicole Borromeo, pushed to force Tuck to defend his seat against Josephson.

In Downtown Anchorage, Sen. Tom Begich is paired with hardline leftist Democrats Rep. Zack Fields and Rep. Harriet Dummond. Geran Tarr is the other House member.

East Anchorage and Muldoon has Sen. Bill Wielechowski paired with Rep. Ivy Spohnholz and an open seat. 

An open Senate seat for Government Hill , Muldoon, and JBER,  combined with Eagle River, has incumbents Rep. Kelly Merrick and Rep. Ken McCarty in one district and Rep. David Nelson in the other. 

For the South Eagle River-East Anchorage, where Sen. Lora Reinbold represents, Rep. Liz Snyder has one House seat while the other is open. 

In midtown-East Anchorage, Sen. Josh Revak is paired with districts represented by Rep. Calvin Schrage and Rep. James Kaufman. 

In the Mat-Su, Sen. Mike Shower is paired with districts now represented by Rep. George Rauscher of Sutton, and Rep. Kevin McCabe from the Big Lake-Denali Borough area.

Sen. David Wilson is paired with the open House seat of central core Wasilla, and the House seat that now has Rep. David Eastman and Rep. Chris Kurka gerrymandered into it, an effort driven by board member Borromeo on behalf of Democrats who don’t like Eastman.

Palmer Sen. Shelley Hughes has a district that has Rep. DeLena Johnson in one House seat and Rep. Cathy Tilton in the other.

Fairbanks has Sen. Click Bishop paired with a district that has Rep. Mike Cronk and Rep. Adam Wool in the other House district.

Fairbanks Sen. Scott Kawasaki is paired with Rep. Bart LeBon and Rep. Steve Thompson.

North Pole and Northeast Fairbanks Sen. Rob Myers is paired with Rep. Mike Prax and Grier Hopkins.

View the Senate maps at this link.

Redistricting: New political boundary map renumbers many districts

Association of Alaska School Boards meeting focused on Critical Race Theory

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Association of Alaska School Boards meeting focused on Critical Race Theory

When school boards get together for meetings, the public is usually able to attend.

But when the Alaska Association of School Boards gets together to talk strategy for the coming year, the public is not welcome. That’s what Nial Williams discovered when he sat in on the Association of Alaska School Board conference this weekend at the Anchorage Hilton and quietly videotaped the proceedings. Until he was unceremoniously booted out.

The focus of the meeting was on the concept of racism and “equity,” which is one of the newer educational trends. Equity is understood in this era to be different from equality. Equity means every persons gets to succeed, and assistance is given according to their perceived need, in order to level the playing field. It’s a socialistic concept rooted in Critical Race theory.

Featured in the meeting was Anchorage School Board Chairwoman Margo Bellamy, who spoke at length about the concepts of disparity and promoted the concept of teaching Critical Race Theory. The document under consideration says Critical Race Theory without actually saying it:

Bellamy believes that people who are black or brown have no real chance in the current system because it has barriers to their success. Bellamy said “we can’t leave out the word ‘racism’.”

Watch her remarks here if the video is not embedded.

The four-day meeting also featured various awards for school board members across Alaska. Among those receiving awards for service is former Anchorage Board President Elisa Vakalis, who has been charged with theft and fraud.

Of note, the Mat-Su Borough School Board is not a member of AASB, and has not been for at least three years.

Former school board president charged

Calm conservative Dennis Prager to keynote Alaska Family Council spring fundraiser

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Calm conservative Dennis Prager to keynote Alaska Family Council spring fundraiser

Dennis Prager, host of a radio show and founder of Prager U, will be the keynote speaker at the Alaska Family Council 2022 spring dinner on May 21 in Anchorage. Tickets are expected to sell out fast.

Through PragerU, the Dennis Prager Show, his social media fireside chats, and extensive writings, Prager has reached billions of people and touched the lives of millions around the world. He is a calm conservative in a noisy and cantankerous world.

The Dennis Prager Show is heard on nearly 400 affiliates plus iHeartRadio.com, and TuneIn.com, as well as various websites.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, Prager has authored nine books on subjects such as religion, happiness, morality, the left, Islamism, and America. The Rational Bible, is the first volume of his five-volume commentary on the first five books of the Bible – rooted in his extensive knowledge of biblical Hebrew. It is currently the bestselling Bible commentary in America, and at publication was the #1 bestselling non-fiction book in the United States.

His latest book from PragerU is a children’s story about Veterans Day. You can order it here.

Prager is an expert on communism, the Middle East, and the left, he did his graduate work at the Russian and Middle East Institutes of the Columbia University School of International Affairs. Prager taught Russian and Jewish history at Brooklyn College.

The motto of his show is, “I prefer clarity to agreement.”

Tickets are not yet available but will be at the Alaska Family Council website in the near future.

Video: Who is Dennis Prager?

Biden official response to federal court suspension of vaccine mandate on businesses: Do it anyway

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Biden official response to federal court suspension of vaccine mandate on businesses: Do it anyway

President Joe Biden’s administration, ordered by an appeals court to respond by Monday, wrote its defense of the federal vaccination mandate on private employers with more than 100 employees. In it, he tells businesses in America to continue mandating vaccines on their employees, as though he will win the court challenge that has currently put a suspension on his vaccine mandate.

Here are some of the Biden Administration’s top points:

Biden says the federal government is within its authority to have OSHA issue an emergency temporary standard, which the Biden Administration falsely claims does not take effect until January. In reality, to meet that standard employees must begin their vaccinations two months in advance of the Jan. 4 deadline).

“Petitioners seek emergency relief,but most of their asserted harms are at least a month off, and many of their claimed harms relate to a testing requirement that does not become effective until January 2022. No reason exists to rule on petitioners’ stay motions immediately, before the Judicial Panel on Multi district Litigation even assigns a court to hear the many pending challenges, see 28 U.S.C.§ 2112(a),and certainly no reason to consider a permanent injunction, which would be particularly improper,” the Biden Administration wrote.

“Even if this Court adjudicates the motions, petitioners are not entitled to a stay or any broader order. Petitioners are not likely to succeed on the merits because their arguments are foreclosed by precedent, inconsistent with the statutory text, and contrary to the considerable evidence that OSHA analyzed and discussed when issuing the Standard,” the Biden Administration wrote.

The Biden Administration said the plaintiffs “have not shown that their claimed injuries outweigh the harm of staying a standard that will save thousands of lives and prevent hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations.”

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will next decide whether to reverse its decision to suspend the Biden mandatory vaccination order or to permanently stop it. There are numerous other challenges pending in other legal jurisdictions, something the Fifth Circuit will be sensitive to.

On Monday, the Biden Administration said that private sector employers should continue to order their workers to get vaccinated. “People should not wait,” said White House Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre during a press conference on Monday. “They should continue to move forward and make sure they’re getting their workplace vaccinated.”

Read the Biden response at this link:

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Long knives come out for Anchorage Chief Medical Officer Dr. Savitt, as Rogers Park Community Council rips on him

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Long knives come out for Anchorage Chief Medical Officer Dr. Savitt, as Rogers Park Community Council rips on him

With Covid-19 cases falling in Alaska and hospitals not in actual crisis mode, many Alaskans are turning their focus to the holidays.

But not the Rogers Park Community Council. It’s still working on “Covid crisis” politics.

The midtown-area council will ask the Anchorage Assembly tonight to make the position of Chief Medical Officer one that must be confirmed by the Assembly. Currently, the position is one of the few at the top of the Executive Branch that doesn’t require confirmation — similar to chief of staff.

Tuesday’s Assembly meeting begins at 5 pm on the ground floor of the Loussac Library, which is located at the corner of 36th Avenue and Denali Street.

Never in the 40+ year history of Anchorage has that position been subject to confirmation by the Assembly.

The Rogers Park Community Council passed a resolution on Monday that contains a lot of outdated statistical information about the pandemic that arrived in Alaska in March of 2020. The resolution cites a similar stance against Dr. Michael Savitt, who is Mayor Dave Bronson’s medical advisor on staff, which was taken by several pediatricians in Anchorage in October, when they demanded the resignation of Savitt. They are also trying to go after his medical license.

Savitt has taken a careful approach to mandates from the government on the citizenry. He has stated that masks generally do not work for the general public because they don’t have virus-shielding masks, people don’t wear them correctly, and most don’t handle them properly.

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a video last week that wearing a mask will prevent transmission of Covid up to 80 percent of the time. There appears to be no data to support her assertion:

Is the federal government now pushing for ‘new normal’ of masks? New CDC video, academic literature points to permanency

In the Rogers Park Community Council resolution, the group from the neighborhood in Assembly District 4, said that the hospitalization rate has increased 16 percent over the previous week. That data is weeks old, as hospitalizations for Covid are now at at the level they were at the beginning of August.

The Rogers Park Community Council board is dominated by those who also oppose Gov. Mike Dunleavy, another elected official who has taken a conservative approach to the virus and supported civil liberties.

Rogers Park Community Council Chair Peter Mjos signed the Recall Dunleavy petition two years go. So did the Vice Chair Scott McMurren.

Those in attendance at the meeting reported to Must Read Alaska that the vote in the unrecorded meeting was 20 in favor of the resolution, four opposed and 3 abstentions. It is not clear who voted or whether they are members of the Rogers Park neighborhood, which has about 4,000 residents.

Attendees were rude and interruptive to Dr. Savitt, who also attended the meeting, according to MRAK sources.

Rogers Park is in District 4, represented by far-left Assembly members Meg Zaletel and Felix Rivera. Both attended the meeting, which was conducted via videoconference.

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Dr. Savitt’s response to the current clamber to mask and vaccinate everyone was measured. He said the Anchorage Health Department is “cautiously optimistic” regarding the last several weeks of Covid numbers for the Municipality of Anchorage.

“We continue to see a decrease in the 14 day rolling average, 7-day positivity rate and reproduction numbers. We remain in a high-risk environment or red zone, but appear to be trending downward. Hospitals remain at near capacity levels. We hope to see those numbers start to decrease soon as well,” he wrote last week.

“In a continuing effort to drive the numbers further down we encourage folks to get vaccinated and follow CDC prevention strategies, such as, proper use of masks, handwashing for 20 seconds or more, physical distancing, and properly ventilated indoor spaces. When all of these measures are used together, we decrease the chance of getting sick with COVID. We strongly encourage you to speak to your healthcare provider to discuss vaccinations. If you do not have a healthcare provider, call the Anchorage Health Department,” Savitt wrote.

“Testing remains a very important tool in combatting COVID. Early detection of COVID leads to early treatment and better outcomes. If you have symptoms, get tested. It is the only way to know if you have COVID as many other illnesses have the same symptoms. If you have a positive test, call your healthcare provider asap for advice about early treatment. If you do not have a healthcare provider, call the Anchorage health Department for advice. Do not just sit at home, not seeking medical advice and hope for the best,” he wrote.

Savitt also wrote that good treatment includes monoclonal antibodies infusion. “This treatment is safe and effective. It works best when given within the first three to five days after onset of symptoms,” he wrote.

Wading into politics, a group of Anchorage pediatricians go hard against Muni top doc

Three candidates holding joint fundraiser to try to flip Anchorage Assembly

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Three candidates holding joint fundraiser to try to flip Anchorage Assembly

The next election takes place in mid-March to April 5, 2022 and the campaigning has already begun.

A host of big names in the business world are hosts of a fundraiser for three candidates for Anchorage Assembly — Kathy Henslee, District 4; Randy Sulte, District 6; and Stephanie Taylor, District 5. The meet-and-greet fundraiser will be held at the Petroleum Club, 3301 C Street, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, at 5-7 pm.

Daily Covid case count: 300 new cases

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Daily Covid case count: 300 new cases

The number of new cases of Covid-19 in Alaska continues to fall, with 300 new diagnoses on Sunday, Nov. 7. Of all tests administered, the rate of positive tests is now at 7.6 percent. When Anchorage was closed down in May of 2020 under Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, the positivity rate in the state was 8.5 percent.

Week over week, cases have dropped by 10 percent. The number of Alaskans in the hospital with Covid-19 has also dropped to 139, with just 18 on ventilators. For comparison, on Oct. 24, there were 244 Covid hospitalizations.

While in October the percentage of patients hospitalized with Covid went as high as 22 percent of all hospitalizations, the current percentage is down to 13.6 percent.

A total of 138,161 Alaskans have been diagnosed with Covid since March of 2020.

As for hospital capacity, most hospitals in the urban centers of Alaska now have beds available in their ICU units and non-ICU units, as seen in the chart above. There are 354 non-ICU beds available and 28 ICU beds available in Alaska.

According to Becker’s Hospital Review, Alaska ranks about in the middle of positivity rates among the states, with Florida at the bottom at about 2.9 percent, Alaska ranks with the third highest rate of testing per capita among the states.

Idaho: 53.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 77.5

Iowa: 47.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 47.6

Oklahoma: 34.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 44.2

Kansas: 33%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 84.3

New Jersey: 18.1%
New Daily Cases: 926
Tests per 100k: 76

Utah: 15.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 319.1

Maine: 15%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 250.6

North Dakota: 14.7%
New Daily Cases: 196
Tests per 100k: 441.3

Minnesota: 14.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 490

Ohio: 13.7%
New Daily Cases: 4363
Tests per 100k: 240.7

Michigan: 12.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 386.7

Wyoming: 12.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 458.8

South Dakota: 12.7%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 144.5

Montana: 10.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 578

Pennsylvania: 10.2%
New Daily Cases: 3385
Tests per 100k: 315.7

Wisconsin: 9.9%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 426.8

Arizona: 9.5%
New Daily Cases: 3231
Tests per 100k: 445

New Hampshire: 9.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 766

Kentucky: 9.3%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 270

Arkansas: 9.2%
New Daily Cases: 266
Tests per 100k: 157.1

Missouri: 8.5%
New Daily Cases: 742
Tests per 100k: 209.8

New Mexico: 8.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 602.2

Colorado: 8.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 608

Mississippi: 8.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 127.7

Nevada: 8.1%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 347.6

Tennessee: 8.1%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 170.4

West Virginia: 7.7%
New Daily Cases: 1038
Tests per 100k: 576.8

Virginia: 7.6%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 194

Alaska: 7.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 1091.4

Nebraska: 7.3%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 464.3

Alabama: 7%
New Daily Cases: 292
Tests per 100k: 166.6

Indiana: 5.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 427.3

Texas: 5.6%
New Daily Cases: 789
Tests per 100k: 200.5

North Carolina: 5.5%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 306

Oregon: 5.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 454.3

Delaware: 5%
New Daily Cases: 291
Tests per 100k: 510.3

Georgia: 4.1%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 233.1

South Carolina: 3.6%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 410.3

Vermont: 3.6%
New Daily Cases: 405
Tests per 100k: 1712.8

Louisiana: 2.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 370.9

Florida: 2.4%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 301.8

Rhode Island: 2.2%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 1037.2

Connecticut: 2.1%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 459

Illinois: 2.1%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 918.4

Maryland: 2.1%
New Daily Cases: 727
Tests per 100k: 545.4

California: 1.8%
New Daily Cases: 1149
Tests per 100k: 801.9

Massachusetts: 1.8%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 1122.5

Hawaii: 1.4%
New Daily Cases: 134
Tests per 100k: 528.9

District of Columbia: 1.3%
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 921.8

New York: N/A
New Daily Cases: 3932
Tests per 100k: 1097.7

Washington: N/A
New Daily Cases: 0
Tests per 100k: 0

Jamie Donley: Open letter to Biden voters about his list of failures in 10 short months

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Jamie Donley: Open letter to Biden voters about his list of failures in 10 short months

By JAMIE DONLEY

(Even as they have recently published a barrage of pro-Democrat letters, the Anchorage Daily News refused to publish a shorter version of my below letter.  Thank you to Must Read Alaska for doing so.)

Anyone who watched the debacle that was the Democrat National Convention last year saw what was coming:

  • They took God out of the Pledge of Allegiance. (Same as Anchorage Assemblyman Chris Constant). 
  • They had a reverend threaten: “Vote for Biden or go to hell” America. (Pastor Frederick Haynes III) 
  • They mocked and degraded the National Anthem. (Or maybe that was just progressives testifying at Anchorage School Board.)
  • They promised free health care and college tuition to illegal aliens. (AOC) 
  • They called for erasing parts of US History. (Linda LaBehas) 
  • They featured an anti-Semite bigot. (Linda Sarsour)The Biden Campaign disavowed her. 
  • They promoted the destruction of capitalism. (Ashley McCray)
  • They made no mention of our police injured by radical criminal rioters.
  • They made no mention of the violent riots in Democrat-controlled cities at all.
  • They villanized innocent people for defending their home. (Or maybe that was just the George Soros backed Democrat DA in St. Louis) 
  • They supported eliminating bail for dangerous repeat criminals causing a crime wave. (Or maybe that was just DeBlasio in New York.) 
  • They called for abolishing prisons, police, and national borders. (J Mi) 
  • They called for letting biological men compete against our daughters in sports. (Melisa Richmond) 
  • They announced that if Democrats did not win, it was not their country. (Linda LaBehas) 
  • They nominated the only senator (Kamala Harris) with a more radical left voting record than Bernie Sanders.
  • They nominated the most anti-Alaska team of candidates ever.
  • They turned the traditional national convention bump into a bust and actually gave Trump an increase in the polls (Rasmussen polling) until the biased mainstream media covered this all up.

Now America has incompetence and outright malfeasance at every level of the Biden Administration. 

Biden’s approval ratings have now gone lower than President Trump’s ever was.  Remember, prior to Covid-19, Trump’s approval rating made him look unbeatable.

Was Trump abrasive at times? Yes. Was he a great President for America, Alaska, and the middle class? Absolutely. 

Biden in less than one year has lied more about really important things than Trump ever did, when he exaggerated the size of crowds. Biden has from day one been the great divider. 

Even worse, Biden and radical progressives are dividing American families from a fair chance at a successful future. He’s catering to his base, with big liberal policies, crazy radical progressive ideas, and outright anti-common-sense bunk. That is reflected in his polling. 

Let’s recap the Biden Administration so far:

  • His stupid repeal of all things Trump created the biggest crisis at our southern border in a century. 
  • Tens of thousands of un-Covid-tested (and reportedly highly infected with respiratory diseases which are spreading across America) unvetted foreigners are illegally entering our country and being turned loose in communities all over America. Local taxpayers will be paying for this stupidity for decades. 
  • This was exactly what was advocated at the Democrat Convention and we all know why – to change the American populous to add Democrat voters. Providing illegal but cheap labor for rich Democrat donors.  Want more proof, Biden just suspended the Trump immigration raids on businesses employing illegal aliens.

The inexcusable failure to use one of the U.S. Department of Defense’s suggested plans and execute a withdrawal from Afghanistan left Americans and billions of military equipment behind. 

Even worse his incompetence got Americans killed. 

Then he lied about it and bragged about a drone strike that killed innocent civilians. And what about the promise to hold the real evil-doers accountable . . . nothing.  Who has Biden held accountable for this debacle? No one but one honorable Marine lieutenant colonel who told the truth about what a failure it was. 

Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller was locked up in solitary confinement like a third-world pollical prisoner; even a military judge said it was outrageously improper.

Speaking of political prisoners, while the progressive terrorists that attacked our cities last summer mostly got off scot-free, the Jan. 6 protesters have been treated like Soviet dissidents, locked up without bail in solitary confinement. 

What they did was wrong, but the Biden Administration’s violation of their constitutional rights to equal justice is criminal. 

The corrupt whitewash of the unjustified killing of an unarmed female protester is a stain on the US Congress. In no way did that killing meet even the most basic use of deadly force criteria that all law enforcement are trained to follow.

Speaking of the Biden Justice Department, what happened to his promise to stay out of the criminal justice process? Biden is constantly on TV telling the Department of Justice what to do, including prosecuting more of his political opponents.  His defenders say he is only expressing his opinions that DOJ should be continuing to break the law for illegal partisan purposes, as they did with General Flynn, Russiagate, FISA warrants, and on and on. 

Recently, the DOJ Inspector General found over 200 FBI errors, omissions, and lies in just 29 randomly selected FISA applications. Want further proof? The Biden Administration just restored the disgraced liar former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s pension benefits. This was his reward for committing crimes against the people for the Democrats. 

Now the Biden White House, DOJ, and the FBI are coming for parents that oppose the evil of racist Marxist Critical Race Theory in our public-school classrooms or opposing mask mandates.  Republican U.S. Senators have rightfully questioned Attorney General Garland about his conflict due to his family making a fortune selling materials containing elements of Critical Race Theory to schools districts.

Biden is now the father of record inflation which is crushing lower- and middle-class families. 

The Department of Transportation under the unqualified Pete Buttigieg has completely failed to address the supply chain breakdown on his watch, which is adding to the inflation nightmare. 

Sen. Joe Manchin is correct to predict massive inflation if the Democrats multi-trillion progressive dream list of “human infrastructure” is forced through. It is chock full of anti-energy sector goodies for the “Green New Deal” that directly destroy Alaska’s economy.

According to recent polling, even approval of Biden’s response to Covid-19 is falling fast. He has failed to back China off from threatening Taiwan. North Korea has resumed missile testing. Here in Anchorage his feckless Secretary of State Antony Blinken let himself be lectured by the communist Chinese on human rights.

Anyone with a brain knew Biden’s election was bad for Alaska and Alaska families. ANWR closes down, King Cove Road was blocked, oil development postponed, the list of anti-Alaska policies from national Democrats is long and damaging.

But worst of all is the total lack of accountability by anyone in the Biden Administration and the deep state under Joe Biden. Evil and wrongdoing are flourishing under Biden. It starts with his own son Hunter Biden and the failure to prosecute his multiple federal crimes. 

We all know now that candidate Joe Biden lied during the campaign that the solid evidence of his son’s crimes was Russian disinformation and the mainstream media and tech moguls covered it up until after the election. 

The FBI has now confirmed Hunter Biden’s laptop was and is real and full of evidence of his crimes.

So, I will take Donald Trump’s successful presidency over Joe Biden’s incompetent nightmare for American families anytime.

Jamie Donley is a mom, community activist, and former member of the Alaska Republican State Central Committee.

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