Signature gatherers are making one final push this weekend to complete the signatures they need to recall Anchorage Assembly member Felix Rivera.
At a drive-through event at the LaMex restaurant on Friday, they picked up a steady stream of signatures from local residents. The group Reclaim Midtown will be out on Saturday at Tudor Bingo, from noon-3 pm. The address is 1436 E. Tudor Road.
On Sunday, a drive-through signing event will be at the Golden Lion Hotel on 1000 East 36th Avenue (New Seward Highway), in midtown. That is the hotel the Anchorage Assembly purchased for the someday-use as a controversial drug rehabilitation center. The time to sign is after church between 1-4 pm.
Signature gatherers are also in other locations, plus at least 10 people are walking door to door this weekend to collect signatures.
Rivera represents Assembly District 4. Only those registered to vote in that district are qualified to sign the recall petition, which must have at least 2,735 qualified signatures by Jan. 5, when the petition must be turned into the Municipal Clerk’s Office, which will verify the signatures.
That number represents 25 percent of the votes cast in the April 7, 2020 election for the seat.
The signers must live within the outlines of this map:
Rivera has started a defense fund to campaign on his behalf, if the recall petition is approved for the April 6 ballot. He is planning to fight it in court.
