Anchorage municipal elections are the only ones in Alaska that are held in early April, and the campaign signs are an indicator that the ballots will be sent out in the mail soon to qualified voters in Alaska’s biggest city.
In Spenard, where one hotel gets millions of taxpayer dollars from the Assembly to house homeless people and vagrants during the winter, a sign for Assemblyman Kameron Perez-Verdia shows how it works. Perez-Verdia, a Democrat, signs off on the appropriation for the Alex Hotel and Suites. And the Alex allows the assemblyman to put up a large campaign sign.
The money doesn’t go directly to the Alex, but is appropriated to Henning, Inc. and MASH Property Management. That group has been paid over $6 million to operate the Alex as winter shelter for homeless since 2023.
Henning and MASH use a portion of the taxpayer money to pay for the hotel rooms, and the Alex is named in the contract with Anchorage to provide the rooms. Henning also provides these services at other hotels, such as Merrill Field Inn and Henry House.
Ballots will be mailed to voters on March 11 and the drop boxes for the ballots will be unlocked on March 12. Perez-Verdia has two challengers for his West Anchorage seat: Jonathan Duckworth and Amie Steen.
Of course, the question is, which is better, if at all: Jonathan Duckworth or Amie Steen
Just do everyone a favor and send them out already filled in.
Saves the time of pretending to bother to actually count
Corruption is insidious and most everywhere and you can have it in many flavors, kind of like shopping for ice cream. Seems like you would want to vote to eliminate the bitter flavors but you would have to be paying attention. Don’t forget to vote because you are to blame if you don’t.
Normally, I have to drive past the IBEW offices on Denali St. to find out who to vote against. I am glad they are branching out. With today’s gas prices, every mile they can save me, the better.
The question really is, “Will the Alaska Public Offices Commission investigate this issue?”
Another is whether this has a criminal component. We all know that it’s (D)ifferent when (D)ems do it, but the questions are still valid.
Where is APOC? Where’s the investigation? It really is (D)ifferent when they do it.
Yes, the Anchorage leftists are really going to get it this time! They’ll probably only win 2 to 1 instead of 5 to 1!
Anchorage is an extension of California now, sounds like lol no wonder we are sinking in dept and are not able to balance a budget, let alone get our PFD..
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