By TIM BARTO
A campaign sign in Eagle River that promotes “Yes on Ballot Measure 2” was vandalized over the weekend, while a nearby sign for candidate Kelly Merrick remained untouched.
But former House Rep. Ken McCarty keeps an eye on such things in the Eagle River/Chugiak area. In fact, when a recent windstorm knocked over a Yes on 2 sign, McCarty called on some friends, who fixed it and used sandbags to securely stand it back up.
Over the weekend, the sign, which sits at the busy intersection of Old Glenn Highway and North Eagle River Access Road, was back on the ground despite an almost complete lack of wind in the area. Close inspection found the support legs were damaged, indicating someone forcibly pushed it over.
McCarty is going to repair and reinforce the sign to get it back up and help support Ballot Measure 2, which seeks to rid our state of ranked-choice voting.
McCarty is not unfamiliar with vandalism to campaign signs in what is typically a very low crime community. Prior to August’s jungle primary, while he was still in the Senate race with Jared Goecker, one of his signs and one of Goecker’s signs were damaged. Goecker is running against Merrick, while McCarty has dropped out after the primary election. The two of them got together and, in the spirit of friendly competition and party unity, they helped repair each other’s signs.
A couple years ago, McCarty took the initiative to put up some signs calling out those who opted to collect unemployment compensation instead of looking for honest work. The signs included a telephone number for employers to call if they offered able-bodied people a job that said able-bodied person turned down. The message was evidently too much for the so-called paragons of tolerance to tolerate, so they vandalized the signs, leaving spray-painted anarchist symbols as their calling card.
Acts of sign vandalism and theft occur each campaign season, but all the incidents described above occurred against conservative candidates and principles, all of which fits neatly with the Left’s intent to squelch speech they dislike and candidates they oppose.
With all their voiced concerns about saving democracy at the national level, the Left has coalesced around a presidential candidate who received her party’s nomination without receiving a single primary vote. With all their leftist protestations that speech they find offensive is, to them, actual violence, it is they who excused, if not outright supported violence by egging on the Black Lives Matter riots during the 2020 election cycle. It is the Let that embraces the lawlessness of ignorant college students who spray paint buildings and shut down their own campuses to show their support of Hamas terrorists and the raping and killing of Jews.
At the state level, the Left rallies public school students to shout and create disorder inside the state Capitol in order to show their support for increased spending for failing schools.
On the local level – at least in Eagle River – they display their tolerance by damaging signs of those with whom they disagree.
Ken McCarty and his friends have not only repaired the damaged Yes on 2 sign, but they are proving their resilience by installing a few more in Eagle River and around Anchorage. It takes that type of perseverance to win against $7.8 million in Outside dark money pouring into state media from the other side.
Tim Barto is a regular contributor to Must Read Alaska, and vice president at Alaska Family Council.
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
Wrong. First of all they are not “liberals.” They are leftists (communists). On average, they are more intelligent than conservatives. Think, okies, rednecks, etc. What they have is a moral deficiency. Choosing between integrity and intelligence, one is far better with integrity (intelligence is not even a virtue). In other words, we are far better being stupid with integrity than smart without it.
When you think of these points, you can see why Democrats (leftists) find it so easy to cheat in elections, use lawfare to attack their opponents, murder unborn children, disrespect taxpayers, wage illegal wars, promote anarchy, etc, etc, etc. Conservatives do not cheat, they can only win elections by the hand of God. Therefore, pray, my friend, pray.
Wrong. First of all they are not “liberals.” They are leftists (communists). On average, they are more intelligent than conservatives. Think, okies, rednecks, etc. What leftists have is a moral deficiency. Choosing between integrity and intelligence, one is far better with integrity (intelligence is not even a virtue). In other words, we are far better being stupid with integrity than smart without it.
When you think of these points, you can see why Democrats (leftists) find it so easy to cheat in elections, use lawfare to attack their opponents, murder unborn children, disrespect taxpayers, wage illegal wars, promote anarchy, etc, etc, etc. Conservatives do not cheat, they can only win elections by the hand of God. Therefore, pray, my friend, pray.
Thanks for all your help Ken as well as being unselfish and letting another candidate take the reins.
Your actions speaks volumes about the integrity it takes to keep RINO’s like Merrick home with her union hubby planning ways to spend the PFD cash.
Keep up the good work on the signs because the vandalism will get worse as the left flushes itself toward the septic.
Merrick and her crew illegally trespassed onto our property and in our yard after being asked to respect our private property signs. She and several members of her crew were witnessed leaving her campaign fliers on the driveways at the edge of the road of everyone on our street … which I believe is called littering.
Merrick please go run a campaign in a liberal city where people will believe you when you “identify” as a conservative but vote differently. Oh wait. That’s happening here.
Wake up Eagle River and Chugiak. This woman is not to be trusted.
I witnessed the Merrick crew (young children) running, yes literally running from house-to-house dropping flyers at the door of each home in my neighborhood. Glad to know that I’m not the only one that is sick and tired of the Merrick cowardly style of campaign.
Sounds like voter intimidation.
<—– Tips Hat…Thank you Ken … always #1st Class
I guess they don’t understand how this makes them look Democraps need to grow up People are getting tired of the crap, Stop cheating and lying and see who really wins at the ballet box
Leftists are just toddlers with better vocabulary.
When they hear something they do not like, they throw a tantrum and try to prevent anyone else from hearing the message.
Ahhh election season.
When the human populace get to hate everything and unite on things unimportant.
This is the best time for the dark ones to do dark deeds all while the voters are too busy squabbling with each other to notice anything else except for “the current thing”.
Sheep, so easily driven mad by subjects that don’t have any real merit other than towards materialism.
Keep it up, sleeping humanity, for the more you are distracted, the easier it is to take over your planet and enslave the minds of your children. Keep it up, vote for those you hate the least and continue this everlasting game of political division. The longer you remain divided, the more powerful your masters become.
You can vote yourselves into tyranny, but you can’t vote yourselves out of it.
What a beautiful game to watch, as humanity has become the snake eating its own tail, thinking they are being nourished, but only to find they are feeding on their own self destruction.
“…too busy squabbling with each other to notice anything else except for “the current thing”.”
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How is that different than any other day, in any other year, during any other century of recorded human history?
CBMTTek,
I suppose I just find it all very humorous. We are at the most advanced state of our technological progression. We all have access to a tremendous amount of information in the palms of our hands. We can direct our own consciousness evolution and explore the depths of our souls with the help of others through digital communications. We have the ability master our bodies and health. Yet, the masses still think voting is going to solve all the problems, if they can just keep their team in power.
I thought by now humanity would have woken up in mass and broke out of the same cycles of destruction and rebuilding and actually advance to the next level of our existence. I see some individuals have done so, but humanity as a whole, still sleeps.
I guess they are addicted to the same drug of hate, blame and victimhood.
Fascinating behavior.
I can’t help but think of “bear baiting” when I read about these sorts of things.
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