Yesterday we posted the list of candidates for Anchorage municipal offices endorsed by the socially conservative Alaska Family Council. In fairness, we thought we’d post the recently released endorsements for the LGBT rights group Alaskans Together For Equality.
Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz is taking strong objection to work being done in Juneau by state legislators. In the wake of several proposals by lawmakers to cut the state budget including shifting public employee retirement costs to local governments and ending municipal revenue sharing the normally affable Mayor has appeared on several tv and radio outlets to offer harsh criticism of their work.
The new map, as you will see, does not show a close and competitive general election. The Republicans now find themselves in a deep hole.
The Alaska Family Council this morning sent out an email endorsing three candidates in Anchorage Assembly races: Adam Trombley, Amy Demboski, and Treg Taylor.
he kerfuffle we posted about yesterday between Alaskan Bernie Sanders supporter Levi Younger and Alaska Democratic Party superdelegate Kim Metcalfe over her support for Hillary Clinton has taken to twitter.
Levi Younger, from Eagle River, Alaska, is a recent political science graduate who caucused last Saturday with thousands of other Alaskans. Younger recently reached out to superdelegate Kim Metcalfe on Facebook, asking her to side with her state and support Sanders at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Metcalfe, who is listed on the Alaska Democratic Party website as the state’s national committeewoman since 2012, cavalierly told Younger she would be supporting Hillary Clinton, due to her “negative†conversations with Sanders supporters.
It is one week from election day in the Municipality of Anchorage and what I know is Terre Gales is going to lose and lose badly to Forrest Dunbar.
Frankly that is a shame. It shouldn’t have been, and didn’t need to be that way.
On Saturday the Democrat faithful turned out in big numbers across the state to participate in their party’s caucus. Media reports of the event, including this one from Devin Kelly of the Alaska Dispatch News, do an excellent job of telling you who won and what the atmosphere was like. What they don’t tell you are all the politically relevant details of what happened as the day unfolded.
That is where The Midnight Sun steps in. Here are 10 things that happened at the caucuses you probably haven’t read about.
Ruedrich taken off the job, the Legislature thinks they’ve won, and AK GOP convention drama begins. It’s Friday in the Sun!!!!
; Just days before the Alaska Democratic Party’s Caucus on March 26th, Hillary Clinton has announced her core of high-profile Alaska supporters. She says it…