His constant runs for office have made him a spoiler candidate. Project management consultant Anna Brawley has raised and spent close to the same amount, at $35,150 and $9,690, respectively. therefore, 15 . Former Student Board of Regent Joey Sweet was appointed to fill the remainder of his term. Im very historically savvy, I know a lot of history. Quinn-Davidson was appointed Anchorage Mayor in October of 2020 following the effective resignation of former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz. Enrollment ('17-'18) 47,588 students. Hes a registered Republican and a political newcomer, having voted in his first municipal election in 2022. Dayton Keliikipi has filed to represent Midtown. And on top of the $4,620 reported to APOC as expenses, the campaign also lists $14,448 in debts, much of it having gone to the Ship Creek Group for campaign management. In 2020, Rivera, a registered Democrat, came within 179 votes of losing to Save Anchorage candidate Christine Hill. This Q&A is part of a broader candidate survey by the Anchorage Daily News. Day in Session. is a measure which would eliminate parking minimums within the municipality. All rights reserved. Im running for office because theres more work to be done, she said in an emailed statement. THE ANCHORAGE ASSEMBLY RESOLVES: 17 . All rights reserved. Loring said he is retired and that he has a strong interest in education and is currently doing research to write a book about the Anchorage School District. What are your thoughts on how the topic of racism and its history in the United States should be taught in public schools? Taylor is a longtime Anchorage resident and has been a stay-at-home mother of her five children for the last 30 years, according to her website. Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage, JBER soldier dies after bear attack during training in Anchorage, Native organizations win $35M grant to bring broadband home, Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Sullivan seeks hearings on lab-leak COVID origin theory, Bronson aims to pay contractor millions for work on nixed homeless shelter, without Assembly approval. Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance did not file to run for reelection. The election will be held on April 5, 2022. Bronga served on the Scenic Foothills Community Council for 10 years and is registered Undeclared. Im running for re-election so that I can keep working for the people of East Anchorage, Dunbar said in an emailed statement. Darden split votes with moderate Rep. Jason Grenn, helping Republican Sara Rasmussen win the seat. Darden is registered with the pro-secessionist, Midtown lost parts of Dimond, Airport Heights, and Fireweed. When Allard left her Eagle River-Chugiak Assembly seat to go to Juneau, Arlington was one of 10 who. Sloan is a school choice and parents rights advocate. What do you see as the most effective strategies to address homelessness in Anchorage going forward? Section 1. I would return the Sullivan, among the longest-running COVID-19 shelters in the U.S., to the people. This year, five Assembly seats and two school board seats are up for election. If you have any comments or tips please contact me at [email protected]. Meet the 2023 Candidates for Anchorage Assembly, North Anchorage gained parts of Russian Jack, Wonder Park, Ptarmigan, Fireweed, and Spenard (see, is running for his third and final term. 18 . Vazquez was a Republican Alaska State House representative for District 22 from 2015 to 2016. Sec. In 2020, Rivera, a registered Democrat, came within 179 votes of losing to Save Anchorage candidate. The filing deadline for this election was January 28, 2022 . Find your Assembly District and contact the me mbers that represent you . (Photo: Belloni Photography, provided by candidate) The Anchorage Daily News asked candidates for. More than half of the seats on the Anchorage Assembly are up for election this April, and just two incumbents are seeking reelection. Finally, I would seek to reduce panhandling and illegal camping preventing the homeless from using established resources. I would work to clean up our downtown by improving public safety and promoting the tourism industry. Myers also filed to fill the remainder of Allards term in January. District 2 - Seat A - Eagle River/Chugiak. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media . My platform that Im running on, Id like to help Anchorage get better, he said. Lost parts of Arctic and Spenard; gained the Bayshore/Klatt area (see, Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson, who won a special election in 2018 and. Rivera was Chair of the Assembly at the start of the pandemic, and now chairs the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. Rate how the Anchorage School District has handled the pandemic, and why? In the five other races, candidates with moderate to progressive views are receiving the support of outgoing Assembly members, liberal politicians, union groups, and are broadly campaigning to keep the bodys majority intact. Two candidates have filed to fill the remaining two years of Dunbars term: former teacher Karen Bronga and Leigh Sloan, a conservative school choice and parents rights advocate. Wesley Early, Alaska Public Media - Anchorage, Officials warn against moose-pet encounters on Kenai Peninsula, Alaska News Nightly: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Sullivan seeks hearings on lab-leak COVID origin theory, Bronson aims to pay contractor millions for work on nixed homeless shelter, without Assembly approval. , he will be competing in a district that is roughly 50% different from his previous one. Williams frequently attends and testifies as assembly meetings. He serves as the Alaska representative for the REALTOR Political Action Committee (RPAC). Her rival, political campaign consultant Leigh Sloan, has collected a single $250 donation. To represent West Anchorage,. Scott Meyers, who filed for the Eagle River seat, is an associate broker with Remax in Eagle River. Brawley plans to run for a West Anchorage Assembly seat in April. John Trueblood is a project manager at Steelhead Communications, a telecommunications company. Both Brawley and Flynn have raised around $40,000 while Darden has not reported raising any money. Bellamy is currently school board president. She had previously announced her intent to run for a South Anchorage Assembly seat but has since decided to run for school board instead. Ries has amassed $16,595 in donations, almost all of it from individual givers, and has spent $4,252. Whats your vision for public education in Anchorage? Dustin Darden is a perennial candidate who has unsuccessfully run for U.S. Senate, the Legislature, Anchorage mayor and the Assembly numerous times. Darin Colbry had initially filed for LaFrances seat, but he withdrew his name on Monday. He has been endorsed by Assemblyman Pete Petersen and several labor unions. He is a private pilot and works as the chief operating officer of Kakivik Asset Management and CCI Industrial, according to his website. Campaign website: sulteforanchorage.com Black board He has also served on public safety, and the Girdwood Board of Supervisors. Editors note: Mikel Insalaco is a former employee of Alaska Public Media. Zachary Johnson is a former pilot with the Alaska State Troopers. His wife, Rachelle Algers, is the director of the purchasing department under Mayor, . The last day for candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot will be Tuesday, Feb. 1. View the full survey here. In January 2023, with the question of Feinstein's re-election decision still up in the air, Democratic U.S. Representative Katie Porter announced she would run for Senate. Kameron Perez-Verdia is running for a second term as a district representative for West Anchorage . Also, what are your thoughts on what took place on Jan. 6, 2021 in the U.S. Capitol? Throughout last week, the Alaska Division of Elections continued to tally ballots for State elections. Right now there are, Man charged in 1994 sexual abuse cold case. Seat K, the South Anchorage seat on the ballot, is held by Assembly Chair Suzanne LaFrance, who. He is also on the board of the Hillside Community Council. The candidates who have filed to run for the seat are Cliff Baker, Rob Forbes, Tasha Hotch, Robin Phillips, Stephanie Taylor and Daniel Volland. Danger is a former professional wrestler, actor, stunt man, and former union operating engineer. Then they, unlike everyone else were without representation and so my neighbors organized a campaign and effort to move the charter amendment, and voters significantly approved it.. 2022 Anchorage Assembly Candidate: Darin Colbry, 2022 Anchorage Assembly Candidate: John Weddleton, Anchorages IMAX movie theater spared from bankruptcy closure for now, Anchorage VA clinic named for pioneering female Army colonel, How an accident turned this skier into a force for good | INDIE ALASKA. Anna Brawley and Brian Flynn both filed last week to run for the open West Anchorage District 3. Under the new district lines, Ries would have beat Lessens by 280 votes. Whats your vision for improving and diversifying Anchorages economy? Sloan has supported several Bronson-backed candidates including Stephanie Taylor. The Special Municipal Election is on June 21, and mail-in ballots will be mailed to qualified North Anchorage voters, no later than 21 days before election day. All rights reserved. I would look to capitalize on Anchorage International Airports global draw in freight and passengers air travel, as well as look to the future of a potential northwest passage through the Arctic where Anchorage could play a significant role. Flynn is backed by Bronson and was an active member of the right-wing group Save Anchorage until he filed. [Chugach State Park has been loved to death. A ballot proposition aims to address longstanding problems.]. Dunbar, the current Assembly member for Seat H, is seeking a third term. Brongas community work focuses on safer neighborhoods, implementing traffic-calming measures to dangerous streets and trail connectivity. Weddleton is the incumbent Assembly member for Seat J and is seeking a third term. Anna Brawley is a project manager with Anchorage-based Agnew Beck Consulting. Flynn is sitting on a lot of that cash, having only spent $10,654 to date, giving him a sizable war chest for the last leg of the campaign, when outreach to voters ramps up as mail ballots begin arriving at peoples homes. is to promote and solicit donations for the election of pro-REALTOR candidates who understand and support their interests. Quinn-Davidson was appointed Anchorage Mayor in October of 2020 following the effective resignation of former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz. You can read each candidates response in the links below. April 5, 2022. How would you address it? Perez-Verdia, a current Assembly member, was elected to Seat D in 2019 and is seeking a second term. 13 . Whats the single most important issue facing the Anchorage School District? Though the district has a third candidate running, Dustin Darden, he has reported no campaign income. I ran for office on a platform of putting people before politics. The Anchorage Assembly has lost its way and forgotten who they are there to serve; their constituents and not each other. Ballot Drop Box at the Loussac Library during the regular municipal election on Monday, April 6, 2020. There are 18 people running for seven open Assembly seats, and the only incumbents are Midtown Anchorage Assembly member Felix Rivera and North Anchorage Assembly member Chris Constant.. In West Anchorage, candidate Brian Flynn has raised more money in the race to take over the seat currently held by Austin Quinn-Davidson, who is not seeking reelection. She serves as President of the Turnagain Community Council President and is Chair of Anchorages Budget Advisory Commission. Anchorage School Board members Andy Holleman and Dave Donley are both running for reelection. In the race to represent downtown, incumbent Assembly member Constant is running for a third term, has raised nearly $30,000. The polarization of the Assembly has produced unproductive contention, hindering its ability to serve and represent the people of Anchorage effectively. Two seats on the Anchorage School District school board in Alaska were up for general election on April 5, 2022. Keliipiki has begun to build a website which appears mostly copied from Arizona Congressional Candidate Alex Stovall, which you can read about. Contact us online or give us a call at (907) 365-8600 with any questions or obtain a price quote for this vehicle. Trueblood is a registered Republican. He has been removed from assembly chambers several times for creating disturbances. According to APOC, his only political donation on record is to Stephanie Taylor, a conservative backed by Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson and the Mountain City Church (formerly known as the Anchorage Baptist Temple), who ran against now-State Sen. Forrest Dunbar for his Eastside Assembly seat. Is the Anchorage School District currently doing a good job of retaining quality teachers? 6 min read. For general questions regarding Municipal vacancy announcements or the employment process with the Municipality of Anchorage, applicants may contact the Human Resources Department at (907) 343-4447 during regular business hours of Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Alaska Time. The Anchorage Assembly will hold its regular meeting Tuesday night. LaFrance, a registered nonpartisan, won reelection in 2020 by fewer than 400 votes. Anchorage has vote-by-mail elections, and registered voters should expect ballots to arrive roughly three weeks before the election. Who are your Assembly Members? He has held other leadership roles and won various awards during his real estate career. Additionally, Brawley served as President of the Turnagain Community Council and Chair of the Anchorage Budget Advisory Commission. Anchorage Assembly Candidates District 1 - Seat B - North Anchorage Danger, Nick - Filed 1/25/2023 Trueblood, John - Filed 1/26/2023 Constant, Christopher - Filed 1/13/2023 District 2 - Seat C - Chugiak, Eagle River, JBER Branson, Roger - Filed 1/27/2023 - Withdrawn 1/30/2023 Arlington, Jim - Filed 1/27/2023 As no candidate received at least 45% of the vote in the first round, the two candidates with the highest vote share, Forrest Dunbar and Dave Bronson, advanced to a runoff on May 11. Her current term ends in 2025. Meyers moved to Alaska from Oregon in 2012. Explain. Wehmhoff is a longtime resident of the Eagle River-Chugiak area, and briefly served as a member of the assembly member before, filling a vacancy in 2018-19 by former member and current Municipal Manager Amy Demboski. Karen Bronga filed on Sunday to run for the East Anchorage seat that will be vacated by Forrest Dunbar. She did not run in the 2021 mayoral election and returned to the Assembly in July, 2021 after Bronson took office. Meyers moved to Alaska from Oregon in 2012. Mar 16, 2022 We get tons of calls asking who are the conservative candidates running for School Board and The Anchorage Assembly, here they are.. School Board Seat A - Mark Anthony Cox School Board Seat B - Rachel Ries Assembly Seat 2-A Eagle River/Chugiak - Kevin Cross Assembly Seat 3-D - Liz Vazquez Assembly Seat 4-F - Kathy Henslee I promised to do the work, to stay engaged with constituents and to focus on problems and solutions, not politics, he said on his campaign website. Ballots are in the mail. , Danger didnt raise a single cent in his State House race. 2022 Anchorage Daily News. The sum of NTE SEVENTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED 14 SEVENTY DOLLARS ($17,470) from the Anchorage Bowl Parks & Recreation 15 Service Area Capital Improvement Projects Fund (461800) is hereby appropriated 16 as transfers to the Anchorage Bowl Parks & Recreation Service Area 2022 The second seat was held by Assemblyman Pete Petersen for three terms. His wife, Rachelle Algers, is the director of the purchasing department under Mayor Bronson. 10 11 . This new Blue 2023 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Crew Cab Short Box 4-Wheel Drive LT 1LT with a 2.7L Turbo engine engine and automatic transmission is for sale at Chevrolet of South Anchorage. Loring ran for school board Seat F in the 2021 election, and lost with 3,345 votes. The two candidates challenging Constant are Nick Danger and John Trueblood. Ries ran unsuccessfully for the Anchorage School Board in 2021, losing with 42% of the vote to incumbent Kelly Lessens. He is a Local 302 operating engineer and previously said that he wanted to bring a conservative, Christian, working-man viewpoint to the Assembly. What is the most important problem facing Anchorage? The math for veto override doesnt change because the charter states its two-thirds. All rights reserved. Moores only outside donation is $5,000 from Crystal Hoffman, wife of Ron Hoffman, the head pastor of Mountain City Church. Their opponents are running to challenge the status quo, championing right-leaning political causes, and receiving endorsements and donations from conservative activists, politicians and groups. Ries is a first-time candidate for office. Reach him at [email protected]. I was also very pleased to see him hold an unruly citizen (who was actually in support of him) accountable for their behavior at a recent Assembly meeting. was elected for a full term in 2020, will not be running for reelection. Grip over the Assembly near that big News this week ' s who s! Petersen is termed out and retiring. I am excited for the opportunity to step up and work for my community, Brawley said in announcing her candidacy last week. Scroll further down for answers from individual candidates. I would like to see Anchorage and Chugiak-Eagle River continue to grow together in a very symbiotic relationship, but I think its time for the Chugiak-Eagle River region to separate and become its own community, she said. 12 . All rights reserved. Former teacher and first-time candidate Karen Bronga has raised $21,306, most of it from small donors, with a mix of meatier contributions from former and current elected officials. Di Grappa is the head of philanthropy and community relations for the Food Bank of Alaska, while Szanto owns and operates Skyworks LLC, a carpentry company. 6 candidates running for Anchorages 12th assembly seat, The Anchorage Special Municipal Election is a little more than a month away. Her work includes modernizing alcohol licensing laws and zoning improvements like removing excess parking requirements. Flynn and Algers own a coffee shop together, and Flynn considers himself a fiscal conservative. According to. Whats your vision for improving and diversifying Anchorages economy? What I will bring to the Anchorage Assembly is being a staunch watchdog and holding everyone accountable to the same ruleset, being open and transparent to the public, and limiting the ordinances instead of having 50 page ordinances, 50 word ordinances, he said. And those meetings just scratch the surface. Jamie Allard was elected to the state House in November. Alaska Public Media 2022. One of his challengers, John Trueblood, has reported raising $100, which he gave himself in cash. Alaska Public Media 2022. Stephens is a lifelong Alaskan. Karen Bronga taught for the Anchorage School District for 20 years and now works part time as a research associate for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium. Danger is a former union operating engineer. Colbry said that he can bring knowledge to the assembly about the issue surrounding people experiencing homelessness from an inside perspective. What is a short summary of your background? It was renamed the North Anchorage district. Taylor has lived in Anchorage for 50 years. Ballots will be mailed at least 21 days before election day. She is a founder of ASD60, a parent organization and advocacy group that started a pilot program in the school district to increase physical activity and time for eating. I have consistently brought forward policies that benefit the residents of Anchorage.. This story has been updated to reflect Roger Branson, Cody Anderson and Darin Colbry withdrawing their names from the election. Zaletel defeated a recall petition against her last fall by a wide margin. When Allard left her Eagle River-Chugiak Assembly seat to go to Juneau, Arlington was one of 10 who applied to fill the remainder of her term (Robin Dern was selected). Current leadership had created a loss of our talented workforce that no longer wishes to call Anchorage their home. Felix Rivera and Christopher Constant will both be running for re-election. Cox ran for Seat B on the Anchorage School Board last year and lost. Wesley Early covers municipal politics and Anchorage life for Alaska Public Media. FLE - Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip Dilbert, poses for a portrait with the Dilbert character in his studio in Dublin, Calif., Oct. 26, 2006. Ries ran unsuccessfully for Anchorage School Board in 2022. is a Planner and Project Manager with Agnew Beck Consulting. The municipal election will be held on Tuesday April 5. A blend of a public and private partnership is needed that adopts ideas and programs with proven track records from successful cities. North Anchorage gained parts of Russian Jack, Wonder Park, Ptarmigan, Fireweed, and Spenard (see article). Already he has spent more than $17,000 on a mix of campaign management, events and supplies. Rivera was Chair of the Assembly at the start of the pandemic, and now chairs the Committee on Housing and Homelessness. Lessens, who was elected last year to fill the remainder of a resigning members term, faces three challengers. The race to serve out the remaining two years in the east-side district vacated by now-state Sen. Forrest Dunbar is comparably one-sided in terms of fundraising. Danger often discusses crime, supports a city, , and is critical of the current Assembly. I want to be both a new voice for East Anchorage and an attentive ear for all of Anchorage.. 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