Posted by Editorial Staff on March 31, 2014 · 13 Comments
The editors of The Mudflats don’t always agree, but this time we’re unanimous. What we agree upon most of all is that everyone must get out to vote tomorrow, Tuesday, April 1. Local elections are the most important, and least well attended. This one is particularly critical, so no excuses. Here’s your down and dirty voter guide. Anchorage Assembly Races East Side Adam Trombley vs. Pete Petersen vs. Mao Tosi Trombley has rallied the troops at the Anchorage Tea Party “Day of Resistance,” spent most of his time trying to distance himself from an increasingly unpopular Mayor who hand-selected him…
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Category Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Police Department, Anchorage School Board, Anchorage School District, APOC, Education, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Labor, LGBT, Municipality of Anchorage, Public Safety, Republicans, Vitamin Democracy · Tags Adam Trombley for Assembly, Anchorage 2014 ballot propositions, Anchorage bond measures, Anchorage muni voter guide, Bill Evans for Assembly, Bill Starr for Assembly, Bruce Dougherty for Assembly, Don Smith School Board, Elvi Gray Jackson for Assembly, Kameron Perez-Verdia for School Board, Mao Tosi for Assembly, Mudflats voter guide, Patrick Flynn for Assembly, Patrick Higgins School Board, Pete Nolan for Assembly, Pete Petersen for Assembly, Sharon Gibbons for Assembly, Tim Steele for Assembly
Posted by Jeanne Devon on March 28, 2014 · 9 Comments
US Senate hopeful Dan Sullivan (R-OH–>DC–>AK) has decided to boost his nonexistent Alaska cred by campaign-branding the most traumatic event in Anchorage history. In addition to slapping his logo on the Good Friday Quake, Dan pours on the “we remember.” Given that the quake hit our city roughly 8 months before Sullivan’s birth in Ohio, his precocious, in-utero grasp of geological phenomena like the shifting of tectonic plates must have been impressive. The actual Alaskan in the Senate race shows our visitor from Ohio/DC how it’s done: Translation: “There’s no need to explicitly remind you I was born and raised here….
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Mark Begich, Municipality of Anchorage, Ohio Dan Sullivan, Republicans, Voting · Tags Alaska, Dan Sullivan, Election 2014, Good Friday Earthquake, Mark Begich, midterms, US Senate
Posted by Editorial Staff on March 27, 2014 · 13 Comments
Anchorage School Board Seat D Before we horrify you senseless, we’ll start off with the good news. This one is going to be really easy for you when you stand in the voting booth. The things you read below might even GET you to the voting booth if you were thinking about sitting out the Municipal election on April 1. We give you incumbent Kameron Perez-Verdia vs. Don Smith. Kameron Perez-Verdia has an extensive resume of working in education, especially with high-risk children. He was appointed in a contentious process last year that was documented on The Mudflats. His pragmatism….
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Category Alaska, Anchorage School Board, Anchorage School District, Bang it, Education, Election 2014, Elections, Headlines, Make it explode, Municipality of Anchorage, Voting, Your Head · Tags Daysha Eaton, Don Smith Anchorage School Board, Kameron Perez-Verdia School Board, Pat Higgins School Board, Running Anchorage
Posted by Linda Kellen Biegel on March 26, 2014 · 25 Comments
This post originally appeared on Mudflats April 2, 2013 just before last year’s Municipal election that gave us our current, improved Anchorage School Board…one that does not include Don Smith and DOES include Kameron Perez-Verdia. It came about as the result of a tainted appointment process (to replace a Board member who resigned). The man they originally chose was known personally by members of the Board, who did not reveal their conflict. He was also a former VECO executive who personally paid bribes to the “Corrupt Bastards” group. Some quotes: . — “In his application for consideration for the empty…
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Category Alaska, Anchorage School Board, Anchorage School District, Baffle it, Bang it, Corrupt Bastards Club, Election 2013, Headlines, Municipality of Anchorage, Native issues, Teabaggery · Tags Bettye Davis, Don Smith, Kameron Perez-Verdia, Natasha Rasmuson Von Imhof, Thomas Corkran
Posted by Editorial Staff on February 19, 2014 · 10 Comments
******UPDATE FEB 20th 11:55 PM****** Yesterday, Ma’o Tosi appeared on Dave Stieren’s KFQD radio show. During the course of the interview, Stieren asked him about his tax issues. Tosi assured him everything was fine: “…Our CPA has filed the extensions for our taxes within the non-profit so those aren’t issues as far as filing…” Really? When LKB spoke to Mrs. Somebody at the IRS (after being on hold seemingly forever) she was very thorough in questioning her about “extensions” and the rules involving 990s. According to the IRS: A) A non-profit’s 990 is due the 15th day of the 5th…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Mayoral Race, APOC, Education, Election 2014, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Municipality of Anchorage, Republicans, Skulduggery, Strategery, Voting · Tags 501(c)(3), 990, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Pride, Anchorage Assembly, APOC complaint, IRS, Ma'o Tosi, Pete Petersen for Assembly, Rick Mystrom
Posted by Jeanne Devon on February 5, 2014 · 13 Comments
Republican US Senate candidate Dan Sullivan has an interesting way of showing “respect” for women. For the past two weeks, Anchorage Assembly member and stalwart women’s advocate Elvi Gray-Jackson has been getting concerned phone calls from constituents about the use of a photograph captured at a “Choose Respect” rally—intended to highlight the issues of domestic violence and sexual assault that plague the state in record numbers. The event had nothing to do with the upcoming election. So what is Elvi Gray-Jackson doing with a Republican behind a giant banner advertising his senate candidacy? That is exactly what Assemblywoman Jackson and many others have been wondering. Dan Sullivan likely…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Anchorage Assembly, Election 2014, Ethics, Headlines, Rallies and Events, Republicans, Strategery, Women's Issues · Tags Alaska Choose Respect, Anchorage Assembly, Dan S. Sullivan, Dan Sullivan Alaska, Elvi Gray Jackson, Sullivan for Senate
Posted by Shannyn Moore on January 26, 2014 · 1 Comment
Our governor gave his State of the Colony speech this week. In it, he tied “school reform” (by which he apparently means amending the Alaska Constitution to allow spending public money on private and religious schools) to raising the state’s contribution to each student’s education. I guess taking hostages is now Standard Operating Procedure for Republican elected officials. And even if those of us who like our constitution just the way it is were to acquiesce, Gov. Sean Parnell’s proposed “increase” in education funding wouldn’t come close to replacing what schools have lost to inflation in just the last three…
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Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 22, 2014 · 8 Comments
Oh no they di’int! It’s been quite a week for the gum-flappers, the yammerers, and the makers of opinion – some good, some bad, and some that make you just want to slam you head on the desk until they go away. Let’s dig in. Sarah Palin on Race What better way to start the week in which we celebrate civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. than with a little race baiting from our ex-half governor? Not sure if judging someone by the content of their character is really where she wants to go. Rush Limbaugh on Chris Christie…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Legislature, Alaska Politicos, Alaska Senate Race, Anchorage School District, Barack Obama, Education, Election 2014, Environment, Fish & Wildlife, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, Mead Treadwell, Municipality of Anchorage, Nation, Pebble Mine, Republicans, Sarah Palin · Tags Alaska snake, Barack Obama, Begich Pebble, Bridget Galvin, Dawn Zimmer, Joe Miller, Kasilof Snake, Limbaugh Zimmer, Lisa Murkowski, Mark Begich, No Pebble, Palin race card, Pebble Mine, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Steller Secondary School
Posted by Jeanne Devon on December 31, 2013 · 18 Comments
Since it’s two millennia plus a baker’s dozen on the calendar, we thought that it seemed appropriate to give a nod to the top 13 Mudflats stories of 2013. We noticed that six of the top 13 posts are about a certain former half governor who used to steer Alaska’s ship of state. We’re not quite sure what to make of this. We’re not ones to pat ourselves on the back, but that option is less horrifying to us than thinking that Sarah Palin is still all that important. We prefer instead to believe that she has simply morphed, devolved…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Politicos, Anchorage Assembly, Barack Obama, Economy, Elections, Good Tidings & Great Joy - the Book, Headlines, Humor, John McCain, Labor, Mat Su, Mayor Dan Sullivan, Municipality of Anchorage, Nation, Sarah Palin, Second Amendment, Todd Palin, Veterans · Tags Adam Trombley, Anchorage Assembly, Battle of the Bulge, duck dynasty, Fukuppy, Good Tidings and Great Joy, Mr. Balls, Mudflats blog, Mudflats top posts, Mudflats year in review, Palin book, phil robertson, Sarah Palin, Vince Beltrami, WWII
Posted by The Mudflats on December 23, 2013 · 12 Comments
Dan Sullivan, especially during his tenure as Mayor of Anchorage, could arguably qualify as “Dickensian.” In the past, Sullivan has funneled funds to his “friend” the “Party Planner,” made sure he got paid before he started the job, and signed a Municipal check for his family trust through a fake “insurance policy.” And that was just the first year! Scrooge would be so proud! Since then, he’s helped gut the schools by slashing the budget, lowering the tax cap and charging exorbitant fees; and caused Municipal employees to abandon city service like passengers on the Titanic, through the anti-union and…
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Category Alaska, Alaska Lt Governors Race, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage Police Department, Anchorage School District, Election 2014, Elections, Ethics, Headlines, Municipality of Anchorage, Republicans, Skulduggery, Strategery · Tags Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage Dennis Wheeler, Anchorage Mayor, Anchorage Municipality code of ethics, Blank Rome, Chambers, Conlon and Hartwell, Dan Sullivan Alaska, Dan Sullivan Dennis Wheeler, Dan Sullivan ethics, Dan Sullivan fundraiser, Dan Sullivan Lt Governor, Dennis Wheeler Municipal Attorney, Mayor Dan, Mayor Dan Sullivan