Several conservative candidates for Anchorage Assembly are distancing their campaigns from Mayor Dave Bronson, while some more aligned with the Assembly’s majority say they will work to leave bitterness behind.
“There’s a potential for a sea change here,” Ries said.
“It’s going to be a new Assembly this spring, one way or another,” said Johnson, a former officer and pilot with the Alaska State Troopers. He’s volunteered as a firefighter/EMT with Girdwood Volunteer Fire and Rescue and he served in the Marine Corps, including two deployments to Iraq.
“I’m hoping we can get a little bit more balance to the Assembly. I hate to say ‘balance’ because it seems like every candidate says it,” Trueblood said. “... I’m new to it all. But I’m learning that it’s very one-sided.”“But I would be the opposite of my candidate that I’m running against. Whatever is, I would be opposite,” Trueblood said.is running against Moore for member Pete Petersen’s seat, who’s reached his three-term limit.
“That is the stewardship and responsibility of the legislative branch in the face of what we’re seeing from a dysfunctional executive, by all accounts,” Martinez said.
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