In his official statement, printed on the ballot that aims to recall him in the April 6 election, Anchorage Assembly Chairman Felix Rivera used his 200-word allotment to lambast his opponents as anti-science bullies who want to overturn his election from last spring.
After a year in which Anchorage’s economy has been decimated by highly controversial COVID mandates and forced business closures, which he supported, Rivera said he has “been working hard for you every day and getting results.”
Specifically, Rivera claims he has worked to revitalize Anchorage’s economy, clean up homeless camps and rebuild the city’s police force. It’s not clear what he means by “getting results,” as the economy has tanked while homelessness and vagrancy increasingly plague neighborhoods and parks throughout the city.
Rivera approved using COVID relief funds to pay for new recreation trails.
Rivera’s four-paragraph statement veers into speculation about why his opponents want him ousted.
“The group behind this effort includes my opponent from last year’s election and people opposed to science-based efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. They are trying to overturn last year’s election and intimidate Anchorage into abandoning efforts which have saved lives and preserved hospital capacity,” he asserts.
Rivera highlights his “hard” work in “effectively” disbursing millions of federal relief dollars to area residents affected by the economic fallout of COIVD policies.
Last summer, Rivera was behind an attempt to use tens of millions in federal coronavirus relief funds to buy long planned for buildings for homeless projects. He also approved using COVID funds to pay for building new recreation trails.
Rivera ends his statement by claiming that he “worked to ensure that our (Assembly) meetings were open to the public” and gave residents “a meaningful voice in your local government.”
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Last year, the Assembly faced a lawsuit from concerned citizens who claimed the Assembly’s ban on in-person participation violated the people’s right to assembly and free speech. The suit came after the Rivera-chaired Assembly decided to continue meeting in person – allowing municipal employees and invited guests into the Assembly Chambers – while locking the doors to the public.
During closed meetings in August, the Assembly only allowed telephonic participation while it proceeded to pass highly controversial measures such as approving a chief equity officer and banning counseling for youth who have unwanted same-sex attraction. The Assembly rejected a proposal by Assemblywoman Jamie Allard to allow just one member of the public into the building at a time. This decision came even though Anchorage residents were still free to shop all about town at the time.
More than 220,000 ballots were mailed to Anchorage voters on March 15. They have until April 6 to return the ballots. Rivera is the assemblyman for District 4. Last year he received 5,499 votes to narrowly defeat Christine Hill who earned 5,320 votes.
In seeking to put Rivera on the recall ballot, organizers garnered more than 5,000 votes from District 4 residents.
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I just love a good laugh on Monday. The left only uses science if it can be used to benefit them. Otherwise they conveniently ignore it. So now ‘science’, even Rivera’s very loose grasp of it, is foremost. But of course, in other situations where science indeed upholds the obvious, hence must be ignored because for the purposes of the left leaning, unborn babies are simply blobs of tissue to be conveniently removed as, and when, needed, and what the heck are chromosomes but meaningless ‘instructions’ that absolutely determine things like gender ……. definitely can ignore science there, right?
Then example hermaphroditism when it comes to gender. You’ve embarrassed yourself.
And like clockwork the leftist immediately goes to the biological outlier. That a rare condition that affects 0.02%-0.05% somehow proves their belief that people who are fully and clearly male or female can become the other sex. You are insane.
More Swamp Creatures that need to go
Like I’ve said before anchorage is turning blue so fast. The burning building are next
Unless we vote this Loser out, plus we need a real conservative as mayor in the next April election
True hermaphrodite is one of the rarest variety of disorders of sexual differentiation (DSD) ….
Rivera and the rest of the liberal swamp creatures on the Anchorage assembly must all be recalled and resoundingly at the ballot to thwart any and all aspirations of running for public office ever again. What an absolute embarrassment to society they are!!!
All the ‘science’ in the world does NOT supersede the constitutionally protected rights of the individual citizen, which are paramount in the face of mortality. Seems the ones who parrot ‘science’ the most are the most illiterate. Obscenities like Rivera have deferred our liberties in totality – with open proclamation – to unelected entities like the CDC (a specialized department of public service NOT A REPRESENTATIVE) without FIRST deferring to the principles of our protected liberties and their own oaths to that end. A short term infraction is tolerable in the name of the ‘unknown’. At this point, it has become despotic abuse. Unforgivably.
Mr. Rivera, where does the ‘science’ show that quarantining a healthy population slows the spread of a disease?
Homosexuals are a disease released upon society by Satan. You can beat the wuhan flu but you can’t beat homosexuality it must be cut from society with a knife! Like a cancer!