As we come to the end of our Anchorage election process, I want to encourage everyone to make sure you vote by April 6th. The future of Anchorage will be determined by who we select for mayor. Does Anchorage continue the slide towards ruin by electing one of the liberal socialists candidates? Some running for mayor actually created the crisis our city is in today, yet they now campaign on the ruse that you will believe they can fix the problems. That’s rich!
Anchorage needs strong leadership, focused on reversing the bad policies of the past six years that caused increased crime; an exploding vagrancy problem; implemented COVID mandates that crushed businesses and infringed on our personal liberties; and continued to grow the size, control, and cost of government. The time is now for Mayor Dave Bronson.
Dave’s message is “A New Direction.”
The most pressing problems facing Anchorage were caused by Assembly actions, which rejects public input and implements poor public policies, and Mayor(s) Berkowitz and Quinn-Davidson’s autocratic drive towards more government control and fewer individuals freedoms. I am voting for Dave Bronson because he is the only candidate who has a demonstrated history of successful leadership and firm commitment to an open and transparent government where the interest of the people supersedes the interest of the government. Dave has attended assembly meetings, testified against this encroachment of government into our lives, and shown leadership in changing the disastrous path liberals have been taking Anchorage. Where have the other candidates been?
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Dave’s message is “A New Direction.” That’s visionary. In just three words, Dave sums up the essence of what we need to bring Anchorage back as one of America’s premier cities. To accomplish this vison, Dave understands that we must have a robust economy. His commitment to end the excessive COVID mandates on day one shows he understands the negative impact these past twelve months of government overreach has caused to our community and will take immediate action to fix it.
We must have a clean and active downtown to once again be a vibrant city. Downtown businesses are dying while filth, crime, and rampant vagrancy is turning downtown into another downtown Seattle. Dave understands that local government must create solutions to bring back our economy. He will establish an Anchorage Economic Advisory Taskforce, comprised of diverse business leaders, to produce a plan that presents specific actions to implement which will assist those businesses hurt during the pandemic, as well as incentivize new businesses to locate in Anchorage, bringing with them new jobs and economic growth.
We cannot be an “All American City” if we remain one of the most dangerous cities in America.
Business leaders like Andy Kriner, Dave Hulquist, Matt Dimmick, Chris Fejes, and others have endorsed Dave because they are confident his leadership style and business priorities provide the right answer for returning Anchorage to prosperity.
Most people, other than a few “Defund the Police” radicals on the Assembly, recognize we have a good police force. Regardless, crime in Anchorage has been increasing, mostly caused by an executive and legislative unwillingness to confront the problems of drugs, gangs, poverty, and homelessness. One of Dave’s commitments is to hire a new police chief who has a plan for reducing crime. We cannot be an “All American City” if we remain one of the most dangerous cities in America.
These past six years we have witnessed inhuman treatment of our homeless population. Instead of working to solve the underlying reasons for homelessness, that being drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, mental health conditions, and unemployment, the city has simply been warehousing people and playing “Whack-A-Mole” with the homeless camps. Mishandling millions of dollars to buy hotels, some directly adjacent to residential areas; repurposing the Sullivan Arena to a homeless shelter; and refusing to enforce the vagrancy laws already on the books has made Anchorage a mess.
Dave will attack this problem head-on. He will enforce our laws and stop the warehousing of people. By working with non-profit, religious, and government organizations, Dave will implement a compassionate program to provide the services needed to address their underlying issues. He will no longer enable homelessness and vagrancy and will not allow homeless camps to proliferate throughout our city.
One of Dave’s strongest personal characteristics is his strong moral compass. He believes in the sanctity of life and will bring that value of caring for everyone to City Hall. While most politicians promise almost anything to get elected, Dave is the “real deal,” who will always place the highest value on the ability for everyone to reach their goals in life without government interference. Getting government out of the way to allow people to achieve their own personal excellence is an underlying principle of Dave Bronson.
He has developed his platform based on your priorities, a process he will bring to the Mayors’ Office when elected.
Government leaders recognize Dave’s uncanny ability to bring a diverse team together to create solutions to problems. Former mayors, like Rick Mystrom and Rhonda Boyles, have endorsed Dave. So has the Kenai Peninsula Borough mayor, Charlie Pierce. Former Lieutenant Governor Loran Leman endorsed Dave, as well as former state Representatives Mel Gillis and Charisse Millet. Former Anchorage Assembly members Amy Demboski, Adam Trombley, and Dan Kendall have joined me in endorsing Dave. That’s a pretty solid team committed to reversing this disastrous path the liberals have put Anchorage on towards democratic socialism.
Anchorage does not need a mayor who has “political” experience. Anchorage needs a mayor who has demonstrated leadership skills, a commitment to personal responsibility, and will create a city supporting citizenry independence from excessive government control. Unlike most candidates, Dave has spent the past eight months going door-to-door, attending community council and assembly meetings, and conducting virtual meetings to better understand your priorities. He has developed his platform based on your priorities, a process he will bring to the Mayors’ Office when elected.
Now is the time for a can-do mayor, a person with vision and a team with the experience for success. That person is Dave Bronson. For a new direction, I recommend Dave Bronson for Mayor.
17 Comments
Awesome piece Mr. Campbell! If I lived in Anchorage I would definitely be voting for Bronson. Instead we are keeping him and his family in prayer and have contributed. Anchorage needs some serious wisdom back in leadership and what happens there does have some bearing on the rest of the state. I would encourage everyone that might feel as I do to support Mr. Bronson even if you don’t live in Anchorage.
So arrest the homeless? That’s the strategy?
How about providing the services that allow them to resolve their issues instead of just feeding and warehousing them in inhuman conditions and telling ourselves that we are “compassionate” people doing a good thing. We can do better than warehousing people, like the Biden administration is doing along the southern border.
The idea of providing services to help the homeless resolve issues if possible is a good talking point, one that everyone can get behind. Most politicians support that in the abstract. But without /specific suggestions/, one must take a candidate at their word.
Candidate Bronson is on record recommending finding something to cite homeless people with, so they can be put in jail. His website is slightly more circumspect: “Those who choose to live a homeless lifestyle will not be allowed to ruin our businesses and neighborhoods. They will be removed from our parks, public streets, and our business and residential areas.”. Given the implicit Supreme Court’s support of the lower court’s ruling that homeless cannot be criminally punished for sleeping on public property, I’m curious to hear, specifically, how candidate Bronson plans to address this problem.
This hits a bit close to home for me, as I found a small homeless camp on my property far from downtown. I cleaned up and discarded of the trash, but it’s a bit unsettling.
I see these people every day. Most are homeless because they like being homeless. You offer them help, they refuse it. My all-time favorite is the guy with the sign saying “vet needs help”. I rolled down my window and offered to drive him to the VA so he can get help. He gave me an ugly look and said “just give me the f**king money”. In the almost 10 years I’ve worked in the Fairview area, I can say ONE time that I was impressed. I pulled up to work early one morning. It was snowing. A group of homeless were shoveling the sidewalk leading up to the office entrance. I got out of the truck, walked up and stopped and watched. They kept shoveling until they noticed I was standing there. I asked why were they shoveling. “We need a place to sit, so we crawled under the gate, grabbed the shovels and cleaned a spot off. We’re finishing up the sidewalk. Uh, do you work here?”. I said yes. They let me through to get in. I came back 30 minutes later, they had shoveled the steps and sidewalk and were putting the shovels away. “I was stunned. I unlocked the door and stepped outside. “Say, you guys did a great job. Every good deed deserves another. Here’s 30 bucks. Go across the street and get yourselves some hot coffee and donuts.” I thought the woman was going to cry. She thanked me and we parted. This is ONE instance. the rest of the time I’ve been shaken down for money, smokes, rides, etc. They have thrown trash in the truck bed, valve stem covers stolen and graffiti’d the sides of my truck, stepped in piles of feces when it was dark. I’ve had hookers jump into my truck and demand rides. I’ve avoided being robbed 3 times because they understood crystal clear of what the sound of “CHING-CHONG” from a slide chambering a round means. We’ve had a charity organization distribute sack lunches to the homeless. We ran them off because those lunches turn into trash the homeless thoughtlessly throw on the ground and walk away. Carrs asked the local businesses what they could do to curb the homeless issue. We told them to close the liquor store. Carrs did not want to close down their most productive liquor store in the state. The area is an oasis for homeless. Carrs hot counter for food, the liquor store, the brain shrink shop across the street and a soup kitchen/shelter down the street. Take away those things and this issue will fade.
So just arrest em I guess
I’ve read all your stories sounds like they deserve to be arrested
Tell the homeless you are calling the police, they laugh. Tell them you are calling CSP, they up and leave immediately.
One day, APD stopped by to harass the boss over employees jay-walking across the street and that they might have start ticketing them. Boss’s reply- sounds fair, providing you are handing out tickets to the homeless for jay-walking, littering, consumption of alcohol in public, trespassing and public defecation. APD- silent.
Alberto, Read my piece again. How you come to the conclusion we want to just arrest them is illogical. The last thing we want to do is just arrest them. Jails have much higher costs than homeless shelters and treatment centers. What needs to be done, and you know this as well as anybody, is to assist these people to get off the streets, out of inhuman warehousing, provide them the services needed to get off the drugs, and alcohol addictions, provide job training to make people employable, deal with the social issues of domestic violence and sexual assault, provide mental health services to those who truly need it, and close down the inhuman homeless camps that proliferate across Anchorage due to the failed policies of the mayor and assembly. Com’on man, stop gaslighting the issue with the absurd and instead engage in constructive recommendations to fix this tragedy for so many lives in our community.,
You might invite some of them to live with you. That would get them off the streets.
Did you invite them into your home?
Nah I’d rather have em all arrested maybe they’ll just die in prison and I never have to worry about it then I’ll go give money to my church.
See no evil ♂️
Yes vote Dave Bronson
Good job Craig
Alberto, Read my piece again. How you come to the conclusion we want to just arrest them is illogical. The last thing we want to do is just arrest them. Jails have much higher costs than homeless shelters and treatment centers. What needs to be done, and you know this as well as anybody, is to assist these people to get off the streets, out of inhuman warehousing, provide them the services needed to get off the drugs, and alcohol addictions, provide job training to make people employable, deal with the social issues of domestic violence and sexual assault, provide mental health services to those who truly need it, and close down the inhuman homeless camps that proliferate across Anchorage due to the failed policies of the mayor and assembly. Com’on man, stop gaslighting the issue with the absurd and instead engage in constructive recommendations to fix this tragedy for so many lives in our community
What are these services ? How do you get them off the streets ? Did you see the other comments ?
I’m being polite but all I’m reading is “we will round them up”
If I’m wrong about that explain
I’m listening
So, Alberto. Whats your plan to handle the homeless? Should we buy them some luxury condos? Let’s give them more incentive to continue that life style. Until they reach rock bottom or die, most won’t try to turn their life around. Why should the tax payers of Anchorage be forced to foot the bill for taking care of and cleaning up after them. I’m waiting to hear your master plan.
My plan is what this guy says –
Arrest em all.
I mean that’s the best plan.
Watching the debate and I can honestly say that Bronson is one of the biggest idiots I have ever had to listen to since the thing with an orangutan anus shaped mouth came along. He is a stammering idiot and a parrot to Mr. Dunbar’s comments. That and his historically stupid comment about the covid-19 vaccine not being cleared! WTF? He sure isn’t worried about the 670,000 Americans that have died due to the last president’s nightmare.