The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that the effort to recall Anchorage Assemblywoman Meg Zaletel can proceed. The Aug. 19 decision upheld a superior court ruling affirming that the recall attempt is legal.
Both the city and Zaletel had attempted to use the courts to block the effort from moving forward.
On Aug. 16, recall petitioners submitted 4,500 signatures to the Anchorage clerk’s office, more than double of what was legally required. Those signatures must now be reviewed and certified in order for the question to be placed on the upcoming October ballot.
Anchorage resident Russell Biggs is helping spearhead the recall effort.
“Our petitioners have worked diligently to see this effort through, and we feel strongly that the Anchorage Municipality’s obstruction of this effort for over a year was a calculated effort to block a valid citizen initiative via the bureaucratic process and courts,” Biggs said in a statement issued Aug. 16. “Citizens deserve a transparent and fair method to hold their legislators accountable.”
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After hearing that the Alaska Supreme Court quickly upheld the recall’s legality on Aug. 19, Biggs said it’s now time to hold Zaletel accountable for her actions.
“Meg Zaletel and the Muni suffered what is likely the quickest Supreme Court legal loss in Alaska history today with the court rejecting her appeal in record time,” he said. “The petition has been affirmed by the highest court in Alaska to be both legally and factually sufficient, and now, after a year of legal obstruction and bureaucratic obstruction by the Muni and Zaletel, Anchorage citizens will finally get the opportunity to hold her accountable.”
While Zaletel has endured intense criticism for many of her policy positions regarding homelessness, lockdowns and mandates, the actual recall petition claims that she is guilty of committing “misconduct in office” for ignoring a city mandate that limited indoor gatherings to 15 people or less.
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Anchorage district 4, get out and vote this leftist tyrant out.
It’s time one my one to replace these out of control, lockdowns, masks wearing assembly members. There’s a New mayor in town yay
Yeah don’t f it up like midtown did with Rivera
I do not admire how detailed digital cameras and computers are capturing EVERY single frame to get an unbecoming photo such as this one.
The photo reflects her unbecoming behavior to Anchorage.
I think we should regress our camera technology and go back using film rolls
I’m old school, let’s have a slide show
Ahh, slides! Miss them.
LOL! thx for the laugh, I needed that today!
Me or ProudAlaskan or both? I do remember it being a worry in the 70’s of getting your family vacation slides mixed up with stag slides at the family Thanksgiving slide show. Though I was only a kid then.
She looks like a shew.
Of course it’s legal. This vacuous hag should have to pay all the associated court costs for her bs obstruction. These morons are always mouthing about democracy but they sure try to hide from it when it comes for them.
What business does the city have in protecting an elected official? That seems a conflict of interest using public money to try and stop a public process?
The liberal establishment will use every mode against us citizens. They will eat their own to remain in power – that’s #facts
Meg looks like she was born MARK. What a manly looking beast it is!