In a recent Mudflats article, Shannon Moore slices up Amy Demboski like an early run salmon filet. The runoff election for mayor of Anchorage is in less than two weeks. According to Moore, Amy has “thin” credentials and should be running a “secession campaign” for Eagle River, instead.
Demboski is a Mat-Su conservative’s dream candidate. She’s anti-public education. She opposes funding for pre-kindergarten and after-school programs. As an Anchorage Assemblywoman, she voted against the Anchorage school budget. (She’ll be happy when our public schools have been starved to the point of failure, which should help make the case for public funding of church schools.)
She opposes efforts to outlaw discrimination against people on the basis of sexual orientation. She’s accepting money from organizations that argue Alaskans have a constitutional right to discriminate against their gay, lesbian and transgendered neighbors.
When a huge majority of Alaskans, including the residents of Anchorage, approved a ballot initiative making marijuana a legal substance to be regulated like alcohol, Demboski used her position on the Assembly to try to stop it regardless. Apparently the “will of the people” is something only she and dogs can hear.
When Demboski was president of the Eagle River Community Council, she said loudly and publicly, “Chugiak and Eagle River doesn’t want to be part of Anchorage.” She continued, “Somebody from Chugiak-Eagle River, they’re not going to have the same priorities as somebody from West Anchorage. It’s just a fact. We look at things differently, because we’re from different areas. Chugiak-Eagle River does not want to be part of Anchorage. I hate to break it to you, but we don’t. We like our independence, we like our values, we do things differently.”
Shouldn’t she be organizing a secession campaign, rather than running to be mayor of a city she doesn’t want to be part of?
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