It is time for East Anchorage to remove George Martinez from office

 

Last April a majority of East Anchorage residents decided that George Martinez, Jr should serve another three year term.  

 

While George has been in office.  He has chosen to play with his New York friends in Puerto Rico on Anchorage taxpayers dime.  Event has nothing to do with Anchorage.  Thanks to Don Handleland, Eagle River and Chugiak Assemblyman for the evidence of this Puerto Rico event

 

The second those who contributed to George Martinez, Jr reelection campaign have been betrayed by his personal trip to South Florida by using their money for his personal benefit.  https://www.adn.com/opinions/editorials/2026/06/27/editorial-a-solo-strategic-planning-retreat-at-30000-feet/

East Anchorage District 5 had a chance to elect someone with transparency by the name of Cody Anderson.  

 

Here are the options we have in this district has George can take the high road and resign his seat then people in East Anchorage can select someone to fill the remainder of his term.   

 

The people of East Anchorage can file a recall petition to remove him from office by collecting signatures and have a recall election.  My prediction unlike Felix Rivera and Meg Zalatel in Assembly District 4 in 2021 where the charges are more concrete misuse of funds versus a disagreement in procedure.  If he does not survive the Municipal Charter does not bar him from running again to fill his seat again if elected.  You can not bring same charge to remove him again.  My prediction is he will not survive recall election. 

 

Remember George is a member of the Democratic Socialist of America who do not believe in defeat of crazy ideas.   

Kroger has added their shopping cart logo at their grocery stores in the US

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Kroger has decided to add their logo of the shopping cart to their names of their grocery stores.  In the Pacific Northwest and Alaska with the Fred Meyer and the Quality Food Centers aka QFC, The Central Market brand in Colorado and Baker's in Nebraska and Iowa.  

 

It is time to vote for Common Sense to East Anchorage and Mountain View

 For the past three years East Anchorage has had a leader who has raised grocery prices, believes the bus shelter is the homeless shelter.  His name is George Martinez, Jr.  He does not listen to people of his district. He has moved his district backward not forward.  

Cody listens to the people of Anchorage.  He will make it less expensive for the people of East Anchorage by dealing with crime in East Anchorage this will lower grocery prices.  He will make it so homeless people will have to go to a shelter or go to jail.  Remember it is the homeless are mostly responsible for the shoplifting.  I see this everyday as a Customer Host at Debarr Walmart.  

Here are some videos showing him to be the candidate for the people

 

 

 

Time to elect Cody Anderson in the Anchorage Municipal Election. 
 

 

It is time to vote no on Anchorage Special Anchorage School District Vote

 

Anchorage we need to vote no on the Special Election because the Anchorage School District has mismanaged  their money.  Here is the truth there budget is 2 and 1/2 times the Anchorage Municipal budget.  They are a subdivision of the Municipality of Anchorage they need to be 3/4 of the municipal budget.  Anchorage School District funding needs to be user based.  If they need to just tax the enrolled kids only.  If the taxpayer enrolls the child in private school that money should go to the private school and if the taxpayer home school the child then taxpayer should not have to pay that portion of the bill.  My little brother Jim who home schools his children has to pay property tax a school district that does not teach his children would be willing to pay an athletic fee for his children to participate in that districts sports.  I remember back in 2016 the Wenatchee School District asked them to enroll Christina as a Panther.  He told them do you know who my older brother unless you want him to blog about how you to refuse to allow his niece Christina to allow her to participate in the track unless I had her take some public school classes.  He pulled out my blog they said Mr Marion she can.  Christina at age 18 and Daniel at age 17 was on the Dean List at Wenatchee Valley College.  She earned a degree at age 18.  Here are the links to their items.  https://www.wvc.edu/news/2015-16/graduates.aspx and https://www.wvc.edu/news/2015-16/winterpresidentslist.aspx His property tax money to the Wenatchee School District should have gone to Wenatchee Valley College for both of his kids.  Money needs to follow the kid.  

Vote no on Anchorage Special Anchorage School District Vote

Legislatures can meet remotely for all Alaska sessions

Every legislator can meet remotely and stay in their communities they represent.  This will make it easier for each legislator to be accessible to their community.  The only times the legislators should meet together is when a member of the congressional delegation visits the legislature and twice a year when the governor makes a speech to the body.  

Imagine five times a year the legislature meeting at the Alaska Airlines Center when members of congress and the governor speaks to the legislature.  

 

Rest of the legislature can meet remote at the legislative office closest to where they live an example.  Senator Jesse Bjorkman can meet at the Kenai Legislative Information office and  Representative Jeremy Bynum can meet at the Ketchikan Legislative Information office.  This makes each legislature more accessible to the people they represent.  COVID-19 proved that people can meet remotely and be closer to the people.  This will save Alaska taxpayers money in capitol meeting expenses.

 

The Anchorage Caucus and staff can meet at the Wells Fargo Building at Northern Lights and Minnesota

Fairbanks Caucus and staff can meet at the Fairbanks Legislative Information office 

Mat-Su Caucus and staff can meet at the Mat-Su Legislative Information office in Downtown Wasilla

  

The real reason school children are asking to not have cell phones in the classroom

The real reason many school districts across the United States have decided to no longer allow cell phones in the classroom.  Sometimes these devices can be distracting to students while the teacher is trying to teach the class.  The student could be contact someone on social media or consider it an electronic way of passing a note.  The only problem is the teacher is not able to confiscate the text to make the student read it out loud to the class.  A lot of teachers are now requiring the student to put the cell phone in a basket at the beginning of class then will hand it back at the end of class.  Some parents have felt this is an issue since they are not able to get a hold of their children during the school day.  The truth is most schools still have a landline telephone to contact the school and still use a public address system to notify the student if they need to come to office in an emergency.  Remember the student is their to learn not to be distracted.  Plus this also prevents the student from cheating on their tests or work assignments.  The other reason is some teachers have felt that a student may film independently a teacher making a statement about issue with maybe the parent disagrees with the subject the teacher is teaching in the class.  Remember most public schools in at least one class I would attend the principal would quietly sit in a class to observe the way the teacher was teaching the class.  Many school districts want their teachers to able to teach without outside interference. I support that children not having cell phone on their person and is giving back to the student by the end of the day.

In the middle school and high school the student would hand it over to the teacher in the home room that is the first period of the day in a school day.   
 

Dustin Darden not qualified for any elected office

Dustin Darden as a school board member would be like Theresa Obermeyer will be recalled if elected.  I could see him that be in left field on an issue dealing with the school board issue.  He has been thrown out of Assembly meetings for not being on topic.  Let's say it is about teacher contracts and he is talking about god and Jesus.  He has prevented Liz Vazquez from returning to politics many times over in fact in 2019 West Anchorage Assembly race his results allowed Kameron Perez-Verdia to win over Liz he got 9 percent would had put it in a close election.  Kameron received 6,161 votes, Liz received 4,852.  Dustin received 1,077 votes.  Had he not been in that race.  Kameron may have won by only by over 300 votes instead.  Imagine the Anchorage Assembly had Liz being elected in 2020.

 

Kameron Perez-Verdia 

 

Liz Vazquez 

Dustin Darden is just like Theresa Obermeyer refused to be on topic.  She never understood the topic of the question that Rhonda McBride one of my favorite reporters here in Alaska who was working at KYUK AM a Bethel affiliate of Alaska Public Media did not stay on topic of the question on question asked by Rhonda about rural Alaska.

 

Here is him at the Anchorage Assembly Meetings refusing to be on topic.

Please elect someone other than Dustin for this seat please.