Rudest man on the Anchorage School Board

 

This school board member will confront you if you tell truth about of what the leaders of the Anchorage School Board are really doing with your tax money.  They refuse to listen to teachers, students and parents instead only listen to top down administration.  Last year I suggest that you reduce the Base Student Allocation by 2/3 at an East Anchorage Town Forum due to the fact the Anchorage School District does not fiscally steward the public money to the teachers.  They would rather defend a babysitter for a current Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt instead hiring someone who has experience in Alaska education.  He mentioned we fiscally spend the areas to help students succeed.  Current state representative Donna Mears also defense this babysitter

Teachers could be hired over having a babysitter for an unqualified Superintendent.  He also defends the excessive budget of the Anchorage School District it needs to downsized to 75 percent of the Anchorage Municipal budget.   We need to consolidate Elementary Schools by regions which can be done by the Assembly district.  This consolidation will be explained in a future blog. 

 

 If you are tired of the rudeness of Carl Jacobs you can vote for Chelsea Pohland April 2nd for Seat G at the Anchorage School Board  Dave Donley needs allies to defend teachers and kids because Carl does not care what your kids think.   Remember the Anchorage Teachers Associations cares about top down administrations not teachers and students.  Had Carl supported the Donley plan for education the Anchorage School District would be at a 150 million dollar surplus not a 98 million dollar shortfall.

Ellensburg is the newest Creative Art District in the State of Washington

 Recently the Washington State Arts Commission have created the newest Creative Art district.  This will allow the to market and show the talents of local Kittitas County artist.  This will also make Downtown Ellensburg very busy every first Friday of the month.  Imagine is business downtown could increase their business now knowing it is a creative arts district.  Ellensburg Public Library could feature a local artist in the hallway each month.  This would also help artist not just in Ellensburg but artist who are students at Central Washington University and could help artist in the Upper Kittitas County market their art in Ellensburg business. 

WANTED FOR ID THEFT AND VEHICLE BREAK INS IN WASHINGTON STATE

Thurston and Kittitas County are looking for a woman for breaking into cars at Snoqualmie Pass and the Olympia.  She is involved in ID Theft in Covington, Long Beach and Ocean Park.  If you spot this woman please call 911 or the Thurston and Kittitas County Sheriff Office at KITTCOM Dispatch at (509) 925-8534 and Thurston County Dispatch (360) 704-7420
 

Alaska lost a great communicator on the Alaska's talk airwaves

 

Saturday, February 10, 2024.  Alaska talk airways lost a very good listener and someone who brought up issues on two radio stations starting in 2011.  He actually started in the evening drive on KOAN 1080 a show called Ethically Speaking.  Then he switched to morning drive in 2013 under CBI Media on KVNT 1020am which he called the Tom Anderson Show until his recent death on Saturday. He also had two other radio shows also on KVNT one was called Tom's World of Science and the other was called Tom's World of Travel.  I did not listen to either of those one hour shows in the evening during the weekday.  

He would use local sources like Alaska's News Source, Alaska Public Media, Anchorage Daily News, New York Times and was a fan of this online publication.  He liked my Independent analysis on Alaska issues.  He always treated callers with respect even if he disagreed with them politically.  He interviewed candidates for political office with respect.  I always like his thoughts on issues.  He also respected his stations competition and even mentioned their names even if not on their station.  He also the only radio host who would listen to a flooring store owner named Dalton also known as Super D. 

 

He did inspire Amy Demboski who he mentored to the evening drive to do talk radio on KVNT from 2016-2018 which while she served on the tail end of her Assembly term.  She is currently doing the morning drive on KENI 650 since the beginning of 2023. 

He is currently in Alaska talkers heaven with Dick Lobdel, Jr and Herb Shandlin.

 

Now let's start from the beginning Tom T Anderson was born on August 4, 1967 as a son of Tom R Anderson who was Corporal of the Alaska State Troopers and Catherine.  He graduated from Bartlett High School in Anchorage in 1985.  He received a bachelors associate degree in political science and a masters in public administration from the University of Alaska Anchorage campus.  He also obtained a degree in a college in Minnesota.  

 His political experience started as a legislative aide for Alaska State Representative Terry Martin while attending college at UAA.  He also served two municipal board commissions which were the Anchorage Parking Authority, Anchorage Power and Light Commission and the Anchorage Board of Appeals and Examiner.  He helped Municipality of Anchorage George Wuerch on his transition team in 2000.  The municipality's only one term mayor to date. 

The Anchorage School Board chose him to replace a resigned board member in 2000 who was not retained by voters in Anchorage Municipal election in April 2001. 

 When I actually met in person  was after I voted at the St Patrick's Catholic Church where he was waiving a sign on the corner of 20th and Muldoon in 2002 General Election.  I mentioned to him you realized you on your opponent turfs right.  I actually voted against him twice which living in his district which was Alaska District 19 which he served his constitutes well.  

He served three years in a federal prison work camp in Oregon from 2007-2011 on federal corruption charges.  

He was managing partner of Optima Public Relations firm which did political consulting to help candidates to elected to political office. 

 

 

 He actually married three times to three different women they were Janet Hallberg a brief marriage.  Then he married Lesil McGuire in 2005 while they served together in the legislature which lasted five years they are still friends and he had a child Grayson together with her.  He was current married to Lailaine.  

 

He liked to travel and liked Science. His favorite NFL team was the Minnesota Vikings this is probably due to time during his college days. 

 

He was well liked by close friends and easy to get along with.  He also had lots of energy always according to close friends of his.  Please continue to pray for Tom Anderson, his family and the people at Optima Public Relations.  Alaska lots a great man and loved his home state of Alaska.    Governor Dunleavy will eventually sign a statement honoring his service to Alaska.  I hope the Anchorage Assembly will do the same.  

 

 

I thank Tom Steigleman the CEO of CBI Media and show producer for continue to hold the fort.  I am sure the lord will help him guide the future of KVNT and the other CBI stations under his watch.  

Rest in Peace my friend.  I thank Amy Demboski and Mike Pocaro for saying good words about him during their February 12th broadcast.

Political Correctness has really changed the quality of the Portland Police Bureau

 It is a shame one of the best large city police departments on the West Coast where other major cities once sent their new recruits a couple of weeks for urban police training.  This police department before May of 2020 had the best arrest records of any major city on the West Coast.  The politicians like Ted Wheeler out of Portland and their Metro city council put politics ahead of policing.  If you had infraction in Portland your actual resting place ended being at the Multnomah County Jail.  Want an example of this just watch old episodes of COPS and JAIL. 

 

 

Due to political correctness most of the Portland police officers due to lack of staffing refuse to arrest for lower level crimes like shoplifting and tagging a business.  

 

Many large businesses have moved out to lack of law enforcement and refusal to arrest chronic law breakers.  Portland used to be place criminal did not want to come to.  

 

 https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/the-story/downtown-portland-rei-vandalism-theft/283-87c9ac7d-fe93-40dd-b81b-7ee1688b1f0a

 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11807717/Portland-business-owners-say-theyre-fleeing-city-en-masse-crime.html 

 

If this continues Portland and both Seattle will be where mental illness stays.  By the way turning out the lights are impossible due to fact these lights are created by solar panels with electric batteries.  

The real reason that Mitt Romney choose not to seek reelection as Utah's junior US Senator

 Utah is a state where the party can choose their nominee not the people through a state convention process.  In 2010 The Utah Republican Party choose Mike Lee the current senior US Senator over Bob Bennett to represent the Republicans in Utah for election.  Mitt saw the tea leaves written on the wall knew that the state Republican leader would replace him with another candidate.  Now Utah Republicans can now elect a common sense candidate to replace him. 

Could Chris Tuck end up as the next mayor of Anchorage?

  

 

 

 This article was originally written on August 29th.

The video above is Chris's views on Homeless problem which he has a perspective that we need even fresh eyes on this issue.  Maybe he will adopt what Mayor Bruce Harrell who was elected in 2021 in Seattle who's parents are friends of Quincy Jones. 

Could Chris Tuck become the next mayor of Anchorage here is why.  Chris unlike Suzanne and Dave are on the current Anchorage Assembly scene.  Chris has in the state gone against his party in the legislature by voting for the maximum amount of PFD provided by law.   He will be more like a Mark Begich type of mayor who kept property taxes down. 

Not only will he have Republican support he also has Democrat support as well with people like Elvi Gray-Jackson who served as State Senator and former legislature.  I also believe he could be like Rick Mystrom in 2003 which many conservatives supported him over Wuerch.  Due to a retroactive proposition that lowered the threshold for Mayor to 45 percent plus one that is how Mark Begich was elected without a runoff. 

She and Harriett Drummond who were the Assembly together just Harriet got a 6 year head start in Juneau over Elvi have already endorsed him.  I would not be surprised that Bill Wielechowski who is a State Senator I voted for recently in the 2022 even though I meant to vote for his opponent.  Decides to support him.  I will also be surprise of some members of the current Assembly choose to support him over Suzanne.  I will not be making blog endorsement until probably March.  

Could Tuck end Bronson as mayor we shall see. 

To find out about what Chris Tuck's positions are you may go to his website.  https://tuckformayor.com/