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Amy Demposky, the show starts now.

Our lines are open at 907-522-0650.

This is the morning drive on NewsRadio 650, K-E-N-I.

Good morning, it is Thursday, March 19, current time, 607-AM.

How are you this fine morning, Mr. Dean?

I am actually doing quite well this morning, still drinking the black coffee, unfortunately,

but other than that, it's warmed up in here.

It's above, well, to see most vanquers is either 5 or 6 degrees,

and its light snow has been falling.

It's not really much there, but it's just enough to make things slippery.

And, but otherwise, it was nice walking out to the car this morning.

I actually was just like, wow, beautiful anchored, so.

It's been going through me.

Oh, well, I'm definitely more around here.

I'm sitting at 8 degrees here in Palmer, so it's definitely warmed up quite a bit.

K-E-N-I is checking in at 11.

Going back out to Big Lake, they're at 5, so not bad.

Fairbanks so cold, negative 27.

You know, I'm telling you, real Alaskans live in Fairbanks.

Good heavens.

How do you live up there without two wood burning stoves and a cold fire pot tub?

I don't know.

I was going to say, that's where the tough Alaskans are.

They're in Fairbanks.

Good heavens.

You know, we never, we didn't cover it yesterday, because we just ran out of time.

But, you know, do you see Jesse Holmes back to back?

I did a ride champion.

That was phenomenal, and not only that, but he's now in an elite crowd of three.

Only three musters have ever done back-to-backs as their first two races.

Yeah, Susan Butcher and Lance Mackie.

There you go, and Mackie, man, what a beast that guy was.

Holy cow, don't get me wrong.

Susan Butcher, that woman was mind-boggling and strong, especially even after.

Wasn't she one of the ones that did cancer her and DD Butcher, I think, had cancer?

Yeah, incredible women.

Yeah, I was going to say great victory for Jesse Holmes.

As he had back-to-back, but he crossed the world arch at 9.32 p.m. on Tuesday

to claim his second I did a ride victory, according to Alaskan news source.

I always want to say channel two.

Getting anymore, but yeah.

Oh, no, I know, I know.

You know, I just had this conversation with somebody yesterday.

I still call the gas station's map-goes.

See, so it's funny.

You call them map-goes.

I was the other day basically the same thing.

I'd gone back to, and I can't remember what it was, and I said, and they were just like,

what? I said, and then I went through a list of the ones that I can finally end up in

certain things.

Yeah, they changed so many times.

And I just chuckled because in my mind, they're still map-goes.

I'm like, yeah, you know, you suck at the map-go.

My husband knows I'm talking about.

I don't even have to have words.

I'm like, you know, that D.E. Hickey right there, that thing of a bomb.

You know, just go in when I'm giving directions up.

It's like, go do it, go do it, and then do it, and then you're there.

You guys have your own language.

That's, that's, that's, that's, that's a full language thing.

Usually there's, you, you may have noticed there was lots of hand signals when I was doing that,

but I mean, sometimes I just, it's amazing that I have a radio show,

because sometimes I have a challenge is finding my words.

You know, the other thing I have to control is my stutter.

It doesn't come out very often, and I know you picked up on it once or twice, but

it's good.

Sometimes when I have a lot going on, my mind is just working so fast, my mouth can't keep up.

And so sometimes I just have to stop, take a breath, and you know, control, control it,

because sometimes the stutter comes out.

So I've noticed it, never said anything.

My brother has made comments that you're just like me, because I will, I've talked to

fast, my mouth just going up there, you know, and it's brain, and he literally is like,

yeah, she runs up there, and all of a sudden she runs into that little spot,

where you know, I, and then it catches up, and I'm just like, yeah, yes,

Dale, you are correct.

I will catch myself.

I've done it at work a number of times, and everybody just gets a chuckle, because I have to

just literally stop talking, take a breath, and then I'm like, okay, I'm good.

But I get stuck on a letter.

I get stuck on a letter.

I'll get a stuck on a letter, and I'll be that, that, that, that, and I have to stop,

and then can, yeah, I do this, I do the same thing.

It's because you know, we're both very talkative and very rapid, I told you I'm basically

Darryl in the dress.

I know, I'm Amy and a skirt.

Wait, I'm Amy and a pantsuit, that's it.

Yeah, that, that, that, that, that.

Makes me think, Hillary Clinton.

I suppose we should get into some public announcements.

There are a few today.

For the Matzubro, we'll start with them.

There's a plotting board meeting today at the Assembly Chambers and Palmer,

one o'clock.

The Trapper Creek Community Council has meeting this evening at the Trapper

Creek Community Center 630.

There is a West Lakes local road service area advisory board meeting.

They will be meeting at the West Lakes Public Safety Building Station 7-3, which is off

of the parks highway.

At 7 p.m. this evening, they do have a team's link for that meeting.

The South Canack River Community Council has a meeting tonight 7 p.m. at the South Canack

River Community Council Building, which is 17958 East Canack River Road in Palmer.

And that rounds out for the Matzub meetings.

If you need more information, including the links to some of these meetings that have online

links, just go to Matzub gov, or sorry, let me say that again, matzub.gov, and you'll find

all the information there.

Just scroll down to their calendar.

For the City of Wasilla, the only thing that I see on the calendar today is an airport

advisory commission meeting that'll be in the local City Council Chambers at 6 p.m. tonight.

If you need more information, including their agenda, just go to cityofwasilla.gov.

And let's see the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Palmer has a meeting tonight.

Their meeting is at 6 p.m. also at their City Council Chambers, which is off of Evergreen

Avenue.

If you need the agenda, just go to Palmerak.org when you see the announcement on the calendar,

just keep clicking through the links and it'll bring it to the agenda.

For the municipality of Anchorage, they have a couple of different meetings going on for

boards and commissions.

At 11.30 this morning, there's a building board meeting that'll be over at the Planning

and Development Center, over off of Elmore Road, 4700 Elmore Road.

There's an Amats Policy Committee meeting today at 1 o'clock in the Mayor's Conference

Room at City Halls.

That's up on the eighth floor.

And there's a virtual meeting for the Historic Preservation Commission at 5.30 tonight.

If you need more information on these boards and commissions, go to muni.org.

Click on the Mayor's tab, then click on the Events tab and it'll bring you to boards

and commissions.

As far as the Anchorage Assembly goes, there's one meeting for today.

The Budget and Finance Committee meeting of the Anchorage Assembly is at 10 a.m. this

morning at City Hall, Conference Room 155.

The Enterprise and Utility Oversight Committee meeting has been canceled for today.

So just the one meeting for the Anchorage Assembly at 10 a.m. today at City Hall.

If you need more information, just go to muni.org.

For the Assembly meetings, click the Assembly tab and it'll bring you right into their

announcements.

Pretty straight forward.

For the Keyknife and It's a Libero, we do have a Central Emergency Service Area Board

meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at SL.naPrep.

And there's also a Catch Mac Emergency Service Area Board meeting from 6 to 7 at Catch Mac

Fire Station number one.

For more information on the meetings of the Keyknife, just go to kpb.us.

That stands for Keyknife and It's Libero.

So kpb.us.

I didn't see anything for the City of Keyknife today until.naPrep.

Commission meeting was canceled for today, so that's not happening.

The only other thing I saw in the calendar is there's a parks, art, rec, and culture advisory

commission meeting at 5.30 tonight at home in Homer.

So you can attend in person if you go to the Cal's Council Chamber, which is Homer City

Hall, or you can attend via phone or by Zoom.

So if you want more information on this particular meeting, go to cityofhomer-ak.gov and you'll

be able to find that information right there.

I love Homer's website.

When you get to it, just look to the right and bam.

It's right there.

As soon as you click on it, it brings you to all the documents, all the meeting information.

It's really, really a great website.

All right, that does it for our public announcements for this morning.

If you'd like to call in and just say hi, or if you have an issue you want to talk about,

we are happy to do that.

I'm going to have a couple guests in today's show.

So we are expecting the 7 o'clock hour will be packed with guests.

It should be a fun conversation.

But in the 6 o'clock hour, we'll cover a whole bunch of news here.

So if you'd like to call in and be part of the show 522-0650, we'll be right back.

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We see about half an inch, if not some locally heavier amounts.

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Well, back on 10620, let's go to the bones and randia's with us.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning, happy food Friday.

Yes.

Well, almost.

Yeah, pretty Friday, right?

Yes.

I'm engaging, you know, I'm going to be out next week.

And so I am, I'm like ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready for it to be Friday.

So I can just get on with it.

But it will be fun because we have a local talent that is going to be filling in for me.

So Monday to stay, yes, Monday to Wednesday next week, Rick Whitbeck is going to be filling

in.

And then Thursday, Friday and the following Monday will be Glenn Beagle.

So you guys are going to have some incredible fill in house that frankly, they're going

to be better than me.

But when I get back, you don't need to tell me that you could just be like, oh, Amy,

we missed you.

I know they're better than me.

That's why I asked them.

They both have said, yes, they would actually, they would love to do it.

And both of them are very, very well politically versed.

We picked some veterans here to come in and fill in.

So I think it's perfect because we have the anchorage election going on.

There's all these state issues, oil and gas issues, political issues.

Like I said, both Glenn and Rick, they know a ton, they know, they know that they know

Alaska politics.

Let's put it that way inside and out.

So I think you guys are going to be very well entertained the week amount.

And then operating the board on the last three days there with Glenn, Snoopie's coming

in just so Snoopie will be on this side.

Glenn Beagle will be on that side.

We'll be good to go.

Yeah.

So it'll be a lot of fun.

I can't wait to listen to their shows because, you know, gosh, Glenn had his own show for

years and years and years and I just always enjoyed listening to him.

He's very thoughtful.

He's a very thoughtful and very pragmatic person and I don't know.

Like I said, they're definitely going to bring up the class, class average.

Very well.

Beats that three or four o'clock in the morning, would you hand it on?

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly, exactly.

But what's on your, what's on your mind this morning?

Well, I got a joke and kind of like a kind of PSA.

Okay.

Oh, the joke is, why do shoes come and sell, why do shoes sell in pairs?

I don't know.

Why do shoes get sold in pairs?

Because they're soulmates.

Oh, in that cube.

They're soulmates.

That's adorable.

Okay.

I have one for you.

Ready?

Why?

Why do bees have sticky hair?

No clue.

Because they use a honeycomb.

Oh, sorry.

You know, what can I say?

You get what you pay for.

It's free joke.

Okay.

What's your PSA, Randy?

The PSA is, if I start getting ready for the election, whip it my bee.

And if you don't have your voter registration card or whatever, or you can call the

Matthew, I'll ask you a election, it's 907, 373, 8952.

Once again, 373, 8952 and get a new card and they'll tell you who's your senator and

your representative.

Oh, cool.

That's great.

Get that card and pick a picture of it and vote it down, vote it on your phone.

Oh, great idea.

Yeah, great idea.

Thank you.

That's a great PSA, especially as we are launching into election season.

Yeah.

Have a great day.

Thank you so much, Randy.

I appreciate that.

Well, talking about elections, we do have an Anchorage Municipal Election coming up.

And I know I did this yesterday.

I probably will do this a couple times because everybody is starting to get their ballots.

I know this because I had friends texting me yesterday asking me about different seats,

different candidates.

And I was happy to provide my information what I believed I would do if I was in their position.

Darrow has his ballot in his hand.

He's looking at it right now.

But we have every, there's every seat in Anchorage, every assembly district has a candidate, right?

So the way it works in Anchorage and your election, your ballots have gone out.

It's a by-mail election.

Election Day is technically April 7th, but you definitely want to get your ballot in before that.

But the way it works in Anchorage is one year, half the assembly is up, the other year,

the other half of the assembly is up, and then the third year, the mayor's race happens.

So it's kind of broken up that way.

So we do have assembly and school board candidates this election.

So for district one, North Anchorage, you have four candidates to pick from.

Nick Danger, Sydney Scout, Justin Millett, or Max Powers.

And we've had callers call into the show that live in downtown Anchorage that are telling us that they're voting Justin Millett.

Sounds like he's the one that a lot of conservatives are backing and a lot of independents are backing.

Chugacchi-Glorver-J Bayer, district two, Donald Handlin versus Kyle Walker hands down in my opinion every single day of the week.

I would vote Donald Handlin.

That's me, that's my opinion.

I donated to Donald just full disclosure.

District three, this is Daryl's district.

Daryl gets to pick between Brian Flynn and Anna Brawley.

I'll be taking Flynn. I'll be taking Flynn.

All right, he's doubling down on that.

District four, Midtown Anchorage, Dave Donnelly, Kim Winston, and Janice Park.

100% I would vote Dave Donnelly in that race.

I think I donated to him too. I'm pretty sure I did.

East Anchorage, District five, George Martinez versus Cody Anderson.

Look, if I was in this race, this wouldn't even be a thought.

There's no way I'm voting for Occupy Wall Street Martinez.

Not happening. I'm not voting for the New Yorker.

I would vote Cody Anderson. No question.

South Anchorage, Gurdwood, Turnigan Arm.

You have three candidates.

Janelle Sharp, Bruce Ferguson, Zach Johnson.

Bruce called into the show. We had like a half an hour conversation with him.

Last week, I think it was, and it was fantastic.

I really liked him.

So Bruce Ferguson is who I would vote for in that race.

When it comes to school board candidates, school board seats, C, Alexander Rosales versus Rachel Blake's lead.

Now, Darryl, you listened to him yesterday.

Alexander Rosales called into Mike's show. What did you think of him?

He sounded intelligent, straightforward, conservative.

I don't remember. I don't know if he's school board.

So we all get to vote for that, right?

Yeah. That's what mine's going right there.

I mean, I've heard the liberals having conniption fits over him.

And so, and I mean, conniption fits.

And so I had to do a little bit of research on that.

Yeah.

What it was that was triggering him.

As always, it's, there's, it's a giant ball of nothing that they coat with glitter and tell you that it's the sun.

Okay.

The louder they typically are, the more I typically like somebody, I'll just say that.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, once I looked into it.

Okay. So Darryl's going with Rosales and C.C.

And school board C.D. Sharon Gibbons, Dustin Darden and Paul McDonough.

I would tell you, I know Sharon Gibbons.

I like Sharon Gibbons. If I was, if I was going to pick, I would pick Sharon Gibbons in that race.

Well, thank you for that because actually I was, I was having a hard time because I didn't know of anything about either of them.

And I wasn't sure what Sharon's leanings were.

All right. Now you got me. There we go.

Yeah. Now I got my school board fixed.

Yeah. I would definitely say like she's, she's acquired her personality.

Very thoughtful though.

Very, like I said, she's been around.

She's not, I wouldn't say she's super partisan.

I don't get that sense from her at all.

But I do get the sense that she's got some common sense.

And in that race, no question in my mind.

I would have no problem. That's who I would vote for.

And then of course, you're going to see service area board as supervisors.

There's a whole long list of them. Most of those are, I think they're all running on a pose for the, for the large part.

When we say service area boards, we mean like roads, service area boards, those kind of things.

There's a lot of names that are up there. So depending on what district you're in, you'll get to see those.

And of course, there's 12 different bond propositions or ballot propositions, I should say, for the Anchorage Ballads.

So you're going to have to, you're going to have to weed through all of those.

There's 12 of them. If you want more information, you can go to muni.org, click on the election tab.

And then you can see all the candidates and voters and propositions.

You could see all the information, voter information, candidates, propositions, all the language, if you haven't got your ballot yet.

But if you get your ballot and you have questions on your ballot, we're always happy to help try to answer those questions or get you to the people that know the answers to those questions.

If we don't know them, all you have to is give us a call. 522-0650.

We're going to go ahead and take a quick commercial break. When we come back, I see one of the candidates in the queue right now.

So I'm loving that he's calling in. We'll talk to Dave Donnelly here in just a second. Stay with us.

This is News Radio 650, K-E-N-I Anchorage.

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The issue has drawn public debate with residents split on the proposal.

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The Matt Sue Assembly is moving forward with a plan to support development of a data center.

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Finally, he has a candidate running for Midtown District 4 for the Anchorage Assembly.

Good morning, Dave.

Good morning, Amy.

We had a wonderful get-together last night.

Just a great turnout at my fundraiser.

Hey, when people get their ballots,

I get a lot of phone calls from friends and other folks

that want to discuss candidates and bonds.

But guess what?

Yesterday, my GCI landline and my whole neighborhood, it wasn't working.

So if people tried to call me yesterday and didn't get through,

it's working again this morning.

Thank goodness.

What's going on?

Oh, my goodness.

I know the ballots go out and that's when I'll...

I definitely noticed when ballots started hitting,

because yesterday afternoon,

I started getting text messages from people asking me specific questions about,

okay, this race, that race, you know, what about this person?

And so, you know, I'm happy to share what I think I know,

or, you know, what my opinion is,

and give them a little bit of more ammunition

as they go in and make their decisions.

But how is a...

So you had a good fundraiser last night.

How are you feeling as you are launching into the home stretch here?

I'm kind of like James Brown.

I feel good.

Yeah.

Nice.

Well, I think I do think this is going to be a real opportunity for us to have a pick-up in Midtown.

And when I say a pick-up, I'm just looking for somebody with common sense

that's going to critically look at issues,

and not just be a rubber stamp for whatever, you know,

loony idea comes across their desk.

Like, I just want a little bit of common sense into the discussion.

I am just begging, folks, out there.

After a decade, almost a decade of vague and fearless,

you see where that got us.

Give me a chance to try to turn things around here in this town on the assembly.

Just restore common sense to City Hall.

And, you know, I used to represent this area in the State Senate.

I grew up in it.

I'm ready to fight really hard to make a change in the direction of this city.

Well, I think it's possible.

You know, Dave, you come with a lot of experience,

and I've had the opportunity to get to work with you in different points,

and I will say you're very pragmatic in the way that you approach topics.

You do your homework, you look at the issue, you lay a plan,

and I think, frankly, I think this day and age, we don't have enough of that.

Well, we just got to get folks to vote.

I mean, please mail in your ballots, or drop off your ballots at one of the centers for that.

And you can actually go to the library, the Loose Act.

I didn't vote in person.

There's an option for that, too.

If that's really what you want, I have to do.

But it's so easy, just to mail your ballots.

So get those ballots in the mail, everybody. Please.

Well, if people still want to talk to you, connect with you, read about you.

What is the best way for them to do that?

Okay, so they can email me through my website, donleyforalaska.com.

They can call me through the numbers, my number that's out there, both on the voter's guide,

I believe, and also in the comparisons.

So they can reach me those two ways.

And please, take a look at the voter's guide in the municipal election guide.

You know, it's not as good as the state one, which is something I want to change.

I want to have a better municipal voter's guide if I get elected.

I'm going to work for that.

But it is.

We do have it.

And also take a look at the daily news.

Look at the candidate answers in the daily news.

If you got any questions at all, and then you can always just call me.

Well, I love it.

I love it.

Well, I'm sure I'll talk to you again before Election Day.

I will be out next week.

But I know we have Glenn Beagle and Rick Whitbeck filling in.

So there's two great hosts.

You could still call in and talk to those guys.

And I will definitely talk to you before Election Day again.

But I wish you the very best, my friends.

Good job getting Glenn and Rick.

I mean, they're both really smart and very knowledgeable about politics.

Great.

Very are.

Great one.

Yeah.

I was going to say that's what I thought.

I felt like my heart was being tugged because I knew I was going to be out for a week, grateful

for, you know, right during an election, really.

And it drove me crazy.

But look, we're kicking up the class average with those two.

So I think next week will be a fun week.

Yeah.

And they're both in my house district, too.

So I know.

Nice.

Well, thank you, Dave.

I appreciate you calling in this morning.

You bet.

Thank you, Amy.

Very good.

All right.

Okay.

So, I just want to plug his website one more time.

If you want to reach out to Dave, if you're still undecided in the district for Midtown,

Anchorage, race, Don Lee for Alaska dot com is his website.

You can reach out to him.

And frankly, like he's been around Alaska politics for a long time.

He knows he used to serve in the legislature.

He's he's serving right now on the school board, like the lone common sense voice, frankly,

someday is on the Anchorage school board.

So if you want to reach out to him and ask him specific questions, I'm sure he would be

happy to take your question.

So again, Don Lee for Alaska dot com.

So I just want to say earlier, I heard I think it might have been him on another radio program.

I'll just grab a little snippet of it.

Oh, no.

I don't think that was him.

Oh, don't.

Okay.

I just heard the Don Lee and I'm thinking, wow.

Look at him go, man.

Oh, I know.

I don't think that was him.

I'm pretty sure that wasn't him.

But you know, David's a fun guy.

Yeah.

And clearly he's peppy at six o'clock in the morning.

So I got to give him kudos.

Us early birds have to stick together.

And he is really courteous also because he does give a light laugh at my jokes when I tell him to him.

So I mean, that tells you something right there.

If he's willing to look me in the eye and give me a little laugh, he's courteous, man.

I like him.

Yeah.

Well, you know, he's courteous, but he's a hard worker.

Oh, yeah.

I got to tell you for him showing up week after week after week on that anchored school board

and dealing with a level of lunacy that he's had to deal with.

Oh, good heavens.

I mean, just creating rules strictly to stop him.

I mean, literally.

I know.

That's exactly so he couldn't talk.

Yeah.

That's exactly right.

When the liberals are creating rules, so you can't talk basically.

You know you're doing something, right?

Well, it's talking about liberals.

Good heavens.

I was looking at two stand downings, a recap of what happened this week in Fairbanks.

And Fairbanks gone woke.

I got to tell you Fairbanks has gone woke.

The Alaska story has the has the op-ed up Fairbanks commission ignores testimony

and rewrite history on Monday night.

The Fairbanks North Starboro Parks and Rec Commission did what's becoming all too common

and placated at what do they do?

They ignored everybody who came and testified about the whole debate of Pioneer Park

versus, you know, Alaska land or whatever.

And by a seven to one vote, the commission approved a recommendation to rename Pioneer Park

back to Alaska land and spend $50,000 in taxpayer money on new signages, websites, and marketing.

The justification was the need to be more inclusive.

That sounds nice, but it didn't match what actually happened in the room.

Public testimony was overwhelming against the re-name.

Speaker after speaker defended the name Pioneer Park.

It's history and what it represents to Fairbanks only three people.

Spoken favor.

The two assembly member sponsoring the ordinance, Liz Reeves and Scott Krass and one Colin participant.

Everyone else opposed it.

Many of them forcefully and yet commission pushed it through anyway.

They were not listening.

This was all about checking a required box.

The commission lead heavily on a 2021 Pioneer Park master plan written during the COVID era

by Anchorage based consultants at Betisworth, North.

The plan labels the name Pioneer Park as controversial and alienating,

using familiar language of diversity, equity, and inclusion campaigns.

So a consultant's report outweighed live public testimony.

The legislative record in decades of community understanding, even more telling,

earlier reports had recommended keeping the Pioneer Park name.

Those reports were of course ignored.

The ordinance itself gets the history wrong, completely wrong.

It claims the park was originally established as a grounds for Alaska 67 Extentennial Exposition.

That's false.

The legislative records clear in 1961.

The Alaska legislature passed House Concurrent Resolution 20 authorizing the state to lease the land

to the pioneers of Alaska specifically for historical park.

The language is unmistakable.

The land was to be used quote for the development and maintenance of this land as a historical park and quote,

preserving Alaska's history.

In 1965, the legislature created quote, pioneer memorial park ink and quote,

and required the site to be used as a quote pioneer park and quote,

for the preservation and display of historical items.

Here's which you won't find anywhere in those documents.

The word Alaska land.

It's not anywhere in there.

It's, you know, that's just what it is.

It says, the contradictions don't stop there while officials talk about inclusivity and DEI-driven name changes.

The borough has allowed actual Alaska native cultural features inside Pioneer Park to fall into disrepair.

The native village exhibit has been neglected with parts deteriorated and even facing potential removal as past in past plans.

The River Botaniana, which holds, you know, obviously irreplaceable diorama of the Alaska native village life,

has been repeatedly closed cutting off access to that history.

So Susanne makes the point.

If inclusivity was really the goal, the assets would be maintained and highlighted.

Instead, they've been sidelined while officials focus on rebranding.

It's also worth noting that Fairbanks already has a major facility dedicated to Alaska native culture,

the Morse Thompson Cultural and Fister Center, which has been funded by bed tax revenue and widely recognized.

Nobody's questioning inclusivity there.

So I found the, so remember we've been hearing Alaska land thrown about and I made the joke about well,

if they really wanted to do it right, they'd call it Pioneers of Alaska Land Park.

That covers everybody.

But what I just now found reading a news story from up north,

there is an alternate names that have been suggested they had a commission that looked into this,

which had the FNA, the native groups in it.

Do you know what the commission's suggested name is for the change?

Please tell.

Tannit, the Tanninav Valley Heritage Park.

That is what they have chosen or merging the current and former names might be possible.

This is all ridiculous.

Like at the end of the day, I am so sick of renaming crap.

I'm sick of renaming it.

Like at the end of the day, Pioneer Park is fine.

Pioneer Park is fine.

What is Alaska?

Alaska has a rich cultural native history, no question.

It also has a very rich pioneer type of history.

Yeah, I mean come on.

Like why do we all, can't we all just get along?

I mean at some point, I'm sick.

You know what it is.

This is fairbanks going woke.

This is it.

You have to erase any reference to pioneers or the settlers that came in.

I am so sick of it.

If you don't like it, get on a boat and go wherever you came from.

I mean come on, shut up.

And it's always white liberals that are the ones that are always bemoaning about the colonizers shut up.

You're white too.

I mean come on.

These are always the ones that are pushing this crap.

Do you use, I have no native friends that are going around saying we need to take down statues of cook

or we need to rename this park or that park.

You know what they're busy doing?

They're busy working.

They're busy doing their jobs.

They're busy living their lives, raising their kids.

These people, I gotta tell you, I get so sick of this nonsense.

This woke crap.

But fairbanks, what have you done?

What have you done?

This is what happens when you don't mind the, when you don't mind the field.

This is what happens when you don't watch the local races that are happening.

Because then, you know, liberal mayors, liberal assemblies end up appointing and confirming all kinds of liberal wackadoos to these boards and commissions.

And this is what you end up with.

Spending $50,000 on rebranding a park.

What a waste of money.

Can we give a few notes to somebody?

Yes, who?

I would like to give kudos to Commissioner Patrick Burda.

He was the lone dissenting vote in keeping in favor.

Where the rest of them, I mean like Judith Keifer Schiffler, yeah that's it Schiffler, was one of the ones who supported changing it.

She suggested the word heritage.

And Connor Ryan, who also was one of the ones who supported it, suggested an entirely new name that was going to be going on there.

But right now, the name that they've come up with that board community is the Tanana Valley Heritage Park.

Because it's not divisive.

I gotta tell you, I don't care about that name.

I just say leave it playing your park.

This is a waste of time.

It's a waste of money.

And clearly the community does not support your woke agenda.

Use that money for your late time meals.

The other thing I noticed about this whole thing is I do believe that Anchorage must be holding like training sessions for all these other organizations because they all are doing the same thing.

Remember, we did the whole thing with the change of the seal.

These idiots have no original thoughts in their mind.

Even from Anchorage, they steal their ideas from Seattle, from Oregon, from Houston.

They go to all these liberal cities.

They go to these liberal conferences.

They don't have original thoughts in their head.

They copy with the liberals in San Francisco, Seattle, Oregon.

All these different places we're doing.

And the worst thing is all those liberal conferences were paying for going.

Look at their travel stuff.

They are sitting in her pay.

They're making his pay for the travel.

And the, oh, it's ridiculous.

Of course you are.

Good heavens.

We're going to switch gears here.

Because there's a story that I wanted to cover.

Because I don't know about you, Darryl.

But not a lot.

But every now and then, I like Taco Bell.

Not a lot.

I'm usually a Chappos girl.

I typically, when I want Mexican, go to Chappos.

But I would say every now and then you need that quick something from Taco Bell.

And they're expanding their menu.

Now you may be surprised to hear this.

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Well, his ears must have been burning.

Or maybe he was just listening.

And I'm not sure.

But I was just talking about Dave Taco Bell to offer

Baja Blast skincare products.

Like so?

Yes, you heard me right.

The fast food chain said it will offer the Melendue Baja Blast

under eye patches soon.

Taco Bell announced the news live on March 10th.

The patches are said to contain caffeine and citrus.

It's dead in the news release for the Baja Blast.

I heard infused with caffeine and refreshing boost of citrus.

These patches energize the skin and deliver cooling hydration.

Oh, okay.

So now Taco Bell and Melendue teaming up to deal with my bags

under my eyes.

I got to tell you.

I don't know about this one.

It's a market.

Maybe it's an untapped market in the fast food industry.

We'll see.

I was thinking maybe they were going to do like a soap flavor

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Who would have thunk him?

But you know what we are in the middle of right now?

We are in the middle of a municipal election

in the municipality of Anchorage.

And I went through the assembly candidates

and school board candidates earlier.

We will continue to do that.

Remember, you have to get your ballot back in by April 7th.

Right now the ballot should be hitting your mailboxes.

I know a lot of friends that got them last night.

So they've started hitting the ballot, your mailboxes.

And you have to get them in and postmarked by election day.

All right.

Well, I wanted to make sure during this next couple of weeks

that we get as many of these assembly candidates in

as they want to get in to talk to voters before election day.

And joining us again is Mr. Brian Flynn.

He is running for assembly in West Anchorage District 3.

Good morning, Brian.

Good morning, Amy. Thanks for having me back.

Oh, love to have you.

How are you feeling now that the ballots are out?

And you know, how are you starting to feel about this race?

Well, I was out door knocking last night.

And as a matter of fact, people were telling me

they had already received their ballots, had already filled their ballots out.

And we're submitting them.

I was just pleased to hear that people are engaged and ready to vote.

And just having ballots already at doors is exciting.

We're in the thick of it.

It's fun to talk to people, see them out in their homes on the streets

and engaged in this election.

Much more than we've seen, I think in the past.

Well, that's fantastic to hear because I don't know about you,

but I will tell you, I've been watching Anchorage politics

for the better part of the last 20 years.

And right now, we really have some dysfunction going on

when it comes to elected officials and Anchorage.

I mean, just take one example.

Property tax assessments.

How many times have you heard when you go to our door

about the property tax assessments?

Oh, my gosh.

So many times, it just writes itself.

You start asking people how they feel about the way the city is going.

And it almost immediately, especially in February,

when they were getting those green cards,

they were immediately going into their distress,

the fact that they weren't getting any accountability

from the assembly members that represent them.

Just being told to file an appeal.

And feeling like, why is it on its own or the House?

I'm not on the administration to correct

some of these 20, 30, 40% increases in assessed value.

And we're still not hearing anything back.

It's just a matter of-

You have to foster that.

We'll get things straightened out after this.

I just really feel for the homeowners, the price of their homes,

affordability, of course, their mortgage payments

and their insurance costs are going to go up as well.

That's a good point.

You know, you have a background in real estate, too.

So I'm sure as you-

Look, I'm a layperson who looks at this issue.

And what I can't understand is a methodology they use.

And it doesn't seem to me like they're being very clear

in why they jumped.

Why is it, if I've done nothing to my home,

the property value from in one year jumps $100,000.

And my neighbor directly across the street,

their property tax assessment virtually stayed the same.

This is a story that's being told over and over and over again in Anchorage.

And there's no real answer that I'm hearing for you.

Am I missing something?

No, you're exactly right, Amy.

And I've seen it myself.

I've seen people with exactly duplicate condominiums and townhouses.

Nothing done to them.

And some of them had $30,000, $50,000 differences in their assessed value.

Or they were using comps that were miles away from these houses.

That didn't make any sense, but then being told that the assessor's office

that the comps that they brought in that were closer to their house didn't count.

It doesn't make any sense.

There's really not been any real answers.

It seems like they're just kind of running away from giving the right answer

to the people that they want to hear.

And there's frustration everywhere with the assessment.

And I think that's why a lot of people that talk to me when I'm at their door

are saying, you know what, we're frustrated, we're done with this.

We get Anchorage back on track and get some new minds on the assembly.

Well, and it goes to, I guess my next question is, you know,

what do we do to change the scenario that we're seeing right now?

Because, you know, for a lot of voters, they're out there saying,

we want people that are solution-oriented,

and we want people that are going to do what they say they're going to do.

So where do we go from here?

Well, you know, we have to take a look at what condition Anchorage is in right now.

Crime is up 8%, almost this is up 17%.

Warming temperatures are on the way.

They're going to start to release homeless people back onto the street starting in April.

And, you know, what's going to happen?

Are we going to go through this revolving door of, you know,

put people in door, put them back outside, spend more money to put them back inside?

Tell everybody that homelessness is solved.

It seems like a game that a lot of people when I talk to them just are fed up.

They're saying, you know, we see this every year.

It's just a matter of, you know, revolving doors of homeless shelters.

We're being told one thing, we're seeing another thing.

I tell people all the time, you know, don't trust what I'm saying.

Don't trust what my opponent is saying.

Look at your own eyes.

And do you believe that Anchorage is better than it was three years ago?

If you do, then I'm not your guy.

If you don't, and you believe like I do, that we need change,

then I am your guy.

And I think we need to bring some real solutions back to the assembly.

You know, I was thinking about our last conversation.

And I think you said that you did a ride along with APD.

When you brought up crime up 8%.

As you're thinking about West Anchorage, you're thinking about your district.

You're thinking about the things that you've seen.

What is it you would hope to focus on as, you know, maybe your top couple of issues.

If you get elected to the Anchorage Assembly for West Anchorage?

Absolutely.

The one thing that I see the most is when I go down Spanard Road on my district,

and business after business, owner after owner,

just telling me almost the same exact story that they're constantly dealing with crime and drugs.

When they close the Chelsea in, it didn't solve the problem just to spurs it.

And the administration doesn't seem to be taking it seriously.

There's houses that are being overrun businesses that are closing.

I mean, we've seen Wendy's close.

You know, we've seen some of these businesses that are afraid to talk

because they don't want to have repercussions and things like that.

But they're really an issue with the crime.

If we don't get crime under wraps, we're not going to have a city that's going to thrive economically.

We've seen, I just talked to somebody the other day about Jacksonville, Florida,

had a similar situation.

They had overrun with homelessness.

They finally got serious and cracked down on it.

And there's virtually not an issue in Jacksonville, Florida.

And their economy is now thriving again.

We can do that here in Anchorage.

We just need the right mind and the guts and determination to do it.

And I believe I'm one of those people.

And Brian, I am right there with you.

I live over in Spanard.

I'm going to be voting for you.

And I have taken up this winter because I don't have a lot of money.

You can't do a lot to help people.

But I've taken to going up and down the streets in the sub-zero temperatures

trying to make sure that they're not freezing to death because, you know,

the city says they're taking care of themselves.

They're not.

They're still out there.

And when I talk to them, you know, some of them they admit, yeah,

they've had to do, you know, things that they're not proud of.

And part of it though is when you're freezing at 10 below zero

and you literally think you are going to die, the choice of,

should I not break that door and sit inside there and just get warm?

Or should I just die?

They're choosing that.

And most of them, they know the consequences.

But in their minds, they don't feel they have a choice.

But what I'd like to also say is if you drive through Spanard,

this is a very interesting thing.

You look for the signs of your candidate signs.

You will see Brian signs on all the major businesses

and not just the major, the best businesses through Spanard.

You will see the Brian signs.

I mean, I love, you know, say me knows my favorite restaurant in Spanard.

Hands down.

They put up your sign the other day and I was so tickled pink.

I mean, I was like just going by wiggle into my seat going, yes.

But if you look for Annabraali signs,

they are on things like the NEA building

and a lot of these other extremely liberal leaning things.

And I mean, literally it's telltale.

Is it drive through?

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm telling you, you drive through

and you will look and it's like business after business after business.

It has got Brian Flynn sign on it.

You look at the more non-profit and things like that.

Those are the ones you see Annabraali signs on though.

So I'm right there with you and yeah,

crime needs to be taken here.

But we also need to like a compassion.

See what's wrong and how we can help them.

Well, you know, Brian, I think that goes back to this is

as you're running for West Anchorage Assembly

and you're talking to residents who live there

who have to deal with whether it's the crime or the homelessness

or the property tax increases.

And then you go door to door businesses.

As you deal with, like you said in Florida,

you deal with these lower level, the homelessness issue,

the lower low crime issues.

Is that not a recipe to make and help businesses flourish?

Yes.

We have to, we have to help.

I'm first and foremost, I'm so proud of the businesses that have supported me

in the Spanard area, but all throughout Anchorage, the individuals.

I mean, it's just, to me, it's just a matter of, you know,

how are we going to bend together to get Anchorage to the place we want it to be

and who's willing to roll up their sleeves and get it done?

And I believe that I'm one of them.

I think we've got other candidates that are willing to do that as well

in all the other five districts.

And we just, it's a grit that we need to get to get.

I think we're bringing a little bit more of the private sector's mentality back.

So, you know, to help the public sector,

you can't have a thriving public sector until you have a thriving private sector.

And if businesses are closing and businesses are running out of town,

in going to the valley, for example, because it's much more conducive to their business,

that's a problem you need to address and do it immediately quickly.

Brian, when you brought up Wendy's, I was devastated when they took out Wendy's and I love frosties.

But I came to a realization and I don't know if you've noticed it yet,

but you remember our homeless shelters used to be located down in the industrial area,

and Chris Constant had a fit that only his area had the homeless shelters.

If you actually look at the number of, quote,

shelters and treatment facilities they've created,

almost everything has now been created in Spanard,

the alley, the lakefront.

There are six hotels, I don't know, six got four hotels,

that they converted to helping the homeless,

whether it's the jobs, the Barrett Inn, which is now, you know, employment one to it.

But that's the reason why actually Wendy's clothes.

Wendy's used to rely on the business from the people walking down from those hotels,

purchasing their stuff, going back to the hotel.

You take out four major hotels,

even if they're only 125 rooms each,

that's almost 400 rooms,

and double occupancy, 800 people who are no longer going to walk down to that business

and they couldn't do it anymore.

And all you have, and the people who come there,

it's like you said, the days open and the homeless.

So there's a big problem you're looking to.

Yes.

You're exactly right, Darrell.

I talked to the owner of the Wendy's building,

and he's exactly right.

He was frustrated with the amount of issues he would have around the building.

And it's, again, back to everything around that area.

We can bring Spanard.

We can bring the city back with, you know,

looking at the calculated ways we can turn things around.

As a matter of fact, tomorrow night I have a fundraiser at Chopton Chowder,

right behind Wendy's on Spanard.

They're big supporters of mine.

It's great to just be able to bring people into Spanard

and help those businesses get some people through the doors

or maybe people have never been to these restaurants that are so good.

And so great.

I mean, so Fia's on Spanard is fantastic.

Gwynne's, of course.

I go, I'm on Gwynne's every Saturday morning at 8 to 10.

Come on down and talk to me.

I'd love to hear from you.

Well, Brian, tomorrow night, if people want to stop by,

you said it's called Chopton Chowder.

If they want to stop by tomorrow night,

what times your event tomorrow night?

Five o'clock.

Again, it's the Chopton Chowder behind the Wendy's.

It's the old village in.

But their food is fantastic.

Great owners, great personalities.

Come on down and let's talk.

Perfect.

Well, last thing I have to do.

I can't let you go without having you plug your website.

So if people want to reach out to you,

if they want to talk to you, if they want to email you,

connect you or just read about you,

what's the best place for them to do that?

We're at flinforanchorage.com.

You can reach out there.

We're on Facebook or on Instagram or all the social media.

Just like every other candidate you can't get away with not being on all the social media.

My Facebook tends to be the most volume.

We do a lot of videos.

We do a lot of talks and interaction on there.

Please reach out.

I'd love to hear from people.

And you can call me.

My number is 907-830-5034.

I'd love to hear from you.

Perfect.

He's running for Anchorage Assembly for West Anchorage District 3.

So if you want to reach out to him again,

you can go to flinforanchorage.com or you can give him a call.

830-5034.

Brian, thank you so much for your time this morning.

Thank you, Amy.

Appreciate the time.

No, you're welcome.

All right.

We're going to take a quick break.

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I had to look this place up because I had never heard of it before.

Alaska chopped and shouted.

We'll love to do the show with no coffee today because, you know, it's a heartburn.

So, you know, it's one of those things.

But Kathy Geesele is up this year.

So if you're in her district, my friend Deborah, she's in her district.

You do not have to vote for her this year.

You have an opportunity to vote her out.

I've got to tell you, every time I mention Kathy Geesele, I need to find that,

that, that, that music that we could win to the West.

Because that's for sure.

I'm on it.

I don't know if that reminds me.

I'm so mean.

But I kind of be honest with you.

That's what pops in my head every time I see her.

Every time I see her going, well, you know, there's an opportunity.

And we often talk about how do we make a difference?

How do we make a difference?

And I started seeing these national headlines about Alaska.

What are you doing?

William Rikowski isn't really a Republican.

Yeah, we know that.

But I've had some great frustration with trying to turn the Titanic,

which is the Alaska Republican Party.

And I think the only way you do that is you get involved, right?

You get involved.

And you, you have to deal with the belly of the beast.

You have to get in the belly of the beast and do it from inside.

And that's what many people have attempted to do.

And the one joining us now.

Mr. Zach Godshell is joining us now.

He is running for the Republican Party Chair.

Good morning, sir.

Good morning, Amy.

And thank you for having me on.

I'm grateful to talk to all of you and all your listeners.

Well, we love having you on.

And, you know, watching the headlines,

and I'm watching what is happening,

whether it's on the federal level and Trump really trying to highlight Alaska,

not only our energy potential, but for national security reasons.

And then I look at what's happening, you know,

one of our, one of our senators.

I look what's happening with, you know, at the federal level

and at the state level.

And I keep thinking, what are some of these Republicans thinking?

And I just, I just sit there scratching my head.

Zach, where do we go from here?

Well, so we got to say it, say what it is.

The lasting conservatives are really expecting.

And they're demanding at this point, accountability and transparency.

We've had, you know, tens of thousands of voters

are expecting that, you know, something be done about rhinos like Senator McCalsky.

And knowing that Alaska voted for Trump three times,

what would Trump think, President Trump?

What would he think if we were able to make national news and say,

we've censored and sanctioned Senator Lee from McCalsky?

I'm sure he would be ecstatic.

With all the focus to our state and the economic growth that's looming

because of the White House being fully supportive of it,

Congressman Nick Begich and Senator Dan Sullivan working hard

to ensure that we can unlock our potential.

I mean, we owe it also to ensure that we hold firm to our values

and make an example of those that are not voting in line

with our values, nor the values, you know,

they're pushing forward our values in DC as well.

Do you think it diminishes the Republican Party's brand?

When you see the actions of Senator Lee Sermokowski

or, frankly, look at Senator Kathy Giesel,

I'm just going to call him out by name because why not?

When you look at their actions, they're actively working against

the Trump administration's agenda.

How in the world, number one, is that good for Alaska?

But how is that possibly good for Alaska Republicans?

It's absolutely not good and you've hit it on the head there.

I mean, it does bring discredit to the party

and that's why so many voters are turning away

and have turned away the last couple of years

and declared themselves either independent or undeclared

because they're just frustrated that no one is holding

these folks accountable.

You know, someone mentioned over the weekend,

you know, well, if we censor Lee Sermokowski again,

what happens?

And it's like, it sets a precedent.

That's what happens.

So that we're not afraid to do something,

to use Article VII of our own rules the right way.

It ensures that people know that we really are wanting to be firm

that our expectations are that Republicans push forward,

Republican values, and our legislative priorities.

Mm-hmm.

Well, I will tell you, I think there needs to be a strong message then.

And, you know, I know there's certain districts.

District A is a fantastic district.

They have really district six.

Has it is another district that I can think of,

district 26, my district?

There's been a number of districts that have led the charge

to not only censor Lee Sermokowski,

but also Gary Stevens.

And we start looking at these Republicans

that are caucusing with Democrats.

It's clearly a violation of our party values

and what we've said in our own platform.

Yet there's no consequence.

And I think that just highlights the reason why

we really do have to repeal ranked choice voting.

We have to make Alaska primaries matter again

to these churn coat Republicans, frankly.

And that's my view.

And I know some Republicans listening are going to,

they're cringing at my words.

But the fact of the matter is, you know,

I've heard this more and more from people

is what difference does it make

if they're just going to go down there and vote like Democrats anyway?

What difference does it make?

And that's the part where I think strong party leadership comes in

because strong party leadership

is going to help enforce the values

that Republicans have adopted in the platform.

Am I missing something?

No, I think you're right.

And so I look at the idea,

like for Senator Lee Sermokowski,

we've got roughly 14, perhaps 15 districts

that have all taken action against her.

But in order to get a majority,

we need 19 districts.

Now that's simple math.

But who's having that conversation?

Who's, you know, I hear also that, you know,

the chair can't influence grassroots methods

and I understand that and I respect that.

But you can open the dialogue.

You can call or email and let districts know

that have not taken action of,

hey, we just need four more districts

or we just need five more districts.

Have you considered it?

Have you brought it before your committee

has it become an agenda item?

Just having the conversation

and letting people know where we are.

And of course, then being willing to say so

and the public eye, the public space,

it's as if there's fear

and it's starting to look

from a perception standpoint

that we need to keep Senator Lee Sermokowski

or a Catholic ease in our back pocket.

You know, I think as I'm starting to look at many

of these different districts

and I was so heartened to see

so many district chairs be active

in the last, especially in the last year,

year and a half.

District chairs are getting,

I think, really frustrated

with party leadership

because they're realizing,

gosh, nobody else is going to be out here doing it.

So we're going to leave the charge

and I hate it when I hear people saying that,

you know, we leave from the ground up nonsense.

The party chair sets the tone

and I'm looking for a party chair, frankly,

with a backbone.

Well, I definitely could say

I'm comfortable bringing forward backbone.

I mean, my 23 years military experience

have had a lot of different leadership roles.

Humbly, I can say that I am truly battle-tested

because I'm literally have lead soldiers

in the fight through Iraq,

Afghanistan and the Philippines' appointment.

But the reality is there's something to be said

where we have been in this past 16 months

and if you don't mind, just let me.

We've had a growth in our economy in Alaska

just under five points in the last 16 months

right at 4.9%.

We're basically flat

from a standpoint of population,

minor growth of .03,

but we had a decrease in the amount of registered voters

of 2% in the Republican Party.

And so knowing that our economy is picking up

and that we're about to boom,

why on earth did we have any decline at all

and why did we not have growth?

Well, I have to say it's based on concern

from the leadership.

Well, I will tell you,

I'm going to out-darel.

He did it on the air,

so I feel like I'm very right doing this.

He was so mad after one of the things

that happened with the Republican Party on air.

Well, he was sitting here.

He changed his voter registration.

I did.

I started to change it back.

He was a Republican forever.

And then he changed.

And that's the thing.

You know, he went nonpartisan or undeclared.

But you know, that's what I've heard multiple people say

like what's the point?

And I've encouraged a lot of people to stay in the party,

kept saying get involved, get involved.

And I think, you know,

just to kind of think about this,

how is a Republican Party chair elected?

He's elected as convention here.

So the convention this year is going to be May 8th and 9th.

It's going to be down in Saldana.

So we will be down there.

So many of our districts are having their conventions now

or just had their convention.

So our delegates will go down to the KENI this summer.

And when we come together,

we will elect new party leadership.

And what is the message you'd like to leave delegates with

as they start contemplating really what they want to see

in their leadership going into 2026's election season?

Well, thank you.

If they win elected chair,

I'm going to uphold and enforce our party rules.

I'm going to be a steward of our values and our platform.

I'm going to interact with our legislators in Juno

to ensure that we can drive our specified legislative priorities

which were approved by the State Central Committee.

And I'm going to do any of the underlying tasks that's necessary

to complete the specified tasks within our rules.

If that means I have to become a lobbyist, I'll become a lobbyist.

We have to unite our party through one unified effort.

And that is to be fully transparent

and to hold people accountable.

That is what the voters are demanding.

And we should recognize that we owe that to them.

There's no way we're going to grow our voter registration

without being transparent and accountable.

And as chair, that's exactly what I'm going to do.

Well, that got you all.

I love it when you call in.

It's a breath of fresh air.

I look forward to hearing the debates

and hearing the conversations that happened around the Alaska Republicans

choosing their leadership this year.

I think you're going to be a breath of fresh air for a lot of Republicans.

So I appreciate you getting into the mix.

Thank you, Amy.

So much.

And thank you for everyone for listening.

All right.

Thank you so much, Zach.

That's Zach Godchall.

He is running for the Alaska Republican Party chair.

And I'm going to Zach, if you just hang on a second,

I'm going to get your contact information.

So if you want to contact you, they know how to do that.

We're going to take a quick break.

We'll be right back.

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