Shady Mailers Swing South Anchorage Assembly Race

0:00It's March 31st. You're listening to Anchorage News today, AI-powered local news, Encorey with the story. In the South Anchorage assembly race, incumbent Zach Johnson is catching heat from some shady campaign mailers funded by a group called Friends of. Good guys, one piece blasphem is too progressive, a rubber stand for left-wing drama, and pushes Bruce Ferguson as the fiscal conservative fix. The other flips the script, painting Johnson as a far-right maggot guy while hyping Janelle Sharp to build a safer, kinder Anchorage with better. Schools and affordable housing. These mailers drop right as ballots hit mailboxes, and the group only filed paperwork this month with the Alaska Public Offices Commission dodging. Donor details until just days before the April 7th deadline. Running the show is Cheryl Frasca, former budget boss under conservative mayors, and now treasurer for Sharp's campaign. Her top donors, local Republican business owners, with Josh York as chairman.

1:01Johnson calls the timing straight up sneaky, designed to split his moderate voter base, making Sharp look progressive to peel off liberals, boosting. Ferguson's conservative lane, he says the dishonesty fires him up, like politics justifies any dirty trick. Sharp insists no coordination with Ferguson, and neither she nor Ferguson hid back on the mailers. Fun raising tells the story too. Johnson pulled in over $50,000 recently, way ahead with Union and Construction PAC cash. Ferguson grabbed about $25,000, including 5 grand from a hockey team co-owner. Sharp, just 500 bucks, spending mostly on signs, no mail or trace. With ballots due April 7th, Anchorage folks can drop them at 18 secure boxes or voting center citywide, keep an eye on how this mailer mess. Shakes out the boat.