The Amy Demboski Show 4-07-2026

0:00for listening to News Radio 650, K-E-N-R. Amy Demposky, the show starts now. Our lines are open at 907-522-0650. This is the morning drive on News Radio 650, K-E-N-I. Good morning. It is Tuesday, April 7th. Current time, 606 AM. It is election day in the municipality of Anchorage. In case you have forgotten, you have to get your ballot in today. I recommend hand delivering it if you have not done so. There are lots and lots of drop-off locations, which we will run down here in just a few minutes. But in the meantime, Mr. Dean, how was your drive to work this morning? It was a fun and slippery ride in this morning, I gotta say. Roads out there are in iffy shape. They are mixed rain snow falling over most of the Anchorage area.

1:00It kind of gives a little bit of rain, a little bit of snow. But it is just enough to make the roads just greasy enough that when you are trying to accelerate in the lanes and stuff, helping you break free and on and off ramps. Yeah, some grease on those too. So caution this morning. Well, I will tell you, I get it. I am looking around and it says right now, you know, in big lake and in Anchorage, it shows snow, little snow coming down on my weather report. But today, it shows Anchorage is going to be like 43. So again, resistance is futile. This is just enough to make it the roads wet so your car gets dirty. That's it. One later with the later one. Right now, like I said, greasy enough that it makes you slippery. If you are already taking your snow tires off because you were cocky, well, this is the one that is going to make you spin out a little bit right there. Otherwise, yeah. I mean, last night when I went home at the end of the evening here, 40 degrees my drive home. Oh, nice. It was balmy, sloppy. It was great, you know. It's what we are looking for too. Well, you know, it can't be all sunshine and daisies.

2:03It's only April 7th. We got to wait. I'm ticking down the time so I can go pick up my flowers. I'm telling you, resistance is futile. Spring is basically here. We have April flowers make way for maze what? Yeah. Yeah. Something like that. Well, we do have, we do have warmer temperatures around South Central. I'm looking. I'm sitting at 29.7 right now. So let's round it up to 30 degrees. I'm going to bet you at 29, but I'm going to hold at 29. Okay. So Palmer 30. Anchorage 29. Big Lake 28. K928. Fairbanks. Double digits. 10 degrees and fairbanks. All right. Fairbanks. Heat wave. So all in all, it looks like it's going to, you know, it's going to clear up a little bit today. It's definitely going to get warmer as the day goes on. But I'm looking at these temperatures. Once we start seeing those, those highs starting to hit around 45. I mean, give it a couple more weeks.

3:05Give it a couple more weeks. It's going to be gorgeous. Kind of tell you it's going to be great. It's going to be the greatest spring of all springs. It's going to be fantastic. And what's spring is sprung? You'll never know. There you go. Well, if you are an Anchorage voter and you have to drop off your ballot today, there's a lot to places you could do it. I've already started getting those, those quick phone calls from people. Amy or text messages. Okay. What about this race? What do you think in this race? What do you think in that race? Or where do I get it? I can't find my ballot. Where do I go get a ballot? I'm starting to get those questions the last two days. So just a quick recap. If you have not gotten a ballot, if you've misplaced your ballot, if you messed up and you need a new ballot, there's basically three places you can go. You can go to the Lusac Library. They have all ballots for all districts. You can go down to City Hall. They have all ballots for all districts.

4:05If you live in Chugiac Eagle River, only Chugiac Eagle River, you can go to the Eagle River Town Center. So it's the same building as the library right there. Downtown Eagle River off a business bulletvard. And as you walk in the hallway, go down the hallway to Room 170. It's just past the library. It's on the left. Go in there and they have the ballots for Chugiac Eagle River. They can give you a replacement ballot. And then you'll be able to vote. If you want to find a location to drop off your ballot, you're not sure where you can go. I'm going to run through the list right now of where Anchorage voters can drop off their ballot today. You have to have your ballot inside of one of those secure drop-off ballot boxes by 8 p.m. They actually have people standing at the ballot boxes, and they will close the ballot boxes at 8 p.m. So you have to be there and have it dropped off by 8 p.m. tonight. So you can go to the ASD Education Center,

5:05which is located at 5530 East Northern Lights Boulevard City Hall. Of course, that's 632 West 6th Avenue. Eagle River Town Center, as I mentioned, they have a drop-off box location right in front of there too. Gurdwood Community Center, the Planning and Development Center on Elmore Road. It's 4,700 Elmore. The Spanard Community Rec Center, which is 2020 West 48th Avenue, Bartlett High School, Clark Middle School, the Election Center, which is down on Ship Creek. It's 619 East Ship Creek Avenue, the Lusac Library, a Service High School, UAE Alaska Center, Baggage Middle School, Diamond High School, Fairview Community Rec Center, O'Malley's on the green, South Anchorage High School, or West Anchorage High School. Those are your ballot drop-off locations. So if you need more information, I know I went through those kind of quickly, you can go to muni.org,

6:06click on the Election tab, and then click on the tab that says Voters, and it brings you to all that voter information. So hopefully that's helpful to you, Anchorage Voters this morning. Remember, you're going to be, you're going to be deciding a variety of ballot initiatives for bonds, and the best place I can send you Assemblyman Jared Gurker has done like a five-part series, covering all the bonds. There's a lot of them, so I haven't gone through individually each bond, because there's so many of them. But you can go to Jared's Facebook page, Assemblyman Jared Gurker, and it's actually spelled, it looks like Gurker, but it's pronounced Gurker, but it's spelled G-O-E-C-K-E-R, Assemblyman Jared Gurker, and he has like a five-part series on his bonds. So you can go there and find out all the information on the bonds. But also, you're going to be deciding Assembly candidates for all districts.

7:09So just a quick run-through for Assembly candidates, District 1, which is the North Anchorage, Nick Danger, Sydney Scout, Justin Millett, Max Powers, Jared and I have, Jared, I just called you Jared, Darrell. Darrell and I have been telling you, if we were in these races who we would vote for, we're not telling you how to vote, but we're telling you how we would vote. Right, how I would if I were there. Right, so District 1, that North Anchorage see, and Darrell and I are unanimous and are agreement on these candidates this year, which is not really all that surprising. Darrell and I are basically the same person, I just wear a skirt. Okay, so District 1, North Anchorage, I would vote for Justin Millett in that race. I concur. I mean, literally, these are all not heads, not on my side. Yep, yep. Okay, District 2, Chugacchi, Gilbert, J. Bear, Kyle Walker, versus Donald Handlin, I would vote Donald Handlin. And full disclosure, I donated to Donald Handlin. District 3, that's Darrell's district, he lives in West Anchorage,

8:09Brian Flynn, versus Dana Folly. Oh, Brian Flynn. Right, that's right here, for Brian Flynn out there. That's right, that's right. There you go. District 4, which is the Midtown Anchorage, you see, Dave Donnelly, Kim Winston, Janice Park. Oh, pretty easy there. Let's get... Yep, Dave Donnelly, they're all agreeing again. I've got a whole crowd here rooting for you guys. There we go. District 5, George Martinez, versus Cody Anderson. I would vote Cody Anderson. That's an easy one for me. Yeah. I'm not interested in, I'll keep my Wall Street George Martinez. No, thank you. So I would vote Cody Anderson in that race. That's a definite right there. Every time I hear George Martinez's name, I hear a... Yeah, exactly. It happened in an action. Yeah. District 5, or District 6, South Anchorage, Gurdwood, Ternigan Arm. We have Janelle Sharp, versus Bruce Ferguson, and Zach Johnson. Bruce Ferguson called into the show. We had a great conversation with him for like a half an hour. I would vote for Bruce Ferguson in that race.

9:09Oh, yeah, I definitely... That... And remember, Zach went last time, but pretty much put himself out there as a conservative, and what did we find out? It's a liberal, come on. Oh, yeah. Come on, come on. Come on, get out of here. You're the liberal. All right. Anchorage School Board candidates. These are the ones that most people are having questions about. I did it by process of elimination, because I pulled everybody's APOC reports. Right. And those that were heavily backed by the unions, or Margot Bellamy, I'm like, no, not for me. So, it's School Board seats C. You have Alexander Rosalas, versus Rachel Blake-Sley. That one, Darryl? How would you vote in that race? You know, I'd have to go with Rosalas, just because of conservative versus progressive, and you really look at it, and it comes down to it, almost all the stinks they've thrown out there against Rosalas, is all fluff. If they've literally pumped up everything they can, because they're terrified, they're going to lose that school board. And I've got to let you know, if we do not vote the conservatives in on that school board,

10:09here is where your school district's going. Right down there. Right on down there, so get out there and vote. Well, it's School Board CD. We have Sharon Gibbons, versus Dustin Darden, and Paul McDonough. Dustin Darden has posted on Facebook that he's now endorsing Sharon Gibbons. Sharon called into the show here on Friday. We had good conversation with her Friday. I would vote Sharon Gibbons in that race. And I'm going to ask the crowd, crowd you want to think Sharon Gibbons? That's who I'm going with, Sharon Gibbons. And crowd says Sharon Gibbons. You guys, join the crowd. All right. There we go. That is our run down on the Anchorage Municipal Election for this morning. Do remember to fill out your ballot completely. If you have a witness, you make sure you get your witness signature. All of those things that you need to have on your ballot. Make sure you sign your ballot. Make sure it's completely taken extra two seconds. And just go through and double check. Make sure it's signed. Make sure you do all of those things. Because the last thing you want is your ballot to be tossed

11:11because it's not complete. So again, your ballot has to be either post-mart today. Or I would recommend not doing that. I would recommend personally dropping it off. If you haven't dropped it off yet, drop it off in one of those secure drop box. But you have to do so by 8 p.m. All right. We're going to go ahead and take our first break of the morning. We'll be right back. Looking into your Alaska total traffic camera is on this Tuesday morning. There is a light mixed-range snow falling around the Anchorage Municipal Election. The O-650, K-E-N-I. Call now, 907-522-0650. Welcome back her time, 622. You know, the Alaska legislature is a very interesting, interesting place. You know, I know we rail on the legislature oftentimes. Frankly, they deserve it, oftentimes. But there are good people that serve down there. And you know, I really appreciate Representative McCabe.

12:11He takes time every Monday to call us and kind of give us a rundown on what's moving in. What you'll notice as the end of the session comes closer. Things go fast and furious. The horse trading begins. This bill that's not moving. All of a sudden is moving or it gets tucked into another bill. You know, all these different things happen. And, you know, then you enter the governor and potential vetoes. And there's just a lot of horse trading that potentially happens. You know, whether it's on the budget, the permanent funds, et cetera, et cetera. You know, when you start seeing, you know, a house committee passes a $3,800 permanent fund. The devil's in the details when we start talking about that. Because half of it is coming from the CBR, right? It's constitutional budget reserve. And it takes like a three-quarter majority to pull the money out of the CBR. I always forget if it's two-thirds and three-quarters. I think it's three-quarters. And yeah, and so I always go back. I'm like, which one is it?

13:12But it's not a simple majority. You know, so if you need three-quarters of the legislature to agree, they're not going to do it. The vast majority of legislators in the legislature do not support a statutory PFD. You need to know that Republicans and Democrats. And you saw that with the amendment in the House Finance Committee with BINAM, it was STAP. Because they both might be Republicans. But I'm telling you right now, I've had legislators telling me for two years, a year and a half. These guys don't support a full PFD. So when the amendment was made by Neil Foster for us to start the budget with a full PFD, they voted no. And then they came on that amendment, right? Then they came back with an amendment. And it's like, well, we'll put a full PFD in. But half of it comes from the CBR. What does that tell you? That kills half of it, right? Because you know already you don't have the votes for it. So it's like putting lipstick on a pig. And this is why Amy gets annoyed.

14:14Because frankly, that move right there makes it gives it lip service that they could say, oh, I voted for a full PFD, but what they didn't tell you is they put a poison pill in there. So those kind of things just tweak me. Because it makes me realize that there are some legislators that think you're stupid. And it just annoys the crap out of me when they patch you on their head like, oh, you know, we just know better. And the political games in Juneau are just... I mean, they're so superficial and obvious. If you take five minutes and watch what they're doing, it's obvious to everybody what they're doing. But that's where we are, right? So when you see the headlines, it says, you know, out of the house a $3800 permanent, but it's not going to be $3800. I can tell you right now, there's zero chance in Amy's opinion that it survives. Number one, it's not going to get the CBR vote. Number two, there's no way the Senate will agree to that. Because you've got to go through the Senate finance.

15:15Do you think Burt Stedman? Do you think he's going to pass a $3800 PFD? Not a chance. Hell will freeze over first. Amy's got me all wound up here now. And she knows this. She's been watching this building and building in here. I got two comments for this. Number one starts with, and you're talking about the shenanigans and how boys fast and furious. The horse trading starts. Yep. Stop it. If we were to put forward straight bills, straight played language, guess what? There's no more horse trading. There's no more questions. We can see what's going on out there. Do it as if it's reality. Don't play like we're puppets and stupid. As Amy said, you guys are literally playing like we're stupid. And you're hiding things under the blankets like a little kid. You got a bottle of soda and you want it. But you're not going to tell us about it so you hide it under the blankets. That irritates me greatly. Oh, I know. But the greatest and biggest lie that is being told everywhere, and it literally infuriates me. We are not pulling half of the PFD from the Constitutional Budget Reserve. The PFD money was deposited and moved across as a whole. The money you're pulling from the Constitutional Budget Reserve is for all the other fluff.

16:18You've stuffed in on top of everything. The PFD's money is there. That money is already moved across. I don't care what you say. It was moved as a transfer. You guys have played games with it all this time. It's ridiculous. And then to say, oh, will the PFD's coming from that? No, it's not. Our money was already there. All this other fluff you want. You want to cut out and lose this Constitutional Budget Reserve draw. Cut all this extra BS that you've put out there, including the BSA you've put in there. Yes, Darrell's mad, Darrell's angry. Darrell, tell me how you really feel. Tell me how you really feel. Tell me how you really feel. This way and literally getting in the faces of them. Say enough is enough. We're done. Right there. You know, talking about talking about shenanigans and you know, I had to laugh because Scott Kendall wrote an op-ed in the ADN about this crime bill. And I will tell you, I know there's people out there. Look, Scott Kendall, first and foremost, he's my attorney. I have brought him in as my attorney and I've used him for a few years now.

17:21He's very good. He's like, he's like, I'm a tack dog. We don't always agree on politics, which is totally fine. But he's sharp as a wit. And I'm telling you, he wrote this op-ed with Laura Norton Cruz and Bianca Cross. You remember Bianca Cross? She was, if APD's police chief for a little while and they were talking about this particular bill in the Senate, that would raise the age of, at actually, I think it's a House Bill 101. But it would raise the age of consent from 16 to 18. And Matt Clayman is playing political games with this and he is holding it. So I'm not going to read the whole op-ed because it's kind of long, but I want to give you the flavor of it. Alaska's age of consent, Lupo puts teens at risk and a fix is stuck in the state Senate. It says, we are three Alaska to a dedicated time advocating for victims of sexual violence as an attorney,

18:22a social worker, and a victim advocate and law enforcement officer. We're writing here across, we're writing here across our differences in political beliefs and professional backgrounds to express our profound disappointment and Senator Matt Clayman for obstructing a bill that would protect minors from sexual assault. We write this together because we share the belief that 16 and 17-year-old Alaskans deserve stronger action from adult predators and because we share an anger that Senator Clayman, Senator Clayman, for his repeated delay to pass House Bill 101 out of committee, which would address this need by raising the age of consent to 18. HP 101 was sponsored by Representative Andrew Gray and co-sponsored by a tripartisan group of representatives to pass the Alaska House unanimously last May, which is obviously a rare occurrence in the Alaska legislature. This demonstrates both the common sense appeal of the bill and its urgency.

19:23Alaska has consistently ranked number one in the country for rates of rape and child sexual abuse. The average age of all victims of reported sexual assaults in Alaska is just 16, and the average age of perpetrator is considerably higher around the age of 30. And so it goes on, I'm going to skip through some of this because it talks about the bill in detail in some of the things. It says right here, many of these adults are known to prey on youth, excuse me, who are homeless or otherwise vulnerable, promising them food, money, and gifts. And under current law, this conduct is essentially legal as parents of teens and preteens, and as people who care about the well-being of young people, we believe firmly that middle-aged adults should not prey on minors, importantly, raising the sexual age of consent requires close and age exceptions, so that consensual sexual activity between fellow young people is not criminalized.

20:23HP 101 contains those exceptions. We respect the autonomy of young people and their relationships. The sole purpose of this bill is to better protect 16 and 17-year-old victims of assault and sex trafficking, and to send a clear message to those who would prey on them. Despite the unanimous passage, despite the unanimous passage in the House, this bill has languished for many months since Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by claimant. He has been slow to schedule hearings, at which he asked testifiers, critical or even hostile questions. He has not put HP 101 before his committee for a vote so it can move forward, nor has he scheduled a deadline for amendments or a final vote at this point. It appears that Senator Clayman is using his position as chaired to run out the clock on the session to kill the bill. If he succeeds, teen victims will have to wait another year for more protection. So it's interesting in this discussion because Senator Clayman is now coming out and telling people that basically,

21:28there might be an omnibus crime bill that he'd really like to wait for this omnibus crime bill. He'd really like to, not just deal with this issue, but other issues as well. And it was funny because on Scott's Facebook post, for his Facebook post, he says in here, Clayman has claimed he is holding the bill to be part of an omnibus crime package. This is clever deception. There's no such bill. And the filing, a large bill within weeks would certainly fail. It's just another way he can kill HP 101 without his opposition being clear. What can you do? If you agree with the article, if you agree with the fact that the age of consent should be raised to protect 16 and 17-year-olds, you can contact Senator Clayman directly. You can email him at senator.mat.claimon at akaleg.gov, or you can call there at his office, 888-465-4919.

22:31Obviously, you can also call your legislators and advocate, but this is when we talked about the political deception in Juneau, when we were talking about the PFD. This is my point. You have a chair of a committee who can literally hold a bill to pass unanimously in the House. And his little line is, well, we're going to add it to an omnibus crime bill. First of all, individual bills are passed the deadline. They can't introduce them. It would have to be a committee bill, which is not likely. An omnibus bills take much longer to get through, because what is an omnibus bill? It's throwing all kinds of things in the sink and saying, hey, let's do all these things together. And they take a lot longer to get through than just a single issue bill. So clearly, for some reason, Matt Clayman is trying to kill this bill. And he's trying to make it sound like, oh, well, we're going to be working on all these other things. So let's add it together. But what he's not telling people is there is no omnibus bill.

23:31There's no omnibus bill drafted or introduced. And so it's a figment of his imagination. But he's telling people that because he thinks you're dumb. You see the trend that's happening here? And you know? Oh, absolutely. And again, this goes right into what I was saying before. Straight forward. This is a straightforward bill. Should be no problem to go pop, pop, pop, go it right through. You know, I've been having a fairly good day until this story came up. Now my stomach's all upset. My head's starting to hurt. Mainly because I'm agreeing with Scott Kendall. This is like just, I just, I just... Oh, come on. Zero. It happened. But it does. And it does. That kind of gets the bad rap. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you gotta give them right. He is. I am agreeing with them. Claiming again, that's my area. And again, I never agree with this man. And here we go. I'm not agreeing with them. And I just like to point out one thing. The young lady who is part of this also, Ms. Cross. Yes, yes, yes. Which, remember, she was the first female of cover, or color named as police chief of Anchorage.

24:31And that was removed by the progressive mayor when she came in and replaced with a white male, standard white male. So remember, all of you progressives out there, no matter how much they tell you something, watch their actions. Just a little thought that was brought up there. Well, you know, that's because Bianca's conservative, I think. That's why. I mean, that's my guess. She doesn't get all the, but she fits all their boxes. Yeah, but she's a good egg. I got to tell you. You know, when I look at this, but this is my point, is there are lots of issues out there where people can come together and they can agree on. And this is one where you have a conservative former police officer. I think she's conservative. I'm assigning that to her because that's how I perceive her. A conservative and you have a more moderate to liberal attorney. And then you have this social worker in the mix and all three of them who have differing political views come together and say, this is a good bill. And I think it's reflected in the fact that the entire house

25:32voted for this bill. So if it's 40 to zero, I would say there's probably something good in this bill. But it can't even get out of committee in the Senate. So that's a problem. So that's a problem. So here's the thing. Matt Clayman needs either discharge it or the Senate. I think can pull it from this committee. I'm sure there's ways they can do that. But it should get done. All right. We're going to take a quick commercial break if you'd like to call in 522-0650. No following. 2-0-650. It's Amy Dembosky, on News Radio. 650-K-E-N-I. Well, it is election day today in the municipality of Anchorage. We will be deciding or I should say you no longer we. I'm in the Matt Zoo. I gotta tell you, best mood I've moved by ever made. But Anchorage voters will be deciding who is going to represent them on the Anchorage assembly along with a number of ballot propositions, school board candidates as well.

26:33But joining us now is one of the candidates for Anchorage assembly in West Anchorage. Mr. Brian Flynn, good morning, sir. Good morning, Amy. How's it going today's election day? How you feeling? We're feeling good. We're just head down and moving forward trying to make some change in Anchorage. Maybe get a little closer to what you're enjoying out in Palmer. Oh, I gotta tell you, best mood. It's just a little brighter over here on the side of the river. But look, I don't think I don't think how hope is lost in Anchorage because there's some good candidates running. And you really do have a chance to make a difference. And Brian, you understand West Anchorage. You know West Anchorage. You get what the voters are feeling. And I think you're able to articulate a consensus and a path forward that will actually make a difference. I really, really do hope that you do well in this election today because, gosh, I gotta just say, it would be an improvement. Thank you, Amy.

27:33When I see out there as people want change, they're tired of what they're seeing. We're just saying positive. We want a positive change for Anchorage. And turn us in the direction that gets people to feeling like they can trust government again. And that's what we're trying to do. You know, I would say that's a good closing argument for why the change, you know, as you kind of look back on this election cycle. And all the conversations you've had with people, what is the biggest takeaway you have for this, for people as they go to the polls? Well, like I said, they want to change, but they want to feel like government has their back. They want to feel like the representatives have their back. We're just trying to represent that once again and get people to feel like they can go back to their work. They go back to their kids playing hockey or whatever they're doing. And that the assembly is working on their behalf to make sure that their taxes aren't too high, that we're spending responsibly, that there's accountability. And people just have to understand you can't have that.

28:34You can have it because you have the opportunity today to go vote. You can come out, you can vote for me or any of the other candidates trying to get positive change back, especially not just for West Anchorage, but representing all of Anchorage. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I think there's an opportunity this time to increase the conservatives, increase the independent thinkers on the assembly significantly. There's a number of good candidates in this cycle. And I think there's an opportunity for you guys to really make headway. Because once you start getting numbers on the Anchorage assembly, then they can no longer ignore the voters. The thing that I keep going back to is what we saw with property assessments. Because that's a perfect example. You had these huge increases in property assessments with people doing nothing to their homes. And the administration can't even articulate why they happen or their methodology and why these are going crazy.

29:34And you had three assembly members. You had Scott Meyers, Jared Gurker and Keith McCormick introduced a very common sense solution to deal with these assessments that clearly are wrong. Because they clearly think, I mean, how is it? You know, my assessment goes up $100,000, but my neighbors doesn't go up at all. And I didn't do anything to my house. Clearly, there's a problem there, right? But it's like they just didn't even want to address it. And you had assembly members that had a solution yet the assembly voted it down. It's crazy to me. Absolutely. And it's still continuing to resonate. Even months, two and a half months later, people are still talking to me about it this past week is on Dornock. And not only that, they're being compounded by insurance premium increases, mortgage payment increases. That's going to be tacked on by the property taxes that will be coming out next month. It's a big mess. It's something that we, you know, like you mentioned, the three members that put that resolution forward.

30:38That was an opportunity to bring commonsense back. And just a step of what we could do, if we get some more commonsense conservative ideas back on that, Dias. And again, make people have to listen to it. And also get the public involved again. You know, the public can't stay till 11.30 at night to voice their opinions. You need to bring that back and make people feel like they can engage with their representatives again. Absolutely. I couldn't have said it any better. You know, this is the last opportunity. I know you're going to be campaigning up until the end. I'm sure tonight. But if people have, you know, have final questions and they're on the fence trying to decide between you and your opponent. And they say, well, I just want to know how he feels on this one issue. Is there a way that people can get a hold of you today to make their final decision? Absolutely. All right. Well, Brian Flynn, he is the conservative candidate running for West Anchorage, but beyond that, I would just say commonsense running for West Anchorage.

31:52Brian, I wish you the best of luck in today's election. And we will be watching the returns. Thank you, Amy. I really appreciate your support and the ability to come out and talk to people. It's been great. Thank you so much. You're welcome. All right. That's Brian Flynn again, candidate for West Anchorage. You have to get your ballots in by 8 p.m. tonight. So again, yes, you can get a post mark, but I recommend you drop them off in person. You can drop them off at one of those drop box locations. If you need to find those locations and locations in Anchorage, just go to muni.org. That's m-u-n-i dot o-r-g. And then click on the election tab, then click on the voter tab. And it lists all the drop off locations all across the municipality of Anchorage. All right. We're going to take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. Looking into your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning. There is a light mixed rain snow falling around the Anchorage bowl area making roads a bit slippery. Do be careful on the intersections. Also, some of them straight stretches got some pretty slick spots out.

32:52Do be careful coming into town today. If you see traffic problems on the road, dial pound to 50 on yourself. Say total traffic. For Alaska's total traffic, I'm Daryl Dean. From the o2.com traffic center, o2.com, the only business software you need. This report is sponsored by Compassion International. Amy Demposky. Call 907-522-0650. And be a part of the show on UseRadio650, K-E-N-I. Welcome back for some time. Thanks for having me. You know, it's really funny, Daryl, because Alaska politics is just like a tiny little fish bowl. And you cross pass all the time. I always remark it makes me funny. It makes me laugh because there's certain people's names that you mentioned in Alaska politics, and people get very triggered. You know, I covered this story earlier about this op-ed relating to HB 101, which is the age of consent bill that has been introduced to pass the house unanimously.

33:56And it's been stuck in Senate judiciary because claimants basically sitting on it. He won't bring it in front of the committee so the committee can have amendments so the committee can vote on it to move it to the next committee. So he's just sitting on it. He doesn't want to pass it for whatever reason. But I laugh when Scott Kendall wrote the op-ed because Scott Kendall is one of those names that you can mention in people freak out. Scott Kendall was a lifelong Republican. And he does not like Trump. You know, in the era of Trump, I think he changed to probably undeclared or nonpartisan. Very close with Lisa Murkowski. I would put him as kind of a Lisa Murkowski kind of, you know, moderate, left leaning. But you know, it's kind of the father of ring choice voting, frankly. And I laugh because I get along really well with Scott Kendall. Obviously, I hired him as my attorney because he's very good. But we don't agree on a lot of political issues, but there's things that we do come together and agree on.

34:56And oftentimes it's relating to criminal justice type issues, right? Because there's certain things that are just black and white for me. Don't break the law, right? That's like pretty simple, pretty straightforward. We both have this belief that just don't break the law. But I laugh when I saw this op-ed because, you know, here's this op-ed, written. You have a conservative, and you have a, I'd say a liberal, right? Yeah, that are writing this op-ed together about the same issue. But when you look at the Alaska legislature and look at the vote on HB 101, I mean, how many things passed the Alaska House 40 to nothing? How many things? So few, so few. So few. So this should be it. This should be a no-brainer. This should be an easy one to pass. But I laugh because, you know, people, God, you mentioned his name and people just like, it's like mentioning my name. You don't want me to hear you hate me. Yeah, yeah, you either love me or hate me. But I got to be honest with you. I like him. I mean, I think I have found, you know, we could talk about issues.

35:58We could debate issues. Oh, you know, we don't really talk a lot politics because that's not really the relationship we have. Our relationship is more, you know, obviously, I've hired him. So our relationship, when I talk to him, it's mostly about, it's mostly about legal issues. But I just chuckle because people lose their mind. But you wouldn't believe how many Republicans actually go to this guy for legal help, but they won't say it publicly. Because, you know, it's like, oh, the boogie man. Well, there's a reason. There's a reason Amy A. I'm triggered by the name because most of what I know of him is ranked choice voting, and the things that go against what I feel are right. But as you said, there are a lot of things that he says where I have to duck my head and say, yes, he's right. And the other thing when people say, oh, well, how could you have him as a lawyer? I'm sorry, but if I am given the choice of a pit bull or a cowawa, I am going to take the pit bull. Because every cowawa makes a lot of noise and has flashy teeth.

36:59Guess what? The pit bulls win and my job or my want is to win. I'm going to hire the pit bull no matter what. So I cannot hold that against you at all. Yeah, that's why I kind of chuckle because people lose their mind over it. And I'm just like, I don't know what to tell you, but I like to win. And, you know, I disagree politically on issues, but to me, I'm not hiring a girl scout. Well, yeah, I'm hiring a pit bull. Do you want the pit bull or do you want? Do we cheat him and how? I mean, come on. That's your choices in this kind of thing. And I'm going to take that pit bull, as you said, even though I may disagree with all these things, if he's what I need to win, I want to win. Well, you know, and I got to tell you, when somebody's right, whether you agree with or disagree with them, if they're right, they're right. They're right. And when we talk about HP 101, I think it's a very interesting topic. I think it's a very interesting topic, and I think it's one that needs to be highlighted. And so, regardless of the source who's talking about it, I think if they make a good point, you got to give them props.

38:01And I think when it comes to the criminal, the raising the age you can send to 18, clearly this is an issue. It should at least make it to the Senate floor so it can be debated there and voted on there. But you have one legislator who's obstructing it. One, just one, and that is the point for me. It's not whether it passes or fails. For me, that one is, it should make it to the Senate floor. So that can't play my needs to feel a little pressure on this one, I think. All right, let's take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. It's time to stop the bycatch BS. Alaska's fisheries are the best managed in the world. Billian Ellison, to news radio 650, K-E-N-I.

39:01Welcome back to live, local and insightful morning drive radio. On news radio, 650 K-E-N-I. Welcome back to our two of the immediate Vosky Show broadcasting live in local every week. Day morning from 6 to 8 a.m. right here on 6.50 a.m. If you're listening to us on the radio, if you want to stream us or even fight our podcast, there's multiple ways to do that. You can go to our website, which is 650 K-E-N-I. iHard.com. And right there, you can click the play button and it will just play the show line-ups throughout the day. Or you can scroll down and you can see my face right there. Click on it and you'll find all my podcasts. Or if you don't have your computer handy and you want to listen on your phone, Daryl has a very easy way to do that. That would be that iHard radio media app. It's fun, it's easy, it's free. You can get it from any of your Google Play, Apple Store, it's multiple different sources, fast download, and you will never regret it because

40:05you have access to all the information in the world. Literally, all of the information at the world at your fingertips, podcast, music, comedy routines, if you can name it, it's probably on there and if it's not on there yet, just thinking about it will most likely make it manifest. It is literally that crazy out there and easy to find things. Once you find something you like, put it on your preset, you are good to go. The iHard radio media app, free. For free, well I will tell you, I've been watching some of these different footages from the weekends of this Air Force colonel who was rescued from down to F-15 in Iran over the weekend. So Friday the plane went down, they got with a pilot immediately, and then the other officer on board obviously landed in a different location and had to engage in invasive maneuvers in order to stay hidden, stay concealed, communicate with U.S. military until he got rescued rather.

41:10As the story comes out, I can't wait until months down the road. We actually get to hear from this guy because it will happen. There will be news interviews, I'm sure. I can't wait to hear the story because it's just such a remarkable story. But yesterday I was listening to Secretary of War P Hegseth talking about this rescue and what happened. It kind of gives you goosebumps a little bit when you listen to the initial communication from this Air Force officer who was stranded behind enemy lines. It was really quite remarkable. We have an audio clip that we grabbed. The Secretary of War P Hegseth. When he was finally able to activate his emergency transponder, his first message was simple and it was powerful. He sent a message, God is good.

42:11In that moment of isolation and danger, his faith and fighting spirit shown through. You see, shot down on Friday, good Friday. Hidden in a cave, a crevice all of Saturday and rescued on Sunday. Flown out of Iran is the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for a nation rejoicing. God is good. You know, it's quite remarkable if you think about it. The faith that he had, the skill that he shown, the amount of resources and the other warriors that went into safe. This is what these guys live for. I mean, these guys, there's no question. I guarantee they were all hyped up like, let's go get them. Let's go get them. No man left behind.

43:11It was quite remarkable. I know, I don't know. What do you think the mix is of our listening audience? People who support or don't support the Iranian conflicts? Are you asking me? I'm going to go probably because I know that not all of our listeners are conservative. I'm going to go 80 20. 80 20. You see, when you look at the sourcing across the country as dev different polling, some of the polling will show you it's almost an even split. But among conservatives, I mean, they're showing 83% or something like that of conservatives. I actually support the, how I'm like, but I know there's some good conservatives who don't. You know, and I think about, I was thinking about this last name, thinking about the Republican Party. You will have people like Lindsey Graham who support every single military action there is. Like Lindsey Graham, there's not a target he hasn't wanted to bomb. Let's just be honest. And then you have people like Rand Paul that are in the Republican Party, that are very much more libertarian leaning that are very much like no conflicts.

44:12You know, like, I don't want to call them necessarily isolationist, but that's kind of the, we shouldn't get involved with anything basically at any time, only if it's on our homeland. And then, and then it's defiant defensive posture. So you have this swath even within the Republican Party. And I think reasonable, there are reasonable people who do not support the engagement in Iran. And I've been clear, I mean, I've been saying this for two years that like, I gotta be honest with you. Since October 7th, I'm like, wipe them off the planet. That's been my, and I'm not hiding that. I haven't hidden that. Since October 7th, look, the reality is in Amy's view, when somebody says they want to kill you, take them seriously. When somebody demonstrates they're willing to decapitate you because you're an American, because you're a Jew, because you're a Christian, take them seriously. And if it's either kill them or I get killed, like, I'm all about it.

45:12Like, wipe them off the face of the planet. I don't think you can negotiate with these people. I don't think you can negotiate with terrorists. I think they will lie, they will deceive to further their mission, which is this radical ideological perverse mission to kill everybody who's not like them. Like, I gotta be honest with you. They've been at war with us for almost 50 years. At what point are we gonna take them seriously? And just like cockroaches, you can't let them breathe. You can't let them take over all these continents, like they're doing, because there will come a point where you have no choice but to kill or be killed. And that's what you're seeing all across Europe, right? You're seeing this proliferation of this radical ideology, and it's gonna come home to roost, and the fact of the matter is, you either gotta keep it in check now or you're gonna be overrun, and you're seeing that. And so you've seen that with the increase of proliferation of this radical ideology all over Europe.

46:16And there came a point where somebody like Donald Trump came along and said, no, this is the moment, first time in 50 years, we really have an opportunity, 47 technically, but let's just round it up to 50 years. We have an opportunity to basically cut off the head of the snake, and we're taking it. And I gotta tell you, I think it's probably one of those decisions, not an easy decision, because nobody likes to send our soldiers, sailors, Marines to war. Nobody wants to do that, except maybe Lizzie and Lindsey Graham. But, you know, you see that opportunity, and I think this is a decision that will save countless American lives going forward. And there's a lot of people out there that will say, well, you know, we're going in alone, there's not all these other countries that are supporting us, but actually, I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true at all. I was listening to the NATO Secretary General, Mark Roup, yesterday, and I pulled an audio clip from him, and he was talking about, you know, yes, I know we're a little slow to act,

47:18and after President Trump's speech to the nation last week, he's clearly not happy with NATO, and NATO knows it. But, they may be slow to act, but they are coming, they are coming to the table, they are bringing their resources. And I just wanted to play you a little audio clip from the NATO Secretary General, talking about specifically, whether this Iranian conflict should have happened, whether it was necessary, and what NATO resources are coming to the table to help open the Strait of Hormuz. Here he is. I know the President was angry because he feels that European and other allies have been too slow. The good news here is that, since Thursday, a group of 22 countries, most of them from NATO, but also Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the UAE, and Bahrain, most of the other countries from NATO coming together to implement his vision of making sure that the Strait of Hormuz is free,

48:18is opening up as soon as that is possible. So we are now planning the military people and others amongst this group of 22 nations and with the US. When can we do that? What is needed, and how should we do this? I know there is a lot of debate in the US and in Europe whether this campaign of the President against Iran was necessary, and let me tell you, it is. It is crucial that the President that the US is doing this, to take out the nuclear capability and the ballistic missile capability. Because this is posing a threat, it is an existential threat to Israel, it is a threat to the region, it is a threat to Europe, to the whole world, and so it is really crucial that the US is doing this. And I hope that people understand that argument even if they are doubting whether it was necessary or not. It is necessary and a comment to President's leadership. So there you have it. Do you hear that unplayed on normal news anywhere, Darryl? All you hear is nobody is for it, nobody. You know, people don't think it is.

49:19You have the NATO Secretary General out there saying this was absolutely necessary to do. Here is the reality. Obama facilitated the ability for Iran to not only become a nuclear power, but they had no check in balance in the unfroze assets to fund the effort. He said, oh, we are going to have inspectors on the ground and they are not going to be able to do this. They are not going to be able to do that. They won't be able to deliver long-range ballistic missiles. They are not going to be able to enrich uranium. They did all of those things. Proof positive is look how many missiles they were able to launch. They had different targets that they weren't even supposed to have those type of long-range missiles. They clearly had them. They clearly were cheating. They themselves said we had 60% enriched uranium and we absolutely have, they had a right to develop a nuclear weapon. That's what they told our negotiators. If people are telling you something, you should believe them.

50:21If they are telling you they want to kill you, you should believe them. If they tell you they are seeking a nuclear weapon and they have 60% enriched uranium, the only reason you have even to that level enriched uranium is because you are seeking a weapon. It's not for power. It's not to turn on the lights. And so they cheated under Obama's plan. Biden gave them billions and billions of dollars of money. And then Trump came in and said, you know what? Your strategies have failed. And it's clearly obvious today. And I'm going to take care of the problem. And he is. And you know what? He's doing it because Europe can't and won't. And I think people seem to forget when they're talking about how Obama, you know, allowed them to do this and that. Iran was actually on the verge of monetary collapse. They were literally going to get crushed and failed. They weren't able to sell their oil. Literally all the sanctions and everything had worked.

51:21They were going to collapse. And then walking out the door, he dropped some tens of billions of dollars in the US cash. At night. At night. And then allows the other things to go on. It's like literally, he opened up the bank for him and said, you know what? Do what you want. Here you go. And it literally bankrolled it. I mean, those pallets of hundred dollar bills is beyond crazy. It's crazy. And here's the reality. Policies of appeasement do not work. They didn't work with Hitler. They don't work with Iran. Policies of appeasement is weakness. It does not work. And you know, that's why I say reasonable people do disagree on this topic. And I understand that. And I'm not vilifying anybody for disagreeing with it whatsoever. I'm just telling you it's not my position. And it hasn't been my position. You know, the moment I absolutely hard in my position was October 7th. Oh, yeah.

52:21That's the moment I hard in my position. And I said, hell, no, not anymore. I'm done with it. Turn them to glass. Like done with it. Get rid of this regime completely and entirely done. Decapitate the snake. That's where I moved. And you know, I guess, you know, it shouldn't have taken them much to get me there, I guess. But it did. And here we are. And I will never forget. The atrocities that we were read about that we watched on October 7th. I will never forget. Because if they had the opportunity to do it here in the US, they would do it. And I guess that's where I'm at. You know, I'd rather have the fight on their land than on ours. But through mass migration, trust me, it's here. We just haven't seen it. Rare it's head. Like we've seen it. Them do against Israel yet. But it will happen because Democrat policies that allow them to almost become a nuclear country have allowed the enemy to infiltrate our country.

53:23And we're going to have to deal with it. And so I'm sorry. I'd rather have somebody like Trump at the helm than somebody like Obama or Biden. Like I don't want to. Yeah, I don't want to. I want to warfighter. I want somebody who recognizes sometimes you got to make the hard decisions. And you got to take out the enemy. Before they take out our people. And that's where I'm at at this. But I just wanted to share with you a little bit of the takeaway that I'm hearing, especially out of the NATO secretaries general, because you're not hearing that reported other places. 22 other nations are stepping forward saying, yes, we're going to help. We're going to help reopen this, you know, this, this straight-aharmist. Where else are we hearing that reported? Nowhere. All right. Let's go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead, girl. Well, I was just going to say. And don't forget one of the things that he mentioned was about saving American lives, saving European lives. For those of you progressives out there who that's not important to, that is the lives of the

54:23Iranians. Remember, if we can overturn this, this regime that's in there, we're going to save tens to hundreds of thousands of Iranian lives from their own government. Just a five guys. Yeah. Good point. All right. Let's go ahead and take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. We've got some wonderful morning drive radio with Amy Dembosky on NewsRadio 650, KENI. Get on the show now by calling 9075220650. You know, Darryl, sometimes somebody's last just later. I just shake my head. I didn't pull the audio because I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it. But yesterday I was, I was flipping through Facebook and I see a, I see a post by representative of Andrew Gray, and he basically is accusing Donald Trump of potentially committing war crimes. Like, shut the hell up. I gotta get to, I got, there comes a point. And he basically saying that President Trump has come out and said that, you know, he's going to target the electrical

55:25chloride. And if he does that, that's going to kill civilians. And he's intentionally targeting civilians. And he's going to get shut up. What do you think war is? Do you think we're just not, we're not going to, we're not going to shoot their bridges. We're not going to shoot their infrastructure. I mean, you take out their ports, take, I mean, that is not a war crime because you shoot a power plant. That's not a war crime. But then I got it. I got it because these, these people don't have original thoughts of their own. So as I'm watching the news last night on CNN, MSN, BC, you know, all of the fake news outlets, what do you hear these little puppets saying over and over again? Oh, if each other gets the electrical grant, this is a war crime. And I'm like, ah, Andrew, I figured out where you got your talking point from. God, I can't take these legislators. I just can't take them. Well, you know, the greatest thing is if you really want to know what their talking points are going to be, all you have to go, I do believe it's called sky or big sky, that new site, they set up when they had to sleep, Twitter, because Twitter actually got, got reasonable

56:28and stuff. Yeah. If you go on there, you literally, this is where they get their, their placards, their talking points on there. And then it goes straight to the main news agencies. And then all the individual ones will literally, that's why they have the exact same wording. I mean, we're back to again with Obama or back to the Biden days when literally you turned on the TV and you could have a hundred different newscasters. And somehow, some way their story was exactly word for word on and you're like doing independent journalism. Nope, doesn't exist anymore. And that's what we're going back to with all of these talking points, literally. Well, exactly, some of you lefties out there. I really want to understand, you know, because I hear some of the, the, the, the stuff that comes out of your mouth or comes out of your side. And I'm trying to understand it. And I had to laugh this morning because I saw attacks that Larry sent me a meme. And I just, I just chuckled when I looked at it. I saw, I was like, you know, he's not wrong. And in basically, he talks about leftism, right? And it

57:28talks about how leftism is really a religion of self-hatred. You know, what does it say? It says, it teaches white people to hate their race, boys to hate their sex, women to hate their femininity, Americans to hate their country, Westerners to hate their history. It's, it's really such a poisonous, poisonous ideology. I mean, it's all about hate. It's all about hate. And when you think about it, I'm like, what are you actually for? What are you actually for? Because, you know, I, I, I struggle when, when I, I kept my mouth shut on my family vacay, because my brother's girlfriend is, is a hardcore like, lefty. And, you know, nobody, everybody tried not to bring up politics because, you know, don't want to trigger the lefty in the group. Want them to make it be feel, feel comfortable. But that's fine. That's fine. But, but I just, I try to understand where they're coming from. Because, you know, to me,

58:33it's a, it's an absolute religion of intolerance, which is, it's ironic because they, they used to claim to be the tolerant group, right? But they're not tolerant at all. Because, if you have a different thought of, from them, you know, you're ostracized. You see, you remember these men on the streets where they'll go on college campuses and ask, ask kids, you know, like, hey, do you have any friends that are, not even college campuses? I've seen a man on the street, like in San Francisco and asking older, older people. Like, do you have any, do you have any Republican friends? And the reaction is like, oh, God, no. Well, I will tell you, I have friends that are lefties. Because, you know, if you're my friend, you're my friend, I might think you're Kukudu. You know, I might think, how can this person who's so smart be so dumb? I mean, I gotta be honest with you. That's my general reaction when I have friends that are lefties. I'm like, God, they seem so smart. How can they be so dumb? Like, honestly, honestly, how could you vote for Kamala? And, you know, John Federman said it best. I think last week I was watching a

59:36Federman thing. And he said, basically, his party, the leader of his party has basically turned into TDS. Anything Trump has for there again. That's the leadership of his party. It's just like anti-Trump. But, you know, here's the thing. And this is why I say we need more critical thinkers in this world. Everybody was all about Trump when they thought he was a Democrat. Right? When he came out and ran for president as a Republican, that's where it started. It wasn't because his ideology had changed. It wasn't because Donald Trump changed as a person. You can go back to interviews from him from the 90s when he talked about Iran Campy nuclear, where he talked about America getting screwed on trade, where he was sitting there with Oprah. You can watch him. He hasn't really changed. He changed his party. Why? Because I think the Democrat party has left a lot of Americans behind. Some of them are slower to make the conversion than others. But I think you're going to see the conversion. I think you're going to see the

1:00:38conversion with unions. I think you're starting to see in this last election cycle. How many members actually voted for Donald Trump? A whole lot. A whole lot. Because you know what? The Democrat party is unhinged. They're insane. They think boys can be girls. They think illegal should be in this country on perpetual assistance should be able to vote. When you start looking into the policies of the Democrats, you have to ask yourself, does this even make sense? That's why I hope there are some critical thinkers out there that start stepping back and saying, you know what? Maybe that makes a little sense. Wait a second. Why? Am I keep voting this way? When these people are so absolutely illogical. I think there are so many people that are emotion driven. And it's hard. It's hard when my mom, my dad, my grandma, we've always voted Democrat.

1:01:43It's hard to be the one to buck the trend in your family. I know that. I get that. But I think more and more people are seeing how absolutely lunacy is coming from the left. And I'm hoping as time goes on, we have more people that come come over to the lights. Come over to the light. We welcome you in. We welcome you in. Can you think of the thought of this way? So what I notice is is the progressive side likes to portray hate as love. Okay? That's what we love this and we love the LGBTQ. But they're actually hating on the heterosexual or the male or all that. But they're portraying it as love of one group which makes it the hate of the other. And what this all of a sudden as we were talking just now reminded me of, this is an abusive relationship. This is exactly this was an relationship and you were man and woman or adult and children. This would be considered abusive because you are literally saying you love this and then hating

1:02:49all the rest of that. That's abusive. I mean literally when you come down to it, I mean all you psychologists and all you people out there start thinking about this. My eyes literally just lit up as Amy was going, wait, this is a political abusive relationship. You guys need to help. Counseling, there we go. You know, I can help you but you got to get past your TDS. You got to do that. You got to put it aside. You know, this is how I got to convert in my family. I remember many many years ago. It was during the Obama McCain race. I sat down with a member of my family who died hard Democrat and I said, no, no, we're not going to talk about who said what? We just talked about the policies. I said, you know, and as we went through towards the end, she had a revelation that all the things that she did not agree with were coming out of Barack Obama's mouth. And in that particular race, she made the change and she started voting Republican into this day die hard Republican Trump supporter socially liberal. No doubt about it. But when it came down to it,

1:03:52when you take away the labels and you don't tell them who said what and you just get into the sub sniff, all of a sudden you realize that she had their realization. You know, my family member had the realization that wait a second, I don't agree with any of the things they're pushing. Oh my god. See, we can we can win some converts. It's one by one, two by two. We'll do it. All right, we're going to take a quick commercial break if you'd like to call in 5 2 2 0 6 50. Waking up on the right side. This is the Sean Hannity Morning Minute. The United States military pulled off one of the most daring search and rescue missions in US history for one of our incredible crew member officers who also happens to be a highly respected colonel who I am thrilled to let you now know is now safe and sound. His brave warrior was behind enemy lines in the treacherous mountains of Iran being hunted down by our enemies who were getting closer and closer by the hour, but was never truly alone because his commander in chief secretary

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1:06:58mines across the state produce zinc, gold, silver, lead, and copper supporting an industry worth nearly $3 billion a year. The report says Alaska is currently the nation's only source of germanium. A critical mineral used in electronics produced at the Red Dog Mine in northwest Alaska. I'm Monica Nelson. News radio 650 KENI depend on it. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning, slippery roads all around Anchorage won't lots of black ice out there temperatures are having right about freezing. There is a mixed rain snow mix coming down in parts of Anchorage so expect some slippery roads particularly anywhere you saw water yesterday is probably ice today do be careful for Alaska's total traffic. I'm Darrell Dean. This report is sponsored by farm safe 811. Farm safe 811 starts with you. Always call 811 and wait for any underground lines to be marked. Always keep safety in the back of your mind. Just stay humble. For more information go to farmsafe811.org.

1:08:25Very nice guy. I enjoyed talking with him immensely actually. Don't agree with his politics, but a very interesting fellow. Singer songwriter candidate for governor Tom Baggage calls to dismantle ADA. This is crazy pants. Suzanne has the article up in the Alaska story. She says baggage calls to dismantle ADA while the new Northern economics report shows billions in economic impact. Anchorage singer songwriter Tom Baggage is now on record. He former state senator also by the way. On record of calling for dismantling the Alaska industrial development and export authority. An agency that benefits his brother Mark and replacing it with a new state department of energy. He argues the state's economic development engine has little to show for itself. But a newly released economic analysis by Northern economics paints a very different picture. Documenting billions in economic activity tens of thousands of jobs in statewide investment

1:09:28tied to ADA back projects. The report titled impacts of the Alaska industrial development and export authority concludes that ADA financing programs have played a significant role in supporting a business. The supporting businesses infrastructure and industrial development across Alaska including mining energy tourism transportation and commercial development. Economic sector is that Democrats traditionally look down upon among the key findings in the report. Since 1992, ADA's loan participation program alone has issued 753 loans totaling more than 1.97 billion to Alaska businesses. Those projects supported 18,100 construction jobs and 3.6 billion dollars in construction related economic output. On going operations side to those projects helped retain or support 18,600 jobs and generated 6.3 billion in economic output statewide combined. The program produced 2.6 billion in labor income for Alaska which obviously circulated

1:10:32through the economy. The report emphasizes that many of the supported jobs that continued because ADA's financing allowed projects and companies to remain viable. So again, ADA is not a handout program. It's a loan program and this is interesting because we have some of these state corporations that are professionally managed by boards that are, you know, you'll have people, for example, on ADA or some of these other boards. You will have commissioners of different departments that sit on these boards but also mixed in with them are people that have professional knowledge of set industries or finance or whatever. So it's this quasi-mashup of private sector knowledge with state representation. And ADA is a great example of a loan program and that's what it is, right? So we get our money back with interest but their programs maybe that the private sector maybe they're a little too Alaska specific or too high a risk or this or that or the other

1:11:39for whatever reason ADA has the program to develop it. Maybe they're going to focus on mining, maybe they're going to focus on timber, maybe they're going to focus on whatever the program is, they're going to focus on. But ADA really is a really interesting, it's an interesting animal but it has been a very, very successful. So enter politician to screw up a good thing. If it works, get rid of it or change it. That's literally every program that if it works, homeschool, oh, get rid of it or change it. ADA, get rid of it or change it. Charter schools. Charter schools, yeah. But if it fails, if it's a failing policy, double down more money and then quote the need for why we have to have this. You know, but this is my thing. When we look at something like ADA, this is not free money. And in ADA makes investments, they get a return on that investment. But the also the return we get as Alaskans, we get jobs, we get ongoing jobs

1:12:45and ongoing development, ongoing products. And I just look at this and I see Suzanne's article, she goes on to say, baggage is proposal. Tom baggage, by the way, I need to say that, be clear about that. Would dismantle the authority and create a new department of energy focused on renewable development and state directed energy planning. Again, here let's introduce green crap that don't work, that costs more, that we have to heavily subsidize, that's not going to give us a return on our investment. Again, great opportunity to screw up something nice that's working. I mean, I just bad idea, bad idea. What other state program has returned 468 million dollars to our state's coffers, that's four that's half a billion dollars returned to the state coffers, not lost in the in the midst out there. I'm telling you, I just I just look at this and I just think this this is such a stupid idea. What you're going to basically do is take a financing

1:13:48mechanism that significantly benefits the private sector in all the last games through development and you're going to scrap it and trade it for a bureaucratic department of energy that I guarantee politicians are going to screw up and it's going to become some green machine that we have to heavily subsidize that's not going to produce anything for us. I mean, bad idea. You know, and maybe it's my own it's my own bias that likes limited smaller government. Any opportunity we have to take to take power away from government and put it in the hands of private sector in the last games. I'm all for it. So I'm not for creating a department of energy. I'm not for, you know, taking more of the control out of the current mechanism and putting it in the hands of bureaucrats. I'm not for that. I think there's enough oversight on ADA. They have to deal with the legislature.

1:14:51Like I said, there's some commissioners that will sit on the ADA board. I know back in my time, Julie Anderson, she was a commissioner of commerce when I was working at commerce. She sat on the ADA board. She's fantastic. She came from the private sector. She understood how business worked. This is my point is you have checks and balances on ADA right now. I think they're appropriate and I think they're sufficient. But the more government intervention you have, the less your outcomes are going to produce. That's my opinion. Because again, the more politicians and bureaucrats get involved, the less success you're going to see. Because frankly, you need the private sector to actually lead these projects and sit on these boards. Because frankly, most of the bureaucrats and most of the politicians have no idea what they're doing. Let's be honest. They've not done it. They've not built businesses. They've not done it. So again, I think this is a terrible idea coming yet again

1:15:51from a Democrat in Alaska. Bad idea. Bad idea. Let's leave it alone. All right, let's take a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. Looking at your Alaska total traffic cameras on this Tuesday morning, slippery roads, all around the anchorage. Well, lots of black ice out there temperatures are having right about freezing. There is a mixed rain, snow mix coming down in parts of Anchorage. So expect some slippery roads, particularly anywhere you saw water yesterday is probably ice today. Do be careful for Alaska's total traffic. I'm Darrell Dean from the O2.com traffic center. O2.com, the only business software you need. This report is sponsored by Farm Safe 811. Farm Safe 811 starts with you always call 811 and wait for any underground lines to be marked. Oh, he scores this morning with a return to some wintery mix into the afternoon. And then locations just some isolated activity with most of the activity near the coast. Welcome back to live local and insightful morning drive radio on news radio 650 KENI.

1:16:53Welcome back. Well, do you remember today is election day in the municipality of Anchorage? You have till 8 p.m. to get your ballot in. Yes, you could get a postmark, but I do not recommend it. I recommend dropping it off in person by 8 p.m. tonight. There are multiple locations around Anchorage where you can drop off your ballots. Remember, if you didn't get a ballot, you lost your ballot, you need a new ballot. You can go to the Loose Sack Library. They have all ballots there. You can go to Anchorage City Hall. They have all ballots there. If you're in Chugiac Eagle River, you can go to the library, the Eagle River Town Center Room 178. You can get a replacement ballot there. You can also run through all of the Dropbox locations and drop your ballot box off. You have to have it in the box by 8 p.m. Again, the ASD Education Center, City Hall, Eagle River Town Center, Gurdwood Community Center, the Planning and Development Center, Alpha Elmore, Spinar Community Rec Center, Bartlett High School, Clark Middle School,

1:17:54Election Center, Down on Ship Creek, the Loose Sack Library, Service High School, UAA Airlines Center, Veggich Middle School, Diamond High School, Fairview Community Rec Center, O'Malley on the Green, South Anchorage High School, and West Anchorage High School are all the drop-off locations for your Anchorage, Municipal ballot, happy voting, get those ballots in. If you don't vote, you don't claim. Don't want to hear it. All right, that says it for us today. Everybody stay safe. God bless. Think fast. Now breathe. Think slow. Here's something to think about from the Alzheimer's Association. New research shows that regular exercise and a heart-healthy diet may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. Visit the Alzheimer's Association today at ALZ.org for more ways to maintain your brain. ALZ.org. Thinking ahead today might make all the difference tomorrow.