TMS Publisher: Bronson Recall is misguided when Assembly races loom – The Midnight Sun

By Jim Lottsfeldt. Lottsfeldt is the publisher of The Midnight Sun.

A recall effort aimed at Mayor Dave Bronson is a terrible, no-good, stupid idea.

Nonetheless, someone will try to champion it.

It will fail.It will waste resources better spent on other efforts.And it will jeopardize the progressive majority on the Anchorage Assembly.

Mayor Bronsons approval numbers are taking a beating.He has plenty of self-inflected bruises from championing covid-19 misinformation, attacking health care workers, defending antisemitism at the Assembly hearings and taking down protective plexiglass partitions while two members of his senior staff are spreading covid-19 around an Assembly meeting. The list of self-inflicted wounds is actually much longer, but you get the point.

But that doesnt translate to success. After all, you could argue that Bronsons doing exactly what the voters wanted when they put him in office. Post-election Bronson isnt far off from pre-election Bronson.

Unfortunately, the courts have made the standard for recalls almost non-existent.So, why not use that lax standard and recall him?

The Assembly regular election is in April. Its only a few months away. Forrest Dunbar, Meg Zaletel and Kameron Perez-Verdia do not need the energy, money and attention of progressives misdirected towards a long-shot recall. Anchorage isnt New York City.Conservatives can win elections here; Dave Bronson just proved it.

Leave the recall alone unless and until Mayor Bronson does something that proves hes completely unfit to hold office. We arent there yet.We hopefully will never be there. The Anchorage Assembly should keep working with him on excellent compromises like the recently ratified homelessness plan.And when hes wrong, fight against his proposals as the Anchorage Assembly has done with success. That is the purpose of split governance.

Alaska has no scarcity of bad political ideas.So, I expect someone will run out and ask a mob to form to recall Bronson.Please dont take the bait.

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