Three of the four Anchorage Assembly incumbents running for reelection are set to keep their seats after results are certified next Tuesday. The trio staved off a well-funded challenge by a slate of conservative candidates backed by Mayor Dave Bronson.
ByKameron Perez-Verdia, an Anchorage assembly member representing District 3 Seat D, West Anchorage, campaigning to be re-elected to the same seat.
“I think they all got under one umbrella, one narrative, about what they felt like the city needed and wanted,” Perez-Verdia said. “And we focused more on what West Anchorage wanted.” Forrest Dunbar, an Anchorage assembly member representing District 5 Seat H, East Anchorage, at the corner of Boniface Parkway and Northern Lights Boulevard, campaigning to be re-elected to the same seat.
Despite what can sometimes be hectic and divisive Assembly meetings, all three incumbents say there’s more agreement between the body and the mayor than those meetings would suggest. “It was what, a $550 million budget, I think, $540 million,” Dunbar said. “And we agreed and the Assembly passed all but about $5-6 million of it, right. And so, the vast majority of the things the mayor asks for, we have passed. Almost every ordinance he brings forward, we pass. Almost every appointment he brings forward, we pass or we accept. Almost every line-item in the budget, we pass, too.
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