In campaign messaging to voters and during debates, LaFrance and Bronson have promised to lead the city in starkly different ways.
Updated: 23 seconds agoMayor Dave Bronson and challenger Suzanne LaFrance ask each other questions during the debate. The Anchorage Chamber of Commerce hosted a runoff debate between mayoral candidates Dave Bronson and Suzanne LaFrance at the Petroleum Club of Anchorage on Monday.
Bronson attacked LaFrance and the Anchorage Assembly’s supermajority over issues including the city budget and homelessness. Bronson called their disagreements “a conflict of worldviews” that boil down to “woke-ism” versus “normal.”LaFrance questioned his campaign’s recent focus on partisanship and pushed back on his assertions regarding her politics, saying that the position of mayor is nonpartisan because it is “supposed to represent everyone.
LaFrance became the Assembly’s chair shortly before Bronson took office in 2021. During the first two years of Bronson’s term, the two were often on opposing sides during clashes between the Bronson administration and Assembly majority.often play a role, frequently endorsing a favored candidate and/or spending money to support them. LaFrance has been endorsed by a local chapter of Democrats.
“It’s about our community. And it’s about working together. And we have this tremendous opportunity at the local level, to put aside the stuff at the state and federal level that divides us, and really make progress to make our community a better place. It’s about problem solving,” she said.
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