Anchorage Assembly

This is a dangerous zone, but I will get into it.

So I obviously I have friends on the Anchorage Assembly, and one who really got involved in the assembly because of concerns about housing and homelessness, has really shifted their talking points to, "We don't have a homelessness problem, we have a drug problem," and that there is public use of drugs that's being tolerated, that is creating very unsafe and maybe just unsavory environments-

Yeah

... on our sidewalks, on our trails, and that really trying to shift the conversation away from, oh, this is a homelessness problem, to this is a drug problem.

EasyPark says it's hearing from people who still rely on coins, even as it pushes for a cashless system.

The Anchorage Assembly would have to change city code before the plan could move forward.

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That's awesome.

So years later, you ran for Anchorage Assembly.

You may have run before, but you won.

Talk to me a little bit about that election cycle where you ran and won.

I, I didn't get to join him for his Yukon River trip, for example-

[chuckles]

... uh, which would've been amazing, but I still have, you know, my obligations to the Anchorage Assembly, which I, I take seriously, you know.

And so I, I'm, I'm trying to find the right balance between being a full-time candidate and being a full-time assembly member.