William Falsey
42:41 - 42:48
"what I want to say is that is not the game that we are playing here. We are playing it straight."
“what I want to say is that is not the game that we are playing here. We are playing it straight.”
- Speaker
- William Falsey
- Timestamp
- 42:41 – 42:48
- Transcript
- Anchorage Assembly: Worksession re General Government Operating Cont’d & Enterprise & Utilities
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 23, 2026
From the transcript
And in the Washington, DC model, they play the Washington Monument game. Well, if you cut the Department of Interior, I'm going to shut down the Lincoln Memorial, right? Like, I'm just going to find the most painful cuts that everyone is going to object to. But what I want to say is that is not the game that we are playing here. We are playing it straight.
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