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Ken McCarty

5:38 - 6:03

"540-page document was submitted to the Boundary Commission saying you know, is this viable? And they're like very interested."

“540-page document was submitted to the Boundary Commission saying you know, is this viable? And they're like very interested.”
Speaker
Ken McCarty
Timestamp
5:38 – 6:03
Community
Alaska News
Location
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Captured at
June 15, 2026

From the transcript

And what they didn't realize is all it was was a procedural thing that Mike Brown needed. Okay, so it didn't pass. And then most recently, that there was an attempt to say, okay, let's see if the people of Mattapoisett— what do they say? Because this was submitted— not this, but 540-page document was submitted to the Boundary Commission saying you know, is this viable? And they're like very interested.

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