Donald Handeland
54:09 - 54:50
“the original idea behind this proposal is not to have any kind of burden where we are limiting anyone and their ability to run, but just to establish kind of some minimum criteria there.”
- Speaker
- Donald Handeland
- Timestamp
- 54:09 – 54:50
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- October 8, 2026
From the transcript
It was a little bit too kind of extensive for this, but so kind of dialed those down a little bit and made it so that the original idea behind this proposal is not to have any kind of burden where we are limiting anyone and their ability to run, but just to establish kind of some minimum criteria there. For this. And I mean, as everyone in this room knows who has run for office, that these are— talking to 50 people running for assembly is a relatively small number for what you actually have to do if you're looking to, to win. So if you want to go to the next slide. So these are just some Alaska examples of what other cities and municipalities do.
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