Speaker A
60:58 - 61:27
"I've thought about this too a lot, especially when, um, I'm a younger assembly member up here, and then when I come in, and seeing that there's rates 20 years older than me and then nothing has been done. Now it's on this guy that's sitting up here today, right, to be that guy. So it, it— I, I always like kind of like incremental steps into the right direction."
“I've thought about this too a lot, especially when, um, I'm a younger assembly member up here, and then when I come in, and seeing that there's rates 20 years older than me and then nothing has been done. Now it's on this guy that's sitting up here today, right, to be that guy. So it, it— I, I always like kind of like incremental steps into the right direction.”
- Speaker
- Speaker A
- Timestamp
- 60:58 – 61:27
- Source
- Assembly Meeting
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 20, 2026
From the transcript
I've thought about this too a lot, especially when, um, I'm a younger assembly member up here, and then when I come in, and seeing that there's rates 20 years older than me and then nothing has been done. Now it's on this guy that's sitting up here today, right, to be that guy. So it, it— I, I always like kind of like incremental steps into the right direction. Um, I kind of thought the same thing. I've talked to Jody about this before where I thought maybe we should start lower, get up to wherever.
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