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Quoted moments from Alaska public meetings, hearings, and press conferences.

Daniel Volland “So if I'm— if I'm— they all— 50 of those have to be District 1 signatures.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Jamie Heinz “This changes the date that we turn off the livestream. In 2024, we changed the time for submitting an election contest. It was changed from being— they had 10 days to submit that until noon on the day of certification.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Jamie Heinz “we have a vault where we keep the signatures on file and we prioritize maintaining current signatures but also our own, because they're wet signatures. People just don't sign the same on electronic pads.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Jamie Heinz “And this section was missed in those edits. And so now you're watching nothing happen at the election center for an extra 9 days. And so we're just asking that it be shut off, um, when once the election is certified.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Daniel Volland “That the signatures have to come for the ones that are specific to a district.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Donald Handeland “For mayoral and the school board, if those are at-large, for 250.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Anna Brawley “we also have AO-2026-131, an omnibus ordinance of the Anchorage Municipal Assembly amending and updating Anchorage Municipal Code Title 28 elections. That is sponsored by Donald and Jared.”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

George Martinez “was there a problem that folks were trying to solve with this that was identified in the statement, the sponsor statement, or etc.?”

Anchorage Assembly: Governance Committee-of-the-Whole Meeting · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “maybe I can just I can— I'll write up a resolution and I'll put it up on our next agenda and be like, you know, this is something we're interested in pursuing. And then if it gets support, it can go to the mayor's office, and then maybe we can get more details”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “I wonder if the first step is writing a resolution, like formally requesting the mayor's office to collect that information. And give it back to us, because right now it's just like a me ask instead of like a commission ask.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “how can we better support— how can the city better support its commissions if it wants volunteers to do this work and make it meaningful?”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “So I'd like to— I'd like to see staff paid for it and I'd like to make sure that women aren't bearing this like volunteer gig as part of their job unfairly.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “one of the concerns that I have is how many, uh, how many staff people are supporting commissions, because our understanding is that people who are supporting commissions are not paid. And I'm concerned that that job is being mainly held by women, and so women are taking an unfair burden and they're not getting any sort of stipend for taking on additional duties. And so I think it's 100% within this body's recommendation to I tried to ask for more information about how many staff people were, like, how many staff, what the demographics of those staff were, and I was told that they don't have that.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “Okay, I will write a resolution and then I will put it forward. Um, I just wanted to make sure I wasn't like on a limb at this request, I guess.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Arianna Bellizzi “I don't know, I kind of, I kind of stopped, but I was like in the middle of wanting to write a resolution about that stuff, and then I kind of came, came to a screeching halt. I don't know, is that like silly? Would anybody else back a resolution about trying to get more information and support that, like, we can only do this work if we have good staff, and we can only have good staff doing it if they're getting paid. And I'm concerned that women are taking on that burden more often.”

Anchorage Assembly: Anchorage Women's Commission Meeting 10-1-26 · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “We need to make sure that Medicaid is protected. It's some very important programs, including ones that your organization runs, are important to reducing the impact of suicide in our communities.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Sharon Hildebrand “we had one candidate respond back, and we're really glad that we are able to provide this opportunity to our region.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I spent 25 years as an educator. It is an issue that affects every single community, even my own family. And, you know, we really need the resources to deal with this.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “Those things impact Alaskans directly, and those are direct outcomes of haphazard tariffs.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I'm all about co-management, tribal representation, and I'll do the work to start getting some of those things working for Alaskans.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “this is from a memo drafted by Governor Dunleavy's own Attorney General, which concedes this ballot measure will get rid of our ban on dark money and allow anonymous money into our elections.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “we have seen that. We currently have the most racially diverse legislature we've ever had and the most women elected we've ever had. And for the first time ever, one of our bodies, the House, is actually majority women.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “Ballot Measure 2 is an initiative to repeal a nonpartisan and open top-4 primary election system and ranked-choice general election system and to reestablish a partisan political primary and change necessary and related appointment procedures, reestablish special runoff elections, and repeal and amend independent expenditure group requirements.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “We have a right to subsistence. It needs to be protected. We need to use the tools at our hands to solve this problem, and I'll do that work.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “Both of them have donated millions to Yes on 2, but the only reason we know they did that is because of the very law that they're trying to repeal, which is the ban on dark money.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “Thank you again for being here. Thank you for the invite, and I hope to be your next congressman.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “this another never-ending war in the Middle East, in Iran, has just driven up the cost of living here in this state, especially around fuel, because everything costs more when fuel goes up. So I will work against, I will work against the war in Iran.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “And as your federal representative, I'd work to make— ensure that there is tribal representatives, on that board, a tribally designated seat.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I will push for very strict low bycatch limits and real accountability, and if operations cannot meet those limits, then they shouldn't be fishing in our waters. We need stronger monitoring, We need stronger enforcement, and we need a tribal seat on the North Pacific Management Council”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I'm a Dena'ina Athabascan out of Bristol Bay. My hometown is Naknek, the home of the greatest sockeye salmon run in the world.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I believe we need the state constitution to come in line with what ANILCA has asked or what ANILCA represents, which is there needs to be a rural subsistence priority.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “the current system has broadened the opportunity for Alaska Native people to run for and be elected to public office, and has rewarded candidates who work across party lines on the issues that matter most to rural Alaska. And whereas disclosure of the true source of election spending protects tribes and rural communities from undisclosed outside money seeking to shape state decisions about our lands, waters, and way of life. And whereas the current system gives Alaska voters more freedom more choice, and a stronger voice in their government, and TCC has no interest in returning to a system in which a small, closed electorate selects the leaders who govern all Alaskans. Now therefore be it resolved that the Tanana Chiefs Conference Executive Board opposes Ballot Measure 2 and urges all Alaskans to vote no on Ballot Measure 2 and the November 3rd, 2026 general election.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “This is the language that makes it, that specifically gives each political party the power to make it illegal for nonpartisan or undeclared voters to vote in primary elections.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “Scott was actually one of the people that actually wrote the first ballot measure in 2020 that I actually worked on as well when we first implemented open primaries, ranked choice voting, and the campaign disclosures.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “not only the closed primaries, not only that U's and N's could be blocked from voting in it, candidate, but a U or an N candidate actually cannot run in the primary election.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “One of the things I've heard across the course of this campaign is the current representative is not responsive to emails, phone calls, or even visits in Washington, D.C. I will assure you I'm going to hire as many Alaskans as possible to staff my office”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “I believe, truly believe, we need to maintain a rural subsistence priority.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “TCC has historically supported open primaries, ranked choice voting, campaigns Maintain Finance Transparency. We supported in 2020 and in 2024, as Scott mentioned, when it came up to be repealed, or it was attempted to be repealed, TCC's Executive Board also passed a resolution to, to oppose that, that ballot measure that would repeal it.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “if Ballot Measure 2 passes, everything goes away. You can't just get rid of the ranked choice voting, you can't just get rid of the open primary, All 3 pieces go away, and because of Alaska's Constitution, they go away for at least 2 years.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “one of the, the more severe parts of Ballot Measure 2 is that it actually empowers the political parties to make it illegal for undeclared and nonpartisan voters to vote in primary elections at all. Um, so you would be basically having a public election at which two-thirds of Alaskans, the 64% of us that aren't in either party, would be banned from participating in. And then finally, of course, it also gets rid of Alaska's enhanced campaign disclosure regime, which includes a ban on dark money.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Bill Hill “when the spring fuel barge showed up in my hometown in Naknek this summer, we went from paying $6.70 a gallon for gasoline to almost $9 a gallon for gasoline. We were paying $4.25 a gallon for heating fuel this spring, and we're now paying over double that.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “Jim McDermott had also, had also confirmed for today, but unfortunately he is not feeling well and so he is unavailable to attend.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Joy Huntington “more people are, are participating and it's less focused on the party system”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

Scott Kendall “we will have the most partisan and extreme one-third of Alaskans making the decision for everyone else about who shows up on the November ballot.”

Tanana Chiefs Conference: Rural Alaska Candidate Forum - Federal Candidates · Oct 8, 2026

“Our protest would hold up at Amco if she's been able to prove the few things that they need her to prove. It's only 240 hours a year.”

Cordova: October 7, 2026, Council Regular Meeting · Oct 7, 2026

“we might be at the tail end of our ability to protest at this point. Yeah, but we can also protest at each year So not just on the 2-year renewals.”

Cordova: October 7, 2026, Council Regular Meeting · Oct 7, 2026

“we have the option to protest or waive protest for renewal of liquor license number 2587, Beverage Dispensary for Copper River Northwestern Ltd., Incorporated, doing business as the Moose the Moose.”

Cordova: October 7, 2026, Council Regular Meeting · Oct 7, 2026

“The location was sold but not the business. But I think Susan— yeah, I don't think the, the state lease— that's a state lease land— is still in, uh, Becky's name or one of these corporations' names.”

Cordova: October 7, 2026, Council Regular Meeting · Oct 7, 2026

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