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

Joshua Jesse Church “We need to treat ballots with the same level of care and trust as Zach would with evidence, right? We should have a chain of custody from the point that vote happens all the way till it's counted.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Candice English “Too many absentee ballots are rejected for correctable signature errors identification information, and ballot completion. Voters should be able to fix those problems as early as possible. Every ballot should count.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Candice English “If Ballot Measure 2 passes, I'll make sure the transition is done professionally with transparency before the 2028 election. If it doesn't pass, it's my place to help educate people, make it so that it's more understood across more sectors of people and hopefully it would be a little bit more successful. But either way, the law must be administered fairly, impartially, and transparently.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “With mail delays, we had somebody who cast their ballot in a timely manner in Natnek, about made it down to Anchorage and then had to go back to Nome to be counted and ultimately wasn't, didn't make it in time through no fault of the voter. And so we need to make sure that we are counting the votes closer to where they're cast as much as we can. And finally, with language access, as I mentioned before, making sure that we have people available there as a resource such that everyone can get the help they need to understand the ballot.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Candice English “No matter how Alaskans vote, everyone should be able to trust the process. Currently, it's kind of a mess. Confidence in elections isn't a Republican or Democrat issue, it's an Alaskan issue.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Candice English “I'd like to work on mail reliability because it hits rural Alaskans the hardest. In-person voting is the surest way to make sure your vote counts. But when you vote by mail, we need to start the process sooner. We need to process the ballots faster, and we need to let voters cure correctable mistakes before Election Day.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “We also recognize we need to do better to improve rural access. So this means expanding language access so that even if English is not your first language, that you are able to learn what's on the ballot and make an informed choice.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “I want to highlight the work that happened this year that the legislature did with Senate Bill 64. This was a bipartisan piece of legislation that passed the legislature but was ultimately vetoed by the current governor. And to be clear, if that bill had hit JKT's desk, he would have signed it into law. And it includes just some frankly common sense things: ballot tracking, so that when you vote, you can know where your vote is in the system and make sure that it gets counted.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Joshua Jesse Church “So what I'd like to do is take the rest of the time and say whether it passes or not, I'll administer it.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “So I will be a no on Prop 2. But as Lieutenant Governor, it is ultimately my job, my obligation to respect the will of the voters.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Candice English “My job isn't to pick winners. It will be to make sure Alaskans can trust the process.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Joshua Jesse Church “We should know exactly where it is, and everyone should have complete confidence. And so that will be the primary job, and it should be, of the lieutenant governor, is to restore confidence and help people to vote, exercise their most important fundamental right.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “However, if the voters ultimately decide to support Prop 2 and it passes, then it is the obligation of Lieutenant Governor to, to respect the will of voters and implement it with good faith. And so yes, that means kind of rolling our system back to where it was some years ago.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Zac Johnson “It also improves rural access by creating a dedicated rural liaison. So this is somebody who's ultimately responsible for working with rural communities to make sure that they have the tools and resources they need so that everyone in Alaska has the opportunity to participate.”

The Other Half of the Ticket: Alaska's Next Lieutenant Governor, On the Record · Oct 22, 2026

Randy Ruaro “It would have been the best project probably AIDA has ever invested in and may always be, but we're going to try to do more, better. But mine is winding down. That's a concern for for residents in the area and the borough.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Susan Georgette

“I'm also a member of Protect the Kobuk, which is a local grassroots, grassroots group of Northwest Arctic residents and tribal members who oppose the Ambler Road. We have over 700 members, all of whom either live in the region or are tribal members from the borough.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Julie Sande “we often hold up the Red Dog as a model for what we want to do in the future. Part of the reason the Ada board members have been working so hard on the Ambler Road is because We look ahead to the time when the life of the mine is winding down, and hopefully through expansion, that won't happen for a while, but we have to be realistic. And when we picture that reality, we have to picture— we also have to consider what can we do in this organization to try to replace that revenue if it were to stop. And so That's part of our hurry, hurry, hurry on what can we do to restore that revenue and to help better the lives of Alaskans. And it's part of why we've been so focused on the Ambler Road and the Ambler mining district, because we realize the potential there.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Elizabeth Hensley

“When it comes to the Ambler Road, I think there's just not consensus that our region wants that. And that's why you're not seeing it really happen like what happens when our region does have consensus, like with the Red Dog Road or with the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Randy Ruaro “for Mr. Leslie's comment about us being racist, I find really offensive. That's a very dangerous allegation.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Jim Dau

“In 2011, which was probably the worst year I saw when I was employed, it was about 80,000 caribou were delayed an average of a month. They didn't walk back 3 to 5 miles from the road and then cross. Many of those caribou walked back all the way to Point Hope.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

John Gaedeke

“It bluntly pointed out the road permit was traded for stock shares.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Jim Dau

“Caribou were delayed an average of about a month in years when more than 5% of the herd migrated through that area. It took sometimes up to 2 months for caribou to get across the road.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Elizabeth Hensley

“It's a violation of the— our fundamental human rights to free prior and informed consent if projects happen without consensus and approval of the Indigenous peoples of that land.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Rick Solie

“I was particularly impressed by the discussion we had on the mine when they, when they talked about that period of time when they reached consensus in the community before they ever developed Red Dog. That they talked about 10 years that, that the Nana region communicated with one another about advancing the big mine, which has been totally transformative in a good way for this area.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

David Leslie

“I'm also deeply concerned about the U.S. government's— the federal government's strategic investment into Trilogy Metals. That creates a clear conflict of interest where the federal government, who's issuing the permits, are the ones also financially benefiting from it”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Susan Georgette

“So I believe that ADA needs to recognize this, uh, this opposition and this lack of social license and not push ahead with this project.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Cyrus Harris

“We oppose this road.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Cheryl Maiorano

“My corporation and my tribe have been in opposition to this project for, I would say, 15 years.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Elizabeth Hensley

“You've come to the region that really kickstarted ADA's existence with that Red Dog Port Road, which we're really proud of in our region through the history. You can see what happens when our region is really united.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Susan Georgette

“I feel that a quasi-state agency like ADA should care even more about that. Um, I believe that ADA should be promoting projects that are in the best interest of Alaskans, and that includes projects that Alaskans support.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Cyrus Harris

“The Native Village of Kotzebue Council believes that the relatively short-term economic and other benefits of industrial development of the Upper Kobuk Region is overweight by widespread long-term negative impacts to the fish and wildlife that will result from this development.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

David Leslie

“As Alaska Native people, we are stewards of the land, and to see this road being forced through when we know it will cause harm is frankly, uh, it's racist.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Randy Ruaro “We know that the mine has provided billions in benefits to the ANCSA's 7 revenue sharing and economic development taxes to the state, pilt to the borough, revenue to Ada, which is then shared back to the state. We did hear from the assembly and from residents that job training and Some benefits, infrastructure benefits for villages is, in the separate villages is really critical to them and to getting support for the project. So we'll be following up with the Bureau and working on, with the communities on ways that we can hit those points and hopefully bring some improvement in.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Randy Ruaro “There will be a drop as the, as the mine plays out, but we think they're developing the adjacent deposits pretty quickly, and hopefully it's a temporary, very short-term, temporary drop. And everything gets back up and running well.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Julie Sande “what I'll say about that is that the Red Dog as a model is a starting point, because I also think that these face-to-face conversations have been so important. And the feedback from community members, including the feedback we heard today, it is taken to heart. And I think that there's ways that we can improve the model that we used in Red Dog so that the communities can benefit in a way that's— that means— is perhaps more meaningful.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Cyrus Harris

“One thing that that I know that once you have a road connecting a community to the outside world, you become urban. So what happens when we become urban? We end up back to zero and lose our rights to subsist. Once the road is developed, it's going to affect our lifestyle. It's going to basically kill our culture.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Cyrus Harris

“The Ambler Road is a proposed 211-mile road that would cut the eastern part of caribou habitat in half and connect our region with the rest of the state's and country's road system. Caribou will start detecting the noise of the road from miles away.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Jim Dau

“I strongly oppose the Ambler Road. I oppose this road because of my concerns for the western Arctic caribou herd. Road's going to impact it. Work I did when I was employed, I looked at caribou movements up near Red Dog from about 2000, 2000 until 2015. And it unequivocally showed that caribou movements were strongly affected by the road.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Susan Georgette

“I want to emphasize that there is not social license in this region right now for the Ambler Road. The residents of this borough are highly divided about the road.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Randy Ruaro “It's unfounded, and I hope he would retract it at the next meeting. There's no racism in ADA at all. Highly offensive”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Rick Solie

“I guess I want to kind of highlight this tension of, as my fellow board member just said, moving at light speed to advance an agenda that we believe is good for our state and for this region, and yet to take the time that's needed to build consensus. And so how do you bridge that gap? It's trust and respect, Mr. Chairman.”

AIDEA Board Meeting Audio — September 22, 2026 · Sep 22, 2026

Taryn Carpenter

“For Henry, our school nurse is not a luxury. She is a critical part of what makes his education possible.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Taryn Carpenter

“Parents should not have to choose between their child's health and their child's education. Teachers should not be expected to manage medical situations they're not trained to handle, and children should not lose access to school because the support they need has been removed.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Taryn Carpenter

“But cutting half of our school nurses and replacing them with uncredentialed health aides in many schools is not simply a budget adjustment.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Taryn Carpenter

“Henry deserves to be safe at school. He deserves to learn, grow, and belong. So does every other child who depends on a school nurse. Please don't take away the support that makes their education possible.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Taryn Carpenter

“Students with diabetes, seizures disorders, severe allergies, feeding tubes, and other complex medical needs rely on trained professionals to recognize problems and respond appropriately. A health aide may be a valuable part of a school team, but an aide is not a substitute for a qualified nurse. Eliminating a nursing position does not eliminate a child's medical needs.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Randy Trani “This is another good chance to thank the Mat-Su Health Foundation for really giving us the time to work on this problem for a year and decide what kind of health service delivery model that we can put in place that will both meet the needs of students and that we can afford.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

Vicki Malone

“I am begging the school board to prioritize an increase in the VSA for all of our students, which will also benefit charter school students. And, you know, let's make school nurses great again.”

Mat-Su School Board: October 21, 2026 - MSBSD School Board Meeting · Oct 19, 2026

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