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

Dillon Gillespie

“Now let's get to the appliances that use a lot of power and often run for a long time. The 2 big examples here are space heaters and vehicle plug-ins.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Dillon Gillespie

“Living in interior Alaska comes with some unique energy challenges. You have extreme cold, you have older homes and expensive heating systems, and things like vehicle plugins. All of that shapes your electric bill, but you can perform your own home energy audit and know exactly where your electricity is going.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Dillon Gillespie

“The space heater isn't the problem, it's the symptom. If a space heater is constantly being run, it's usually because of a building envelope issue.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Dillon Gillespie

“A couple other things you can look for in your building envelope that indicate a problem are things like uneven snow melt, ripples in your roof in the snow, or icicles coming down from the edges of your roof. That's an indication that the insulation in the top of your roof is poor and should be looked at.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Dillon Gillespie

“Here in Alaska, we plug in our vehicles, and some vehicles will be plugged in all night long, every night, all winter. That can really add up. It can be anywhere from $50 to $150 a month.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Dillon Gillespie

“That escaping heat needs to be replaced over and over again by your heating system. So whether it's the electricity needed to run your boiler or a space heater, a poor building envelope has a direct effect on your overall energy usage.”

GVEA: Home Energy Audit Basics · Nov 4, 2026

Mary Peltola “Yes, people are standing up for education, quality education.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “People are standing up and fighting back for Social Security.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “We do not care. We do not care what Elon Musk thinks. We do not care. We do not care. We know exactly how we feel.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “Across Alaska, people are standing up for healthcare, affordable healthcare, access to healthcare.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “I've been watching Alaskans stand up during early voting for weeks. We are breaking records. I have seen Alaskans standing up across our state today. Breaking records in the voter turnout.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “Across the state, people have shared, we're getting crushed by corporate greed. Freight, stove oil, fuel costs, groceries. Every single thing we buy is twice or three times more. When does it stop? When we stand up and fight back like we have been doing today.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “Away from corporate greed, out of the clutches of corporate greed, and back into our freezers and our fish racks.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “It's like barely over 20% of the vote has been counted, but it feels so good. And votes trend. They trend the way the early votes have come in. They trend, and we are trending.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “The young people have really made this campaign.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “Every town I've been to— I've been to over 50 communities— every town, big and small, has said we need housing.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “In Bethel, Susan Murphy, who has been a poll worker her entire life, said she's never seen turnout like this since statehood.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “All of the staff who've been here for 10 months. Yes, they've seen Alaska go from winter to spring to summer to fall to winter. Yes, they have been here almost an entire year.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “This race is not about me. This race is about every person in this room, every person who is at home celebrating, everybody across our state who is watching the wonderful news that we are all getting across our television screens. We are getting our government back.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “I see hundreds of people in this room who do not care how much money Elon Musk has put into this race.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “We want our children and grandchildren to live here and raise their families here. We need housing. Help us get housing.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “People from across our state and people from all over our country. Young people from all over our country. Let's give a round of applause for the digital team.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “Over 17,000 Alaskans putting in hard hours. It's winter now. People are knocking on doors, hundreds of thousands of doors.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “We have got to protect Social Security. We are going to protect Social Security.”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “This is a movement. Yes, I am just one person in this movement. Movement to get our fish back. Yeah!”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Mary Peltola “No, this whole room Winners! Winners! We are winning our state back!”

Mary Peltola campaign: We are standing up and taking our state back. · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“Handicap capability, and there is a full ADA room. Okay, in the building, in the ground floor.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “And so this is the first stage of that process to divide out the land that would encompass the Jesse Lee Cemetery. So if you look on page 41 of the packet, you'll see parcels highlighted in yellow and red. Everything highlighted is currently city property. City cemetery, but the red portion is what is known as the Jesse Lee Cemetery, and that red outline will now be what is proposed to be the boundaries, the actual lot lines for that cemetery. And then once the plat is finalized, then the city manager and city council can enter into negotiation with the Katoochick Tribe about that parcel of of land.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“I have a question, Mr. Swan. You have a lift identified in your, um, I believe in one of the— in the building itself.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “And then of course making sure that the building is in compliance with all building fire and life safety code requirements.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Thomas Swan

“I have to have something to get people up.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“You just gotta cut it into a little block so they can make decisions. Yeah, carve it out like that.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “this conditional use permit application is showing that the Renovations to the building will increase the number of nightly rental rooms from 5 to 12, which then puts it into that hotel category, which requires a conditional use permit”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “Exterior lighting shall be children-directed downward. The half space— half off-street parking space per guest room. Providing a watertight animal-resistant waste container.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “Yeah, so that is the existing cemetery road. And, and you'll— you may have seen in the packet that there were some exceptions that our surveyor is requesting from the Kenai Peninsula Borough, and those exceptions are because Typically, the borough will require much wider access easements, but being this is a cemetery, there are burials located quite near to the road. That's why she's requesting the exceptions that it just be a 15-foot access road, and that's like the exact width of the current road there.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“lifts, elevators are required, but lifts, the state was no longer certifying.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“That resolution has been approved.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Chair Sullivan (City of Seward)

“You might be rolling over somebody's grave.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Courtney Bringhurst “So the site will accommodate approximately 8 off-street parking spaces, which previously, on the most recent hotel CUPs, Commission has required half a parking space for each room.”

Seward: P&Z Regular Meeting 11.3.2026 · Nov 3, 2026

Stan Gregor

“if passes, I won't vote for the thing as a whole because pretty much very contradictory to the intent of my ordinance”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

James Valentine “I move to authorize the Borough Manager to execute a contract with Rock and Row Construction for the Scow Bay Boat Haulout Project for an amount not to exceed $13,535,650.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Becky Knight

“I request that the moratorium conform to the definition of moratorium with no exceptions and be extended to at least 1 year. I also request an immediate town hall meeting to hear the full concerns of the community”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Donna Marsh

“so was this, um, how much over or under was this on the recommended, on the proposed estimated project cost?”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Bob Martin “The harbor is an enterprise fund primarily, at least to a lot of us. It's where we keep our boats. We pay rates and it's a significant amount. And so we're always very sensitive about things like Papke's or a boatyard that may affect our rates. And as far as I know, that is not a harbor project out there.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Steve Giesbrecht “Skow Bay Boatyard Project successfully bid on Tuesday, 10/27, you've heard about that, just a little bit under the engineer's estimate, so thanks very much to Rock and Road and their subcontractors that'll be doing this project.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Stephan Harbour “this ordinance needs to pass because either all-inclusive or, or as it is, banning generators, because it's not out of the realm of possibilities”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Jeff Meucci “I move to amend the ordinance to make its provisions applicable to all data center developments, regardless of whether they utilize closed-loop cooling systems or operate on or off the PMPL electrical grid”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

Jeff Meucci “I am not going to sell my soul for $1 million or $2 million coming out of electrical rates. I'm not. And that's the reason I'm moving forward with this amendment.”

Petersburg Borough: Assembly Meeting · Nov 3, 2026

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