The Anchorage Assembly voted 8 to 3 Thursday to finally certify the flawed April 3 city election, subject to the results of a recount of 15 precincts. The election was plagued by ballot shortages at precincts all around town.
Ballot shortage at some polls prompts review of city election
Anchorage Assembly postpones certification of election
The Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday delayed certification of the election until at least April 24, and West Anchorage Assemblyman Ernie Hall, whose peers voted him the new Assembly chairman Tuesday, said the inquiry into the ballot shortage ought to wait too.
ALASKA POLITICS BLOG
Assembly won't certify city election tonight
The Anchorage Assembly had been expected to certify the troubled city election at tonight's meeting, but two members say that's not going to happen. The Assembly will wait until the Elections Commission makes recommendations for what to do next, they said.
ELECTION DAY IN ANCHORAGE
Precincts run out of election ballots
An "unprecedented number of voters" turned out for Tuesday's municipal election and multiple precincts have run out of ballots in the final hour of voting, according to City Clerk Barbara Gruenstein.
City votes on mayor, School Board, Prop. 5
School Board candidates focus on achievement, funding
ELECTION DAY IN ANCHORAGE
City votes on mayor, School Board, Prop. 5
After watching an intense few weeks of campaigning unfold, Anchorage voters cast ballots today to decide on a gay-rights initiative, pick who should be mayor, choose three School Board members and say yes or no to $91 million in bonds.
Mayoral candidates differ on vision for city
Proposition 5 campaign reaches into pews
As Tuesday's vote nears, campaigns for and against Proposition 5 are playing out in the pews and from the pulpits of Anchorage's churches. Both sides of the proposed Anchorage Equal Rights Ordinance have mobilized church leaders and their congregations.
Proposition 5 backers raise more money than opponents
Campaign reports filed this week show supporters of Proposition 5, a ballot measure to extend anti-discrimination protections to gay, lesbian and transgender people in Anchorage, are raising far more campaign money than their opponents.
JULIA O'MALLEY
Hey, No on 5: How about campaigning on the truth?
The more I follow the Prop. 5 debate, the more I’m convinced facts don’t matter. Opponents want to keep people ignorant and scared. They want to demonize gay people and create suspicions where there should be none.
Supporters of Prop. 5 ask opponents to pull broadcast ads
Supporters of a proposed city ordinance to extend anti-discrimination legal protections to gay and transgender peopleare asking an opposition group to pull a campaign ad they call offensive and misleading.
2012 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Legal experts predict challenges if voters pass Proposition 5
On April 3, Anchorage residents will vote on a proposed ordinance to add "sexual orientation or transgender identity" to the city's anti-discrimination code. Supporters say the ordinance, and the equal protection under law it would guarantee, is overdue. Opponents say Proposition 5 would interfere with freedom of religion.
Survey indicates sexual-orientation discrimination in Anchorage
Respondents to an advocacy group's new survey of the experiences of gay, lesbian and transgender people in Anchorage reported significant levels of verbal harassment, threats of physical violence and workplace and school harassment, with more than 70 percent saying they had hid their sexual orientation to avoid job discrimination.
Debate over Proposition 5 intensifies with TV, radio ads (3-21-12)
Debate over Proposition 5 intensifies with TV, radio ads
With a vote on a proposed ordinance to extend city anti-discrimination protections to gay, lesbian and transgender residents of Anchorage less than two weeks away, groups on both sides of the Proposition 5 debate have debuted TV and radio ads.
2012 ANCHORAGE ELECTION
Backers of gay rights initiative top opponents in fundraising
Backers of the Anchorage gay rights initiative on the April city ballot have raised $232,000, including $25,000 from Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest, while a group opposed to the initiative has collected less than $5,000.
5 former Anchorage mayors back gay rights initiative
Five former Anchorage mayors on Friday endorsed an April ballot measure to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents of the city.
National group joins fight over gay rights
A national conservative Christian legal group says the gay rights initiative on Anchorage's April 3 city election ballot, coupled with existing Anchorage discrimination law, undercuts religious liberty.
Gay rights initiative likely headed to ballot
Sponsors of an initiative to extend legal protections against discrimination to gay and transgender people in Anchorage on Thursday turned in a several-inch-high stack of petitions to the city clerk's office to put the measure on the April city election ballot.
Anti-discrimination law is in spotlight once again
A new campaign has begun in the decades-long battle over adding Anchorage's gay and transgender residents to the city's anti-discrimination law.
ACLU sues city, state over taxation of same-sex couples
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the way property taxes are assessed for Anchorage households headed by same-sex couples.
Assembly makes no move to override gay rights veto
The first opportunity for the Anchorage Assembly to override Mayor Dan Sullivan’s veto of an ordinance banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation went by Tuesday night without action.
Sullivan vetoes gay rights ordinance (8/17/09)
A long, grinding, contentious political and social struggle hit a major bump Monday when Mayor Dan Sullivan vetoed the Assembly's latest attempt to ban discrimination against gay people in Anchorage.
Sullivan faces deadline on gay rights veto
Hundreds of people who spent hours in Anchorage Assembly meetings to argue about a proposal to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation are taking their cases to Mayor Dan Sullivan, who must decide today whether to veto the ordinance.
Mayor still deciding on gay rights veto
Mayor Dan Sullivan said Wednesday he is studying the anti-discrimination ordinance passed by the Anchorage Assembly and will announce later whether he will veto it.
ALASKA POLITICS BLOG
Sullivan: No immediate decision on gay rights measure
Mayor Dan Sullivan says he is studying the anti-discrimination ordinance passed Tuesday night by the Anchorage Assembly and will announce later whether he will veto it.
Assembly OKs gay rights ordinance 7-4
By a 7-4 vote, the Anchorage Assembly Tuesday approved a compromise ordinance that bans discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity -- one vote short of the supermajority needed to override a mayoral veto.
Assemblyman says city needs gay rights task force
An Anchorage Assembly member wants his colleagues to create a task force that would spend at least a year investigating questions surrounding a controversial proposal to ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
Claman wants voters to settle gay rights debate
The raging public debate about whether Anchorage should add anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation will continue into next month, and Acting Mayor Matt Claman said Tuesday he may ask the Assembly to put the question on the ballot.
Prospects dimming for gay-rights ordinance
The prospect of a gay rights ordinance passing under the watch of a supportive city administration is narrowing as Anchorage Assembly Chairwoman Debbie Ossiander said Friday she will continue to allow public testimony on the controversy but she will not call any extra meetings to get through the days of testimony.
Residents demand to air views on gay-rights amendment
Beset by controversy that shows no sign of cooling, Anchorage Assembly chairwoman Debbie Ossiander must decide how to proceed with one of the most time-consuming sessions of public testimony before the Assembly in recent memory.
Gay rights measure's changes criticized by both sides
Hundreds of people gathered outside Loussac Library for a second consecutive demonstration Wednesday, and scores lined up to testify at a special session of the Anchorage Assembly on an amendment to the anti-discrimination law that would extend protection to gays and lesbians.
Gay rights ordinance gets 2nd Assembly hearing tonight
An ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation is again on the Anchorage Assembly agenda tonight, bearing last-minute changes by the chairwoman in an attempt to make it more palatable to both sides.
Anti-discrimination debate raises passions
The second round of impassioned public testimony Tuesday night drew hundreds of people once more to the Anchorage Assembly meeting as the panel grappled with a proposed ordinance that would ban discrimination in the municipality based on sexual orientation.
Testimony about the equal rights ordinance grew emotional at the Anchorage Assembly hearing Tuesday, June 15, 2009.
PHOTOS
Demonstrations and hearings
Images from the June 9 and 16 demonstrations and hearings over the proposed anti-discrimination ordinance.
COLUMN: 6-5-2009
Mayor Sullivan's decision to veto the city’s equal rights ordinance protecting gay people from discrimination isn't evidence Anchorage has any particular point of view. Instead, it says one thing: a lot of old people run this city.
Looking for common ground at the Baptist Temple
When a tolerant city can't support a simple statement of tolerance
Key points of each amended proposal.
FIRST DRAFT: No. 2009-64
Adds veteran's status and sexual orientation to the list of protected categories.
Defines "sexual orientation" as homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people.
SECOND DRAFT: No. 2009-64 S
Removes “veteran’s status.”
Excludes small, home-operated businesses with no more than four people from the whole law, meaning those businesses can discriminate based on sexual orientation, race, color, sex, religion, ethnicity, age, etc.
All employers have the right to impose dress codes or other work rules.
Biologically male people must use male bathrooms, and biologically female people must use female restrooms.
Exempts religious organizations - so they can discriminate based on sexual orientation.
THIRD DRAFT: No. 2009-64 S1
Definition of "sexual orientation" is narrowed to exclude transgender people.
Allows all employers to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
The city's Equal Rights Commission is instructed to track complaints alleging discrimination (to inform further discussion).
Businesses that deal with the public can impose dress codes, work rules, codes of conduct, etc.
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