Everyone's talking about and get the new and improved free iHeartRadio app today. Mike Porcaro, behind the mic of your 50,000 watt blowtorch. News Radio 650, KENI. Live from Anchorage, it's your news and information blowtorch. 4.07 and 25 seconds. It's 25 degrees in Anchorage, 26 in Palmer, 29 in Soldaten, 30 in Homer, Calkeetna, 24, Fairbanks, 10. Winter has returned.
Minus 7 in Prudhoe, 47 in Seattle, 46 in New York, Akaroa, New Zealand, 62, Pensacola, Florida, 67, Tampa, Florida, and Tifton, Georgia, both 63, and Tokyo. Where our good buddy Crash is, is 42. Well, the snow has returned. Winter has returned. And everybody I've talked to over the weekend is depressed because of the snow. And it's like...
Normally, we've got snow until April, sometimes even into May. And last year, my gosh, we were covered with this stuff. And this year, you know, we had a breakup in January. And then February wouldn't get much snow. And then, you know, all of a sudden we got a bit of snow here over the weekend. And everybody is, you know, throwing up their hands and saying the world is over with. It's climate change.
folks, right? Yeah. We're talking about how it's going to get warm. It's snowing. All right. 522-0650. That is our telephone number. And a few things happened in the news over the weekend. And what I wanted to do... was to go back and maybe take a look at some of this stuff. And, Darrell, you've been great about sending this stuff. The B.C. Trucking Association.
has come out opposing tolling American vehicles on the roads in British Columbia. In other words, our trucks that are going from Washington State, carrying... You know, fruit or oil equipment or whatever we happen to be. And it's not that much. I mean, it's a small amount of trucks, really. When you stop and look at the totality of trucks going through Canada, going through the United States. But these were important to us, and the premier of British Columbia, Premier Eby,
has decided that he wanted to make a statement and kind of stick it to Alaska. There's no other way I can put this. I mean, he really has decided to target us. What he's done is not think too clearly about his actions and what could happen after it. Now, first thing he did was he got... Our Senator Sullivan all mad at him. And Senator Sullivan said, well, you know, you want to do that. I guess what we can do is we can...
Go ahead and ask Congress to bypass Canada regarding the Jones Act for our cruise ships, which would be... deadly costly to the Canadians. I know he wants to hurt anybody, but, you know, hey, you want to target me, you know, don't bring a knife to a gunfight. You know, that kind of thing. So... Meanwhile, the truckers in British Columbia, which have had a not-so-happy relationship with the Liberal government of Canada, had something to say over the weekend.
The B.C. Trucking Association opposes tolling American vehicles and says retaliation could follow. Now, what's interesting about all of this is we've got a small amount of trucks that go from Washington State to Alaska, but there's a whole lot of trucks that go from Mexico and the United States into Canada. And the folks that are the truckers for Canada understand that pretty clearly. And they realize that if we were to retaliate and slap a toe on every one of those things going to Canada,
they'd be in a world of hurt. And so over the weekend, CBC did a report on this. And Darrell, go ahead and roll some of that tape. Well, the B.C. government is planning legislation that could bring in fees for U.S. trucks traveling through our province to Alaska. Premier David Eby made an announcement about this in Victoria yesterday. I'm here to share.
that we will be introducing a new law in the coming days to respond to this historic challenge, unprecedented legislation. It will include such countermeasures as allowing the province to apply fees. to commercial trucks that transit through British Columbia on their way to Alaska.
That is Premier David Eby speaking yesterday. Eby said the tolls may not be used but warned that Canada needs to have tools available to fight the tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening until Trump backs down from his plans. Dave Earle is the president and CEO of the BC Trucking Association, and we reached him in Toronto. Good afternoon. Have to wonder about your reaction to the announcement yesterday about possible tolls.
Yeah, well, there's a few things, and our members have been pretty clear on this, and we've had many conversations with government. The first thing to keep in mind is this is enabling legislation. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. It doesn't mean it's going to happen tomorrow or next week. This gives the government the ability to be able to do things. So it's a signal. It's not an implementation. So that's the first thing. So we expect to have a lot more and more in-depth conversations.
with provincial officials before we actually see something like this come to pass. The other thing that we look at and our members are very concerned that we're able to maintain is the free movement of goods throughout North America, no matter what. That is the core of our business. That's what we do. We want to see the safe, efficient movement of goods right across North America.
that puts that at risk, be it a barrier, time, fee, toll, tax, whatever comes in place in whatever form, that's always a very serious concern to our members, and this is no exception. And there you go. And he goes on in the interview to talk about what they think and the fact that it would be disaster. for the Canadian trucking industry if America decided to do exactly to them what the premier of British Columbia wants to do to us.
So I guess maybe before people act, they should think about what their actions may precipitate. And again, nobody wants to hurt anybody. But by the same token, I'm going to speak now just for myself as an Alaskan. I don't like being targeted by somebody. You know, you've got a problem. Let's figure out how to solve it. But don't target me and threaten me with the fact that you're going to now make it difficult for me to get goods and services and make it more expensive.
Two actually can play that game, and the game is a game you guys don't want to play. So I think let's put the rhetoric down and let's figure out a way to solve our problems. And I think the president has placed pretty clearly what he would like to see happen. And I think what this is going to do is it's going to shake up some people, and it should.
And it absolutely should. Should we be relying on Canada for electricity for Minnesota and Michigan and New York? No. Absolutely not. Should we have to transit? a Canadian port in order to bring our tourists up here. I don't think so. If they want to go to stay in a Canadian port or visit a Canadian port and that's an available thing, fine. If you want to go, you know, go enjoy it. Canada's a pretty country.
But if you don't want to stop there, then you shouldn't have to. Again, more arcane laws from years and years ago. And if you're going to target us, be careful because we can do the same. And the Canadian truckers see that and they understand it. And they don't want to see that happen either. All right, it's 416. We'll be right back. The Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on NewsRadio 650.
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Well, welcome back, everybody. It's 425-220-650. Now, the Doge has become a flashpoint. For many Democrats and many progressives and they're upset They're upset about how things are going and They seem to be against cutting waste and fraud and all the other things. And it's nothing new. I mean, you know, there have been presidents before. Trump who wanted to do that in fact there was a president a guy named Obama and a vice president guy named Biden and
As far as I remember, Biden was the waste and fraud czar. He was given that job by President Obama during Obama's, I believe it was his second term. And he was trying to figure out how to cut waste, which was laudable, certainly. I don't know how much he cut. I don't know how much he cut in relation to how much he spent. Nevertheless, it was not a new idea, and it was something that Barack Obama himself talked about. Daryl, do we have that tape? Go ahead and roll it.
Everyone knows that getting rid of the deficit will require some tough decisions, and that includes cutting back on billions of dollars in programs that a lot of people care about. But what should be easy is getting rid of the pointless waste and stupid spending that doesn't benefit anybody. Waste we should be getting rid of, even if we didn't have a deficit. Sure, some of these cuts aren't that big.
But no amount of waste is acceptable. Not when it's your money. Not at a time when so many Americans are already cutting back. Just as families are living within their means, government should too. Did you know the federal government pays for a website devoted to a folk music ensemble made up of forest rangers? They're called the Fiddlin' Foresters.
I'll put their music on my iPod, but I'm not paying for their website, and there are hundreds of similar sites that we should consolidate or just get rid of. By the way, you're not only paying for websites no one needs. You're paying for thousands of buildings all across the country no one uses. For the last decade, the government's owned a massive and completely empty warehouse in the middle of Brooklyn, for example. Now...
The government hadn't been able to sell this building and others like it because of red tape and Washington politics that held things up for years. But we're finally cutting through all that and plan to get rid of these buildings in the months ahead. We need to step up our game.
We need to go after every dime. We need to make government work for you. That's why, starting today, I've asked the Vice President to lead a renewed effort to hunt down misspent tax dollars in every agency and department of this government. We're calling it the campaign to cut waste. And I know Joe's the right man to lead it. Because nobody messes with Joe. There's a new standard by which the government is going to function from this point on.
The American people are entitled to transparency. Look, a lot of this depends on new, sophisticated methods, but it also, it also, we know, depends on relentless focus on making this a priority. Focus that can't be delegated. We're holding ourselves accountable.
And we're deeply committed and focused on making government function better. We're not just eliminating fraud and waste. We hope to be instilling an entire new culture that not only our administration, but every succeeding administration will, in fact, pursue. We're going to give you the government you expect and deserve. OK, well, there's Joe Biden. I mean, he told you every succeeding administration is going to follow along.
And this guy, Mr. Trump, certainly is taking that to heart and digging in and doing stuff that hasn't happened in a long time. He's actually trying to cut waste and fraud. And the fact that he is doing it is now causing great pains and rending of garments and gnashing of teeth from the progressives. Why? I mean, even Obama was talking about a website devoted to forest rangers playing the fiddle, having a musical group.
I mean, even Obama couldn't justify that one. And Biden was given the job because, hey, nobody messes with Joe. If he only knew. It's uncanny. It's uncanny the rhetoric that comes out of Washington and the hypocrisy that comes out of Washington and the fact that nothing actually does come out of Washington. Because now you've got the progressives.
screaming at the top of their lungs that Trump is destroying the nation, killing democracy, and killing every program and causing death and destruction everywhere in the country because he wants to cut fraud and he wants to cut waste. I don't get it. When Obama did it, nobody complained. Everybody was behind it. In fact, Joe Biden was the guy. He was the cutter. He was the Elon Musk of his era.
And now, not. All right. I just thought you should hear that because it just shows you it depends upon who is in charge. If you're in charge, it's a great idea. If you're not in charge, it's a terrible idea. Even if you were in charge before and like the idea, now you don't. Hypocrisy. It's a part of Washington, and it'll always be a part of Washington. And I'm glad that at least President Trump has the intestinal fortitude to do something, because that's exactly what he's doing, something.
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Looking at your Alaska Total Traffic cameras on this Monday afternoon. It's a bright and sunny one out there. Roads are in pretty good shape, except for they are wet and sly. All right, 522-0650. That is the telephone number if you want to join us. Had a lot of pithy stuff in the beginning. I can spell that for you if you like. Good stuff. Talk about the truckers in Canada.
They seem to have their heads screwed on pretty straight. And then we talked about Obama and his wish, in fact, his order to... get rid of waste and spending, and he put Joe Biden in charge. Well, needless to say, I don't know how much waste and spending actually got taken care of.
You know, Mike, I think actually with Joe Biden in charge, it went up because, you know, Joe Biden was in charge of that waste and spending, and he was going to do the best job he could to make sure that we had as much of it as we could get. Well, he was the right guy for waste and spending, wasn't he?
He knew all about it. Oh, that he did. That he did. And watching the videos, that was from back in 2011 when he actually had his mental facilities about him. And he was going to hold weekly and monthly meetings in the White House on this. And they were going to commit a... big old board to it. All this stuff was going to go on. Almost kind of like Kamala Harris and the border czar. Yeah. Well, she went to Chicago. That's true. That is the border of something. Yes.
And Chicago has a green river today, just so everybody knows. They have a bright green river. Yeah, Chicago dyes the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day. But the biggest parade is in New York. St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York and it is St. Patrick's Day and Patrick Lynch sent me a note and wished us all a happy St. Patrick's Day and same to you Patrick. And he also mentioned that Conor McGregor went to see President Trump. And he mentioned, did Patrick, about Mr. McGregor's...
Sartorial splendor. He said the guy was in a beautiful suit. Actually, I'm looking at a picture. He actually is. And he was talking about how great America is. Did you say Conor McGregor went to see the President of the United States in a suit? Yes, he did. Oh my gosh. I can't think of anybody who wouldn't do that. Yeah, he looked great. Oh, wait, Zelensky, never mind. My bad. That's where it came from in my mind. That's right. Yeah, so Zelensky didn't do that. So what can you say?
Now, on that Conor McGregor story, did I hear correctly somewhere out there that he might possibly be thinking about running for Irish president or whatever it is the head of the Irish nation is? I think it's been bandied about. Well, that'd be a fight. Well, I don't think he'd want to fight the guy for it, but, you know, he certainly understands how to fight, that's for sure.
I don't know. I'd pay for that pay-per-view right there. That'd be a great way to do it. I've got a note here from Danny. He wanted to know, can you suggest who to vote for Assembly and School Board? Well, Danny, I've been still trying to get information on assembly people. I have not been able to get that. You've got incumbents.
I wouldn't vote for the incumbent, but that's okay. But on the school board, I wouldn't vote for any incumbents on the school board either. So does that help you at all? And I'm still trying to get information. Mark Anthony Cox is running. I think Mark Anthony would make a great school board member, so I would suggest that he would be somebody to seriously consider.
And then the other school board position, I would vote for whoever is running against the incumbent. How's that? Does that help you? Somebody might say, well, that's careless. I don't believe so. How much worse could he get, right? Well, he can't. Not with Margo Bellamy. You know, I mean, how much worse could it get? So... Who's ever running against Margo Bellamy, that's who I'm going to vote for. Because it's got to be better. Right?
I think Mark Anthony Cox would make a good school board member, and I think Mark Anthony should get elected. As far as the Assembly is concerned, I'm still trying to get elected. information and hopefully maybe they can even get some people on the air, but I don't know. This has been like a stealth election. Well, I agree. I'm trying to find out. I mean, for my district, I've been pulling my hair out, basically, trying to figure out.
So mine's Cameron Perez Verdia's district. Oh, yeah, he's been in there. The guy falls asleep in the meetings. Did you remember that? Oh, yes, Sleepy Verdia, man. I definitely remember that. But he's got a Jonathan Duckworth and an Amy Steen. And the only thing I've been able to find out so far is that Jonathan Duckworth is a business owner. And I figured out what businesses he's owned. But I can't find any positions.
anything else. In fact, they haven't even raised any, well, they haven't filed any reports on any money raised. I know. It's almost like the candidates aren't even interested in being interviewed. So it's hard. I mean, this shows you the sorry state. of our local government. If the people that are running are interested in talking to their constituents, how in the world are we supposed to know what the heck they stand for?
And why would we vote for them if we don't know anything about them? Except for the fact that they're not the incumbent. I mean, that's what we're kind of stuck with in some races. So, Danny, I wish I could be more help. I'm trying. But I gave you one name that I think you should consider for school board. Here in my district... I'm still trying to get some more information, and hopefully I will. So that's it.
All I can tell you, I don't have, nobody seems to be available to talk to. Is that by choice or? Maybe people just don't want to talk. But it is stealthy. I mean, you talk to people on the street and you ask them, you know, there's an election coming up to look at you like you're crazy. And this is the governance of our city. It's like we've given up. All right, it's 440. Well, a French parliament member is demanding.
I demand that the United States return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America has lost its way and no longer stands for what the iconic sculpture represents. We are going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom, give us... The Statue of Liberty, the left-leaning French diplomat, Raphael Glucksmann, said in a recent...
conversation of his political party, Place Publique, according to the French newspaper Le Monde, the world. We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home, he said, as the crowd erupted in cheers. Glucksmann! is a major booster of the Ukraine war and has sharply criticized President Trump for aggressively seeking to pull back on U.S. support for the effort.
I would say that, Monsieur Glucksmann, if you really believe this, why don't you go and sign up and carry a gun and go to the Ukraine and fight? But I don't see that. He also has been vocal and an opponent of Trump reducing funding to colleges and research institutions. The second thing we're going to say to Americans is if you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste...
for doubt and research, have made your country the world's leading power, then we're going to welcome them. Gluckseman criticized right-wing members of France's parliament, who he called a fan club of Trump. as well as a Tesla CEO, the world's richest man, Elon Musk, who has taken on a highly visible role in the administration. Lady Liberty, as you know, was designed by French sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, and given to the United States as a gift from France.
It was unveiled on the Upper Bay of New York in 1886, a dedication ceremony by then-President Grover Cleveland. The beloved statue has since become one of the U.S. most enduring symbols, a beacon of freedom. over which apparently this guy doesn't quite understand the Statue of Liberty weighs 450,000 pounds it stands 305 feet tall I've been to the top of it including her star-shaped granite pedestal.
A one-quarter scale replica of Lady Liberty given to France by the U.S. to mark the 1889 100 years since France's revolution can be found on the Allée de Seigne. that means Swan Alley in English, a narrow island on the Seine not far from Le Tour d'Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower. So, I don't know what this guy is trying to do. He got his five minutes of fame.
He's a guy who wants to see more war in Ukraine, but I don't see him volunteering to go fight. Would you like to hear what our White House press secretary has to say about it? Yeah, go ahead. And my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So they should be very grateful. to our great country. Just a little bit there. Just a little bit there. Oh, gosh.
She really said that. She said that, right? Peter Doocy asked her the question, and that was her answer to Peter Doocy. And it's interesting because the guy who is complaining so much, his last name is Glucksmann. which I believe is probably German. I don't know. All right, it's 445. Let us take a break, and we'll come back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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Welcome back, everybody. It is 449-522-0650, and Marvin is on. You've got a recommendation for South Anchorage. Go ahead. Yeah, hi, Mike. I was a little bit confused about District 6, who was the best candidate. The bios were done by Alaska Watchmen, and they were okay. I asked Amy this morning, and she said that McCormick had been interviewed by Bob Griffin, and Bob Griffin was throwing his support behind McCormick.
And that was good enough for me. I love Bob Griffin dearly. You know, he's an activist. in the school board so that was good enough for me and he seems like the best candidate that colbrey didn't you know i wasn't too impressed with his answers Okay, well, what I'll do is I'll try to get a hold of Bob, and I put a call into Mr. McCormick. I have not heard back yet, but I'll call Bob and see if we can't get some information.
Get some information, but if Bob is backing the guy, that says a great deal, because Bob is very careful and very conservative. Bob has a good head on his shoulders. So if Bob likes the guy, then I'm sure I will go along. Alaska Watchmen, they put out a request for... responses from people, and the only ones that responded were McCormick and Colbrey, this Rosales for school board, and Mark Cox, and Gurker out there. The rest of them didn't even bother to...
So that kind of tells you something right there. It does. I kind of think that some of this stuff is phony, that there are people just running just because they're trying to... basically clog up the field, so to speak, and protect the incumbents. And we've got to get rid of some of these people. Well, I mean, the school board, other than Dave Donnelly, is a no-brainer. Anybody's better than what we got there. So some of those are pretty...
Pretty much a no-brainer for a conservative. I would agree. I would absolutely agree. All right, Marvin, thank you very much for the call. I appreciate that. All right, 451. 522-0650. So, Daryl, if we could get some of these folks on the air here, at least talk to them.
That would be great. I'm going to be working on that. I'm going to start rattling some cages if I can. Because I think it's important for people to hear it, especially if you're a conservative. You're kind of saying to yourself, where the heck are the conservatives? And if you've got a couple... Let's go from there. Let's get them in. We can support them. But if we don't know anything, we're basically going to sit here. I've got two ballots sitting on my desk.
right now, one for myself, one for my wife, and I haven't even opened them at this point because it would be nice to have an idea of what I'm going to do. I know what I'm going to do on the bond issues. That's easy. No. I'm tired of the high taxes. You know, everything these people do is like, let's spend your money. You know, you've got school bonds. You've got all this. It's like the schools. Take a break, guys. You don't need any more schools.
You don't have enough kids to fill the schools you got. I think one of the funniest things with this right now is one of the things put out by the city for their bond package is the fact that we retired $109 million worth of bonds in the last so many years. And so we're going to put up another $109 million. million worth of bomb why why why are we I mean this makes no sense to me
Because they can't stand the fact that we've defused the bonds. They can't stand that. It's like, my gosh. So it shows you that you can live with debt. Well, do we need it? I guess the first question I would have for any of these people is, you know, when you go to bond, you're borrowing money, and you have to service the debt. And we got stuck in that particular hole.
Way back when, when the school districts were saying, look, it's a great deal. The legislature is going to reimburse 70% of our debt. And I kept saying, well, that must be nice, but don't count on it because they can stop it at any time. And guess what happened? They did. And guess who got to now service 100% of the debt? We did. So we were sold a bill of goods because we didn't listen. Because any time you have debt and it's your name on the bottom of that contract,
Guess who gets to pay for it? You do. And that's what's happened to us. And if we don't need the debt, don't incur it. Just like you would in your own home. If you need the debt, well, then you have to look and say, okay, I got to go borrow some money to do these things that are absolutely essential for life and safety or what have you. But, you know, the city also has, the school district has a bit of money, too, that they can use. So why are you coming to the taxpayer all the time?
And if you just retired $109 million, which is a chunk of change, and you want to spend another $109, why? It's like those people with a compulsion that they've got their credit card limit and they're maxed out and they managed to pay down half of it and they go and max it out again. Well, it's something that I think we need to stop, but the problem is there aren't enough conservatives, there aren't enough people of good sense, I'll say that, in our government.
To pull the string and say hold on I'm not against I'm not against going out for bonding something that's important that we need But I haven't seen anything yet I'm not against spending money for education, but I haven't seen anything yet. I mean, we keep spending all this money, and all we do is spend more. And if you don't change the people that are in there, it's just going to continue. All right, it is 4.56. We're going to be right back. Stay with us.
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Welcome back, everybody. 25 here in Anchorage. 26 in Palmer. 29 in Soldotna. Homer's at 30. Talkeetan at 24. Fairbanks 10. And up in Prudhoe, it's minus 7. Well, joining us now is candidate for my part of Anchorage, and it's his part of Anchorage too, South Anchorage, Keith McCormick. Keith, welcome. How are you? Yeah, thank you very much for having me. Doing great.
Good. Okay. So tell me, I see you're a Marine Corps veteran, Alaska Entrepreneur of the Year 2018, doctorate in medical science, physician's assistant in pediatric psychiatry. You've got a full life, got a nice family, got a great picture of your family there on your poster there. What would make an intelligent, hardworking guy want to run for the assembly?
Yeah, well, I was born and raised in South Anchorage. This is my community, and as my wife and I are raising our boys in the town that shaped us, we've noticed it's not... It's not the same place we grew up. And we've complained and we've cried about it for years, and I'm ready to make a difference. I'm ready to make Anchorage the vibrant, safe community that I remember it being growing up.
Well, I would agree with you. I think I'm probably a little older than you, and it was that way when I got here way back when in 1970. And it's not gotten better. It's gotten worse. So what are some of the things that you'd like to see happen if you get elected to the Assembly? What are some of your priorities? One of my biggest priorities, one that's really close to my heart, is homelessness.
I've been a volunteer at the Downtown Soup Kitchen since I was 8 or 9 years old, spent a lot of my days down there, and now as my career has kind of taken off, my boys spend more time down there volunteering. than I do, and they're about that same young age. And I think a little-known fact is that the city spent $0 trying to solve homelessness before COVID. I mean, the nonprofits bore the burden for our community.
in addressing these issues. And since COVID, we've spent $190 million and where's the results? And we are no better off now than five years ago and $190 million richer. And we've, I say that, the Assembly and the administration has only made it more difficult on the non-profits that have been doing this diligent work since the 80s.
and doing so with good results before the city ever attempted to dip their fingers in it. And we need to be supporting these nonprofits such as the Downtown Soup Kitchen, now the Hope Center, Rescue Mission. They're doing amazing work. They're housing people, feeding them three meals a day, doing job training for one or two years, and then ongoing support afterwards.
without a single taxpayer dollar, and those are the organizations that we need to be supporting. And that's going to be one of my main priorities on the Assembly. Well, I absolutely agree with you, having worked at the... Brother Francis Shelter, I was board chair for four years. I think it's extremely important, and I think one of the things, Keith, that I've been harping on, and you're exactly right, we've spent a lot of money on homelessness, and guess what? We've gotten more of it.
But what we need is a triage center. And as you know from your experience, homelessness comes in various shapes and sizes. And we have to treat the individual and not the group. And we're not doing that. Exactly. We need a triage center like you're talking about, somewhere where people can come in. I mean, so in 2013, the federal policy was housing first. And it sounds great. People are unhoused. You need to put them in.
under a roof and now they are quote-unquote housed. So that's treating the symptom of homelessness but not the causation of homelessness. And what that did in 2013 was all the money went to immediate housing and the amount of transitional beds shrank to very, very little because there was no money in that. Nobody was funding that. And what we needed that triage center that then, yeah, you bring them in, you feed them.
You give them a safe place to be, but then you start moving them through the line of, okay, what do we need? How can we help you? You need signed up for Medicaid. You need an ID to get into treatment centers. Well, how do you get an ID? You need transportation. You need money to pay for the DMV and the ID. You need a safe place to lock up that ID while you're running these other errands. And we need to start pushing people through the line.
of getting the services that they need. And we've failed in that manner, and we need to do better as a city. Well, the other thing I was going to ask you about taxes, you're a homeowner, and every time I see my green card, I think I'm a land baron. So what do we do? Yeah, I'm... Very thankful for Randy Solt. I think he represented the South Anchorage community very well. And I'm thankful he got in on Project Anchorage. He put in the seven-year...
Revote, we'll have an opportunity to vote on this again in seven years if it is so passed. But this is one situation that Randy and I disagree on. I am not for the sales tax. Any variance I've put forward, now back to the single variant that's in front of the body again. This, I do not...
I believe that this will meaningfully reduce our property taxes. I think we'll have a sale tax, and we will continue to see those green slips coming and going up and up. The government's never seen a tax that it doesn't love. And after seven years, that will be the status quo and it will be maintained. Now, if we want to talk about a tax that would replace the property tax and that I no longer had to rent the property that I believe that I own from the government.
I could get interested in that, but this is not that, so I am not in support of the sales tax variant. All right. Well, Keith, I agree with you on that. I appreciate your calling in. I thank you for that. People have an opportunity to vote for you, and it would be nice if we could get someone like you representing us in South Anchorage.
And it's real simple. The ballots are out. I've got them on my desk. I'm looking at them right now. And it's real simple. Just color in the oval next to Keith McCormick, right? $1 in that oval, put it in the envelope, and go find a drop box to put it in. The ballots are out. Everyone should have them. Yeah, thanks for considering me. Thanks for having me on. And you can find more information about me at Keith.
And I would love to hear from people and hear their feedback. Okay, well, that's great. And remember, I'm one of your constituents. So I look forward to getting you elected, and I'll look forward to hopefully helping you be successful if I can. Well, thank you very much. I look forward to representing South Anchorage. I'm sure we'll talk again. All right, Keith. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thanks. All right. Keith McCormick, running in South Anchorage.
And I'm glad he had a chance to just kind of take a little time with us and tell us about himself and the fact that he's running. So it's good. You know, you get good people that are running. It's a tough thing to get people interested in the assembly. I mean, it's... Would you want to hang out with those people every week?
No, no, I don't think I'd be able to do the meal break. Well, you get free lunch, you know. Yeah, but free lunch, if you can't eat it because your stomach's all twisted up in knots and everything, it just doesn't work for me. All right, let's take a break. 5-2-2-0-6-50 is the number. 5-16 in 24 seconds. We'll be right back. Back to the Mike Porcaro Show with Crash on News Radio 650.
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At least I hope that's what it means. I'm glad you said that, because the only one I know is Aaron Gobra. I don't, well, you know, there you go. That's true. That's a good one. But, yeah, supposedly that's what it means. And either he was, you know, telling me something for me to tell everybody else, and it means nothing like that, but I think that's what it means.
He wouldn't scare me wrong. Well, I'll know when we get the call from the FCC in a few minutes. That's right. If you give somebody enough Guinness, they'll tell you anything. But happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody. All right, let us go to Denise. Hi, Denise. Hi, Mike, and happy St. Patrick's Day to you, too. Thank you. Hey, listen, I need to report that my ballot is defective.
It does not show Proposition 10 on it. So I called the municipal elections number, and I spoke with a lady there, and she said, oh, that's because you're not in the... Service area. And I said, no, I think you're wrong because it requires a full faith and credit of the municipality. And it says right there in the newspaper thing that comes out that everybody gets to vote on it.
Besides which, I got to vote on the Girdwood Proposition 8 ballot, so I should be voting on 10 and 11. I didn't get 10. So she said, well, I'll check it out and have some male name, I don't remember his name, call you. Well, they haven't called me back. But I suspect that I'm not the only ballot missing... You're not, because I'm looking at my ballot right now, and my ballot has...
Proposition 8, the Girdwood Valley Service Bonds. It's got 9, and then it goes to 11. I don't have 10 either. And I'm in South Anchorage. I'm in the municipality. Yeah, well, when they're looking for money, they know where I am. Oh, yeah. You know, we got property taxes. Now they want to put on two more taxes. So 10 and 11 have got to go down, and if I can't vote them down, who's voting them in? What's going on here? So I thought I'd let you know. I haven't heard back from the city.
Well, let me know if you do, because if there's a mistake here and we should be voting on it, then we should do that. But, I mean, either that...
Either that or only the people in that area get to pay for it. That doesn't sound like Anchorage. Well, the explanation of the propositions that I saw... said that it required everyone, just like 8 and 11, everyone in, I don't remember what 9 is, but everybody in the municipality has to approve it even though the service area people are the only ones who pay for it.
So I think there's an issue with the ballots. All right. Well, I think if you want to continue to push these guys, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you. But keep me posted because... Because it's important, and your ballot, I think we must have the same ballot. Yeah, I hope so, because I like the way I vote. Well, I probably...
we'll probably end up voting the same way. I'm in South Anchorage, too. And by the way, yes, I do support Mr. McCormick and also Mr. Cox and Mr. Rosales for the school board. We've got to get that school board changed. We do. We do. And Daniel George for the Midtown. So thank you for taking my call. Oh, absolutely. Thank you for what you do. Well, thank you, and stay in touch on this, okay? All right, let's go to Mike. Hi, Mike.
Yeah, hi, Mike. So on the general obligation bonds, does the public actually know what... what they're actually voting for. The question on the bond itself, of course, describes the project, but the way the bond is written is if the bond... uh the bondholder chooses after the vote not to use the money on the specific project they can use it on other projects yes that's that's correct so
For the voter, you know, I've always seen that as being fairly disingenuous because... It is. I mean, it's deceptive. Yeah. So, I mean, remember Clark... You know, when they went ahead, they rebuilt that whole thing. You know, to me, it was like, okay, that makes sense. You wanted to upgrade it, rebuild it, and so on, and it cost us multiple millions to do it. But then there's other fraudsters that kind of hung around and not been done, et cetera, and so on. So it is of interest.
So when you're talking to your policy makers, especially whether they're on the school board or the assembly, that's an important question to ask. And the second thing that's always on your mind and my mind, just because, you know, we're looking at such an incredible amount of coverage of Doge right now, is there any link between? us putting these bonds out, in other words, our policymakers putting these bonds out and receiving some sort of benefit as a consequence.
one could say, well, no, of course not. But on the other side of the coin, if people start reading the APOC reports for assembly members and for school board members, you'll find that there's a tremendous amount of union campaign contributions and participation from individuals who are part of the union structure. All I'm trying to say is that, is this something that we as voters want to continue to encourage now that we know?
There are various vehicles out there that are taking public money, money that we pay the government in forms of taxes, and returning it to our individual candidates in some cases. as a campaign benefit. Well you make a good point. And that's why I always vote no on the bonds unless they specifically are going to use the money for what they tell you they're going to use it for. And that's the problem. But if you and I are the only ones that are saying no, who the heck's the idiot?
I know. Well, we end up paying for it, don't we? Thanks, Mike. All right. Thank you, Mike. Appreciate it. All right, 528. Let's take a quick break. We'll be right back. This is NewsRadio 650, KE&I. Anchorage. The unrest continues at the Mount Spur volcano. The Alaska Volcano Observatory says activity remains elevated. Small, shallow earthquakes are still underneath the surface of the volcano. The alert levels advisory color-coded yellow, same as it was last week.
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533-532-0650. Getting back to Denise, she called and she said that she didn't have Proposition 10, correct, on her ballot. I don't have it on my ballot either. I was just looking at it. And that is for an area service area. And according to the way the proposition is written, only those people in the service area get assessed.
to pay for it. However, The full faith and credit of the city is on the line, and in order to vote for the full faith and credit, everybody has to vote for it, even those people who are not in the area affected. So, what does it say, Gerald? You were reading that to me over the break. So, this is from the Women League of Voters pamphlet that they send out. And at the bottom of it, it says...
Only property owners throughout the ARDSA will be taxed for this levy. That's in bold print. There will be no cost to properties in Chugiak, Eagle River, Girdwood, and other properties outside the ARDSA. However, because... State law requires the full faith and credit of the whole municipality to be pledged for these bonds. Passage requires approval by voters residing in the entire municipality as well as by voters in the ARDSA. So that seems pretty...
Straightforward right there. Well, what it says to me is that it's got to be on my ballot and Dee's ballot and everybody else's ballot. Yeah, I've got to go home and look at my ballot now. So if there's a problem, then I guess the city is going to have a problem because somebody could very well say this ballot is not viable.
Because you are not allowing the citizens who are pledging the full faith and credit of the city to vote. I mean, I understand that only the people in the area are going to be assessed, and that's fine. But, you know, if I have to pledge the full faith and credit of the city behind something, then I should be expected to have a say in that. Just as Denise had mentioned in her phone call to us moments ago. So maybe there's a bright attorney out there.
Who would like to shake a tree or two at City Hall? And I would suggest somebody do that. And let's get a clarification. Because, you know, you can't... You can't play games here with this stuff. So let's do it straight up. We're going to do this, then let the people vote. If it passes, it passes. If it doesn't, it doesn't. And we go forward with it. Otherwise, we have a problem. Do we not? I think so. All right, 522-0650 as we get closer.
to this thing people have asked me about voting who to vote for blah blah blah I'm just kind of looking at my ballot as we go through I'm sorry Daryl did you say something Okay. And I'll kind of tell you who I think, and pretty much you could probably figure it out. Jeff Landfield. Hi, Jeff. Hi, Mike. Yes.
I just wanted to let you know we just wrapped up our assembly debates, the landmine. We did all six, though several candidates didn't respond. So a couple of them were quote-unquote debates. It was just one person. But I wanted to say it's very interesting. This cycle, I'm sure you've realized this as well. I've been in Juneau, but I'm back this weekend. Just very low energy. The amount of fundraising and spending is way down from the 2022 and 2023 races.
I think part of that is Bronson was mayor and the assembly was contentious and the progressives were trying to kind of hold their supermajority. But even before that, I mean, you know, some of these races, like the Midtown Rats where I live, it's Aaron Baldwin Day. And she's raising some money, but Don Smith is not raising money. Keith McCormick is running against a guy who's a perennial candidate, not raising money. The Cameron Perez-Verdia guy has...
Two opponents, neither have filed reports or raised any money. So you just have this kind of really interesting situation where not a lot of interest. And there's only two incumbents running for re-election, Cameron Perez-Verdia and Daniel Volan. Other four are open seats. So just kind of low energy, you know, not a lot of money being spent, not a lot of signs up. I don't know if people are just tired of local politics or maybe they're burnt out with the national stuff.
These races used to have two, three, four people, five people. It used to be kind of fun. No, I know it was great. People would be calling the radio station to get on, and they'd be contacting you, and just... Trying to let people know what they stand for and why you should vote for them. This is almost a stealth election. I've actually asked people if they're ready for this election, and they look at me like I'm out of my mind, which most people don't.
I think it's going to be super low, low, low turnout. Maybe it's almost in a long time. South Anchorage and Eagle River tends to vote a little more, but I just did not feel like there's an election. The ballots went out last Tuesday. So, you know, you'd think by now people would be sending out mail. I haven't, I haven't, I got home. I haven't checked my mail. I haven't gotten one mailer for the, I live in Midtown. So it's Erin Baldwin Day. She's.
raising money and campaigning. And then Don Smith, who was on the assembly, I think, in the 70s, he hasn't filed a campaign report. So, interesting. Remember when Bronson was... You had Christine Hill, and you had Kathy Hensley, you know, running against Felix and Meg. There was a recon, and those were, like, kind of hot races. Yeah, money was being spent, the races were hot, people were engaged, and it's almost like... You know who suffers? You and I suffer. Nobody's buying ads.
Well, that's true. It's awful. No, I mean, it's stealthy. I'll give you a quick Juno update. I'm going back tomorrow. Sure. Senator Murkowski is addressing a joint session tomorrow, and Senator Sullivan is addressing a joint session on Thursday. So that's kind of the news this week. And when I called last week, I gave you the update of this education bill. Now it's in the Senate.
As it sits right now, it would cost a quarter billion a year, and then you have other union contracts have increased from the governor and other spending, and there's just kind of everybody wants to spend money, but there's a hole, which is...
Probably half a billion, but it could be higher with this new revenue forecast. So the Senate has basically been pretty emphatic. They don't want to go into the CBR, the Constitutional Budget Reserve, which has about $3 million in it. But I just don't see how they're not going to go into that thing.
I don't know what they're going to... All this money everybody wants to spend. And there's been some talk about this per-bail credit that oil companies can get based on the price of oil, and they can... There's been some talk of lowering that. Then they had the Rob Young. I think I told you that he took his name off his own bill. Right. Hill Corps bill, which is still in play. It's now a Senate resources bill. But those are really the only revenue.
proposals. I don't even know if those are going to, you know, those aren't so, even if they pass the legislature, the governor still has to have to sign it. No, it's going to be interesting to see just how this all works. I don't see it. And I look at... I look at this and I'm thinking to myself, well, first of all, I know the Senate doesn't want to go into the CBR, the reserve, because they're going to need the minority. And if they do that, they're going to have to make some deals.
So for the folks listening, if they don't know, to go into the savings account requires a three-quarter vote in the House and the Senate. That's 15 in the Senate. They only have 13 in the majority, and that's 30 in the House.
They only have 21 in their majority. So to do that, you have to – typically when that happens, spending goes up because the minority wants something. Right. Or they want maybe reductions or more spending. So it's really – When you have big majorities, it's a little easier, but the house is a very small, narrow, and Maxine Diver, that's part of the reason that education bill stalled for weeks was because she was very sick in the hospital with a respiratory.
She's back in Juneau now, but she has like an oxygen kind of... Oh, my gosh. In any case, when you're down one person, when you have 21, you can't even... If one of your members is on a committee, on the education committee, there's seven people. The majority has four.
If she's gone, it's three and three. So the majority can't even move bills out of that. That's what happened with that education bill. But they can't even get a quorum if they have to go to the floor, if the minority doesn't show up. So there's all kinds of very technical. problems when you have a minority so narrow. Yeah, and so basically the minority, and we've seen this play out in...
past legislatures, the minority in some cases has all the power. Because if you want to get into that reserve, you've got to play ball with them. When there's deficits, or yes, the three-quarter, that's a big, big, powerful tool the minority has. And also, if somebody's missing, they want to...
pass the budget or pass a bill or have something move. They have to, you know, play nice. And things were, started off really calm. It was almost boring. I wrote a column a few months ago. I said, this is boring. This is no fun. Everybody's kind of...
Getting along and behaving, and that's not very fun. But now with the education bill and some of this tax stuff, the oil tax stuff, and the deficit, it's starting to really pop up with the education. So now the minority was very upset with the majority. putting a deadline on amendments, which is pretty standard practice, and they called it rushing the bill, even though they were the ones who, the minority was trying to rush the bill.
before they were trying to move it out of the committees very quickly. The whole thing's kind of weird, but now things aren't as nice as they... were when things started off. Very new legislature. We're all going to get along. Everybody's going to work together and all this BS that they say.
I knew it wasn't going to last. But, I mean, it was pretty boring for a month. I was not having as much fun. I mean, two years ago, the Democrats all ran away and fled the capital. That's right. When the Republicans moved the funding, they tried to move the funding source for the education money and the budget.
to the CBR because they wanted to force their vote for the draw to pay for the education. And instead of debating it, they fled. That was wild. The Republicans put somebody at the airport. Because they put a call in the house, which compelled attendance. And they were worried somebody was going to fly away. And then you basically could stop it. Ultimately, they have the power to call the troopers, which did happen in the 1970s. Clem Tilly and two guys were hiding out in Pelican.
and they brought him back in handcuffs. That's what I'm talking about. You've got to love it, you know. This is real. This is good stuff. Well, and then a few weeks ago where it got really hot was actually over a week ago. A few of the majority, Speaker Edgman and a few others were leaving, and it was Friday, and the majority was trying to stall them from getting on the plane.
You know, the introduction of guests where if you're visiting, you get introduced by your legislator. Well, they were all introducing their staff, their Republicans, and speaking for like five and ten minutes. And it got to the point where Edgman was not amused. And it really kind of blew up. Yep. Well, you know, he's not immune to doing things like that either. So they all do the same thing. It depends on what you're saying.
They do things and say things that they did. They're mad about things they did before. It switches. It kind of goes back and forth. It's not really a lot of consistency there. Exactly. Jeff, have fun down in Juneau. Keep us posted. It's hard not to have fun down there, Mike. Okay. All right. Take care. Thanks, Mike. All right. 547. We'll be right back. Get on with Mike and Crash weekdays at 3 on NewsRadio 650 KENI.
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Welcome back, everybody. 5-2-2-0-6-50. 25 here. 26 in Palmer. 29 in Slobotna. 30 in Homer. Telcaton is 24. Fairbanks is 10. And Prudhoe Bay is minus 7. So we kind of covered a lot of stuff today. Darrell, I don't know if you've got anything else. I appreciate you getting Keith McCormick on the line for us, and hopefully we can get some other folks. I'm going to be working on getting some of them other ones on here, too.
You know, I think it's pretty easy for me to tell people, you vote your own way. I mean, I can tell you what I'm going to do if you want to know. But you do what you want to do. I'm not telling you how to vote. But it seems to me that in District 6, where I am, Keith McCormick is the guy. School board seat A, there's Margo Bellamy, who's the incumbent. If you like the way the school board is being run, then she's your girl. But if you don't, then Alexander Rosales.
is the challenger, and that's school board A. I don't like the way the school board's being run, so you can pretty much guess that Alexander's probably going to get my vote. School board seat B. Kelly Lessons is the incumbent. Again, I'm not happy with the way the school board's running. And Mark Anthony Cox. And we've had Mark Anthony on the show before. He's a fine young man.
And I think he would make a great school board member. So Mark Anthony Cox is going to get my vote. And then the Bonds. There's top one. Capital improvements for the Anchorage School District. That would be a no. $63.822 million. No. Anchorage roads and drainage, $33 million. Not to exceed 143,000 for the annual amount. I don't think so. Basically, the bonds, I'm not going to support the bonds.
simply because in many cases the bond will be for something, but it gives the bondholder the ability to move the money or not actually do what they're asking you to do. So I'm always skeptical on this, and I think our taxes are high enough. We've already gotten rid of $109 million worth of bonds. Let's keep that moving if we can. So the bonds are not anything I'm going to be supporting. And that's just me. If you like something on there and you want to support it, that's up to you. But I'm not.
And the one thing that we do have is a question is Prop 10, and it's for a specific area of our city, but we are voting the full faith and credit of the entire city. for that particular bond issue. And in order for that to happen, I am one of the people in the city. And if you're asking me to vote full faith and credit of the city, then you've got to get everybody in the city to vote that way. So that's kind of where we are.
So I don't have Prop 10 on my ballot, and other folks don't either, and I think there's a problem here. Angelica, go ahead. You're on. Hey, Mike. How are you today? I'm good, thank you. Hey, so I was looking over my ballot as well. I also do not have Proposition 10 on there. But I noticed something that there are... multiple oppositions on there that are for specific areas only. But I still get a vote, like, I don't know, the town square thing, that only the people who live there...
have to pay for. But let's say the entire downtown area votes no, but the rest of the municipality votes yes. That means that we are making them pay taxes even though they said no to the tax or the bond. I think that's kind of weird. Well, it is weird. It's a strange system. But it makes no sense, and it's never been this way that I know of. No, I think the only time I've ever seen that was in Girdwood. The people in Girdwood wanted something, and the rest of the town said no.
even though it was only going to be charged to Girdwood. But that's happened before. Well, no, I mean, generally when I've seen ballots, the propositions that were area-specific... were only printed on ballots that were for that area. Right. But all of a sudden, I am getting all these propositions and bonds.
that are for other areas that I don't live in. And I get a vote, and I find that illogical. Well, it's because we're voting the full faith and credit of the city. Haven't we done that always? I believe we have. This is a strange... I don't have an answer for you, Angelica. Okay, all right. That's okay. I appreciate you listening to me. Oh, absolutely, always.
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