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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jul 9, 2019, 04:10 AM Jul 2019

Koch-blockers: 'Alaskans For Recalling Governor Mike Dunleavy' the reluctant heroes out to save the

Koch-blockers: ‘Alaskans For Recalling Governor Mike Dunleavy’ the reluctant heroes out to save the bus from going off the cliff if our legislature won’t


A hot-as-balls Sunday at the Lutheran Church on 15th and Cordova, where afternoon services were just letting out with the Lord’s Prayer, about to give way to a meeting about homelessness in the impending world according to Mike Dunleavy, was about the only place to catch up with the core behind the Facebook group ‘Alaskans For Recalling Governor Mike Dunleavy.'

Ryan Anderson, one founding member of the group, which established itself three days after Dunleavy announced more than $440 million in additional cuts on top of an already svelte budget approved by the Legislature, caught up to me inside the church. Sweating through his long, chewy hair under a trucker’s cap, he was breathless and sucking on a Powerade. He told me he’d just run six miles.

“In your jeans?” I asked.

“No,” he replied.

It was too damn hot to stay curious about my confusion, so I got right to it: “What spawned this Recall Dunleavy group you guys put together? How’d you do it?”

Read more: https://www.anchoragepress.com/news/koch-blockers-alaskans-for-recalling-governor-mike-dunleavy-the-reluctant/article_2854232a-a1fe-11e9-bdd7-ef6e08e3d387.html
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