Assembly Member Jamie Allard Goes Over 24 Hours Without Posting to Facebook Group
The Blue Alaskan has learned that Eagle River Assembly member Jamie Allard has not posted to the "Save Anchorage" Facebook group in over 24 hours. For weeks, Allard furiously posted to the group and gathered support from Save Anchorage members to help filibuster a series of Anchorage Assembly meetings where public testimony had been taken on a proposed mask ordinance, AO 2021-91.
Some Save Anchorage members have likened COVID-19 contact tracing and the sharing of testing results to the holocaust. The group has contributed to misinformation about the pandemic, the city's public health measures, homelessness, and other issues. Some members of the group have even threatened public officials.
Last year, members of the group referred to former Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz as a "ruthless Jew, Mayor Hitler, Hitler son of a bitch, tyrant, Lord Farquaad, Pedowitz, Bagoshitz," hardly hiding their antisemitism.
Last October, Save Anchorage member Maria Athens' award-winning death threat made international headlines when the Alaska Landmine revealed a voicemail in which Athens told Berkowitz that she would personally kill him and his wife — but only after she first called him a "Jewish piece of living fucking shit." Athens left her hate-laced voicemail after her fellow former group member, Molly Blakely, told her something that led her to believe Berkowitz had posted his "male genitalia" to an "underage girl's website." The allegation was false, but Berkowitz resigned after admitting to a consensual but inappropriate messaging relationship with Athens.
Athens interviewed Allard on several occasions and tagged her in Facebook posts that included the Save Anchorage hashtag.
The Eagle River Assembly member has long been a big fan of Save Anchorage. In January, after becoming embroiled in a scandal involving her defense of Nazi terminology seen on two Alaska Vanity license plates, Allard retreated to the group calling it her "safe space."
It wasn't immediately clear why Allard stopped posting to the group.
