Demboski calls ADN editorial board liars, as shadowy right-wing blog can’t keep all the allegations straight
The Anchorage Health Department can't speak to the press because they're reportedly muzzled, but last night we found out that the arm of the emperor, Amy Demboski, had time to give right-wing blog Must Read Alaska a statement for a confusing attack article they wrote about the Anchorage Daily News (ADN).
The Must Read Alaska post asserted, in part, that ADN was going after Demboski over her management style as city manager and that "the paper report[ed] without evidence" that Anchorage Police Chief Kenneth McCoy was retiring because Demboski ordered him to do a welfare check on someone who was in the hospital.
There's just one problem. That's not what the Anchorage Daily News said on December 11, when they wrote that Demboski's time as city manager was up. ADN took Demboski and the Bronson administration to task for removing plexiglass shielding between testifiers and Assembly members and ordering security guards out of the Assembly chambers.
ADN also wrote:
"And then something truly corrupt happened: City Manager Amy Demboski ordered Anchorage Fire Department Video Center Director John Crabb, who manages the meetings’ live-streamed feeds to YouTube and GCI, to cut those feeds. Crabb refused Demboski’s order, which was uncovered via a public records request and first reported by the Alaska Landmine."
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With all of the allegations flying around about Demboski and the Bronson administration, it could be that Must Read Alaska was confused about them since they appear to be coming fast, furious, and from every direction as of late. McCoy's name doesn't even appear in ADN's editorial, and I'm unable to find any news article published by the Anchorage Daily News to back up Must Read Alaska's assertions.
The Alaska Landmine piece, published this past Saturday, alleged that Mayor Bronson's office had "ordered Chief McCoy to have APD officers enter Anchorage medical facilities to "rescue" a man sick with COVID and/or compel medical providers to treat the man with Ivermectin."
Now, this is where one might want to pay attention to what Must Read Alaska did write — that Demboski "was asked by a state senator to have the police do a welfare check on someone in the hospital, and the matter was discussed, but she called the family and found that there was just a misunderstanding."
According to Alaska Public Media, Bonny Salsbery, the daughter of Dan O'Barr, who the Alaska Landmine noted was possibly the man hospitalized with COVID-19, said that her family had reached out to Sen. Mike Shower, R-Wasilla.
Thanks to Must Read Alaska's apparent confusion, it seems likely that we might now know who in Bronson's office had the intimate details about the alleged situation involving the hospitalized patient — the arm of the emperor, Amy Demboski.
In their post, Must Read Alaska failed to mention that Demboski had bullied downtown Anchorage Assembly member Christopher Constant last week. Probably just an oversight.
Update: Sometime during December 14, Must Read Alaska removed its statement that Demboski had spoken to an Alaska state senator about a potential welfare check on someone in the hospital. The blog did not issue a correction or clarification about its earlier "reporting."
