Stephanie Taylor Shares Dave Bronson's Far-Right Politics, Looks to Be Close Ally on the Assembly
Last fall, pro-Bronson supporters, many associated with the far-right Save Anchorage Facebook group, appeared in photographs shared worldwide after they attended a series of fall Assembly meetings adorned with holocaust imagery to protest a proposed mask mandate.
Attending those meetings were Anchorage Assembly candidates and longtime Save Anchorage members Randy Sulte and Stephanie Flynn Taylor, who have both appeared on the Forgotten Freedoms podcast hosted by Dustin Sherman, a far-right, anti-government extremist with ties to the Three Percent Militia movement. In a social media post last year, Sherman suggested Capitol Hill rioters could use Antifa as body shields.
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Taylor, a Bronson loyalist turned right-wing radical whose gross unpopularity led her to enlist services from outside Alaska in a hail-mary bid to oust East Anchorage Assemblyman Forrest Dunbar, holds especially grotesque political views.
Now scrubbed from her campaign website but still present in her campaign literature is the incredible accusation that the assembly has "coddled" Anchorage's homeless population. Taylor believes that by "holding accountable" the least fortunate and most broken among us, crime and drug use will fall across the Municipality.
Taylor spoke at a November 15, 2021, event held by the anti-LGBT hate organization Alaska Parents' Rights in Education (APRE), along with religious zealot and school board biblical values candidate Mark Anthony Cox and Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson.
Taylor and Cox's attendance at APRE's event is noteworthy because the organization believes that LGBTQ+ advocates "groom preschool children at libraries" and that LGBTQ militant activism is fostered in both public schools and libraries.
That Taylor and Cox would attend such an event is unsurprising given Bronson's extreme views on LGBTQ issues and the current nationwide assault on school boards and LGBTQ-themed books we've seen manifest here in Anchorage.
Further demonstrating her extremism and anti-science beliefs, Taylor, while babbling on nonsensically about COVID-19 "natural immunity," during an Alaska Watchman interview on March 2, said that mask mandates enacted in Anchorage "didn't work." Like most right-wing candidates, Taylor said it is an individual's right to wear a mask. It's reasonable to infer that, like other candidates who talk out of the side of their mouths, she does not believe in women's right to choose.
Taylor's statement about the mask mandate flies in the face of a 2020 State of Alaska Epidemiology report that found Alaska's COVID-19 cumulative hospitalization rate was less than half the national rate — likely the result of several factors, including successful community mitigation, Alaska's younger population age distribution, and successful preservation of hospital capacity.
Birds of a Feather
On March 9 of this year, Taylor's campaign shared a post from the Alaskan Patriots Facebook page (whose posts are often marked as false or mostly false information by independent fact-checkers) that called on voters to reject Dunbar, Zaletel, Weddleton, and Perez-Verdia, whom the Alaskan Patriots referred to as "tyrants."
That Taylor's campaign shared such a post from a page containing breathtaking amounts of far-right rhetoric is again unsurprising in light of her association with far-right groups and organizations such as Save Anchorage and APRE.
During last year's mayoral election, Bronson supporters waged a campaign of hate against Forrest Dunbar. His campaign signs were vandalized and destroyed, costing the campaign thousands of dollars. He was also the recipient of overt antisemitic comments.
That trend continues this year, with Taylor supporters taking to Dunbar's Facebook page once again to comment.
"We the goyim, see you who for you truly are and hold you accountable in all manners, especially Karmically."
Bronson won last year's mayoral race by a slim margin of 1,193 votes, and his supporters are voting in this year's municipal election. Are you?
