Unofficial Ambassador of Misinformation Claims Bronga Now Pro-Navigation Center
A post made today by an anonymous member of Mayor Bronson's secretive Save Anchorage Facebook turd claimed that Assembly member Karen Bronga had suddenly, and without public comment, switched her support in favor of the mayor's proposed Navigation Center—a result of having been "attacked" at a homeless camp.
There's just one unsurprising problem—it's simply not true.
Bronga did indeed speak from the dais during an Assembly meeting last month after she and her husband had been harassed by a man on a trail who she said was throwing rocks at them—but it appears her opposition to Mayor Bronson's Navigation Center still stands.
Curious about the details included in the anonymous post, I whipped off an email to Assembly member Bronga about the claim.
In an emailed response, Bronga said that she believed Housing First was best, but a principal too slow to make an immediate dent in the homelessness crisis plaguing Anchorage.
"There will always be people who need shelter, and I am in favor of spending limited resources on that rather than a temporary fix for the winter. I think the navigation center is a money pit, so that would not be my first choice as a shelter. I have repeatedly asked for serious consideration of Northway Mall on the west end," Bronga wrote.
Some comments made in response to the now-debunked post were...enlightening...suggesting that "many others" had changed their positions on the Navigation Center issue. It's not immediately clear who specifically Reclaim Midtown was talking about.
Sarah Musgrove-Short responded to the post by writing that it was "too bad" Meg Zaletel was not the one harassed, and suggested she needed a "good butt whooping." She continued in her post, stating that if all of the Assembly members were attacked or their families threatened by an addict, they might then take the crisis more...seriously.
William Keppel, a Quinhagak resident and former failed state Senate candidate who is just trying to "Save Anchorage," responded that the city could best address addiction problems of its unhoused population by refusing to administer the drug NARCAN, also known as Naloxone, to overdose victims. The lifesaving drug is used for emergency treatment of an opioid overdose or a possible overdose.
"Let nature thin them out," Keppel wrote in his comment which has received thirty likes.
In the end, today's anonymous Facebook post including its fabrications about Assembly member Karen Bronga's position on the Navigation Center is just another reminder of how the Save Anchorage turd continues to perpetuate falsehoods and misinformation at a time when city officials are looking for meaningful and impactful solutions to address Mayor Bronson's bungling of the homelessness crisis in Anchorage.
