Comments for News from Assemblyman Patrick Flynn

Comment on Labor context by Jillanne

Jillanne — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:33:10 +0000

Patrick,
Thank you for your candid comments at the assembly. The entire thing has been a distraction that is not needed. I must say the entire 4 years has been a a feeling of “which shoe is going to drop next.” It has been a long and insuting odeal that has taken away from what we are here to do! Serving the public is important, fun, exciting and interesting. The “this way or the highway” attitude is getting very old. The public deserve to have their voice heard. It is a slap in the face. The team of public employees is crumbling little bits and pieces at a time.

Comment on Labor context by Gerard Asselin

Gerard Asselin — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:42:54 +0000

Sir, thank you for your continued support of the working people in this community. I greatly appreciated your comments and the perspective you brought. If everyone’s motivations were pure, we wouldn’t be in this conflict now, causing so many distractions from the mission of providing quality public service to this community.

Comment on Labor context by Kurt Sorensen

Kurt Sorensen — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 10:12:28 +0000

“Conformity is doing what everybody else is doing, regardless of what is right.
Morality is doing what is right, regardless of what everyone else is doing.”
Evette Carter

Thank you, Mr. Flynn.

Comment on Labor context by marcia Briggs

marcia Briggs — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:34:04 +0000

I wish I could vote for you, I hope reason wins and that it turns out good. I, however live on the hillside, do I need to say anything more……..Keep fighting, belive me I have lived here since 1947, I do understand the “uphiil battle”.

Comment on Labor context by Clinton Powell

Clinton Powell — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:41:31 +0000

The most impressive statement I’ve heard in the Assembly chambers in a long time. Thank you.

Comment on Labor context by hfree

hfree — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:51:39 +0000

Honest,sincere and intelligent. Thank you.

Comment on Arena acrimony by hockey player

hockey player — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 06:54:57 +0000

I wish the Assembly would get off their duff and RENOVATE or TEAR DOWN the Sullivan Arena.

I agree that it is the most horrific, disgusting, old, antiquated arena that either the Aces or the Seawolves play in.

How on earth can you say that it’s a terrific facility assemblyman Flynn?

The scoreboard at center ice hardly even works anymore, the floor is cracked and falling apart in huge sections, the glass around the ice hasn’t been changed out and years and is so etched up it’s difficult to see, and yes, those filthy, nasty, dirty hard plastic seats are atrocious.

I realize Mayor Dan Sullivan gives diddly-squat about the city. We all know what his agenda is. But I always assumed that at least some of the assembly members who I see watching hockey games at our dive actually cared. Evidently not.

Shame on anyone on the Anchorage assembly who would call the scuzzy Sullivan Arena a “fantastic facility”.

It stinks!

Comment on Title 21 Terminus by Margaret Auth

Margaret Auth — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:00:45 +0000

Patrick, You cracked me up with the “South Park” correction; the one bit of levity for the evening. I won’t count the Giant Snowman guy.
As someone who was able to look around the room at West High in the 1990′s as a member of the Land Use committee, I remember being in awe that all these people with competing purposes and ideals were able to come together to agree on how we wanted Anchorage to look in 20 years and beyond.
We all agreed that Anchorage was in a unique and lovely environment, that we wanted to preserve and protect it; we wanted opportunities for the citizens to play, work, shop or socialize without being dependent on cars, to be a part of this larger natural world without spoiling it so much.
And then after all that work, the developers came together for their secret meetings with public officials where they could air their complaints away from public scrutiny. They hammered on the Planning Dept., they hammered on the mayors, they hammered on the various P&Z and Urban Design Commissions. They got their changes and they still aren’t happy.

Comment on Title 21 Terminus by Pam Tesche

Pam Tesche — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 18:12:10 +0000

Why was the plan named “2020″? Was it supposed to take 20 years to git ‘er done, because, we are on track with that. But seriously, I liked the direction it took at first. We had amazing experts from all over the country speaking and advising, ordinary citizens having a say and being heard. Really good things were done, and people were excited. Then, the whole thing got hijacked, eroded, and tossed out like it was never there. The Neighborhood Plan, walkable city, public transportation, beautification, artful public spaces, all of it, gone. It is time to reclaim it, add sustainability and other new stuff we have now, and make it happen. Thank you, Patrick, this is why the people elected you.

Comment on Title 21 Terminus by Laura Kimmel

Laura Kimmel — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:35:11 +0000

Patio,

Thank you so much for hanging in there and slogging through this. I thought you were going to start the message by stating how you took your beautiful wife and children to the park with the hoardes of binders….
Anyway, I left the meeting early, disappointed that so many of the public who testified had been on the development side of the issue, and was hoping that more spoke for “Space.”
I would speak for space and this is what I would say:
We need open spaces for our soul.
We need it for our sustenance, those who are starting to garden and appreciate nature and what it has to offer in observance of it. This is what we teach our children. They do go outside, if only for the little area around their homes, at the safe watch of their worried parents. Can we tell them to go play in the parking lot? No. They go and play on the hill by the development or on the mini bit of grass outside their door, by the stream easement.
We do need the little things in life. Thank you for fighting for them.
Laura Kimmel