When Suzanne LaFrance ran for mayor, the theme was incompetence. She and her supporters said that snow wasn’t removed quickly from roads and streets in Anchorage because Mayor Dave Bronson was incompetent. It wasn’t that there was record snowfall and a nationwide lack of qualified workers after the Covid government mismanagement disrupted the economy.
It snowed so hard and fast last winter that during November, schools had to close a couple of times and some heavy cargo jets were diverted to Fairbanks, because the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport could not keep up with the snow. The winter was an unlucky break for Mayor Bronson, who was running for reelection.
It was all due to Bronson’s incompetence, LaFrance’s campaign claimed.
Now that she is facing her first winter, it’s not incompetence, but it’s that the snow removal equipment is old. LaFrance talked with the media earlier this month to set everyone’s exceptions lower, just in case there are record-breaking snows, as there were during the Bronson administration.