Anchorage Assembly chair Suzanne LaFrance says she has more questions for Mayor Dave Bronson’s administration after the release of dozens of pages of text messages and emails tied to last year’s fluoride shut-off and the police chief's sudden retirement.
, that the mayor ordered the local water treatment facility to stop fluoridation and that the mayor requested then-Anchorage Police Chief Ken McCoy have officers “rescue” a man being treated for COVID-19 at a local hospital. It said the incidents led to McCoy’s retirement less than a year after he’d been promoted to lead the department. Assembly chair LaFrance said Assembly members didn’t file the records request solely because of the blog’s allegations.
The records received by the Assembly last week include more than 55 pages of emails and text messages. They corroborate the fluoride allegation, but provide less information about the two issues involving police. In the records involving the COVID-19 patient, several pages of text messages show Mayor Bronson, McCoy and Municipal Manager Amy Demboski discussing a request from the man’s family to come visit him. But the texts do not go into much detail about an actual request for police involvement. there was a discussion with Anchorage police and other officials about sending officers into a hospital after a state senator contacted the mayor.
Officials from the mayor’s office did not respond to requests for comment about the records or Assembly concerns. However, in a letter attached to the records request, Municipal Manager Demboski asserted that “numerous events alleged in your records request never happened.” She later chastised the Assembly for making the request.
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