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Residents criticize Matanuska‑Susitna Borough for adding partisan memorial to election pamphlet; some defend inclusion
Summary
Dozens of speakers addressed the Assembly during audience participation to object to the insertion of a memorial to national figure Charlie Kirk and the phrase “In God We Trust” into the borough’s election pamphlet. Speakers called for a public acknowledgement, policy changes and removal; others in the audience defended the memorial.
Dozens of residents used the Assembly’s public comment period Oct. 7 to criticize the Matanuska‑Susitna Borough for adding a memorial referencing national political commentator Charlie Kirk — and the phrase “In God We Trust” — to the borough’s official election information pamphlet without prior public notice, several speakers said.
“I'm asking you to do three things: 1, publicly acknowledge that this was a mistake; 2, commit that no political or religious statements will ever appear in official borough booklets again; and 3, retract and repudiate this misuse of public trust,” speaker Dave Musgrave…
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