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	Comments on: Mayor Dan apologizes for slavery comment	</title>
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		By: Ben Gail		</title>
		<link>http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32439</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Gail]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 19:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think most people should have been able to see the mayor&#039;s point. And I think everyone at the debate got it, which is why as Amanda mentioned, no candidates questioned him on it there. It&#039;s a live debate, not everything goes perfect. The mayor&#039;s apology definitely shows that he&#039;s willing to do what it takes to make things right though, even when he probably shouldn&#039;t have to.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think most people should have been able to see the mayor&#8217;s point. And I think everyone at the debate got it, which is why as Amanda mentioned, no candidates questioned him on it there. It&#8217;s a live debate, not everything goes perfect. The mayor&#8217;s apology definitely shows that he&#8217;s willing to do what it takes to make things right though, even when he probably shouldn&#8217;t have to.</p>
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		By: Jmichaels		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jmichaels]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 03:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32281&quot;&gt;Mayor Dan&lt;/a&gt;.

You sure showed him!  My vote is yours. Which Sullivan are you again?  The Alaskan one, right?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32281">Mayor Dan</a>.</p>
<p>You sure showed him!  My vote is yours. Which Sullivan are you again?  The Alaskan one, right?</p>
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		By: Mayor Dan		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mayor Dan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2014 00:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32250&quot;&gt;Bill&lt;/a&gt;.

They say ignorance is bliss. Since none of what you wrote makes any sense whatsoever I can only assume that you are very happy indeed!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32250">Bill</a>.</p>
<p>They say ignorance is bliss. Since none of what you wrote makes any sense whatsoever I can only assume that you are very happy indeed!</p>
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		By: Bill		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 19:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32238&quot;&gt;Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;.

Happy Mother&#039;s Day, Your Honor.

You have done a bad job as mayor.

You&#039;ve catered to the &#039;Three Years and Through&#039; crowd --short-timers stationed here by their companies or regiments-- at the expense of those of us who are raising families here beyond a single election cycle.  

You&#039;ve asset-stripped the school system, created education insecurity and gutted the public library system.

You have done nothing to address our city&#039;s social problems other than to literally sweep them from view and dump the cost and responsibility onto Catholic Social Services and others. (By the way, I haven&#039;t seen you at Mass recently.)

Meanwhile, you&#039;re the bland, ineffectual princeling of a less developed country, complete with needlessly aggressive security services producing a respectable body count of unarmed civilians.

You&#039;ve been great at pointing the finger of blame at the Assembly and the state, but never at yourself.  Your slogan is &quot;The buck stops over there.&quot;

I&#039;ll vote for a mostly functional drunk over a malignant desk jockey any day.  Plus, she&#039;s smarter than you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32238">Anonymous</a>.</p>
<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Your Honor.</p>
<p>You have done a bad job as mayor.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve catered to the &#8216;Three Years and Through&#8217; crowd &#8211;short-timers stationed here by their companies or regiments&#8211; at the expense of those of us who are raising families here beyond a single election cycle.  </p>
<p>You&#8217;ve asset-stripped the school system, created education insecurity and gutted the public library system.</p>
<p>You have done nothing to address our city&#8217;s social problems other than to literally sweep them from view and dump the cost and responsibility onto Catholic Social Services and others. (By the way, I haven&#8217;t seen you at Mass recently.)</p>
<p>Meanwhile, you&#8217;re the bland, ineffectual princeling of a less developed country, complete with needlessly aggressive security services producing a respectable body count of unarmed civilians.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve been great at pointing the finger of blame at the Assembly and the state, but never at yourself.  Your slogan is &#8220;The buck stops over there.&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll vote for a mostly functional drunk over a malignant desk jockey any day.  Plus, she&#8217;s smarter than you.</p>
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		By: Anonymous		</title>
		<link>http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-32238</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2014 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31793&quot;&gt;Bill&lt;/a&gt;.

Typical liberal - resort to name calling when you don&#039;t have a good argument. My administration has invested over $700 million in roads, parks, trails, and public facilities, by far the most in Anchorage history. All while creating budget surpluses and holding the line on property taxes. It&#039;s called good management, something we could use more of in government.  Mayor Dan]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31793">Bill</a>.</p>
<p>Typical liberal &#8211; resort to name calling when you don&#8217;t have a good argument. My administration has invested over $700 million in roads, parks, trails, and public facilities, by far the most in Anchorage history. All while creating budget surpluses and holding the line on property taxes. It&#8217;s called good management, something we could use more of in government.  Mayor Dan</p>
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		By: Bill		</title>
		<link>http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31793</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 18:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If Dan the Not A Racist would put his energy into improving our roads, schools, and libraries instead of looking to destroy those who can physically fix those problems, he would be a good Mayor.  Instead, he&#039;s a weasel-headed narcissist and an embarrassment to the political memory of his father.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If Dan the Not A Racist would put his energy into improving our roads, schools, and libraries instead of looking to destroy those who can physically fix those problems, he would be a good Mayor.  Instead, he&#8217;s a weasel-headed narcissist and an embarrassment to the political memory of his father.</p>
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		By: John Smith		</title>
		<link>http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31776</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 17:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31696&quot;&gt;S Davis, Jr.&lt;/a&gt;.

In 2014 it is unacceptable, but in 2012 and 2013 when unions did it, it was okay? Seems to me that you and others are more interested in making this a partisan political issue in order to get rid of a political rival. Keep up the inconsistency in your outrage, and you will continue to lose credibility.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31696">S Davis, Jr.</a>.</p>
<p>In 2014 it is unacceptable, but in 2012 and 2013 when unions did it, it was okay? Seems to me that you and others are more interested in making this a partisan political issue in order to get rid of a political rival. Keep up the inconsistency in your outrage, and you will continue to lose credibility.</p>
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		By: S Davis, Jr.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[S Davis, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 07:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31646&quot;&gt;Milton Friedman&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you for your question.

It is unacceptable in 2014 for anyone to compare anything to slavery, except slavery.  Because slavery was about, err, ENSLAVING PEOPLE.  It was not about eating ice cream, nor was it about collective bargaining, nor skateboarding.  Slavery was about enslaving human beings.

I can&#039;t quite decide who is grosser, Dan the Not A Racist<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />, or Dan the Not A War Criminal<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" />.  Their individual negatives combines with a common name will likely drag them both to electoral defeat.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31646">Milton Friedman</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for your question.</p>
<p>It is unacceptable in 2014 for anyone to compare anything to slavery, except slavery.  Because slavery was about, err, ENSLAVING PEOPLE.  It was not about eating ice cream, nor was it about collective bargaining, nor skateboarding.  Slavery was about enslaving human beings.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t quite decide who is grosser, Dan the Not A Racist™, or Dan the Not A War Criminal™.  Their individual negatives combines with a common name will likely drag them both to electoral defeat.</p>
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		By: Milton Friedman		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Milton Friedman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 03:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31574&quot;&gt;S Davis, Jr.&lt;/a&gt;.

Well, reading your idiotic post makes me want to walk into a gas chamber. So, there&#039;s that I guess. Feel better? Also, any other insightful and riveting commentary you care to add?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31574">S Davis, Jr.</a>.</p>
<p>Well, reading your idiotic post makes me want to walk into a gas chamber. So, there&#8217;s that I guess. Feel better? Also, any other insightful and riveting commentary you care to add?</p>
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		By: S Davis, Jr.		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[S Davis, Jr.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 21:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31511&quot;&gt;Garand Fellow&lt;/a&gt;.

So glad the Not A Racist<img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/72x72/2122.png" alt="™" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /> crowd was able to chime-in along with Dan&#039;s official praise singers.  What Dan really meant to say was that joining a union was JUST LIKE the Holocaust.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="http://amandacoyne.com/politics/mayor-dan-apologizes-for-slavery-comment/#comment-31511">Garand Fellow</a>.</p>
<p>So glad the Not A Racist™ crowd was able to chime-in along with Dan&#8217;s official praise singers.  What Dan really meant to say was that joining a union was JUST LIKE the Holocaust.</p>
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