Tag Archives: Wayne Anthony Ross (WAR)

Conservatives for Palin & civility: Fairly unbalanced

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Is it really a good thing to be complimented for "courage" by a blogger at the Conservatives for Palin website? Well, mainly it's a lot of work. It's nice to be called courageous, sure, but even better is to be represented honestly and in context.

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged AKMuckraker, Brian the Moose, civility, Conservatives for Palin (blog), Gryphen, Immoral Minority (blog), lgbtq, lima beans, Max Blumenthal, Mike Doogan, Mudflats (blog), Palin ethics complaints, Philip Munger, Progressive Alaska (blog), Rich Crowther, Sarah Palin, Sean Parnell, Things I did instead of going to bed at a reasonable hour | 6 Comments

My story of 2009

By Mel | Published: Friday, 1 January 2010

Not quite ALL about my 2009, because that would take a year to write. This only took several hours.

Posted in About writing, Alaska justice system, Alaska politics, Cold, Depression, Journal, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo, Ordinance, True Diversity Dinner | Also tagged Alaska Commons, Alaska Judicial Council, Alaska Legislature, Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, Anchorage Press, Arliss Sturgulewski, Bent Alaska, cave, Celtic Diva, Columbia Sussex, couch, Crossed Genres, Dad, Dan Sullivan, Dave, death, Eddie Burke, Floridana Alaskiana v2.5, Grandpa Claude, Green family, Green-Lieght family, grey, Grrlzlist, Heather Aronno, Hilton Anchorage, hotel workers, Identity Inc., Identity Reports, James Bopp Jr., Jane Angvik, Janson Jones, Jesse, John Aronno, Julius, lgbtq, LGBTQ allies, lima beans, Linda Kellen Biegel, Mark, Mark Begich, Melz published work, Mer, Miller v. Carpeneti, Mom, my apartment, NaNoWriMo 2009, Nicholas Hughes, One in 10, Palin ethics complaints, PrideFest, Progressive Alaska (blog), Ptery, Sarah Palin, Sean Cockerham, SOSAnchorage.net, Stef Gingrich, Summer of Hate, sunflowers, True Diversity Dinner 2009, Väi the cat, veto, Vic Fischer, violence against women, writing | 2 Comments

Against discrimination in Anchorage

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Anchorage Assemblymember Patrick Flynn posted on his blog this morning on Sunday that an ordinance to bar discrimination based upon sexual orientation or veteran’s status in the Municipality of Anchorage would be introduced at tonight’s Anchorage Assembly meeting. Per Mr. Flynn’s blog: This change, which is consistent with Anchorage’s long history of social justice, would prevent: “discrimination [...]

Posted in Alaska politics, Ordinance | Also tagged Anchorage, Anchorage Assembly, Anchorage ordinance 2009-64, lgbtq, Patrick Flynn, politics | 1 Comment

WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays!

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 16 April 2009

WAR goes down! 23 yeas, 35 nays. Repeat: Wayne Anthony Ross will NOT be Alaska Attorney General. We fought the good fight, people, and we WON! The lima beans of the state are dancing. And so, I bet, are Alaska Natives, women who’ve suffered from domestic abuse & other violence, and all of the friends and allies [...]

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska politics, politics, Sarah Palin | 2 Comments

Alaska newspaper editorials against WAR

By Mel | Published: Thursday, 16 April 2009

At least one of Alaska’s daily newspapers have come out editorially against the confirmation of Wayne Anthony Ross to be Alaska’s attorney general: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner — “Reject Ross: Nominee for top legal post is wrong man for the job” (April 16) The ADN is doesn’t really like him, but is quite a bit more week-kneed: Anchorage Daily [...]

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska politics, antigay, lima beans, politics, Sarah Palin | Leave a comment

WAR’s antigay letter to the Alaska Bar Association, 1993

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009

You’ve heard about it, now here it is: the famous letter written by Wayne Anthony Ross to the Alaska Bar Association and published in the Alaska Bar Rag in the early 1990s (turns out it was 1993) which referred to LGBTQ Alaskans as “degenerates.” My friend Steve passed it to me earlier today after an [...]

Posted in Alaska politics, LGBTQ history | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska Bar Association, Alaska politics, Anchorage, antigay, lima beans | 3 Comments

Jay Ramras: “We won’t necessarily be coloring within the lines”

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Representative Jay Ramras, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, doesn't seem to mind joining Alaska attorney general-nominee Wayne Anthony Ross — not to mention Gov. Sarah Palin herself — in coloring outside the lines of Alaska state law.

Posted in Alaska politics | Also tagged Alaska, Alaska politics, Jay Ramras, politics, rule of law, Sarah Palin | Leave a comment

Pro-WAR = anti-LAW

By Mel | Published: Wednesday, 15 April 2009

Just last night I posted about the opinions that Alaska attorneys with direct experience dealing with Attorney General-nominee Wayne Anthony Ross have of WAR’s mediocre legal abilities: His middling scores on the Alaska Bar Association surveys when he applied for seats on the Alaska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals are not simply statistics, but indicative [...]

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Anti-WAR letter: Opposing Wayne Anthony Ross

By Mel | Published: Tuesday, 14 April 2009

I’m a writer-blogger, not a political blogger — though I did try it out a little last fall after Palin became a vice-presidential candidate. But it proved too emotionally exhausting for me, & other Alaska progressive bloggers were doing it better. Sometimes, though, you gotta take a stand on something. So here’s the [...]