Anchorage Assemblywoman Amy Demboski, one of the slew of would-be mayors competing in the April 7 election, launched a missile at former Assembly chairman Dan Coffey today in what may mark the beginning of the campaign fight season.
“As Election Day draws closer and the campaign for mayor heats up, mayoral candidate Dan Coffey has decided that he is a Republican. Last week, Mr. Coffey requested the Division of Elections change his political affiliation to Republican,” Team Demboski wrote.
“Mr. Coffey’s epiphany comes after being a registered Democrat for most of his adult life — and later switching his affiliation to Non-partisan, coinciding almost miraculously with his entry into Assembly politics in the late 1990s,” the news release says.
Coffey, in a short phone interview, said he indeed changed his affiliation recently from non-partisan to Republican but never announced it publicly. “It doesn’t matter in this race … it’s non-partisan,” he said.
“My political philosophy is much closer to that (of Republicans), and people were making an issue,” he said of the switch. “People who were Republican … with whom I philosophically agree, were questioning me.”
Via ak-pipeline.com
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