text: Please explain how is it that, over most of the past 25 years or so, even while Anvhorage has been managed by a long series of allegedly "conservative" mayors who ran as budget hawks and protectors of tacpayer, no structural changes were made during their tenures that would have alleviated our present problems? Did any of them take on the police and fire unions?   Did any of them attract any major new revenue sources to Anchorage? 
  Did any of them make our streets safer? Did any of them "cut the "fat" - whatever that is - from the Mumi budget?  
  If we had so many conservatives for so long, why then are we in this situation - and please don't blame it all on Mark Begich!  
  unless you think he's God we have had a plethora of conservatives running things before and since and all we've been left with is a Port of Anchorage catastrophe and am insanely expensive Mumi software upgrade that failed. Some conservatives!!