In December 2020 campaign call, candidate Bronson suggested criminalizing the "behavior" of unhoused

A campaign zoom call with David Bronson, who was a candidate for mayor at the time the call is said to have been recorded in December 2020, suggests that problematic men from Alaska villages are given one-way tickets to Anchorage.

The audio is from a December 18, 2020 Zoom campaign event conducted by members of the Bronson for Mayor campaign team.

"There are problematic people, mostly men, who live in the villages, and they're very problematic and the villages can't deal with them, they just can't, they don't have the facilities, so they give them a Ravn ticket, a one-way Ravn ticket and say go to Anchorage," said in the audio recording.

In the campaign call, David Bronson referred to the homeless as vagrants, much as he did during the course of the 2021 Anchorage Mayoral Election.

"Without taking these problematic people into custody, umm..we aren't going to get this problem solved. That's why the four hotels, the three hotels, whatever we're down to now — they're not going to work," Bronson said at one point in the 9 minute audio recording. Bronson also suggested that while the city could not criminalize homelessness, certain behaviors could be.

At a February 2021 mayoral debate while speaking about the unhoused and on the topic of homelessness, Bronson opined that “you can take people into custody, you can cite them for other things,” and said that once they’re “in the system,” those individuals will then have to make a decision as to whether they will get better in a jail program."

Audio of the December 2020 campaign call can be heard below.