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Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson said Thursday lawyer Mario Bird will be his chief of staff.
Bird has actually remained in the function in an acting capability because April, when Bronson’s previous chief of staff, Adam Trombley, resigned.
The mayor had actually designated Bird as local lawyer in 2015, however the Assembly did not verify him. Bird then worked for the mayor a senior policy director till Trombley’s resignation.
In a composed declaration Tuesday, Bronson said Bird “has served my Administration and the people of Anchorage incredibly well since joining our team a year ago.”
Bird is the Bronson’s 5th chief of staff because the mayor was chosen in 2021. The Bronson administration has actually experienced high turnover amongst its leading authorities, particularly in the wake of the shooting of previous Municipal Manager Amy Demboski, who later on made a raft of allegations explaining unlawful and dishonest acts by the mayor and his partners.
Bird finished from the Ave Maria School of Law in Naples, Florida. As a lawyer, Bird has actually promoted for conservative causes, consisting of pressing to reform how Alaska judges are picked, at one point citing the state Supreme Court’s judgments maintaining abortion rights. In 2021, he composed a letter requiring that Providence Alaska health center provide a regional conservative activist ivermectin as treatment for COVID-19.
Bird is likewise the boy of Bob Bird, chairman of the Alaska Independence Party.
