Dunleavy pick for police council challenged about social media posts questioning moon landing, 9/11, Holocaust
- Mark Sabbatini
- 15 hours ago
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Legislators also question if Veronica Lambertsen — whose posts declare the Earth is flat and ‘there are 50,000 clones walking among us’ — meets residency requirements for position
By Mark Sabbatini
Juneau Independent
Veronica Lambertsen says she’s just asking questions about things — such as the Earth being round — that aren’t relevant to her serving on the Alaska Police Standards Council.
Legislators looking at her social media posts, and asking during a confirmation hearing Wednesday if she really thinks the Holocaust is fiction and children’s blood is being harvested for a drug used in Satanic rituals, believe there is some relevance.
Lambertsen was appointed by Gov. Mike Dunleavy to the council, which oversees statewide law enforcement standards and investigates police misconduct, in August of 2025. The appointment until March 1, 2028, must be confirmed by a joint session of the Alaska Legislature.
Her appointment was advanced by the House State Affairs Committee earlier this month despite some skepticism about her qualifications since her resume lists no formal law enforcement or public safety experience. But questions of an entirely different nature were raised during a Senate Judiciary Committee interview Wednesday, after dozens of her social media posts — most of which were publicly accessible on her Facebook page as of early Wednesday evening — were shared among lawmakers and staff.
Among the posts (all spellings and capitalization verbatim): "we never landed on the moon", "we really live on the flat earth under a dome," "we didn’t loose the election" of 2020, "project blue beam technology" caused 9/11, and "THERE ARE 3 CLONING CENTERS IN AMERICA! PEOPLE NEED TO REALIZE THERE ARE 50,000 CLONES WALKING AMONG US IN AMERICA!"
Numerous posts also reference the far-right political conspiracy theory movement QAnon and its WWG1WGA ("where we go one, we go all") slogan.
Lambertsen, in an interview after Wednesday’s hearing, said she doesn’t believe the full truth is known or being revealed about scientifically established facts such as whether the Earth is round.
"Have you gone into space, and you can verify it's round or flat — or it's both?" she said. "Do you know the answer?"
Questions sent Wednesday afternoon to the governor’s office about whether Dunleavy knew about Lambertsen’s posts before appointing her and his support for her did not receive a response by Wednesday night.
Attempts to establish what Lambertsen believes were made by Sen. Matt Claman, D-Anchorage, chair of the Judiciary Committee, as he read descriptions of some of her posts to her during Wednesday’s hearing.
"One of the postings that I saw was a posting that you didn't believe the Holocaust was real," he said. "Do you believe the Holocaust occurred during World War II?"
"Do I believe something happened at the Holocaust, and a tragedy and a lot of people died?" Lambertsen replied via a telephone hookup during the hearing. "Yes, I believe that actually happened. Are we being told the true story about it all? No, I don't believe we're being told the true story about it."
Another question referred to a post about adrenochrome, a substance QAnon adherents claim is being ingested by Satanic pedophiles who thirst for the blood of children they kidnap.
"Do you believe that children are being harvested for adrenochrome?" Claman asked.
"From information I have seen and documentation that was provided it’s a question that should be asked," Lambertsen replied.
Similar question-and-answer exchanges occurred about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, including whether Lambertsen believes congressional leaders disarmed police before the attack and if people convicted of criminal charges that day are innocent.
An entirely different type of issue — which potentially has far more impact on whether Lambertsen is eligible for the council position she was appointed to — was raised by Sen. Löki Tobin, D-Anchorage.
The 11-member council has four seats for members of the public, two of which are for communities of 2,500 residents or less. Lambertsen’s resume states she is a resident of Bird Creek, which is within the boundary of the Municipality of Anchorage, according to the city’s website.
"I think this is unfortunately a situation of where Ms. Lambertson has been put into a seat that she is not qualified to hold based on statute and practice," Tobin said during Wednesday’s hearing, adding "I would encourage Ms, Lambertson to consider withdrawing her own name as she is in my, in my estimation and reading of the statute, is not legal to sit in the seat."
Lambertsen said after the hearing she is evaluating the concern raised by Tobin.
"I am finding out that information to clarify if I am applying for the right position," she said. "If there is some misunderstanding on that I will remove my name from the appointment."
Lambertsen, who since 2001 has operated the Bird Creek Motel, said she sought a seat on the Police Standards Council because "they keep us safe, they protect us, and they keep our communities safe, and they've helped my establishment out immensely throughout the years."
She said what she writes on social media is separate from what’s involved with serving on the council.
"As a business owner there's real-life issues that have to do with our community and what's happening in our community, and the amount of things that are going on in our community, and the amount of positions that still remain open on our boards and commissions, and they can't function without people on or filling those positions," she said. "So I put my resume in to the governor to fulfill a need that was needed, to volunteer because I had an opportunity of time to give back to the state that I've been enjoying."
Lambertsen’s resume also states she owned a bakery in Bird Creek from 1995 to 2007, was a staff member for IDEA Homeschool (clarifying during Wednesday’s hearing she was a volunteer rather than a hired employee), and is the volunteer secretary for the Anchorage chapter of Moms for Liberty, a conservative advocacy group targeting "woke" school curricula such as LGBTQ+ rights.
She said during Wednesday’s committee hearing she has attended two Police Standards Council meetings since being appointed last August and "I believe they were very thorough and professional," and she had no specific concerns about its operations.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, despite the questions raised Wednesday and previously, advanced her name to a joint session floor vote set to occur before the session adjourns next month. But that action included a pro forma declaration by Tobin that "this does not reflect the intent of any of the members to vote for or against the individual during any further sessions for the purposes of confirmation."
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