Wed, 02/17/2021 - 7:57am Anchorage Assembly member Forrest Dunbar is running for mayor but hasn’t been showing up for meetings lately, and his absence hasn’t gone unnoticed. (Photo/File/Anchorage Daily News) No shortage of ink, electrons or carbon dioxide have been expended over the past several months at Anchorage Assembly meetings as a dedicated group of citizens have organized — often to no avail — against destructive policies and fiscal irresponsibility enacted in the name of public welfare. Yet all it took was 34 words from a constituent on Feb. 9 to tear down the façade of the chronically absent member and mayoral candidate Forrest Dunbar as the body took public comment on a proposed ordinance to require masks in statute rather than rolling emergency orders issued through the mayor’s office.