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Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor speaks at a news conference Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (Photo by James Brooks\/Alaska Beacon)<\/span><\/p>\n \n Juneau, Alaska (Alaska Beacon) – The Alaska Public Offices Commission has fined a group active in last year’s legislative elections $2,525 for failing to properly disclose its financial dealings.\n <\/p>\n The group, Alaska Policy Partners, attacked moderate Republican and Democratic candidates during the election. spend $210,000<\/a> with a Utah-based company called Massey Political Consultancy<\/a> that he was not licensed to work in Alaska.<\/p>\n Governor Mike Dunleavy appointed president of the group<\/a>Seth Church to the University of Alaska Board of Regents on Thursday.<\/p>\n Alaska Policy Partners has an advocacy group of the same name, Alaska Policy Partners Inc., which does not donate to political causes.<\/p>\n Attorney General Treg Taylor and his wife, Jodi, were listed as members of the group’s associate corporation in 2022, and Taylor was listed as a sponsor<\/a> of a $25,000 fishing fundraiser per hotel room for the group.<\/p>\n Disclosure documents submitted before the election<\/a> showed the two Taylors with links to the group running attack ads; these were replaced after the election by new presentations showing them only as members of the defense group.<\/p>\n Other ties to Alaska Policy Partners remain: The Taylors’ daughter, Quincy, is part of the Utah-based consulting firm hired by Alaska Policy Partners, and a member of the Taylor family gave $29,000 to the group in 2021 and 2022.<\/p>\n Other donors included Rep. Jesse Sumner, R-Wasilla, who was elected to the position a month after contributing $25,000 to the group.<\/p>\n The fine against Alaska Policy Partners was issued last week by the Alaska Public Offices Commission, which released a final report after an investigation<\/a> by the staff of the commission.<\/p>\n That investigation found that Alaska Policy Partners improperly disclosed its campaign spending, including a $100,000 ad buy that wasn’t reported until Dec. 7, nearly a month after Election Day.<\/p>\n APOC investigators noted that while Massey Political Consulting did not appear to have an Alaska business license, it was not within the power of campaign regulators to fine the company.<\/p>\n Former state Rep. Jennifer Johnston, R-Anchorage, filed the complaint that led to APOC’s investigation. Contacted Friday about the outcome, he declined to comment.<\/p>\n