{"id":27463,"date":"2023-06-24T21:36:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=27463"},"modified":"2023-06-24T21:36:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T21:36:28","slug":"alaskas-campaign-regulator-fines-a-political-group-with-ties-to-university-officials-and-the-states-attorney-general-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=27463","title":{"rendered":"Alaska’s campaign regulator fines a political group with ties to university officials and the state’s attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"

By James Brooks, Alaska Beacon<\/span><\/p>\n

Updated: 10 minutes ago<\/span> Posted: 5 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor speaks at a news conference Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, at the Alaska State Capitol in Juneau. (James Brooks\/Alaska Beacon) <\/span><\/p>\n

The Alaska Public Offices Commission has fined<\/a> a group active in last year’s legislative elections $2,525 for not properly disclosing its financial operations.<\/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

Gov. Mike Dunleavy appointed the group’s president, 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

[Governor appoints Republican donor to University of Alaska regents]<\/p>\n

Disclosure documents filed before the election showed the two Taylors had ties to the group that ran the 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

[Records list Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor as member of political group behind scathing attack ads]<\/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

Originally published by the Alaska Lighthouse<\/a>an independent, nonpartisan news organization covering Alaska state government.<\/p>\n

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