A campaign finance complaint against Anchorage Assemblyman Daniel Volland alleges he did not file his 105-day report in 2022 and close his 2022 campaign account on his 2022 year-end report to the Alaska Public Offices Commission for the Anchorage Municipal 2022 special election.
The complaint also says Volland, who is on the April ballot, didn’t file any 24-hour reports as required for his 2022 campaign.
The complaint filed by Randy Ruedrich was with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, which accepted it this week.
Because of the amount of time that has passed since the alleged offenses, the fines could be substantial. The basic fine, before APOC reduces it, could be tens of thousands of dollars. APOC usually reduces fines for respondents that are cooperative.
Volland is part of the far-left majority that controls the Anchorage Assembly. He represents District 1, the urban core of Anchorage.
Volland, now running for reelection, opened his first campaign account on Dec. 16, 2021 for the Anchorage Municipal election and filed a proper year-start report for period ending on Feb. 1, 2022. On March 7, 2022 the Volland campaign filed a proper final report for the period ending on March 4, 2022, and he provided $3,896 for a future campaign account. Through this process, the Volland campaign clearly demonstrated the proper process for closing a campaign account.
On May 23, 2022, the Volland campaign filed a 30-day report for the Anchorage Municipal special election, and the future campaign account monies were imported to this new special election account.
After filing a timely 7-day report on June 14, 2022, the Volland campaign went silent. No 24-hour reports for contributions over $250 were filed, as required.
The failure to file the 24-hour reports draws a $500 per day fine from Alaska Public Offices Commission for each missing report.
No 105-day special election report was filed either. The failure to file this regular report draws a $50/day fee. This report was due in October, 2022 or more than 870 days ago, for an estimated $43,500 fine. Similarly the yearend report has not been filed to close out the campaign.
The Volland year-start report for 2025 Anchorage Municipal election, which the campaign filed on Feb. 18, 2025, reports no cash carried forward from the 2022 campaign. The Volland campaign, which closed out its first efforts properly, did not close out the 2022 special election campaign and transfer available funds to his 2025 campaign.
The complaint raises the questions: Where have these donor funds gone, if they were not transferred to his 2025 campaign?
The 2025 Volland campaign has misled Anchorage voters with its scofflaw reporting. Now the staff of APOC will need to review the file and make a recommendation to the full commission for whether a penalty is in order, and what size of penalty.
Opposing Volland in the District 1 race is Daniel George, who is a former state director for the late Congressman Don Young, and who is also been a community council chair for Mountain View Community Council. He is actively involved in the Federation of Community Councils. Also running is Nick Danger, who appears frequently on ballots.
Reelection, No, leniency, he knows the rules.
So? This is Anchorage where the laws don’t matter.
Incorrect.
They do not matter for leftists. Any conservative that did the same thing would be in front of a judge, accused of the worst criminal violations imaginable.
Avenger, a fiver here and a fiver there–what’s so terribly wrong with that, especially if the deals are “mutually” beneficial?
Avenger, I agree. We all know nothing will happen.
His smile is as fake as his concern for the”poor”.
I guarantee you had he been a Republican APOC would have found this error without a complaint from someone else!
APOC needs to go!
Move along, nothing to see here. He will come up with a phony excuse and POC will buy into it and reduce the fine to $1 plus time served, which will be zero.
That photo demonstrates which team he is batting for.
MAGA…..Make Anchorage Great Again! There is no room in our Assembly for Woke DEI Liberals. Vote ’em out and replace them with common sense conservatives. Alaska is a RED STATE!
C’mon, Suzanne, you know that rules and laws do not apply to marxists!
The reason why Volland is smiling so broadly in the photo?
He is thinking to himself: “And this is just the first of my 300 mail-in ballots!”
He’s a Leftist. Nothing bad will happen to him. APOC will issue an apology and fine and imprison Ruedrich.
Another new-to-Anchorage L48 activist who was swiftly ushered into an Assembly position. How many is that, now?
Good catch, Randy. We’re about to once again test the ability of APOC staff to apply state law equally based on political affiliation. We will see if they are up to the task. I don’t think so, but always hope to be pleasantly surprised. Cheers –