The Alaska Legislature’s Select Committee on Legislative Ethics meets Monday at 10 am in the Anchorage Legislative Information Offices, at the corner of Benson Blvd. and Minnesota Drive in Anchorage (Wells Fargo Building).
On the agenda are two House complaints to be taken up in executive session, which is behind closed doors.
The meeting, except for executive session (which will be almost all of the meeting), will be teleconferenced. The call-in numbers are:
Anchorage Only: 907-563-9085. Juneau Only: 907-586-9085. Outside Anchorage or Juneau: 1-844-586-9085
Ethics complaints are kept private so that they don’t become politicized, so there’s no documentation about what the complaints are about. If media reports are made about the specific complaints before they are adjudicated, the complaints are typically dismissed as having been weaponized.
The committee meets on an as-needed basis to administer the Legislative Ethics Act, AS 24.60. The requirements and prohibitions in the Legislative Ethics Act apply to legislators, most employees of the legislative branch, and the public members of the Ethics Committee. The committee has no jurisdiction over those who work in the Executive Branch of the State of Alaska.
The committee is made up of Republican Sen. Gary Stevens, the president of the Senate; Democrat Sen. Loki Tobin (she/her) of Anchorage; Republican Rep. DeLena Johnson of Palmer; and Democrat Rep. Sara Hannan of Juneau. Of the legislators on the committee, Johnson is the only solid Republican, as Stevens is the majority leader of a caucus dominated by Democrats.
Public members of the committee are committee Chairman Dennis “Skip” Cook, an attorney from Fairbanks; Joyce Anderson of Anchorage; Deb Fancher of Anchorage; Gerald McBeath of Fairbanks; and H. Connor Thomas, a Nome attorney who is a registered Democrat. Besides the Democrat, the other public members are registered nonpartisans.
The Ethics Committee is staffed by Administrator Jerry Anderson and Administrative Assistant Jacqueline Yeagle.
Gary Stevens for all intents and purposes is a democrat.
He is awful. He needs to go.
Unless it’s a complaint against a conservative nothing will ever happen – they’re very good at circling the wagons to protect each other.
H. Connor Thomas? Must be more important than when I knew him as just Connor.
They will investigate themselves and find they did nothing wrong!!
Chuck, You are exactly right on. These Democrats can’t spell the word Ethics
let alone know what it is. That is why it is behind closed doors.
Well! One can always get employment as a janitor/housekeeping for the Wellsfargo building. Heheheheh. That’s one way to snoop, just don’t go seeking, just use your eyes to scan the room while completing daily duties. The janitor/housekeeping got keys to every room usually. Besides no one realty notices the housekeeping a perfect mole.
Legislative ethics is an oxymoron in Alaska.
What a crap committee. Someone ought to look at their ethics.
Why bother.
The Legislative Ethics Committee should be embarrassed by their own ethics!!! We the People can see the king has no clothes!!!
Another waste of money spree. No thanks.
When they come to take the guns, Suzanne and Amy will tell us that we should comply and obey the law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s how screwed we are. Thanks girls
“Legislative Ethics” — an oxymoronic phrase right up there with “military intelligence” and “jumbo shrimp”.
How ironic is that? Legislative & ethics are two words that should never be used together!
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