The president’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway has announced that she is leaving the White House to attend to family matters.

It came shortly after her daughter, Claudia Conway, said she would seek emancipation from her parents and that she was “devastated” that her mother was speaking at the Republican National Convention.

It appears the split in the family’s politics have come to a head. George Conway is a liberal and harsh critic of the president.

“The past four years have allowed me blessings beyond compare as a part of history on Election Night 2016 and as Senior Counselor to the President. It’s been heady. It’s been humbling,” Kellyanne Conway wrote. “I am deeply grateful to the President for this honor, and to the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Pence, my colleagues in the White House and the Administration, and the countless people who supported me and my work. As many convention speakers will demonstrate this week, President Trump’s leadership has had a measurable, positive impact on the peace and prosperity of the nation, and on millions of Americans who feel forgotten no more. The incredible men, women and children we’ve met along the way have reaffirmed my later-in-life experience that public service can be meaningful and consequential. For all of its political differences and cultural cleavages, this is a beautiful country filled with amazing people. The promise of America belongs to us all.”

She explained that she will transition from the White House next week.

“George is also making changes. We disagree about plenty but we are united on what matters most: the kids. Our four children are teens and ‘tweens starting a new academic year, in middle school and high school, remotely from home for at least a few months,” she said.

At the same time, George Conway wrote on Twitter that he is backing out of the Lincoln Project, which has the mission of destroying the president’s reelection. He said he fully supports the project but intends to spend more time with his family.

The Anchorage Municipal Clerk now says she has 30 days — not 10 — to tell the sponsors of a recall application against an Assembly member whether their application is sufficient to proceed to the signature-gathering stage.

That puts the recall of Assembly member Meg Zalatel into Sept. 2 for a decision about whether it can move to the next stage.

The application was filed with the Clerk’s office on Aug. 3 and the citizen petitioners at that time believed the Muni’s website, when it said the Clerk had 10 days to issue a decision.

[Read: Group collects signatures to recall Meg Zalatel from Assembly]

That web link that says “10 days” has since been broken and replaced with another link that says she has 30 days.

The Muni website also shows no such petition in review or circulation.

Barbara Jones, the Municipal City Clerk, has since turned the recall application over to Municipal Attorney Kate Vogel for her legal opinion.

Vogel is the same attorney for the city on record saying she believed a protest outside of the Loussac Library earlier this month was in violation of the mayor’s Emergency Order 15, which prohibits groups of 25 or more gathering together outside in Anchorage.

A second recall petition by citizens is waiting in the wings for Assembly Chair Felix Rivera. That one cannot proceed until six months after the April election, according to law. But with an additional 30 days now added onto the process by the Muni, it’s more like seven months before the recall can truly begin.

Another petition for voter action has also been filed with the Muni, and that is to repeal the authorization of the use of CARES Act funds for Mayor Berkowitz’ Homeless Hotel plan.

According to the new standards posted, that Aug. 13 petition to take the question to voters on the April 6 ballot may not be answered by the Clerk until mid-September.

The group advancing that repeal initiative is preparing to legally appeal what it expects will be a refusal from Municipal Attorney Vogel.

Once an application for a petition is authorized, the groups seeking the recalls and repeal will each have to get 7,930 valid signatures from Anchorage voters, and then the matter goes to the voters.

The group seeing to recall Zalatel says she violated the law by allowing one member of the public to testify at a meeting that was closed to the rest of the public.

The problem with lying to voters is that eventually they’ll find out. They always do. In this case, Alaska Senate candidate Al Gross found that out early. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Gross told Democratic donors last week that his “independent” claim is a front. It’s all fake, he admitted.

“I will caucus with the Democrats. I’ve been an independent since I was 18, but if you look at my platform, you’ll see that most of my values are to the left,” Gross reportedly said to a group of high-dollar Democrats last Wednesday. “I’ve met with leadership in the Senate and they are very understanding that my best pathway to win is to remain as an independent.”

Gross made his admission during a meeting with California and New York donors at the Democratic National Convention’s “virtual happy hour.” Of course, that is not what he is telling Alaskans. To them, he’s a rugged independent who once killed a bear.

Even that was not quite the truth. He told Alaska Public Media last year that he had been registered as nonpartisan for much of the past 25 years, but had registered as a Democrat in 2017, and then switch back to nonpartisan a year later.

“Gross’s admission may harm his ability to distance himself from national Democrats in historically red Alaska, which President Donald Trump won by nearly 15 points in 2016,” the Washington Free Beacon wrote.

Some 58 percent of the state’s voters are registered as either nonpartisan or undeclared, which is why more and more Democrat candidates are ditching the D after their names and trying to appear independent.

For Gross, it’s a charade he is willing to endure. He won the Democrats’ primary in Alaska last week, with the party’s endorsement, funds, and best wishes. Now it’s on to the big show — and to persuade nervous donors elsewhere that Alaskans will believe the “independent” label, but that he’ll actually put Sen. Chuck Schumer in place as Senate Majority Leader.

Read the rest of the story at the Washington Free Beacon.