Former House member Chuck Kopp, who was bounced from office in 2020, may be a registered Republican. But he has the endorsement of the hardest of the hard left in the Alaska House — Rep. Zack Fields, former communications director for the Alaska Democratic Party.
Kopp is running against incumbent Republican Rep. Craig Johnson, who serves as Rules Committee chairman in the House Republican-led majority.
In a letter from Fields to voters of District 10, Fields promised that Anchorage Police Department would be fully staffed if Kopp was in the Legislature.
Kopp was in law enforcement on the Kenai Peninsula, but left under shady circumstances after a sexual harassment charge was leveled against him. He was forced out of the Palin Administration, as well.
Fields has fancied himself a protector of women against sexual harassment. But politics makes strange bedfellows.
Both Fields and Kopp have pushed for defined benefits packages, even though the discontinued package for state workers is still $8 billion in the hole.
Fields is to Democrats what David Eastman is to Republicans — cut from the same cloth, which is hard-liner populist. Kopp has been running a political strategy group with Cherie Curry since he lost to Rep. Tom McKay.
The endorsement by Fields is not exactly a ringing endorsement for a Republican, but Fields and renegade Republican Sen. Cathy Giessel have paired up to take out conservatives; this is another one of those seat they wish to see controlled by the AFL-CIO, which sent the Field letter out the “Putting Alaskans First” letterhead that belongs to the union’s political arm.
In 2021, Fields wrote to Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, demanding that Facebook limit the reach of Must Read Alaska due to this publication’s open-mindedness about the Covid pandemic origins, treatments, and public policies.
He also accused fellow lawmakers who objected to Covid vaccine mandates of trying to kill people. He pushed Covid misinformation throughout the fear pandemic of 2020 and 201.
If the definition of hard-liner populist on the conservative end of the scale means having no tolerance for anything less than the freedom our Constitution originally intended, then color me guilty, guilty, guilty!
They all deserve each other.
I think Zack is the leg wrestler, Kopp and Zack what a pair!!!
Not strange at all. kopp was all kissyface with the incompetent Suzanne La France during that election. Shows exactly what he really is, regardless of his nominal party registration.