Which Alaska House candidate was recalled from Anchorage School Board due to holding secret meetings closed to public?

Walter Featherly, running with Alaska Democratic Party support against Republican Rep. Julie Coulombe for House District 11. The Democratic Party hawks shirts with the slogan, “We are NOT like the Lower 48 Dems,” and that’s true, because more and more of their officially backed candidates are like Featherly — not registered with their true party due to its damaged reputation in Alaska.

But Featherly, who claims to be a nonpartisan, has some history of interest to voters who were not in Anchorage in 1992. You won’t find it in his campaign literature or on his official candidate statement filed with the State of Alaska.

Walter Featherly was recalled by a landslide from the Anchorage School Board for committing misconduct in office through actions that many voters felt were evidence of corruption.

The 1992 ballot question read:

Featherly and two others “misconduct in office and failed to perform prescribed duties by drafting, endorsing and imposing confidentially on the Superintendent, during an executive session, an action item consisting of nine new, management and control policy directives that (1) were composed and developed during a round of private telephone calls among only four Board members, closed to public scrutiny, without public notice and open meetings, that (2) were never formally adopted in a regular school board meeting. Walter Featherly committed misconduct in office and failed to perform prescribed duties by engaging in a round of private telephone calls among only four Board members, closed to public scrutiny, without public notice and open meeting, for the purpose of secretly plotting to later vote to oust the duly elected Board President before the end of his term, without first placing this item on a published agenda, without first hearing public comments, and without deliberating with other Board members in the telephonic scheming.”

It was a landslide of over 70%. Featherly and the two others that year were the only persons ever recalled from the Anchorage School Board.

Featherly challenged the validity of petitions to recall him and lost his case — as well as his elected office. The Superior Court ruled against him in his appeal and the Alaska Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court’s ruling.

Now, as one of the “poser nonpartisans” who are backed by the Alaska Democratic Party, Featherly wants back in office. He is a lawyer who has worked for Calista Corporation for the past four years and was in private practice for over 35 years before that. His wife, Carol Stolpe, was also one of the school board members who faced recall in 1992 and was bounced from office.

Featherly is among the many rising “nonpartisans” who actually are endorsed by and are working with the help of the Alaska Democratic Party in an effort to fool conservative and moderate voters. Another of the posers is Fairbanks’ Savannah Fletcher, who is running for Senate as a nonpartisan, but is backed by the Democrats.

The “fabulous fakes” like Fletcher and Featherly are revealed in their deceit this earlier Must Read Alaska article:

Like Fletcher, Featherlys expenditure report at the Alaska Public Offices Commission shows that he is paying the Alaska Democratic Party for use of the party’s coordinated campaign services:

Alaska’s general election takes place starting with early voting in October and ends on Nov. 5. Early voting is Oct. 21 – Nov. 4. All House seats are up for election, as they are every two years. Eight Alaska Senate seats are up for election, as is Alaska’s lone congressional seat.