...ethics committee, he said, it was intentionally set up so the public members outnumber the legislative members. H. Conner Thomas, the committee's chairman and an attorney from Nome, added that legislators have alternates in case of a conflict...

...have avoided this appearance of impropriety by declining to personally facilitate the cruise ship bill," wrote H. Conner Thomas of the ethics committee. Mulder co-sponsored the bill after consulting with House Speaker Brian Porter, an Anchorage...