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...votes taken on the House floor as well as in legislative committees," the House Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics wrote. An Anchorage citizen, Bonita Geary, filed the complaint in February about a Jan. 12 closed...
...enough, said Rep. Les Gara, D-Anchorage, one of the legislators who discovered the loophole. The Select Committee on Legislative Ethics' jurisdiction does not extend to campaign donors and the committee's sanctions against lawmakers don't...
...to APOC, which is a violation of state law. He told the commission he filed that information with the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics, and did not believe he had to file with APOC, too. The maximum fine the commission could have levied...
...and personality'' of individuals was to be discussed. He pointed to the exclusion of members from the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics as a precedent for the move. ``These three legislators wanted to be present at that discussion...
...have been holding open caucuses. Therefore, it was no surprise when a Republican and a Democrat on the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics disagreed about whether a proposed open meeting law for the Legislature should be applied to caucuses...
...use government resources to solicit contributions to the cause. Susie Barnett, staff assistant to the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics, said the bill would put into law what is common practice and what had been approved previously by the...
...issues at Some question whether that's the way the Alaska Legislature wanted it. The last time the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics publicly reprimanded a legislator was in 2004, when then-Rep. Beverly Masek, R-Willow, was accused...
...off on the important issues at Dennis "Skip" Cook, a Fairbanks attorney who serves as chairman of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics, spoke with the Empire about the strengths and weaknesses of the committee. Two legislators have been...
...introduce as evidence a legislative ethics handbook from his office. Weyhrauch was actually a member of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics that drafted the handbook, they said. Numerous other legislators had similar conflicts, but have avoided...
...Information developed by the commission's staff could be turned over to the attorney general or the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics for those agencies use, she said. "There's an avenue for referral there, and that's one of the...