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In Grenn's 2016 campaign, he has said his main objective was to help solve an Alaskan fiscal crisis; a bill said to do that failed to pass in the 2015-16 legislature. While in office, Grenn was able to pass a major legislative ethics bill (HB44) and championed economic development innovations for Alaska.
Each chamber of the legislature may expel a member with the concurrence of two-thirds of the membership of that house. [3] This has happened only once in the legislature's history. On February 5, 1982, the Alaska Senate of the 12th Legislature expelled Bethel senator George Hohman from the body. Hohman was convicted of bribery in conjunction ...
Her first legislative action after taking office was to push for a bipartisan ethics reform bill. She signed the resulting legislation in July 2007, calling it a "first step" declaring that she remains determined to clean up Alaska politics. [9] However, Palin was also the subject of an ethics probe concerning her brother-in-law, Mike Wooten. [10]
May 11—JUNEAU — With just days left in the Alaska Legislature's regular session, major policy measures are unresolved related to energy, crime, homeschool allotments and elections. In recent ...
Coghill has been involved in the Rules Committee from 2003 to modern day. He was on the Special Committee on Economic Development, International Trade, and Tourism from 2005 to 2006. He held a chair in the House Rules Committee from 2007 to 2009. Coghill was a Senate Member of Select Committee on Legislative Ethics from 2010 to 2012.
Prior to his election to the Alaska House of Representatives, he worked as an aide to representative Adelheid Herrmann, whom he later defeated in a primary. [2] In 1993, Jacko was censured by the Alaska State Senate after it was determined he broke state ethics laws for sexual harassment of a legislative page. [4] [5] [6]
The Alaska political corruption probe refers to a 2003 to 2010 widespread investigation by the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service into political corruption of nine then-current or former Alaskan state lawmakers, as well as Republican US Representative Don Young and then-US Senator, Republican Ted ...
The Branchflower Report found that Palin had violated the Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act covering state executive employees, and released it to the public. [2] [3] [4] Under Alaska law, the state's three-member State Personnel Board, not the Legislative Council, decides whether a governor has violated the ethics laws. [3]