Alaska
Alaska House Majority Leader Won’t Seek Reelection
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Home Majority Chief Chris Tuck stated he is not going to search reelection this 12 months, citing a redistricting map that put him in Home and Senate districts through which he would have run in opposition to pals and fellow Democratic lawmakers.
Tuck had filed to run for an Anchorage Home seat for which Rep. Andy Josephson additionally filed. Tuck withdrew on Wednesday.
If Tuck had run for state Senate, he would have been in a district with Sen. Elvi Grey-Jackson. The submitting deadline was final week.
“I acquired into politics to make issues higher and campaigning in opposition to nice lawmakers like Sen. Elvi Grey-Jackson and Rep. Andy Josephson wouldn’t make issues higher,” Tuck stated in a press release.
Tuck, who was first elected to the Home in 2008, stated he seems ahead to spending extra time together with his youngsters.
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Eleven state lawmakers have stated they are not planning to hunt reelection, and eight others are working for different workplaces.
Senate Minority Chief Tom Begich, an Anchorage Democrat, is among the many 11 and stated final week he was “fairly certain” he would withdraw from his race however was nonetheless listed on Thursday as a candidate.
The Anchorage Day by day Information reported that the Alaska Public Places of work Fee has proposed a $56,500 high quality in opposition to Tuck for failing to report $500 in marketing campaign revenue he acquired shortly earlier than the 2020 election.
Tuck instructed the newspaper the contribution was disclosed in one other report and that the proposed high quality was not a think about his choice in opposition to in search of reelection.
Heather Hebdon, the fee’s government director, stated that the fee, which met this week, tabled the matter “to permit employees time to overview and reply, if vital, to the extra supplies he supplied on the assembly.”
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