After President Richard Nixon was
implicated in the Watergate scandal, a successful citizen initiative
forced our state legislature to pass the Alaska Campaign Disclosure
Law. In 1974 the Alaska Election Campaign Commission was formed.
That same year, another initiative
effort forced the legislature to put Alaska’s Public Official
Financial Disclosure Law on the ballot. This measure was approved
by over 60% of Alaska’s Voters.
In 1976 the AECC was renamed APOC.
In 1990 the legislature responded to
increased demand for ethics regulation and disclosure by expanding
its previous reporting requirements under the Alaska's Legislative
Ethics Disclosure Law.
In 1996, the legislature responded to a
new citizen initiative effort and revised Alaska's 20 year-old
campaign disclosure law to include stricter limitation and
disclosure measures, including the prohibition of corporate and
out-of-state group contributions to state and local candidates.
In 2003 Governor Murkowski, who like
Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal, chose to put party politics
ahead of honest public policy. When Murkowski introduced HB-157 and
SB-119 he clearly goes against the will of Alaskan voters who spoke
out against dirty politics not once but at least THREE times!!!
A web page <
http://www.akvoters.org/hotbuttonhb106sb89.htm>
has been established to monitor efforts to kill APOC. The
legislatures HB-106/SB-89, plus Murkowski's HB-157/SB-119 promote
bad public policy that will further erode the public’s trust in OUR
government; but only if we let them!
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