Without action from lawmakers, triple the cash can flow into Alaska political campaigns this year — what it could mean and how the new rules could change
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APOC’s five commissioners were set to consider the proposal at a meeting Wednesday. But the issue was postponed because the commission was unable to find an independent attorney to advise them in time. It will be “pretty tough to see something like that making it through this year with everything else that’s going on,” Shower said.
“People perhaps think, ‘Oh, gee, I can only afford $25, it’s probably not even worth it.’ And then you get into the whole issue of whose free speech is worth more than mine,” she said. “Regular $500 contributors get their phone calls answered: I’m not ignoring them. If they want to go to lunch and talk about something that’s important to them, I’m at least doing that,” said Croft, who served in the Legislature between 1997 and 2006. As the contribution limit rises, he added, “it just gets harder and harder to be that objective.”
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