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3 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
APOC has proposed new campaign limits on to-candidate contributions following the court ruling striking down the limit. They argue adjusting the limits per inflation will meet the concerns raised by the case.

Was $500 per candidate per year. Would be $1500.

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The advisory opinion would be up for consideration (and changes) at the board's next hearing in Jan. 26, 2022.

Until then, it sounds like it's gonna be the wild west.
Oh, and here's a link to the advisory opinion. aws.state.ak.us/ApocReports/Pa…
Ah, here's the statement from APOC. It sounds like the limit ARE in effect "until the commission rules otherwise or disproves the opinion." Image

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5 Nov
Alaska Redistricting Board is back on record after a long lunch break. So far today, they've had an executive session, a last-minute map rewrite by Marcum (of v.3 map) and a load of public testimony AGAINST that map.

Now they're expected to take some action on the maps.

#akleg
Previous thread of today's hearing here:

Binkley says the plan is to wrap up the map by the end of today with plans for finalization over the weekend. Then they'll get to Senate pairings next week.

#akleg
There's some discussion about House District numberings. It's important, it seems, for just identifying the potential Senate pairings to consider over the weekend.

It doesn't sound like the potential pairings would be bound by the ordering of the numbers, though.
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5 Nov
Alaska Redistricting Board is underway. They're currently discussing the Anchorage-area maps. Changes this morning:

-East Anchorage/Muldoon no longer tied to Eagle River
-Split Mountain View out of the Downtown Anchorage district

#akleg

Watch here: zoom.us/j/9074062894?p…
Marcum, kinda switching tone from last meetings, says that there needs to be a balance between compactness and population deviation. There had been a lot of focus on getting deviation down to .5% when counsel has said as high as 2% would be unlikely to be overturned.

#akleg
Muldoon/East Anchorage would be more paired with JBER population than Eagle River by the looks of it.

Still hard to really see what's going on with this form of presentation.
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4 Nov
The Alaska Redistricting Board is already underway. They're now looking at the Fairbanks-area maps drawn by Chair Binkley. As always, hard to really get a good, detailed look at it.

Watch: zoom.us/j/9074062894?p…

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Bahnke asks about the decision to put Fort Wainwright in the city districts and not the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Binkley says UAF is integrated with the boro more than city.

Singer: "You don't have to be terribly concerned about socioeconomic integration of the borough."
And there's discussion about where to put Cantwell. Binkley says it should go in the rural Interior district and pretty much everyone agrees based on testimony from Ahtna. It sounds like the trickle-down effect is Valdez DOES end up with the Mat-Su area districts.

#akleg
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3 Nov
"I'm really married to these deviations," says Alaska Redistricting Board member Bethany Marcum during today's meeting. All less than 1%.

At a previous one, staff warned such a focus creates loads of other problems with compactness, socioeconomic integration, etc.

#akleg
You can watch along here:

It's frankly kinda hard to track any of this in real-time, but there's a lot of work right now about smoothing out the district boundaries. Marcum says she wants "straight lines and tight deviations."
Highest deviation for the Anchorage area, per Marcum, is .55%. Which is, admittedly, pretty low. She says she can go even tighter, though, with "zig zags" that pop out of one district, across Tudor or other major roads, and grab a few houses.
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22 Sep
Dunleavy: "The goal was to make sure the system didn't collapse. ... Alaska's done a very good job."

He says the state's low death rate is evidence of the good job the state's done.

#akleg #akgov
Dunleavy then focuses a bunch on breakthrough cases: "The vaccinations aren't 100% foolproof, we know that now."

(We knew that then, dude)

#akgov
Dunleavy: "As society goes about their business, there's definitely an emergency going on in the hospitals."

He says the reason hospitals are overstrained is because of burnout akin to what every other industry has experienced in the pandemic.

#akgov
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20 Sep
In opposition to the Assembly's proposed mask mandate: "People are constantly picking their nose and touching stuff!"

#ancgov
"As a nurse, I always respected science but science…" something about the Bible.
Testifier who says the Assembly is ignoring the science: "Deaths are primarily among older people, such as myself. ... Back off the emotion."
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