Fairbanks’ school board president amplifies a version of the claims, but targets say the allegations are baseless.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a wide-ranging education bill, the effects of that failure continued to reverberate across the state.published late Tuesday, Rep. Zack Fields, D-Anchorage, said the governor “threatened to campaign and spend $70,000 per race against any Republicans who voted to override the veto.”Naming three Fairbanks-area legislators who voted to sustain the veto, board president Brandy Harty said, “I’ve heard rumors.
Cronk and Myers each said no one had offered them an incentive to vote, either. Myers said the accusation doesn’t even make sense in his case — he’s not up for election this year. Four Republicans in the House’s majority caucus — Reps. Justin Ruffridge of Soldotna, Will Stapp of Fairbanks, Jesse Sumner of Wasilla and Stanley Wright of Anchorage — voted to override the veto on Monday.“No comment,” Sumner said when asked whether he had received a threat like the one Fields described.“I thought that an elected official in Juneau, publishing that in a newsletter, is a pretty reliable source,” she said.
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