Alaska: Group wants to oust three liberal Assembly members with Citizens United $ !!!

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.adn.com/2011/03/30/1784000/group-wants-to-oust-liberal-assembly.html

TV ADS: Developer-backed Fiscal Sanity falls in line with mayor's endorsements.

By ROSEMARY SHINOHARA
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Published: March 31st, 2011 03:48 PM
Last Modified: March 31st, 2011 03:49 PM

With less than a week before the Anchorage city election, a new conservative group financed by developers and commercial real estate owners is pouring money into ads against three liberal Assembly incumbents who are at odds with Mayor Dan Sullivan.

Sullivan wants to unseat Elvi Gray-Jackson, Harriet Drummond and Mike Gutierrez, and early on endorsed an opponent of each one.

His push was joined this week by a group led by political consultant Art Hackney, Fiscal Sanity. The group is airing television ads that criticize votes by the same three incumbents in favor of controversial union contracts back in 2008.

Gray-Jackson called it a "smear campaign" and said her record speaks for itself. "No one is more committed to relieving the property tax burden and finding efficiencies," she said.

Six of the 11 Assembly seats are on the Tuesday city election ballot, as well as two School Board seats and some propositions.

Fiscal Sanity is operating as an independent group and says the candidates it backs are not participating in its campaign.

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