Anna Fairclough

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Anna Fairclough
Alaska House of Representatives District 17
Incumbent
Assumed office
2006
Current term ends
2010
Political party Republican
Profession Legislator
Website House site

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Anna Fairclough is a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives, representing the 17th District since 2006. She served in the Anchorage Assembly.

Fairclough worked as a night manager at Carrs-Goldstein Food, merchandise manager at JC Penney, and Executive Director of Standing Together Against Rape, Incorporated.

She is a member of the Anchorage Republican Women's Club, National Sexual Violence Resource Center, founding member of the Alaska Veterans Memorial Museum, and board member of the Chugiak/Eagle River Chamber of Commerce.[1]

Issue positions

Fairclough did not provide answers to the 2008 Political Courage Test. The test provides voters with how a candidate would vote on the issues if elected. He answers to the Alaska State Legislative Election 2006 National Political Awareness Test are available. When asked her legislative priorities she replied:

"Create good jobs through responsible resource development, opening ANWR for exploration, building a natural gas pipeline and expanding vocational/educational training. Safe neighborhoods by adequately funding law enforcement. Quality education by funding the foundation formula and addressing the PERS/TERS shortfall. An underlying focus will be fiscal accountability."[2]

Committee membership

  • Alaska Renewable Energy Task Force (Chair)
  • Finance Committee, Alaska House of Representatives
  • Subcommittee on Education and Early Development (Chair)
  • Subcommittee on Labor and Workforce Development (Chair)
  • Subcommittee on University of Alaska (Chair)

Sponsored legislation

  • HB 19 - "An Act exempting the state and its political subdivisions from daylight saving time; and providing for an effective date."
  • HB 190 - "An Act privatizing the Alaska children's trust as a separate endowment fund; providing for an administrator for the assets of the former trust; establishing conditions for a grant of the balance of the former Alaska children's trust; designating certain receipts as available for grants to the trust's successor; and providing for an effective date."[3]

Major donors

Below are Fairclough's top 5 campaign contributors in the 2008 election:[4]

Contributor 2008 total
BP Alaska $2,000
Associated General Contractors of Alaska $2,000
PJ Penny $1,000
Jim Jansen $1,000
Alaska Public Employees Local 71 $1,000

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