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 |
External links
- Alaska State Legislature - Representative Anna Fairclough
- Project Vote Smart - Representative Anna Fairclough profile
- Campaign contributions: 2008, 2006
- Alaska's House Majority - Anna Fairclough profile
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