Albert Kookesh recall, Alaska (2010)
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A recall effort against Albert Kookesh was launched in March 2010 after the Ethics Committee of the Alaska State Legislature found that Kookesh had violated an ethics act. To force a recall election, recall supporters would have had to collect the signatures of 1,213 registered voters in District C, or 10% of the votes cast in the district when the seat was last up for election in 2008.[1]
The ethics committee said Kookesh violated a state ethics law when he implied that he would deny state funding to Craig if the Craig City Council voted to oppose the Sealaska Bill. The Sealaska Bill, which was pending in the Alaska State Legislature, was supposed to grant tens of thousands of acres of federal land to the Sealaska Corporation, a corporation primarily owned and operated by Native American tribes.[2] Kookesh is the chair of the board of Sealaska.[3]
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