As the Alaska Redistricting Board prepares to consider whether to change the map used in last year’s state legislative elections, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has reappointed Alaska Policy Forum CEO Bethany Marcum to the board. (via AlaskaBeacon)
The Alaska State Capitol is seen on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska.
Marcum, one of the board’s original five members, resigned from the board to take a seat on the University of Alaska Board of Regents, but the state Legislature on Tuesday One day later, Dunleavy reappointed Marcum to the seat she had left. The governor’s deputy communications director, Jeff Turner, said Dunleavy appointed her for the same reasons he appointed her in the first place.
Marcum served as an aide to Dunleavy when he was a state senator. And she currently heads the Alaska Policy Forum, a nonprofit that promotes conservative policies., the Alaska Supreme Court concluded that Marcum and two other Republicans on the redistricting board illegally drew the lines of legislative districts to favor Republican candidates.
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