Alaska Republican candidate for governor appears to massively violate a donation limit

By: James Brooks

Outlets: Alaska Beacon

Published: August 15, 2026

Words: 524

Last Updated: 3 days, 21 hours ago

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Former Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor, a Republican candidate for governor, violated state campaign finance laws by donating more than 60 times the maximum amount of money to his own campaign, according to disclosure documents filed this week.

Those documents show his lieutenant governor candidate, Candice English, also violating the same limit.

Under state law, primary election candidates cannot give or loan their campaigns more than $5,000 after July 17.

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