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Posted:<\/strong>\u00a0June 10, 2015 – 5:38pm<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0|
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By By DJ Summers<\/a><\/div>\n
Alaska Journal of Commerce<\/div>\n
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After the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance submitted 43,000 signatures on June 10 to the Alaska Division of Elections seeking a 2016 ballot initiative that would ban setnets in urban areas of the state, the organization scrubbed its website to remove a link to a group it has previously claimed isn\u2019t related to the effort.<\/p>\n

Although the AFCA shares several board members with the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, or KRSA, including the latter\u2019s founder Bob Penney, the group has strenuously denied the two groups are linked based on their different tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n

AFCA is a 501(c)6, which allows it to take part in political campaigns and issue advocacy while KRSA is a 501(c)3 which is not.<\/p>\n

As of the morning of June 10, the AFCA website<\/a> was offering an invitation and discounted entry to the Kenai River Classic run by KRSA for corporate level sponsors donating $25,000 or more.<\/p>\n

When asked about this connection at a press conference following the submission of signatures, Penny explained that law would forbid such an offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cAFCA is a 501(c)6 organization,\u201d Penny said. \u201cKRSA is a 501(c)3. It is not allowed by law to do any such action like this.\u201d<\/p>\n

After the press conference, the offer was taken off the website but the Journal of Commerce was able to take a screen capture<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

According to Clark Penney, executive director of the AFCA and the son of Bob Penney, the board of directors asked Northwest Strategies to take that offer down months ago, but it had not done that until Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Northwest Strategies has been paid $11,000 so far by AFCA to \u201cmonitor, assess and coordinate\u201d media coverage for the group.<\/p>\n

Pending the outcome of an Alaska Supreme Court ruling, the initiative could be on the Alaska Primary Election Ballot as early as August 2016.<\/p>\n

After the initiative was filed in late 2013, former Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell rejected it in January 2014 as an allocative measure, which is prohibited under the state constitution. The group appealed and won a reversal in Superior Court that allowed it to begin collecting signatures.<\/p>\n

Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the whole article\u00a0 here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Because the Alaska Salmon Alliance wish to provide a wide breadth of information, we sometimes provide links and documents that may conflict or present only one perspective on an issue.\u00a0 Because of that, we feel it is important to note that none of the content provided on our website necessarily represents the views or opinions of the Alaska Salmon Alliance, excepting, of course, those articles authored by us.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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