Alaska governor vetoes new limits on political donations

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have reimposed limits on the amount of money that individual people can donate to political candidates.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Alaska’s prior limits in 2021, and the Dunleavy administration declined to appeal the decision. Alaska has been without limits on political contributions since then.

At the time of the court decision, Dunleavy said he was opposed to campaign finance limits, and in a veto message Thursday, he expressly stated that he opposed capping the amount of money that someone can give a political candidate.

Counterintuitively, some proponents of limits on campaign cash said they were pleased with the governor’s veto of House Bill 16.




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