Eric Croft, a Private Individual, and Alaskans for Clean Elections, an Initiative Group, and Tim June, Steve Cleary…

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment rejecting an initiative that combined a new oil-production tax with a voluntary public campaign-financing program. It held that the initiative violated the single-subject rule because the proposed soft dedication of tax proceeds could not unite otherwise unrelated provisions, and the record did not establish an independent thematic connection between oil taxation and clean elections. The court also concluded that the initiative’s proposed transfer of excess funds to the Permanent Fund Dividend further implicated the prohibition against logrolling.