| A Republican politician was given a slap on the wrist for abusing her office to silence a critic of Charlie Kirk. '[Alaska state] Rep. Sarah Vance -- one of the state's leading Christian Nationalist lawmakers -- likely violated state ethics laws when she used her legislative office to threaten the Homer News over its coverage of a memorial she helped organize for Charlie Kirk,' wrote The Alaska Current's Matt Acuña Buxton on Wednesday. 'Her letter to Carpenter Media, sent on Alaska State Legislature letterhead, sparked a firestorm in local media last fall, with reporters and editors resigning after ownership gave in to Vance's threat that 'the consequence will be financial as well as reputational' if they didn't soften the story.' |



