Trooper-Gate Session Begins: GOP Legislator Sounds Reluctant To Release ReportThe Alaska Legislative Council has been begun its meeting. It will soon go into a private executive session to hear a briefing from Steve Branchflower on his findings in the Trooper-Gate investigation, and to vote on whether to release his full report to the public.
At TPMmuckraker, we’ve been listening on streaming audio to the public portion of the session. And already it looks like it could be a struggle to get a yes vote on releasing the report.
A Republican member of the council, Rep. Peggy Wilson, said that the report — which runs to 1000 pages, including evidence — was so long that she hadn’t yet had time to read it, and therefore didn’t feel comfortable moving forward.
So it doesn’t sound like Rep. Wilson will vote for releasing the report today. Whether her GOP colleagues feel similarly will determine what we find out today.
We’ll keep you posted…