By SUZANNE DOWNING
Aug. 28, 2026 – Republican gubernatorial candidate Treg Taylor says he complied with Alaska’s financial disclosure law and did not conceal rental income, responding Saturday to an Alaska Public Offices Commission staff recommendation that he be denied certification for the November general election.
APOC staff recommended that the Division of Elections not certify Taylor because his financial disclosure listed tenants by first name and last initial rather than providing their complete names.
Taylor, a former Alaska attorney general, said he submitted every source of rental income, the amount paid and the property involved. He said the abbreviated names were used to protect tenants who are not candidates for public office.
“I complied with the statute,” Taylor said in a written statement. “I submitted a full list of our tenants with rental amounts. I included the tenants’ first name and last initial to protect their privacy — they are not running for political office and don’t deserve to have their private information published.”
Breaking: APOC staff recommends Treg Taylor be denied certification over incomplete financial disclosure
Taylor said tenants and contractors associated with the family’s properties have been subjected to harassment. He said one incident involved a threat with a firearm.
“We made the decision to file like this after the gun incident and informed APOC,” Taylor said.
According to Taylor, he and at least one other public official had used the same approach in previous years without objection from the commission. He said APOC never directed him to submit a corrected list containing the tenants’ full names.
Taylor also disputes the staff’s interpretation of the disclosure requirements. He said neither the controlling statute nor its accompanying regulation expressly requires a tenant’s “full name,” even though that phrase appears in other laws administered by APOC.
“I also offered to provide every tenant’s full name to the Commission privately,” Taylor said. “That offer stands. Nothing has been withheld — every source, every amount, every property is reported.”
The controversy centers on Taylor’s financial disclosure obligations stemming from rental properties owned by Taylor and his wife, Jodi Taylor. The matter first surfaced publicly in 2025, when Taylor sought to protect tenant identities on disclosure forms filed while he was serving as attorney general.
APOC staff’s recommendation is not the final decision. The commission must consider the matter, and the Division of Elections is responsible for determining whether Taylor will be certified for the Nov. 3 general election ballot.
Taylor finished fifth in Alaska’s top-four gubernatorial primary. His prospects of advancing depend on whether one of the four candidates ahead of him withdraws before the deadline. The Division of Elections is scheduled to certify the primary results Monday.
9 thoughts on “Treg Taylor responds, says he fully complied with law”
Why are they picking on Treg? This is a nothing burger. What’s actually going on behind the scenes?
The timing and severity of the sanctions are suspicious on their face.
In another article suzanne questions if the history of apoc p/w for other candidates (currently and historically) were inspected as rigorously?
This doesn’t pass the smell test and has the appearance of pushing bishop up the food chain.
Not an “appearance,” kenaimike. That is exactly what is going on. APOC is run by Democrats. They want as much confusion in the Republican campaign as possible. Bishop will add greatly to the confusion only because he is despised by most Republicans. Treg is super Conservative and they want his ass out of there. Democrats are plain old DIRTY.
Another reason to revisit 1986. Lt. Governor McAlpine, following APOC’s recommendation, removed an incumbent legislator, Marco Pignalberi, from the ballot. Curiously, the APOC proceedings mostly revolved around Pignalberi’s dealings with Lew Dischner, not long after the Eugene Brower affair. Without APOC’s action, would Ramona Barnes have been able to come back, or would her political career amounted to a quaint reminder of a time when Republicans could actually get elected in that part of Anchorage? That aside, retrospective commentary generally discusses a time when APOC had teeth (I think Burke Riley was then chair of the commission), unlike today.
Classic Republican cheat.
Treg Taylor was a lousy attorney general. He showed no leadership in that position and permitted an “anything goes” atmosphere at work and elsewhere. In particular, he didn’t seem to mind when subordinates behaved unethically outside the work place and he knew about the very significant infractions. Taylor would be Alaska’s worst governor. Send him back to the private sector. DO NOT VOTE FOR TREG TAYLOR!
Might be time for “Alaska Story” to hire a meteorologist.
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Discerning readers need to know when Hell officially freezes over
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,,,so they can vote for Tregarrick Taylor.
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Why?
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Talk about misogyny, a word from this alpha male was all it took to get rid of the former editor at “Must Read Alaska”.
((https://www.chilkatvalleynews.com/2025/09/08/suzanne-downing-resigns-from-must-read-alaska-ending-decade-long-era-for-conservative-media-site/))
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Here’s a guy who seems content with Alaska’s corrupted grand-jury system that continues to flourish at the expense of law-abiding citizens while he was Attorney General.
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Good news is, if money trails and news stories mean anything, Anthropic and the AFL-CIO may have bought the next governor already, and it’s not Mr. T.
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Sure and the boy might be rewarded with something powerful, profitable for screwing over fellow Republican Bernadette’s campaign, but the governorship? Hardly …Establishment numbers and betting markets seem rather firm on that point.
Let’s see — a Republican bureaucrat tried to keep Decoy Dan off the ballot. No dice. Now the Democrat’s APOC bureaucracy wants to keep a conservative off. I wonder how that will end?
Hang in there, Treg. If for no other reason, but to keep that pos Click Bishop out of the race.