By SUZANNE DOWNING
March 10, 2026 – During a formal address Tuesday by Congressman Nick Begich III to the Alaska State Legislature, one lawmaker repeatedly displayed protest signs from the front row of the House chamber, conduct that observers say violates the Legislature’s uniform rules governing decorum.
Rep. Zack Fields, an Anchorage Democrat seated in front facing the podium, held up a sign reading “ICE OUT” during Begich’s speech to the joint session of the House and Senate.
Because Fields was seated facing the podium and away from the gallery, the signs were not visible to the audience or cameras covering the event. However, multiple people present in the chamber reported seeing Fields raise the signs throughout the address.
The protest occurred during Begich’s annual address to lawmakers about his work in Washington, DC and federal issues affecting Alaska.
Fields’ action was in violation of the Uniform Rules of the Alaska Legislature, which generally prohibit demonstrations, props, displays, or other conduct intended to disrupt proceedings during a joint session.
Despite the repeated sign displays, neither House Speaker Bryce Edgmon nor Senate President Gary Stevens intervened or ordered Fields to stop his protest activity.
Fields is considered one of the more outspoken leftist members of the House majority coalition. Before being elected to the Legislature, he worked for the Alaska Democratic Party .
The behavior was unusual for the formal setting of a joint legislative session, where members traditionally observe strict decorum during speeches by visiting officials.
20 thoughts on “Rep. Zack Fields holds up an ‘ICE OUT’ sign facing Congressman Begich during floor speech”
Completely totally unacceptable!!! Somebody do something with his sorry butt!!!! Spank him and give him a timeout!! Let ICE have a snowball fight with him!!!
White collar me says I would call it reprehensible. Blue collar me says we should drag him out behind the woodshed and educate this fool.
I rhink what a sitting lawmaker as what Rep Zach Fields done was not allowed and against how a legislator is expected to behave on the floor. You don’t hold up political signs on the Senate and House Floor.
These days our AK legislators are so young and cobfused they don’t know the rules and they lack knowledge of etiquette how to represent the Office they are holding so the office holder show respect to his own position.
Last time we saw uncouth unbecoming behavior out of a sitting legislator was when Rep Kawasaki stuck out his tongue at House Speaker Chenault.
They’re all commies, and they all know exactly what the rules are. But see, the rules don’t apply to commies.
Well Tina, do please remember when saintly Don Young referred to homosexuals as “buttfuckers” in front of high school students.
West Valley HS in Fairbanks. I was there as a senior. The students laughed so hard, the teachers dismissed the crude remark as just another Don Young folly. No harm at all, as LGBTQ hadn’t entered the lexicon yet. I applied for, and received, an internship from Congressman Young, and later reminded him of his slur at the HS.
He took me to lunch and told me that Democrats were a sorry bunch and made mountains out of anthills. RIP, Don.
WVAlum. Sorry about your past. Sounds like you’re doing OK now?
Zack Fields seems to be a middle school boy in a man’s body. I recall other past antics. Pretty disrespectful and shameful.
Aren’t Fields and Kawasaki roomates in Juneau? Both children. Both morons. Both look gay.
Kawasaki gives good tongue? How bout them cookies.
Out of ICE? How the hell am I going to finish my bottle of scotch tonight without ice? I can’t keep up with Suzanne without ice.
Derm. Google the word “cloying”.
Thanks Evan. I learned a new word today at MRAK. But I’m so addicted to the hard stuff that the antonym of your word seems more appropriate in this case. Try savory.
Savory? No, Derm, not an antonym at all.
“Good trouble.” Bravo for Fields.
Fields gets it. If White-Bread-Could-Talk dreamboat Begich III could read the room (all 300 million of us), he’d understand that we want freedom and justice for everyone on our soil, safety and honesty and fiscal restraint from our federal government. ICE OUT! Hell yes. Wait til the J 1 visa young adults come to Alaskan towns to help us out and ICE gets all frothy and harly, eager to destroy lives, economies and peace. Then we’ll need more Zack Fields, lots more.
Against the rules??!but its (D) ifferent when ” we” (D)o it!!! M thing will be done,not even a,slap with a,washcloth
Well let’s remember that both houses of the Alaska Legislature are ruled by leftists. Of course, they are not going to police any childish disruptive action that a fellow leftist does during an address by a Republican U S Representative.
That’s not politicking. Wielding a sign is protesting which is the indication the politician has no idea whatsoever how to do their job. Politics have been described as the art of compromise or negotiating. Holding a sign is juvenile at best. We need better leaders, both sides of the aisle.