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Alaska Governor Accidentally Sends Re-election Campaign Email to State Employees

  • , Friday, September 5, 2014 12 PM

Gov. Sean Parnell has mistakenly sent a fundraising email for his re-election to an unknown number of state employees. In response, Alaska's Department of Administration has reminded all 18,000 state employees that using state resources for to campaign is illegal. However, Parnell did not break the law, as he did not send the message from a state email address and it included the required paid-for-by message on it. The email was sent by the vendor AirNet, who failed to remove government employee addresses from the list, despite being instructed to do so by the client. 

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