{"id":24258,"date":"2017-11-30T14:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/gov-walker-names-lobbyist-as-cfec-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T22:24:52","slug":"gov-walker-names-lobbyist-as-cfec-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/gov-walker-names-lobbyist-as-cfec-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Walker names lobbyist as CFEC commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Walker has appointed a longtime lobbyist to replace Benjamin Brown as a commissioner of the state&rsquo;s Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.<\/p>\n<p>In an emailed statement, Walker said he has named Vance Fate Putman to the commission, which regulates the state&rsquo;s limited-entry fisheries. Putman and Brown are both Juneau residents.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, a longtime columnist for the Empire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2017\/11\/07\/commissioner-3-employees-are-leaving-embattled-alaska-fishing-agency\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced in November<\/a> that he was leaving the commission. His departure followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2017\/07\/09\/an-alaska-fishing-commission-has-worked-itself-out-of-a-job-but-its-commissioners-still-make-more-than-130000-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\">a series of stories<\/a> in the Anchorage Daily News explaining that commissioners have been earning more than $130,000 per year even as their workload has declined drastically.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Bill Walker attempted in 2016 to merge the commission&rsquo;s duties into the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, but <a href=\"http:\/\/juneauempire.com\/local\/2016-08-25\/gov-puts-pause-shaking-commercial-fisheries-commission\" target=\"_blank\">that effort appears to have stalled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Putman has worked as a commercial fishing deckhand, a commercial fish buyer and as a setnetter in the Kasilof Personal Use Fishery.<\/p>\n<p>Putman has a JD from California Western School of Law and an environmental studies degree from Western Washington University.<\/p>\n<p>According to filings with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, Putman is a registered lobbyist for the state public employees union, ASEA Local 52, the National Popular Vote campaign, the Smoke Free Alternatives Trade Association, Ted Popely, a group focusing on unemployment insurance, and a company selling fraud detection services.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>&#8226; Contact the Empire at 523-2263 or editor@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Walker has appointed a longtime lobbyist to replace Benjamin Brown as a commissioner of the state&rsquo;s Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission. In an emailed statement, Walker said he has named Vance Fate Putman to the commission, which regulates the state&rsquo;s limited-entry fisheries. Putman and Brown are both Juneau residents. Brown, a longtime columnist for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":24259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[137,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-24258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gov-bill-walker","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24258"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}