{"id":7656,"date":"2016-03-06T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/rep-gruenbergs-widow-seeks-control-of-legislative-records\/"},"modified":"2016-03-06T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:03:04","slug":"rep-gruenbergs-widow-seeks-control-of-legislative-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rep-gruenbergs-widow-seeks-control-of-legislative-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Gruenberg&#8217;s widow seeks control of legislative records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>JUNEAU \u2014<\/strong> The wife of late state Rep. Max Gruenberg wants her husband\u2019s legislative records to help his work continue but officials say she can\u2019t have them.<\/p>\n<p>KTOO-FM reported that Kayla Epstein says she wants to make sure the legislation her husband was working on gets into the hands of legislators on both sides of the aisle who could continue his work. Gruenberg died Feb. 14<\/p>\n<p>Doug Gardner with the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency\u2019s Legal Services office says Gruenberg\u2019s papers are protected by legislative immunity and therefore cannot be distributed.<\/p>\n<p>Anchorage Republican Representative Craig Johnson cited Gardner\u2019s opinion in denying Epstein access to the records.<\/p>\n<p>The state followed the same rules after Palmer Republican Rep. Carl Gatto died in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUNEAU \u2014 The wife of late state Rep. Max Gruenberg wants her husband\u2019s legislative records to help his work continue but officials say she can\u2019t have them. KTOO-FM reported that Kayla Epstein says she wants to make sure the legislation her husband was working on gets into the hands of legislators on both sides of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656","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=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}