{"id":8188,"date":"2018-06-20T23:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/former-alaska-legislator-zach-fansler-withdraws-from-democratic-primary-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-20T23:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:52:26","slug":"former-alaska-legislator-zach-fansler-withdraws-from-democratic-primary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/former-alaska-legislator-zach-fansler-withdraws-from-democratic-primary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alaska legislator Zach Fansler withdraws from Democratic primary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Alaska legislator Zach Fansler has officially dropped out of the race for Democratic primary for House District 38.<\/p>\n

Fansler sent a letter to Division of Elections dated June 3 and it was received on June 14.<\/p>\n

In the letter, Fansler said, “I wish to withdraw from the 2018 Democratic primary election for Alaska State House District 38.” <\/p>\n

On Tuesday, the Alaska Division of Elections list was updated to reflect that Fansler had withdrawn from the race.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Fansler is expected to be arraigned in Dimond Courthouse in downtown Juneau on charges of second degree harassment, a class B misdemeanor, after he allegedly assaulted a Juneau woman in January. The woman said Fansler slapped her so hard<\/a> it ruptured her eardrum. According to Assistant Attorney General Maria Bahr, Fansler plans to plead guilty to the charge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In December 2017, Fansler had filed a letter of intent for re-election in December and submitted his name to the Division of Elections. Fansler resigned from the Legislature in early February<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Alaska legislator Zach Fansler has officially dropped out of the race for Democratic primary for House District 38. Fansler sent a letter to Division of Elections dated June 3 and it was received on June 14. In the letter, Fansler said, “I wish to withdraw from the 2018 Democratic primary election for Alaska State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":8189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,237,230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-alaska-legislature","tag-election","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188","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\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8188"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}