On Aug. 25, 1986, the day before the primary election for legislative candidates, where voters also got the chance to to support or oppose a policy promoting a worldwide freeze on the production of nuclear arms, Alaskans learned that someone had submitted false answers under Democratic Alaska gubernatorial candidate Steve Cowper.<\/p>\n
The poll, sent out to candidates across the state by the Juneau Community Information League, asked for each candidates\u2019 positions on various issues such as Native sovereignty and capital punishment. The JCIL received many completed questionnaires under Steve Cowper\u2019s name, although the answers listed were in direct conflict with the former lawyer\u2019s platform.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the former director of the Division of Marine Operations for the state\u2019s ferrying system filed a lawsuit against Gov. Bill Sheffield, claiming that his firing in the wake of budget cuts was politically motivated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis Day in Juneau History\u201d is compiled by Empire freelancer Tasha Elizarde, who sums up the day\u2019s events \u2014 30 years ago \u2014 by perusing Empire archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Aug. 25, 1986, the day before the primary election for legislative candidates, where voters also got the chance to to support or oppose a policy promoting a worldwide freeze on the production of nuclear arms, Alaskans learned that someone had submitted false answers under Democratic Alaska gubernatorial candidate Steve Cowper. The poll, sent out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":8677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676","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=8676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8676"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}