ALASKA’S HIGHEST-PAID LOBBYISTS OF 2014 ~
1. Wendy Chamberlain — $1,111,000 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract – $100,000. Hired by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to work on all issues relating to Alaska Native healthcare, including Medicaid expansion, clinic funding, elder care facility construction, telemedicine, patient housing, early pregnancy education, dental care, mother and baby wellness programs, and rural healthcare outreach.
2. Kent Dawson — $1,017,004 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract — $96,504. Hired by the City of Seward to get state funding for capital projects.
3. Jerry Mackie — $779,000 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract – $70,000. Hired by the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium to deal with healthcare and state budget issues.
4. Robert Evans — $738,008 in annual contracts plus $6,000 in monthly contracts*
Biggest Contract — $100,008. Hired by Neeser Construction, Inc., to lobby on issues impacting business and development.
5. Linda Anderson — $605,089.54 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract — $100,000. Hired by the Fairbanks North Star Borough to track legislation, regulations and administrative actions relating to second-class boroughs, including school district funding and the Public Employees Retirement System, and to push capital projects and issues included in FNSB Resolution No. 2013-35.
6. Raymond Gillespie — $534,226.40 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract — $82,976.40. Hired to work for AT&T Services, Inc., which took an interest in policies impacting telecommunications, business, and in the state budget.
7. Lawrence Markley — $492,000 in annual contracts
Biggest Contracts — $60,000 from Nome Joint Utility System and the City and Borough of Sitka. Nome was concerned with municipal and utility-related issues, including port and dock development, wind and other renewable energy development, air quality regulation, power cost equalization program, renewable energy grant program, power project loan program, and AIDEA programs. Sitka was interested in the Blue Lake Hydroelectric Project, water treatment system, road improvement projects, building improvement projects, and coastal management programs.
8. Mark Hickey — $465,500 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract — $60,000. NEA-Alaska hired Hickey and other lobbyists to work on “all matters relating to education and support for Alaska’s public school employees.”
9. Eldon Mulder — $431,000 in annual contracts plus $17,000 in monthly contracts
Biggest Contract — $75,000. The Matanuska-Susitna School District retained Mulder to track issues related to education as well as capital funding.
10. Jerry Reinwand — $408,500 in annual contracts
Biggest Contract — $75,000. Premera Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alaska hired Reinwand to track legislation related to state employee benefits, health insurance issues, and insurance issues in general.
10. Frank Bickford — $403,000 in annual contracts plus $11,000 in monthly contracts
Biggest Contract — $54,000. M&R Strategic Services, Inc., hired Bickford in an effort to reform state juvenile systems.
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