RBG Bush Planes, LLC v. Alaska Public Offices Commission

OPINION

STOWERS, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Alaska law forbids corporations from making direct contributions to candidates for public office. 1 And in 2010 a corporation that provided a service to a candidate for less than a "commercially reasonable rate" or the "normal charge ... in the market" was deemed to have made a contribution to the candidate equal to the difference between the commercially reasonable rate and the amount charged. 2

In September 2010 RBG Bush Planes, LLC (Bush Planes) allowed two candidates for the Lake and Peninsula Borough Assembly to travel on a series of preexisting…