Anchorage Assembly member Zachary Johnson amends disclosure to adopt APOC staff recommendations

Zachary Johnson amended his 2025 state financial disclosure on Wednesday, Oct. 7. The filing says it is "adopting recommendations from APOC Staff Report." Johnson, an Anchorage Assembly member, is the running mate of governor candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins.

The Alaska Public Offices Commission had been scheduled to hear a complaint against his disclosure a day earlier, on Tuesday, Oct. 6.

A Sept. 21 staff report from Executive Director Heather Hebdon found no evidence that Johnson failed to disclose a source of income. The report called his trust disclosure "substantially compliant" and recommended ordering him to name the trust and describe its property, with no further action over the error.

The amendment lists Johnson's role at Wild Air Farm as "Power of Attorney," where his June 1 filing had said partner. It describes the PNC Bank-managed Wiest Trust as holding "index funds, cash equivalents, and similar instruments," with Johnson's share at 25%. It reports a distribution of $200,000 to $500,000, no leases, and $50,000 to $100,000 in Assembly salary from the Municipality of Anchorage.

Joel Borgquist filed the complaint Sept. 4 and proof of service Sept. 9. He alleges Johnson's June 1 disclosure left out rental income from H&H Stables LLC at the Wild Air Farm property in Zionsville, Indiana, and reported the trust distribution without naming the trust or its property. Borgquist cited the commission's Aug. 27 recommendation against Tregarrick Taylor as precedent for non-certification.

On Sept. 10, the commission denied expedited review, sent the complaint to a standard staff investigation and requested a merits hearing. Its order said that with the withdrawal deadline past, recommending non-certification "is no longer an option for the Commission."

Johnson's pre-hearing brief said he does not own Wild Air Farm LLC but manages it under a power of attorney for his late grandmother's estate and receives no income from it. "Every source of income that Mr. Johnson received last year has been disclosed," Scott Kendall said for Johnson at the Sept. 10 meeting.

Borgquist answered the staff report Sept. 28, writing that "staff did not investigate" and that staff took Johnson's affidavit "at face value."