Constant admits his 2023 Anchorage campaign left mailer and digital ad debts off its seven-day report

Christopher Constant's 2023 Anchorage Assembly reelection campaign left two mailer debts and a digital advertising obligation off the report covering the last week before the election. He admitted the omissions in an answer filed Wednesday with the Alaska Public Offices Commission, which has not ruled.

The amended Seven Day Report lists $17,154.93 in debts: mailer printing and postage, $10,106.53 in digital ad placements and a $1,400 payment to The Alaska Landmine, all since paid in full, with a zero balance on the 105 Day Report.

Constant also conceded charging $1,705.97 in tablet purchases to the campaign rather than his municipal office account and misreporting a $599.88 Adobe Creative Cloud reimbursement. He denied the complaint's central allegation, that the post-election purchases converted campaign money to personal gain. He said the equipment and software served Assembly office work and offered to repay both amounts. He also amended vague descriptions elsewhere, including a $1,000 Alaska Democratic Party bonus labeled "additional data services" and a Johnston Public Relations bonus labeled "Design Work," after a July 19, 2026, APOC staff email.

The complaint, 26-12-CD, came from Donald Handeland, elected to the Anchorage Assembly in April 2026. His response is not part of Constant's filing. Constant filed a complaint of his own this month against Handeland and gubernatorial candidate Tregarrick Taylor over expenditure descriptions.

"For the work run by SCG, I had no specific contemporaneous knowledge of the proof approval dates at the time, so I reported those expenditures based on when the invoices were received," Constant wrote. Ship Creek Group's Janine Hearne emailed Aug. 18, 2026, dating proof approval for Mailer #1, "Intro," to March 24, 2023, and Mailer #2, "Neighborhood," to March 20, 2023, both inside the Seven Day period.

Ship Creek Group Invoice No. 325, for $12,897.53, reached the campaign April 10, 2023, six days after the election, though Google placements began March 12. It "was the first notice the campaign received about any encumbrances made by SCG on behalf of

the campaign," Constant wrote.

He cited Republican Governors Association v. Alaska Public Offices Commission (2021), which APOC reads to make a debt reportable when the promise to purchase is made, not when it is billed. The agency's candidate manual treats any unpaid expense at the end of a reporting period as debt.

Constant asked the commission to resolve remaining items through a consent agreement.