Matthew Kissinger
0:39 - 1:28
“Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there, I said, and just to address this clearly, This is my words. And just to address this clearly, because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that.”
- Speaker
- Matthew Kissinger
- Timestamp
- 0:39 – 1:28
- Transcript
- Alaska Legislature: MSC2-20260626-1410
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
From the transcript
You had Representative Fields, Representative Foster, Representative Josephson, Representative Kopp, Representative Tilton, Speaker Edgeman, Senator Giesel, Senator Wilkowski, Senator Kawasaki, Senator Gray Jackson, and I believe that they also had President Stevens, Senator Myers, and Representative Hannan and Elam, Representatives Hannan and Elam in the audience. Representative Fields asked about these clawback mechanisms at that meeting, and what I said was, I said there, I said, and just to address this clearly, This is my words. And just to address this clearly, because I've heard many questions that dance around this, the clawback would be a paid clawback. And there's real important reason for that.
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