Alaska legislative aide quits over anti-Islam group link
Source: Associated Press
A legislative staffer resigned Friday after an ethics panel recommended that she be fired after it found she used state resources to help an anti-Islamic group.
The House Subcommittee of the Select Committee on Legislative Ethics also recommended that Karen Sawyer never work for the Legislature again.
The panel found that Sawyer allowed David Heckert with a group called Stop Islamization of America, or SIOA, to use the Wasilla legislative information office and equipment for work related to his organization. It also found that Sawyer used state equipment to help plan activities related to a 2011 group conference, and that she failed to file a timely disclosure showing she was a member of the group's board in 2011 and 2012.
... In 2011, Sawyer's boss at the time, Rep. Carl Gatto, proposed legislation that would have instructed courts not to uphold any foreign laws if doing would strip a person of their constitutional rights. Gatto had said the bill, HB88, would curb courts from recognizing Sharia, an Islamic law code incorporated into the legal systems of some countries. Gatto, R-Palmer, died earlier this year.
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