State Republican Party short of money, removes 2 staffers from payroll

The Alaska Republican Party has taken a pair of paid staffers off the payroll, laying off one, and stepped up its fundraising efforts amid a financial report to GOP leaders that showed less than $40 in its general operating account.

The party's executive director, Josh Walton, is still on the job but now works as a volunteer, while the state GOP no longer has an office manager, said Tuckerman Babcock, the state party chairman.

The Republicans still reported $100,000 in the party's state account in July, according to a handout obtained by Alaska Dispatch News. But nearly all of that cash is tied up in sub-accounts for individual districts and state House and Senate campaigns.

The party can grant as much as $100,000 to its gubernatorial candidate in next year's race, in which the GOP aims to unseat incumbent Bill Walker, a Republican-turned-independent who ran with a Democrat, Byron Mallott, who's now lieutenant governor.

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