Mayor Dan Sullivan called it an “odd coincidence” that he wound up as both mayor of Anchorage and trustee for his father’s estate, a role which required him to claim a unique life insurance settlement of $193,000 from the city of Anchorage. The mayor should have been able to recognize a textbook conflict of interest, which this was. He should have fully informed the Assembly about the situation. He should have handed off his trustee duties to someone else and generally stayed an arm’s length from the whole business. It appears there was no legal requirement that he do those things, but he should have had the good judgment to do them anyway. (You can read the rest of the article here .) Good for the Anchorage Daily News! I am very happy that they are taking such a
