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Black Republican candidates Marilyn Stewart, Ceezar Martinson, Marcus Sanders, and Stanley Wright are all running for the Alaska House of Representatives in Democratic-leaning districts.

It’s nearly unprecedented for conservative and Republican candidates to share less of the vote than former Gov. Sean Parnell had four years ago.

The Senate’s capital budget also doesn’t include Medicaid funding that state officials say is needed by next week to pay health care providers.

The vote came after the Senate defeated 24 proposed amendments, including one that would have raised permanent fund dividends to the full amount.

The bill says the state should limit the portion of state spending on state agencies that the Legislature directly controls each year to $4.1 billion starting next year.

In 2003, the state allowed insurers to start using these records for new applicants. But they still couldn’t use them for people who are renewing policies.

Senate President Pete Kelly said his caucus was right to oppose an income tax last year. Anchorage Democratic Sen. Berta Gardner, the minority caucus leader, said a broad-based tax is still needed.

Lobaugh wrote in a report released Tuesday that the video showed Wilson held his cellphone about one to two feet away from the hemline of the aide’s skirt for four seconds.

Of the two items on the special session agenda, there appears to be more urgency to pass the crime bill.