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Taylor, Treg

Registered Republican · AK

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Taylor, Treg is a Registered Republican certified candidate for Governor of Alaska in the 2026 primary.

Where Taylor, Treg stands, based on their records

Supports

AI Regulation (1 record), Healthcare Affordability (1 record), Public Safety and Crime Control (1 record),

Opposes

Environment and Public Health (3 records), Gun Control (3 records)

Track record

Track record — AI Regulation

AI Regulation · 1 support
  • Joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in letters pressing major search engines and payment platforms to curb the creation, distribution and monetisation of computer-generated deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery.

    August 27, 2025Supports AI Regulation

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Healthcare Affordability

Healthcare Affordability · 1 support
  • Joined 50 states and territories in $49.1 million in settlements with Heritage Pharmaceuticals and Apotex resolving allegations of long-running conspiracies to inflate generic prescription drug prices and restrain trade.

    October 31, 2024Supports Healthcare Affordability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Environment and Public Health

Environment and Public Health · 3 oppose
  • Joined 24 states in a legal challenge to the EPA tailpipe-emissions rule that set electric vehicles at roughly 70 percent of new passenger and light-duty vehicle sales within a decade.

    April 18, 2024Opposes Environment and Public Health

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Filed suit with 23 other states against the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers seeking to vacate the 2023 Waters of the United States rule, arguing it swept Alaska's permafrost regions and forested wetlands into federal permitting control.

    February 16, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • As Alaska attorney general, called the EPA decision blocking the Pebble Mine legally indefensible and opposed the federal veto of the proposed Bristol Bay mining project.

    February 1, 2023Opposes Environment and Public Health

    Source: apnews.com · researched July 2, 2026

Track record — Public Safety and Crime Control

Public Safety and Crime Control · 1 support
  • Joined a bipartisan coalition of 47 state attorneys general in letters pressing major search engines and payment platforms to curb the creation, distribution and monetisation of computer-generated deepfake nonconsensual intimate imagery.

    August 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Gun Control

Gun Control · 3 oppose
  • Joined 27 other states in a U.S. Supreme Court brief challenging Illinois' ban on AR-15 rifles and 30-round magazines, calling the Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the ban absurd.

    March 19, 2024Opposes Gun Control

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Joined a 24-state coalition that sued U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to block the federal final rule reclassifying firearms fitted with stabilizing pistol braces.

    February 14, 2023Opposes Gun Control

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Joined 26 other states in an amicus brief in NY State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down New York's concealed-carry licensing restrictions as a Second Amendment violation.

    July 20, 2021Opposes Gun Control

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Personal Income Tax Reduction

Personal Income Tax Reduction · 1 support
  • Joined a 13-state bipartisan coalition that sued the U.S. Treasury Department over the American Rescue Plan Act provision restricting states from lowering their own taxes, arguing the provision seized state taxing authority.

    April 1, 2021Supports Personal Income Tax Reduction

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Data Privacy

Data Privacy · 2 support
  • Announced an Alaska-specific settlement with TTAM, the nonprofit acquiring 23andMe's assets in bankruptcy, guaranteeing that only Alaskans who affirmatively consented would have their genetic data shared or biobanked, and alerting customers to their deletion rights.

    June 30, 2025Supports Data Privacy

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Announced a 50-attorney-general settlement with Marriott International over a multi-year breach of its Starwood guest reservation database, requiring risk-based data-security reforms and a $52 million payment to the states, of which Alaska received $376,629.

    October 9, 2024Supports Data Privacy

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Civil Rights

Civil Rights · 1 support
  • Petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the State of Alaska to hold that deducting union dues from state employees' paychecks on a union's say-so, and continuing deductions after an employee objects, violates the First Amendment under Janus.

    August 23, 2023Supports Civil Rights

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — Corporate Accountability

Corporate Accountability · 6 support
  • Reached a $700 million nationwide settlement with Johnson & Johnson alongside 42 other attorneys general over the marketing of talc-containing baby powder and body powder, including the failure to warn of possible asbestos content and ovarian-cancer risk.

    June 12, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Announced a $350 million national settlement with marketing firm Publicis Health over its role in promoting prescription opioids for Purdue Pharma, bringing more than $780,000 to Alaska for opioid-crisis response.

    February 1, 2024Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Enrolled Alaska in a nationwide Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force of 50 attorneys general that issued 20 civil investigative demands to gateway providers carrying the bulk of foreign robocall traffic into the United States.

    August 2, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Filed a state lawsuit against seven corporations and eight individuals who ran a timeshare exit scheme, alleging they collected upfront payments often exceeding $10,000 from elderly Alaskan consumers and then never got them out of their timeshare contracts.

    June 28, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Secured $437,690.65 for more than 14,000 Alaskans from Intuit Inc., owner of TurboTax, as Alaska's share of a 50-state $141 million restitution agreement over the deceptive 'free, free, free' tax-filing advertising campaign.

    May 4, 2022Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Joined a coalition of 37 attorneys general that filed the Utah v. Google antitrust lawsuit in California, alleging Google used its dominance over the Play Store and Google Billing to restrict competition and raise app prices.

    July 9, 2021Supports Corporate Accountability

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

Track record — General

General · 6 records
  • Resigned as Alaska Attorney General, with Governor Dunleavy accepting the resignation effective August 29, 2025, closing a tenure begun in 2021 that made him the third longest-serving attorney general since Alaska statehood.

    August 21, 2025

    Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Published a signed newspaper column explaining the State of Alaska's separation-of-powers challenge to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services final rule issued under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, stating that the suit did not seek to eliminate Section 504 protections.

    March 4, 2025

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Assumed the chairmanship of the Attorney General Alliance, the bipartisan nonprofit whose membership spans 51 U.S. states and territories, and set a Chair's Initiative on cyber threats titled 'Cyber Awareness: Addressing Digital Threats at Home and Abroad'.

    January 14, 2025

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Told a news conference that outside counsel had found he had no conflict of interest, and resumed full participation in the state's appeal of a ruling striking down correspondence-school allotments for private-school tuition, after having previously recused himself from that subject.

    April 18, 2024

    Source: alaskasnewssource.com · researched July 31, 2026

  • Stepped aside from all Alaska Department of Law work on correspondence school allotments because his wife had publicly argued for them, and handed the legal review to Deputy Attorney General Cori Mills.

    June 6, 2022

    Source: law.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

  • Was appointed Attorney General of Alaska by Governor Mike Dunleavy, after joining the Alaska Department of Law in 2018 as Deputy Attorney General in charge of the civil division.

    January 29, 2021

    Source: gov.alaska.gov · researched July 31, 2026

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Profile last researched July 2, 2026.