Some legislators said they thought Babcock’s confirmation would be unlikely.
The building housing the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ International Arctic Research Center, seen on Sept. 18, 2022. from his post as a member of the University of Alaska Board of Regents on Wednesday, after two months in the role and before his confirmation by the state Legislature.
“I simply find myself unable to devote the full time and attention to the Board that you, my fellow Regents and the University certainly deserve,” Babcock wrote in the short letter, which he emailed Wednesday morning.Babcock served as Dunleavy’s chief of staff from December 2018 until July 2019. In 2021, a federal judgethat the men violated the U.S. and Alaska state constitutions when they sent letters seeking the resignation of hundreds of state employees.
Babcock also served as the chair of the Alaska Republican Party and as a member of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. He ran an unsuccessful campaign for state Senate in 2022.. He was a supporter of Dunleavy’s deep cuts to the university budget in 2019, among the reasons legislators cited when they rejected Marcum for the same role.
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