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   Clarkson is on a monthlong leave of absence without pay, the   
   Department of Law said in response to a records request. Without any   
   public notice or explanation from the state, an acting attorney   
   general has been appointed in his place.   
      
   Records obtained by the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica show the   
   abrupt and unusual absence came after a junior state employee raised   
   concerns about 558 text messages that Clarkson sent to her personal   
   phone in March.   
      
   Over a 27-day span, the attorney general asked the woman to come to   
   his house at least 18 times, often punctuating the messages with   
   kiss emoji and comments about the much-younger woman’s beauty.   
      
   The attorney general texted the woman at all hours of the day and   
   evening, sometimes from his state office, until she sent him a   
   message in early April asking him to respect professional boundaries   
   and saying she doesn’t accept late-night calls on her personal   
   phone.   
      
   Dunleavy chose Clarkson as attorney general in December 2018. The   
   Legislature approved the pick five months later.   
      
   Public records show that this is not the first time his interactions   
   with a woman have raised questions about harassing behavior. In two   
   requests for domestic violence protective orders filed in state   
   court in 1996, Clarkson’s ex-wife accused him of harassing and   
   threatening her.   
      
   In a request for a protective order filed Aug. 23, 1996, his former   
   wife wrote that Clarkson “threatened me not to tell anyone ‘what   
   happened 10 years ago.’ (He’d paid for sexual favors from a pros),”   
   short for prostitute.   
      
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