Governor Mike Dunleavy announced on Wednesday the replacements of two Alaska Senate vacancies.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Two Alaska representatives in the minority may be getting promoted after Gov. Mike Dunleavy , R-Alaska, announced Wednesday they were appointed to replace two Alaska Senate vacancies.
Reps. Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla, and Rep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton, have been named by Dunleavy to succeed the two senators who left their seats to focus on running for Alaska’s executive branch. To become senators, they must be confirmed by the chamber. If they are confirmed, their House seats become abandoned, opening up two positions the governor can fill. “The process for replacing senators and representatives is the same,” governor spokesperson Jeff Turner said in an email Wednesday. “The district committees will meet and select three people for each house seat and forward them to the governor. He can pick from the list or select someone not on it.”, Mike Shower, former Senate Minority Leader, R-Wasilla, resigned to dedicate his time to campaigning as businesswoman Bernadette Wilson’s lieutenant governor pick.Replacing her will be Rep. George Rauscher, R-Sutton. He was first elected to the Alaska State House in 2017. According to his, Rauscher has served on the House Special Committee on Energy, Resources and Military & Veterans Affairs, chairing the Energy Committee and serving as Vice Chair of Resources from 2022–24. “I appreciate their years of service in the Senate and the work they’ve done on behalf of their constituents,” Dunleavy said of the leaving Senators in a press release on Wednesday. Rauscher and Tilton have to be confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate’s Republican members. Dunleavy stated he couldn’t think of two Alaskans more qualified and committed to public service. “I have known and worked with both for as long as I have been in public office and I look forward to working collaboratively with them as senators. I also want to thank the local Republican district committees for taking the time to meet, deliberate and send forward names for these seats. This process works best when the people closest to the communities are involved,” Dunleavy said. This comes as the minority party is currently leaderless in both chambers, following Shower’s absence and Rep. Mia Costello’s stepping down asDriver dies after being pinned in Richardson Highway crash, troopers sayControversial political website Alaska Landmine faces defamation suit from Alaska state officialKYUK manager says job cuts needed to not ‘jeopardize’ station’s futureBethel public media stations to cut more than half of full-time positions January while ‘expecting’ over a million in funding
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