Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has entered the race to finish Congressman Don Young’s term. She joins more than 50 people who've filed, including a North Pole city council member whose legal name is Santa Claus.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin speaks at the 2016 Politicon at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California, June 26, 2016.
Friday — April Fool’s Day — at 5 p.m. was the candidate filing deadline, and the Division of Elections is still finalizingTara Sweeney also announced late this afternoon that she’s running. She was assistant secretary of Indian Affairs at the Interior Department during the Trump administration and is a former executive at Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
At least three former legislators are in the race: Mary Sattler Peltola of Bethel, John Coghill of Fairbanks and Andrew Halcro of Anchorage. Begich raised $300,000 by the end of last year — about half from others and half from his own pocket. So far this year, he says he’s raised more than $1 million, though his campaign didn’t say how much of that came from contributions and how much from the candidate.
“We thought that future would be a couple of years down the road, with Congressman Young finishing out a term,” Hackney said. “But the structure of a congressional race for him is being put into place, over a period of time. So he’s got a lot of he’s got a lot of pieces in place.” “There’s no need to be strategic,” said Jason Grenn, executive director of Alaskans for Better Elections. The group promotes the merits of Alaska’s ranked choice voting and the open primary. In the primary, Grenn said, voters can just pick the candidate they like best.
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