![]() Larry Wood is an attorney who has served as Alaska's chief assistant attorney general. Anna Fairclough, who is making a run at the State Senate. Skipper is a former constituent relations director for Rep. Lora Reinbold and Kim Skipper have each held numerous community positions. District 26 (Eagle River Valley): Three Republicans have filed to run in this district.District 17 (Anchorage-Mountain View): Republican Cean Stevens will face off against either Geran Tarr or Cal Williams in the general election.The Democratic side sees Anchorage community organizer Hugh Brown III facing Anchorage Assemblywoman Harriet Drummond. District 16 (Anchorage-Spenard): The district formerly represented by Mike Doogan sees two contenders from either side of the aisle: Republicans Jimmy Crawford and Roman Romanovski, the latter of whom also ran for state Senate in 2010.Also running is Republican Gabrielle LeDoux, a former mayor of the Kodiak Island Borough and a former House representative from 2005-2009. To possibly capitalize on that constituency, Democratic attorney Hal Gazaway hopes to take her place in the House. House candidate Sharon Cissna, a Democrat. District 13 (Anchorage-Elmendorf): Part of what makes up District 13 was represented by U.S.Instead, Republicans Lynn Gattis, a Mat-Su School Board member, and Mark Ewing, a former Mat-Su assemblyman and candidate for lieutenant governor, will face off in the primary. District 9 (Greater Wasilla): Wes Keller used to represent Wasilla but will now be vying for the Rural Mat-su vote in 2012.David Watts is the sole Democrat running. District 5 (Chena Ridge): Two Republicans, University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate student Aaron Lojewski and former Alaska Senate candidate Pete Higgins, will square off in this primary.Dave Gardner, vice president of marketing for Golden Valley Electric Association and North Pole mayor Doug Isaacson. They are: Lynette Bergh, a "social, fiscal and constitutional conservative" Paul Brown, president of the North Pole Economic Development Corp. That means the contenders for the conservative Interior region came fast and furious, including four Republicans. District 1 (North Pole/Eielson): Tammie Wilson formerly represented the Alaska city of North Pole, but has been moved into another district. ![]() Seven districts lack incumbent challengers, which should make them among the most hotly contested. Author and former newspaperman Doogan was elected to the state House in 2006, but decided to retire during the course of the 2012 session. Joule initially filed for re-election in 2012, but later decided to retire from the seat that he has occupied for 16 years, instead filing to run for Northwest Arctic Borough mayor. She'll face one of two non-incumbent Republicans also running for that seat. ![]() Gardner is also making a move on the Alaska Senate, as the only Democratic challenger in a Midtown Anchorage district. Bettye Davis for a recently redefined East Anchorage-Eagle River district. Fairclough, a six-year House veteran, is moving on to challenge either former Democratic Rep. She's gunning for Congress and has taken on the Herculean task of unseating U.S. Cissna earned a higher profile last year when she made national news after refusing a TSA patdown in Seattle and taking a ferry home instead. Peggy Wilson, five current House members will not show up on August primary ballots for House seats. Kyle Johansen, who filed as an Independent after redistricting forced him into a competition for the same seat with incumbent Wrangell Republican Rep. Seven incumbent legislators are running entirely unopposed - including House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski - so they'll be able to coast back into their seats come January 2013.īut that means about half of the House seats are still going to see primary battles later this summer, and some of them are bound to be ugly. Though many of the Senate's most interesting races revolve around potentially unseating members of the Senate Bipartisan Working Group - a majority coalition made up of 10 Democrats and six Republicans - the House is more solidly Republican, currently made up of 24 Republicans and 16 Democrats.Īll 40 House seats are up for re-election and some lawmakers will have it easier than others, at least in the primary season: 14 Alaska House districts have only one Democratic and one Republican candidate, meaning they'll duke it out in November's general election. As the deadline to register to vote in Alaska's primaries nears (July 29), candidates are making the rounds in preparation for the Aug. It may be known as the "lower house" but that doesn't mean election drama in the Alaska House of Representatives will be any less heated than the Senate.
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