Caroline Storm says the hardest part of running as a new candidate has been finding donors. “This is just a particularly difficult year. There’s 59 races, Lisa, Mary — I mean, all this money is getting siphoned off into these bigger races,” she said.
As the sun set over Turnagain Arm, Caroline Storm trudged through unshoveled snow to knock on doors in a middle-class South Anchorage neighborhood tucked between two highways.
For first-time candidates, introducing themselves to people who have never heard of them is the norm. It’s a major time commitment to put together a platform, knock on doors and hold events — usually on top of a day job. And then there’s the challenge of scraping together donors without a large team or the campaign machinery of a more established politician.for Trump in 2020, said she’s had some voters write her off because of her party.
Storm, who’s framed her campaign around making sure public schools are adequately funded, said she didn’t want to let Johnson claim another two-year term. She said the hardest part of running as a brand new candidate has been finding donors. Her professional connections as an architect have helped, but she said she’s mostly relied on small donors to fund her three-person team.
Vincent, helped by a small team of volunteers, has for months been traveling throughout the district, which also includes Seward and Cordova, to meet voters. “A lot of individuals that I’ve spoken to, and I have this belief too, say that competition builds a better candidate,” he said.
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