A lot more attention is being paid to the governor, U.S. House and Senate races in the upcoming election, but as AlaskaBeacon reporter AK_OK says, the makeup in the state House has, arguably, a bigger impact on Alaskans’ day-to-day lives.
Heading toward Election Day on Tuesday, with early and absentee voting already under way, one of the biggest questions is whether there will again be a coalition majority in control of the state House.
Well, as Alaska Beacon reporter James Brooks says, we won’t know for a while, there’s a great deal of uncertainty, and there’s been a lot more attention on races farther up the ballot, like for U.S. Senate and House and for governor. But Brooks says the makeup — and the lawmaking — in the state House has, arguably, a bigger impact on Alaskans’ day-to-day lives.: Since 2020, the House has been controlled by a coalition that includes 16 Democrats, two Republicans and three independents. What’s important this year is that a lot of those Democrats aren’t returning to the Legislature, and so the result is a lot of turnover.
In East Anchorage, the race between Donna Mears as the Democratic candidate and Forrest Wolfe, the Republican candidate, is shaping up to be fairly close. In Midtown Anchorage, Democrat Andy Josephson and Republican Kathy Henslee. Another Anchorage race, Ted Eischeid as the Democrat versus Stanley Wright as the Republican. All of those seem to be coming down to the wire in terms of who wins.
But to answer your question about what sorts of policies, what sorts of differences we could see, over the past four years that Gov. Dunleavy has been governor, we’ve seen the coalition-controlled House being the biggest brake on the agenda he wants to pursue. We’ve seen them oppose his budget cuts, oppose his Permanent Fund Dividend plan, oppose a lot of the social issues that he’s pursued.
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