Alaska Governor Picks Nancy Dahlstrom as Running Mate

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy introduced Monday that Nancy Dahlstrom will likely be his working mate as he seeks reelection this 12 months.

Dahlstrom, a former state legislator who has led the state Division of Corrections below Dunleavy, submitted her resignation as Corrections commissioner on Sunday, in line with a press release from Dunleavy’s workplace. The assertion was issued minutes earlier than Dunleavy’s marketing campaign introduced Dahlstrom as his working mate.

The marketing campaign announcement got here simply over every week earlier than the June 1 submitting deadline for the August major. Candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run as a group below a brand new elections course of authorized by voters in 2020. Underneath that system, the 4 groups that win essentially the most votes within the major will advance to the November common election, by which ranked selection voting will likely be used.

Dunleavy, in a press release, mentioned Dahlstrom is “well-qualified, skilled, educated, and has the temperament to do the job of Lieutenant Governor properly.”

Alaska’s present lieutenant governor, Republican Kevin Meyer, beforehand mentioned he wouldn’t search reelection.

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