Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has chosen his corrections commissioner, Nancy Dahlstrom, as his operating mate for this 12 months’s gubernatorial election.
Dahlstrom, a Republican former state consultant from Eagle River, was set to file her candidacy Monday alongside Dunleavy on the Anchorage workplace of the Division of Elections.
The governor’s marketing campaign introduced Dahlstrom’s bid in a ready assertion.
She has served as corrections commissioner since Dunleavy was elected in 2018. Dahlstrom was elected to the state Home that very same 12 months, and resigned that place to take the job in Dunleavy’s administration.
In a press release, the Dunleavy administration stated Dahlstrom would get replaced briefly by Jen Winkelman, a longtime corrections division worker who beforehand served as director of pretrial, probation and parole.
Dahlstrom first served within the state Home in 2003, a 12 months after she narrowly misplaced a major bid for the seat to Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski’s father, Gov. Frank Murkowski, then appointed her to the U.S. Senate and appointed Dahlstrom to switch his daughter within the Home.
Dahlstrom served within the Home till 2010, when she took a job as a army affairs adviser in Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration. However she stayed within the place for just some weeks, stepping down after critics raised questions on whether or not her acceptance of the job complied with a provision within the Alaska Structure that bars lawmakers from taking positions created whereas they’re in workplace.
Dahlstrom goals to switch Kevin Meyer, a Republican former state senator who was elected with Dunleavy in 2018. Meyer introduced in December that he wouldn’t search reelection.
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