Gov. Mike Dunleavy has announced his running mate: Alaska Department of Corrections Commissioner Nancy Dahlstrom. Dunleavy said Dahlstrom's executive and legislative experience make her well suited to take over the state’s top job at a moment’s notice.
If Alaska voters re-elect Dunleavy in November, Dahlstrom would become lieutenant governor and the head of the Division of Elections.
Dahlstrom, who lives in Eagle River, had an unusual start in state politics. She ran for state House in 2002 as a conservative challenger to the incumbent House member, Lisa Murkowski. Dahlstrom lost in the Republican primary. But that fall, Frank Murkowski was elected governor. He selected his daughter, Lisa, to fill the remainder of his term in the U.S. Senate. That left a vacancy in the state House, and Gov. Murkowski chose Dahlstrom.
She resigned from the Legislature in 2010, saying she would take a new position as military advisor to then-Gov. Sean Parnell, but she soon stepped down after questions arose about whether the appointment was legal. The state Constitution bars legislators from taking state jobs created while they were in office.
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