2010 campaigns off to an early start
from the Alaska Dispatch: They haven’t planted signs in Alaska yards quite yet, but the political game is afoot well ahead of next fall’s election — earlier than ever before, some say.
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So far, Democrats Sen. Hollis French, Bob Poe, and former legislator Ethan Berkowitz, all of Anchorage, have made their intent official. Alaskan Independence Party candidate Donald Wright of Wasilla is lined up for the race, as is Palmer Republican Gerald Heikes. Two Republicans from Valdez – - Harris, a state legislator and former House speaker, and Walker, now an Anchorage attorney and general counsel for the Alaska Gasline Port Authority — have announced they will run but haven’t filed yet with the Division of Elections. And Erica Jacobsson, of Anchorage, has filed as the Green Party’s candidate.
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