Required financial reports at the Alaska Public Offices Commission website show that Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson, who has already filed as a candidate for reelection for 2024, has raised over $53,000 for his campaign, an impressive start for a race that is a year away.
That bodes well for a mayor who has been repeatedly attacked by the Anchorage Daily News and the Anchorage Assembly majority. Minus his campaign expenditures, such as paying for a campaign post office box, office supplies, and printing, he has $50,000 cash on hand.
For the 2023 Anchorage Municipal Election, which ends April 4, Assembly candidate Brian Flynn, running for the open seat in West Anchorage, has raised enough campaign funds to mount a serious race against liberal candidate Anna Brawley.
Flynn raised $43,365, nearly all from small donors, and nearly all from people in the private sector. View Flynn’s financial report here.
Brawley, who was handpicked by liberal Assemblywoman Austin Quinn-Davidson to replace her, has donations from the liberals on the Anchorage Assembly. She has raised $35,150, with many large union contributions, and the remainder of her donations coming from government workers and the nonprofit sector. View her financial report here.
Brawley had spent $9,000 and had $25,072 cash on hand when the report deadline came and went.
Assemblyman Felix Rivera has raised just $9,912, and much of it comes from $1,000 checks from unions, as he makes his run for reelection to represent midtown.
Alaska AFL-CIO Putting Alaska First PAC, IBEW Political Action Committee, IUOE Local 302 PAC Account, and Teamster ALIVE – Gaming each contributed $1,000, and another union contributed $500, which means nearly half of his donors are the big labor unions. Read his financial report here.
Travis Szanto, running against Rivera, has raised barely $400, but he had only a couple of days of donations since he filed for office just before the reporting deadline at APOC.
John Trueblood, who is challenging Assemblyman Chris Constant, reported raising $100, but he also was a latecomer to the race, and had not started raising funds. In fact, the $100 he reports is his own check to his campaign.
As for his opponent, Assemblyman Constant, the campaign veteran apparently forgot to file his APOC report for 2023, or rather it appears he mistakenly filed it instead for 2022. Constant ran for Congress last year but was beat in his own district by Santa Claus, a Democrat from North Pole. It’s unclear why he put himself in violation of APOC reporting, since he is an experienced candidate. He has $29,835 for income for his campaign.
In East Anchorage, George Martinez has raised a pile of money for his Assembly race. His campaign income of $36,751 has come from a long list of regular liberal donors. But he’s spent a lot and had just $20,530 cash on hand as of the filing cutoff. Martinez filed his letter of intent to run for the seat in April of 2022 and has been raising money ever since.
His opponent in the race, Spencer Moore, filed for office just before the filing deadline in January and has raised a not-insignificant $5,193 in just five days.
For the Eagle River seat on the Anchorage, Scott Myers has raised $30,678, and his opponent Jim Arlington seems to have let the filing deadline slip by him and is possibly in violation.
Leigh Sloan, running for East Anchorage, filed a the last minute and raised $250, and her opponent, Karen Bronga raised $21,306.32. Her campaign disclosure can be seen at this link.
For South Anchorage, Rachel Ries has reported $16,595, Her reported can be read here.
Ries’ main opponent Zac Johnson has raised $24,728. His report is here. Candidate Mike Insalaco appears to have missed the financial disclosure deadline.
