Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Pierce will introduce his running mate on Saturday at a meet-and-greet fundraiser at Pizza Paradisos restaurant in Kenai, starting at 5 pm.
Pierce let it slip on the Dan Fagan Show (650 KENI) that he would be making the announcement this weekend. Pierce, who is the mayor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough, joined the race in late January and is running on the slogan, “Results, Not Rhetoric.” Before being elected mayor of Kenai, he was on the Assembly and was a business executive with Enstar, a natural gas company.
The campaign has been mum about who the lieutenant governor candidate will be. In past elections, candidates for governor and lieutenant governor would run separately for the primary, and then join as a ticket for the general election. But with Ranked Choice Voting, governors must pick a lieutenant governor to run with them.
“This will shake the political landscape in Alaska,” a campaign source told Must Read Alaska.
Meanwhile, a Charlie Pierce for Governor sign was spotted in Utqiagvik (Barrow), the furthest north town in America. Could the running mate come from the Arctic? Pierce is not saying.
Pierce, in his second term as Kenai mayor, is challenging incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy and Rep. Chris Kurka, and also no-party candidate Bill Walker and Democrat Les Gara. Others are expected to join the race. Dunleavy has not announced his lieutenant governor running mate, while
