Alyse Galvin, a Rogers Park-College Village resident of Anchorage, is one of the latest to throw her hat in the ring for legislative office in 2022.
She failed to win as a congressional candidate in 2018 and 2020, running against Congressman Don Young.
This time, she has not indicated if she’ll run for House or for Senate.
Galvin has strong name recognition statewide due to her two congressional runs, which involved millions of dollars in name-building advertising.
She is in a House district with no incumbents, due to the newly drawn political boundaries that came out of the Alaska Redistricting Board final maps. Galvin is located in an area that was represented by Rep. Harriet Drummond, who is now representing the same district as Rep. Zack Fields.
A hard leftist, if Galvin chooses to run for Senate, it will almost certainly be because the incumbent, Sen. Elvi Gray-Jackson, has been persuaded by the Alaska Democratic Party to run for U.S. Senate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The effort to line up appropriate candidates is often coordinated by the Alaska Democratic Party.
Galvin is a nonpartisan but has run with the blessing, endorsement, and funds of the Alaska Democratic Party in the past, as the party continues to shape-shift in order to deceive voters into thinking its candidates are independents.
