Alaska News Source (KTUU) news reporter and anchor Rebecca Palsha vacationed with the daughter of gubernatorial candidate Bill Walker in Hawaii recently, and talked about their close friendship in a Facebook post that featured both of them sitting on an embankment over the Pacific Ocean.
In Alaska’s newsrooms, relationships between liberal candidates, politicians, and news providers can be notorious. In October of 2020, Democrat former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz of Anchorage resigned after becoming entangled with a local news anchor, once the news of their flagrante delicto became known.
Palsha and Lindsay Walker-Hobson are well-known gal pals and have hiked and adventured together in the past. Hobson was the spokesperson and “ethics advisor” for the Walker-Mallott gubernatorial campaign in 2014. A lawyer like her dad, she now works for Enstar.
Palsha is married to Kyle Hopkins, who writes political material that shapes the narrative for the Anchorage Daily News.
After losing badly to Gov. Mike Dunleavy in 2018, Walker is back for a second bite of the apple under the new ranked choice voting system, hoping that Democrats and Republicans will pick him as a first or second-place choice on the new experimental ballot to be revealed in November.
