State House District 25
What does this office do?
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates:
Registered Republican · Incumbent
DeLena Johnson is a Palmer state representative and House minority leader, a former Palmer mayor, and a small business owner. She focuses on building the Alaska LNG gas line, opposing new income or sales taxes, protecting the PFD, and oil, gas, and mining development.
Records: Public Safety and Crime Control 4 for, Public Education Quality 1 for, 2 against, Civil Rights 1 against,
Registered Republican
Michael Bowles is a Mat-Su Borough Assembly member from Palmer and an Army combat medic veteran who works as a workplace health consultant. He focuses on lower taxes and smaller government, resource development, and local farming and food security.
Records: Data Privacy 2 for, Government Spending Reduction 2 for
Nonpartisan
Steven Merritt is a Palmer graphic designer, writer, and editor who once led the nonprofit Mat-Su Sentinel. He focuses on a long-range state budget plan, school funding, the future of the PFD, and the cost of housing, health care, and energy.
Source: elections.alaska.gov