State House District 8
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:
Nonpartisan
Frank Quinn is a computer and IT teacher from Hope who also substitutes in elementary special education classes. His priorities include reducing rape, domestic violence, and child abuse, election reform such as term limits, and taxing resources that leave the state.
Nonpartisan
Nissa Savage is a Soldotna certified public accountant who owns Savage Accounting and earlier worked as a deckhand on Alaska state ferries. Her priorities include school funding formula reform, new state revenue sources, and lowering the cost of energy, housing, health care, and groceries.
Registered Republican · Incumbent
Bill Elam is an IT infrastructure director at Central Peninsula Hospital who has served in the Alaska House since 2025 and earlier served on the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly. He lists balanced budgets, resource development, and affordable in-state natural gas among his priorities.
Records: Public Education Quality 4 for, 2 against, Anti-Corruption 1 for, Civil Rights 1 against,
Source: elections.alaska.gov