The Anchorage mayoral race heads into its final week with muscle power taking up the financial sides of it. The Alaska Family Action and other conservatives are backing Amy Demboski (see ADN article), and the unions are backing Ethan Berkowitz in AK-Pipeline story below. In what is supposed to be a non-partisan race, everybody already knows its not.
A political group has raised $102,000 from city and statewide labor unions over the past month in an effort to elect mayoral candidate Ethan Berkowitz, a former Democratic state representative.
The group, Berkowitz for a Better Anchorage, is led by treasurer Jim Lottsfeldt. “In contrast to last fall, this is purely positive. We’re never even saying the name of his opponent, much less anything bad,” said Lottsfeldt, who in 2014 raised and spent more than $10 million for the political action committee Put Alaska First in support of Mark Begich’s unsuccessful re-election bid.
With a week until the runoff election, fundraising numbers released Monday are part of the larger campaign finance picture that will emerge as more donations are publicly reported by APOC. We will update with the latest fund-raising numbers for campaigns and supporters when the information becomes available.
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