Political career
In 2002,Seaton ran in the Republican primary against incumbent Drew Scazi,winning with 60% of the vote. [2]
Since then,he has chaired the Education Committee,State Affairs Committee,Health &Social Services Committee,Resources Committee and the Special Committee on Fisheries. He also served on the Commerce,Community &Economic Development,Education &Early Development,Environmental Conservation,and Law Finance Subcommittees,for the 26th Legislature. [3]
2016 election
Seaton won his 2016 Republican primary with 48% of the vote,followed by John Cox with 27%,and Mary Wythe with 25%. [4] After being elected without general election opposition to his 7th term in the state house,Seaton joined a majority coalition of Democrats,Independents,and two other Republicans,with an avowed goal of ameliorating the state's budget deficit,the latter a product of declining oil revenues,budgeting,and prior taxation restructuring. Seaton was chosen to co-chair the house finance committee. Tuckerman Babcock,chair of the Alaska Republican Party,informed Seaton by letter that the party will recruit and support a primary opponent against him in 2018. [5] [6] While campaigning early in 2016,Seaton said he doubted the Legislature could continue to successfully organize "simply on partisan grounds," and that legislators needed to address the budgetary crisis. [7]
2018 election
Seaton filed for re-election as a nonpartisan candidate and ran unopposed in the Democratic primary. Three Republicans filed to challenge him in the general election:Jon Cox,Sarah Vance,and Hank Kroll. He lost to Sarah Vance in the general election on November 6,2018,after advancing from the primary on August 21,2018. [8]
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