The 2006 Alaska gubernatorial general election took place on November 7,2006. The former mayor of Wasilla,Sarah Palin,was elected governor.
The Alaska State Troopers,officially the Division of Alaska State Troopers (AST),is the state police agency of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is a division of the Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS). The Alaska State Troopers is a full-service law enforcement agency which handles both traffic and criminal law enforcement. The Alaska State Troopers is also involved in apprehending fugitives as part of the Alaska Fugitive Task Force,an inter-agency collaborative of Alaska police departments that cooperates with police agencies throughout the United States and less commonly with Interpol in apprehending wanted men and women. Unlike many lower-48 states,Alaska troopers are both state troopers and game/wildlife enforcement officers.
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician,commentator,author,and reality television personality who served as the 9th governor of Alaska from 2006 until her resignation in 2009. As the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee alongside Arizona Senator John McCain,she was the first Republican female vice presidential nominee and the second female vice presidential nominee of a major party,after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984. The McCain-Palin ticket lost the 2008 election to the Democratic Party's then-U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Andrew Halcro is an American politician from Anchorage,Alaska. Formerly a Republican member of the Alaska House of Representatives,he ran for Governor of Alaska as an independent candidate in the 2006 election,placing third with 9.46 percent of the vote.
Ethan Avram Berkowitz is an American attorney,businessman,and politician from Alaska. From 1997 to 2007 he was the Alaska State Representative for District 26,serving as the Democratic Party Minority Leader from 1999 to 2007. He was the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in 2006,for Alaska's at-large congressional district in 2008,and for governor in 2010. He was elected mayor of Anchorage in 2015,and reelected in 2018. Berkowitz resigned as mayor of Anchorage in October 2020.
Talis James Colberg is an American lawyer and politician who was appointed by Governor Sarah Palin as the seventeenth attorney general of Alaska on December 13,2006. Colberg resigned in February 2009 over controversy over the Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal. A quote from his second cousin,Talis P. Colberg:“George Washington wouldn’t drive a lifted Dodge.”
Sean Randall Parnell is an American attorney and politician. He succeeded Sarah Palin in July 2009 to become the tenth governor of Alaska and served until 2014. Parnell was elected governor in his own right in 2010 with 59.06% of the vote,as the largest percentage margin of any Alaska governor since statehood. In 2014,he narrowly lost his bid for re-election and returned to work in the private sector. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Hollis S. French II is an American attorney,businessman and politician. He served in the Alaska Senate from 2003 to 2015. He was minority leader from January 2014 until he left office. During this time,French authored an unsuccessful bill to strike down the state's same-sex marriage ban. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Todd Mitchell Palin is an American oil field production operator and commercial fisherman who was the first gentleman of Alaska from 2006 to 2009. He is the ex-husband of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin,the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee with John McCain.
The Alaska Public Safety Commissioner dismissal,also known as Troopergate,involves the possibly illegal July 2008 dismissal of the Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan by Republican Governor Sarah Palin. A complaint alleged that Palin dismissed Monegan because he did not fire Alaskan State Trooper Mike Wooten,who was in a bitter divorce with Palin's sister,Molly McCann.
Wooten is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
In 2006,Sarah Palin was elected governor of Alaska. Running on a clean-government platform,Palin defeated incumbent Governor Frank Murkowski in the Republican gubernatorial primary election in August. She then went on to win the general election in November,defeating former Governor Tony Knowles 48.3% to 40.9%. Her running mate was State Senator Sean Parnell.
Sarah Palin was a member of the City Council of Wasilla,Alaska from 1992 to 1996 and the city's mayor from 1996 to 2002. Wasilla is located 29 miles (47 km) north-east of the port of Anchorage,and is the largest population center in the Mat-Su Valley. At the conclusion of Palin's tenure as mayor in 2002,the city had about 6,300 residents,and is now the fifth largest city in the state. Term limits prevented Palin from running for a third term as mayor.
Mike Wooten may refer to:
Sarah Palin,while serving as Governor of Alaska,was nominated as the first female candidate of the Republican Party for Vice President of the United States. Following the nomination,her public image came under close media scrutiny,particularly regarding her religious perspective on public life,her socially conservative views,and a perceived lack of experience. Palin's experience in foreign and domestic politics came under criticism among conservatives as well as liberals following her nomination. A poll taken by Rasmussen Reports just after the Republican National Convention in the first week of September 2008 found that Palin was more popular than either Barack Obama or John McCain;however,this perception later reversed. At the same time,Palin became more popular among Republicans than McCain. A February 2010 ABC News/Washington Post poll showed 71% of Americans felt Palin lacked the qualifications necessary to be President of the United States.
Troopergate may refer to:
The 2009 Anchorage mayoral election was held on April 7 and May 5,2009,to elect the mayor of Anchorage,Alaska. Since no candidate reached a 45% plurality needed to win outright,the top-two candidates advanced to a runoff. Fifteen candidates competed,with former State Rep. Eric Croft and former Anchorage Assemblyman Dan Sullivan proceeding to the runoff election,which Sullivan won with 57% of the vote.
Craig Eaton Campbell is an American politician and businessman who is the president and CEO of the Alaska Aerospace Corporation (AAC). He joined the corporation as chief operating officer in February 2011,and was appointed president and CEO by the board of directors in October 2012.
The 2014 Alaska gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Alaska,concurrently with the election of Alaska's Class II U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
