Gregg Brelsford: Alaska's Education Governor

0:00It's March 28th. You're listening to Anchorage News today, AI-powered local news. I'm Cory with the story. Anchorage attorney Greg Brelsford, a 75-year-old independent, became the 18th candidate in Alaska's governor race this week. With a background as a prosecutor, municipal manager in Bristol Bay and CEO of the Illusion Pribiloff Islands Association, he's pitching himself as, Alaska's education governor. He blasts governor Mike Dunleavy and Republican lawmakers for short-changing K-12 schools. Brelsford rips into Dunleavy's vetoes on funding boosts, though legislators overrode too last year to add $700 per student. The governor argues cash alone won't lift Alaska's low test scores, and he's in his second term, barred from running again. On top of schools, Brelsford opposes sharing voter data with feds, wants to find benefit pensions revived for public workers, and vows tough law, enforcement against missing, and murdered indigenous women, crimes on women, and drug trafficking.

1:02He's seating his campaign with $200,000 of his own cash, starting in rural Alaska where he grew up, before building statewide. Momentum in this pack feel top four, from the August primary, hit the November ballot by June 1st.