Alaska House of Representatives District 9 candidate surveys, 2022

Elections in Alaska, 2022

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This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for Alaska House of Representatives District 9 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for Alaska House of Representatives District 9

The ranked-choice voting election was won by Laddie Shaw in round 1 .

		Candidate	%	Total Votes	Transfer	Round eliminated
		Laddie Shaw	54.2	5,320	0	Won (1)
		David Schaff	45.6	4,480	0	1
		Undeclared Write-insUndeclared write-in candidates may advance past the first round in some ranked-choice elections. If the official source reports write-in votes by candidate name, Ballotpedia displays them alongside the ballot-qualified candidates. However, if write-in votes are reported without a name, they will instead be included in the total write-in votes figure in Round 1. Please consult the official elections source for more details about unnamed write-in candidate vote totals past Round 1.	0.2	21	0

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 9,821
= candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.

Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey responses

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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

David Schaff (D)

The last four years have been brutal for public education, what with the pandemic and the governor’s frequent funding cuts, needless budget battles, and attempts to undermine our school systems. Is it any wonder that Alaska loses its top teaching talent year after year? I will seek every avenue to secure stable, predictable funding every year. I will work to reform teachers’ pensions and benefits so we can keep the educators we already have.

Alaska is ranked dead last among the 50 states for doing business (2021 CNBC). Why? Living in the Greatland does not compensate for underfunded public schools and universities, inadequate infrastructure, and political instability. That means we’re unable to attract and retain skilled workers. That means we’re unable to attract new businesses. We have a chance to bring our infrastructure into the 21st century. We can modernize the Port of Alaska and provide for affordable high-speed internet. We have the chance to invest in our people by expanding apprenticeships and other vocational education opportunities, working to make health care and housing affordable, and reforming Alaska’s benefits and pension systems to keep our talent here.

In Anchorage and across Alaska, we are seeing the negative impacts of a massive housing shortage. In 2021, Anchorage’s vacancy rate for housing decreased to 4.3%, and we are seeing this trend across the state. Anchorage needs to prioritize building housing units to address this severe need, creating high-quality jobs in the process.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

David Schaff (D)

Living in beautiful Alaska doesn’t compensate for a struggling economy, job losses, floundering schools, rising crime, and failures in leadership. We need real leadership. We need real change. We deserve real change. You can count on me to be that leader.

See also

More about these elections:

• Alaska House of Representatives elections, 2022

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