A tale of two campaign styles

Good afternoon, Alaska! It’s Tuesday.

In this edition: It’s election day for many municipalities around the state today, including the Fairbanks North Star Borough, where the races for the Assembly and School Board paint two very different pictures of how conservatives are approaching local politics. One has conservatives trying to act more moderate, while the other is leaning into the right-wing culture wars. In this edition, let’s take a deeper dive into how those conservative campaign styles are shaping up and what’s at stake.

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A tale of two campaign styles

It’s local election day for most municipalities around the state today, and I—a reporter who spent many, many, many Thursday nights covering its assembly meetings—am not at all biased when I say the Fairbanks North Star Borough races are among the most interesting. Along with two propositions, Borough voters will decide three seats on the Assembly and three on the school board.

In all but one of the races, conservative seats are on the ballot, and it’s created for two very different sets of campaigns.