Iditarod Musher Vern Halter Wins His Mat-Su Assembly Seat with 1,049 Votes - Weird, Huh?

Mat-Su Mayor

• Talis Colberg - 9,001 votes

• John Leiner - 2,207 votes

Assembly District 3

• Ronald Arvin - 929 votes

• Michelle Church - 660 votes

Assembly District 6

• Jim Colver - 849 votes

• Jim Turner - 781 votes

• Robert Wells - 258 votes

Assembly District 7

• Vern Halter - 1,049 votes

• Doyle Holmes - 864 votes

Mat-Su School Board

Seat A

• Adam Boyd - 3,279 votes

• Jamey Duhamel - 1,191 votes

• Michael Dunleavy - 4,972 votes

• Neal Lacy - 1,092 votes

Seat B

• Robert Doyle - 4,159 votes

• James Tapley - 1,423 votes

• Sarah Welton - 4,898 votes

Seat E

• Dave Anderton - 2,513 votes

• Julie Collins - 3,291 votes

• Erick Cordero - 3,952 votes

I was four for seven.

Vern Halter was traded for Michelle Church. Although I preferred Robert Doyle to Sarah Welton, she will do fine. Mike Dunleavy is well qualified to be on the school board. My preferred candidate, Adam Boyd, was less interested in schools than is Dunleavy, even though the latter is universally distrusted by unions and not well liked by many teachers he has worked with in the past.