Early election results and closed-door discussions point strongly toward a bipartisan Senate majority coalition, while the House is waiting for clearer results.
As Alaskans wait for more election results, presumptive legislators are busy trying to organize the state House of Representatives and Senate.
Members of a potential bipartisan House coalition also met in Anchorage Wednesday in another secretive meeting at another undisclosed location. House Republicans met online for team building.In the 20-seat Alaska Senate, Democrats were crunching the numbers and increasingly optimistic about picking up two seats to hold a total of nine. Conversations started after August’s primary election with Republicans about forming a bipartisan majority coalition.
Republican Jesse Bjorkman, a Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly member, was solidly leading against conservative Tuckerman Babcock, former chair of the Alaska Republican Party and chief of staff to Gov. Dunleavy, for a Soldotna-area Senate seat. Concrete plans for a bipartisan Senate coalition have broke down in recent years on multiple occasions, including on the eve of the Legislature convening last year. There is a common refrain among those now meeting behind closed doors, trying to organize the Senate: “A deal is not done until it’s done.”Twenty-one Republicans were leading for the 40-seat House after preliminary first-choice results. The GOP’s margin could increase through a handful of unresolved races, but that is not certain.
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