Mike Robbins, currently the vice chairman of the Alaska Republican Party, has announced he is running to lead the party, as Chairwoman Ann Brown will not run for reelection. The party will hold its officer election in April at its state convention, April 19-21 in Anchorage.
Robbins’ campaign theme is “Vision, Values and Victory,” and he pledged to bring the party into the future, foster unity, and provide the leadership needed to win elections.
Robbins has volunteered in the Republican Party for many years, having been a registered Republican since age 18. He has served as as a district chair, regional representative, and alternate delegate to the 2016 National Convention. He also organized the Alaska GOP Trump inaugural party in Washington, D.C. in 2016. In 2022, he organized volunteers for the Anchorage Trump rally — recruiting, training, and assigning roles to 200 volunteers with less than two weeks notice.
As a longtime local businessman who ran for Anchorage mayor in 2021, Robbins was appointed by Mayor Dave Bronson as the executive director of the Anchorage Community Development Authority.
“Throughout my years of involvement, belief in our Party’s values has led me to serve the Alaska Republican Party in various capacities, most recently as your sitting Vice Chairman, as Chairman of the Freedom Club, and as co-creator of the Founders Club. I have accepted big projects such as the task of creating a stable base of donors. Money is the life blood of the Party, and I have demonstrated fundraising ability,” Robbins wrote in his letter to the party committee.
“I also did my part to ensure election Integrity for the Party in the 2022 general election by organizing and training our statewide poll watchers,” Robbins wrote. “I have worked toward Republican victories in numerous local, state, and national political campaigns, including serving as the Alaska Trump Talk Chairman for the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. In other words, I understand the view from the frontlines as well as from inside the Party.”
“These experiences working in the Party have afforded me an understanding of our organization’s inner workings, strengths and opportunities for growth and improvement. Throughout all my experiences, including taking on large, difficult jobs for the Party, I have never given anything less than 100% of myself in seeing a project through to a successful conclusion.”
His vision for the Alaska Republican Party includes fiscal responsibility, unity and teamwork, grassroots organizing and engagement, principled leadership, election success and attracting the next generation by recruiting, training, and supporting candidates.
Nikki Rose of Anchorage is also a candidate; she announced late last year. Others have been working to recruit someone to fill the top spot in Alaska’s GOP.
