Thursday evening, April 30, Candidate for Governor Shelley Hughes announced retired U.S. Air Force veteran Brigadier General Blake Gettys of Eagle River as her Lieutenant Governor running mate.
Brig. Gen. Blake Gettys is a longtime Alaska resident and former commander of the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing. Over the course of his military service, he has led complex, global deployments overseeing thousands of military personnel and multiple operational squadrons.
Hughes says Gettys is “a man of character and integrity,” who is ready to “carry out what will be an expanded Lt. Governor role as we work together to ensure Alaska remains not only a great place to live for this generation and the next, but an even greater one.”…