Alaskans are facing real issues.
Now is the time for change, not business as usual.
Michael Bowles knows he will face many challenges in Juneau, but he is ready to fight for you. Learn here where he stands on the issues.
PROTECTING LIFE IN ALASKA
Article 1 of the Alaska Constitution Guarantees the Right to Life
Alaska’s Constitution is dedicated to the principle that all persons have a natural right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We must protect the right to life for all Alaskans from conception until natural death, because without life, there is no liberty, and without liberty, there is no pusuit of happiness.
WHERE ALASKA STANDS
Alaska currently has no gestational limit on abortion. That is not because voters chose it. The Alaska Supreme Court read a right to abortion into the privacy clause, so an unborn child has no standing as a person under state law. State Medicaid still pays for abortions. About 1,220 abortions occur here each year, most now by chemical abortion drugs. Courts and coalitions, not the people of District 25, have written this policy.
WHAT MICHAEL WILL FIGHT FOR IN JUNEAU
Give babies equal rights under the law. A child in the womb is a human being from conception. Alaska law should recognize that child as a natural person with the same right to life the Constitution already promises every person. Equal protection does not depend on age, size, location, or stage of development. Michael will support legislation that writes that truth into statute and ends the legal fiction that one class of Alaskans may be killed without consequence.
Restore the people’s voice. Support a constitutional amendment making clear that nothing in the Alaska Constitution creates a right to abortion or requires the state to fund one. Judges interpret the Constitution. They do not invent rights Alaskans never approved.
End tax-payer funded abortion. No Alaskan who believes abortion takes an innocent life should be forced to pay for it. Redirect public dollars from abortion providers to prenatal care, maternal health, and real alternatives.
Stop chemical abortion expansion. Do not turn every pharmacy into an abortion clinic. Write clear statute barring pharmacists from prescribing abortion-inducing drugs, and defend safeguards that protect women from hidden complications.
Build a culture that chooses life. Stand with pregnancy resource centers, adoption agencies, and rural maternal clinics. Make it easier to have a child in Alaska, not easier to end one. Life from conception to natural death also means opposing assisted suicide and defending the disabled and elderly.
COMPASSION WITH A SPINE
Michael will not lecture a woman in crisis. He will stand with her: care, housing help, work, and a community that does not disappear after the baby is born. Two patients: mother and child. Both alive. Both supported. That is commonsense conservatism for Palmer and District 25, limited government that still knows its first duty is to protect the innocent.
TERM LIMITS NOW
8 Years Max for State House & State Senate
Public office is a tour of duty, not a career. Michael Bowles will fight for an eight-year limit in the Alaska House and an eight-year limit in the Alaska Senate so lawmakers serve the people, then go home. Studies from conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation show states with legislative term limits score better on fiscal health and budget control. Limits also stop elected officials from making a lifelong career out of holding office, and they force focus on policy instead of the next campaign.
WHERE ALASKA STANDS
Our Governor and many local offices currently have term limits. However our State House and State Senate do not. This needs to change.
WHAT MICHAEL WILL FIGHT FOR IN JUNEAU
Eight years. Then go home. Cap service at eight years in the House and eight years in the Senate. That is four House terms or two Senate terms. Long enough to learn the job. Short enough that no one builds a machine around a desk.
Put it on the ballot. Pass a constitutional amendment and let Alaskans vote. The people should decide whether Juneau belongs to them or to the permanent class. Michael will introduce and vote for that amendment.
No loopholes for incumbents. Limits must be real. No resetting the clock by hopping chambers without a hard cap. No special carve-outs written by the people they would restrain. If the rule is eight years, it applies to everyone, including Michael.
Govern for the next generation. Legislators should think 20 to 50 years ahead, not to the next primary. Term limits break the habit of trading votes for another term and return the Legislature to citizens who still have a life outside the Capitol.
Accountability over seniority. Power in Juneau too often follows years served, not results delivered. Fresh members with a clock running have less time to join the wrong coalition and more reason to keep promises on spending, resources, and limited government.
SERVICE, NOT A CAREER
Michael is a husband and veteran, not a professional politician. He is asking District 25 for a job with an expiration date. That is commonsense conservatism: send people to Juneau to do the work, then bring them home.
GROW IT HERE, FEED ALASKA
Get the Government Out of Our Kitchen
Supporting Alaskan Grown and local farmers is vital to our food security, health, and local economy. District 25 is Palmer, the agricultural heart of Alaska. The Matanuska Valley still has the silt soils, long summer light, and working farms that once fed a territory. A conservative approach does not build a new bureaucracy. It keeps farmland in production, cuts red tape, and lets private growers, homesteaders, and hunters and fishermen do what they already know how to do.
WHERE WE STAND
The vast majority of food Alaskans buy in stores is imported. When barges, trucks, or ports stall, shelves go empty. Palmer and the Mat-Su still grow potatoes, carrots, cabbage, hay, beef, and greenhouse crops on family ground. VanderWeele, Rempel, Pyrah’s, Moffitt, Bergey, and many more. The Matanuska Experiment Farm has served this valley for more than a century. Farms are growing in number, but most are small, land is expensive, processing is scarce, and working acres keep getting squeezed by development. Food security is not a slogan. It is whether District 25 can feed itself when the chain breaks.
WHAT MICHAEL WILL FIGHT FOR IN JUNEAU
Keep farmland with lower taxes. Protect property rights and farm-use assessment so working ground is not taxed as if it were a subdivision. Support voluntary easements that keep acres in production without the state taking title. Palmer’s colony barns were built to grow food—not condos.
Cut the red tape that starves growers. Make it easier to sell Alaskan Grown to schools, stores, and restaurants. Fix meat-processing and inspection bottlenecks so a Valley steer does not have to leave the region to become steaks. Rules should protect health, not lock local food out of the market.
Put state land to work. Prefer Alaskans who will actually farm when the state leases or sells agricultural land. No more paper farms. Open ground to people who will plant, graze, and harvest.
Private investment, not a bigger Department. Use existing tools such as the Agricultural Revolving Loan Fund, extension, and markets, before inventing new agencies. A healthy farm economy is built by owners and buyers, not by Juneau org charts.
Homestead, hunt, fish, and grow. Bring back the Homestead Act so Alaskans can earn title by living on and working the land. Food security is also a freezer full of moose and salmon and a garden that produces. Defend hunting, fishing, and personal-use harvest. Back high tunnels, greenhouses, and 4-H so the next generation can feed this valley.
DISTRICT 25 CAN LEAD
Michael and Amanda work their homestead, hunt, and fish. They ran Happy Bison Barbeque in the Valley. He knows local food is both culture and insurance. Commonsense conservatism for Palmer is simple: grow more here, keep the land working, and stop betting the dinner table on a barge from Seattle.
ALASKA IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS
We Must Protect and Support Natural Resource Development
The State of Alaska is open for business. Michael Bowles will support responsible natural resource development across the state, and industry growth and infrastructure built by a healthy economy through private investors, not more government. A healthy economy, not taxes, builds strong infrastructure. District 25 does not get rich by taxing itself. It gets rich when Alaska is allowed to produce.
WHERE WE STAND
Oil, gas, minerals, timber, and fisheries built this state. Permitting delays, lawsuit mills, and Juneau coalitions that treat production as a problem have left fields declining, projects stranded, and energy bills high in the Valley. Mat-Su families feel it at the pump, on the power bill, and in the jobs that never open. Conservation and development are not enemies. Locking up the resource base and importing what we could produce here is not conservation. It is managed decline.
WHAT MICHAEL WILL FIGHT FOR IN JUNEAU
Produce what we own. Support oil and gas on state and federal land that Alaska already opened. Keep the Trans-Alaska Pipeline full. Back Cook Inlet and in-state gas so Valley homes and businesses are not one barge delay from a crisis. Resource wealth belongs to Alaskans, not to activists in other time zones. Alaskans should not be in fear of rolling brown outs.
Mine, cut, and harvest under Alaska rules. Responsible mining and timber create year-round paychecks. Demand clear, time-limited permits and science-based standards, not endless process designed to kill a project. If a mine or mill can meet the law, it should be allowed to work.
Private capital builds the road. Infrastructure follows production. Invite private investors to roads, ports, rail, and energy -Port MacKenzie and the Valley included- instead of raising taxes to fund a wish list. Government’s job is a stable rulebook, not picking winners.
Cheap, reliable energy. Families and farms in District 25 cannot grow if power and heat keep climbing. Support in-state gas, hydro where it pencils, and an end to policies that make electricity a luxury. Energy is the foundation of every other industry.
Access is a right, not a permit lottery. Defend multiple-use of public land: hunt, fish, trap, travel, and develop. Stop federal overreach that treats Alaskans as guests on their own ground. Statehood was a resource compact. Keep it.
GROWTH WITHOUT A NEW TAX
Michael will not caucus with those who shut down the state. He will vote to open it. Commonsense conservatism for Palmer is simple: develop the resource, keep the royalty, build the road with private money, and let District 25 keep more of what it earns.
Juneau Stole Your Check. Michael Will Fight to Take It Back
STOP PFD THEFT
The Permanent Fund Dividend is not a gift from Juneau. It is each Alaskan’s share of the oil wealth that belongs to the people. Jay Hammond designed it so politicians could not quietly steal that share. When the Legislature withholds the statutory check, it is not “saving money.” It is theft. It is a tax they never had the courage to put on the ballot.
WHERE WE STAND
The statutory formula would have paid about $3,800 this year. The Legislature stole the difference and mailed a $1,000 dividend plus a $200 energy add-on, $1,200 total. That is more than $2,600 taken from every eligible Alaskan and spent on government. Lawmakers have broken the dividend statute every year since 2016. Every dollar they withhold is a hidden tax on District 25. Palmer families need that check for heat, groceries, snow tires, and kids. Juneau uses it to avoid an honest tax vote.
WHAT MICHAEL WILL FIGHT FOR IN JUNEAU
Pay the statutory dividend. Follow the law. Stop rewriting, and stealing, the check every spring in a conference committee. If government cannot live within the remaining revenue, cut government. Do not tax families by picking their pockets.
Put the formula beyond the raid. Support a constitutional amendment that locks the people’s share in place so a future coalition cannot steal it again. The dividend should not exist at the pleasure of whoever holds the gavel.
Protect the principal. Never spend the constitutionally protected principal. Inflation-proof the Fund. A big check this year that shrinks the Fund forever is not conservative. It is eating the seed corn.
Shrink Juneau first. The real fiscal problem is spending, not the dividend. A spending cap and a no-new-tax rule force honest choices. Michael will not vote to grow the budget by taxing you through PFD theft.
The PFD is yours, not a welfare program. Do not means-test it. Do not turn it into a benefit with strings. Every eligible Alaskan owns an equal share. That equality is the point. Take it from one family to fund another program and you have turned ownership into charity.
STOP THE THEFT. KEEP THE CHECK.
Commonsense conservatism is simple: the resource belongs to the people. Develop it. Protect the Fund. Mail the full dividend. Juneau doesn’t need more money, spend less. Stealing the PFD is taxation without honesty. Michael will not vote for it.