On the evening of August 3, the Alaskan Independence Party nominated Norm Olson for Lieutenant Governor, at a party committee meeting.  However, the meeting did not choose a new gubernatorial nominee.  Don Wright, a party stalwart for decades, had won the party’s gubernatorial primary and he is still the gubernatorial nominee.

However, the press has speculated that the party will replace Wright with someone more prominent, such as Bill Walker, who had lost the Republican gubernatorial primary earlier to the incumbent Republican Governor, Sean Parnell.  Walker favors a natural gas pipeline that is entirely within Alaska, whereas Governor Parnell favors one that runs through Canada to the lower 48 states.  See this story.