Business career Halcro was director of sales and marketing for
Avis Rent a Car of Alaska and a board member of the Avis Licensee Association from 1990.
Alaska House of Representatives In 1998, he ran for the
Alaska House of Representatives as a Republican, winning both the
primary and the general election. In 2000, he won the Republican primary and was unopposed in the general election. He did not seek re-election in 2002.
Gubernatorial race Halcro ran for
Governor of Alaska in
2006 as an
independent candidate. His gubernatorial campaign emphasised
community health, economic wellbeing, the state's marketing efforts and small business. On election day, Halcro finished third, receiving 22,443 votes, 9.46 percent of the total. Republican nominee
Sarah Palin won the election with 114,697 votes, 48.33 percent and former Governor
Tony Knowles finished second, with 40.97 percent.
Later career After losing his gubernatorial bid, Halcro began a political blog, through which he became a prominent critic of Palin's administration and publicized the scandal surrounding Palin's
July 2008 dismissal of a Public Safety Commissioner. Halcro said in September 2009 that he would run for the
United States House of Representatives in
Alaska's at-large congressional district in
2010, but in February 2010 said he was reconsidering his decision. He became president of the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce in 2012. In January 2015 Halcro filed a letter of intent to run for
Mayor of Anchorage. He declared his intention to run later that month, and said he was running because "We need a healthy economy, a healthy community, and we need trust." He placed third in
the first round of the election and did not advance to the
runoff election. Halcro ran as an
independent candidate in the
2022 special election to succeed
Don Young in Alaska's at-large congressional district. He finished eleventh in the blanket primary, with 1.87 percent of the vote. ==Electoral history==