Club for Growth endorses Nick Begich for Congress

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Suzanne Downing
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Nick Begich III

Club for Growth, a network of 500,000 pro-business Americans, has endorsed Nick Begich for Congress for Alaska.

“The Club for Growth is the leading free-enterprise advocacy group in the nation. We win tough battles and we have an enormous influence on economic policy,” the organization explains on its website. “In fact, we are the only organization that is willing and able to take on any Member of Congress on policy who fails to uphold basic economic conservative principles…regardless of party.”

The group also endorses candidates such as Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Sen. Rick Scott of Florida, Kari Lake for Senate in Arizona, and Bernie Moreno for Senate in Ohio.

By backing Nick Begich, the group is signaling it’s going to take on Rep. Mary Peltola, Alaska’s Democrat in Congress. The Nov. 5 general election is 66 days from Saturday.

Some of the Club’s top policy goals include:

” If elected, he will be dedicated to ensuring that Alaskans thrive, standing ready to challenge Washington’s overreach and secure a prosperous future for Alaska,” the organization said in its highlight of Begich.

The Club for Growth endorsement is one of the more difficult ones to get, because the group doesn’t endorse people who will just go along with the Washington, D.C. swamp politics. It’s not interested in lawmakers who cave to special-interest lobbyists.

Begich has received other endorsements this week, including that of Rep. Bruce Westerman, who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Jim Jordan, chair of Judiciary. Begich was also just named to the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” program, which will super-charge his campaign.

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  3. The picture says it all! Nick Begich is a “hugger”! This might not mean much to some of you but is just one facet of his nature that I appreciate. He likes people and when you genuinely care about others, you are more likely to make good political decisions that affect your constituents. He isn’t just seeking power or fame.

  4. Many of the Club For Growth policies are in direct conflict with the Alaska State Constitution. Alaskans will see through the sham of an outsider trying to take our only seat in the US Congress

    • Don Young came to Alaska from California when he was in his late 20’s. Palin is from Idaho. Ted Stevens came to Alaska only after he finished law school. The Begich name has been around Alaska for more than 70 years. Get a grip, Frank. Old age has got you by the b*lls.

      • Neither Don Young or Ted Stevens wanted the government to control a woman’s body or get between anybody and their doctor. Mary Petola does not have employees in India

        • And neither Don Young or Ted Stevens would want government censored free speech, advancing an LGBTQ agenda, open borders, or late term abortion. Frank, you are losing it, buddy. You are in the middle of the Democrat disease…..
          Trump Derangement Syndrome.
          Go take a hot bath.

    • You are funny Frank. We do see big outside money trying to KEEP the congressional seat for Mary Mary Quite Contrary. NBIII for the win!

      • Funding private religeous schools with public money and taking away right to abortion for two. These are both foundational to the Alaska Constitution

    • Please let us know which positions are in direct conflict with the Constitution. And I find it ironic that you, a transplant. would be taking about him being an outsider when his family was here long before you got here.

      • Club for Growth wants take away the right to an abortion and wants to fund religeous schools with public money. These positions are in direct conflict with the Alaska Constitution. Nick Begich has employees in India that is a little outside of Mary Petola’s totally Alaska interests.

        • Mary Peltola supports the people who have shut down millions of acres of Alaska from development, despite specific Congressional acts that specify that they shall be open. She supports the Secretary of the Interior who just took away 99% of the land that could have been available for her Vietnam veteran Native brethren to select for their allotment. What had been millions of acres of possibilities is now less than 100,000 acres. She has voted against every border security bill she could.

          As to the issues you cited, please point out the specific issue statement regarding abortion. I could not find one and a search of their site found none. And the Alaska Supreme Court tied abortion to the privacy clause, but the word abortion appears nowhere in the Alaska Constitution. They do promote charter schools and a voucher system, which could be crafted to meet the Alaska Constitution. Do you believe that every student must be trapped in failing public schools?

        • Why are you supporting killing human beings. Abortion kills human beings. it doesn’t really matter that they’re inside or outside the womb.. they’re still human beings.. ABORTION IS against our Constitution to kill innocent people.

          AND as for schools When they get back to teaching the basics instead of woke garbage they’re producing, just maybe some students will return. But as long as they teach and promote “sick societies”, it’s the people’s choice to send their children WHERE they deem best.

  5. I voted for Begich.
    Frank I feel what you are saying.
    Begich is being endorsed by all the NeoCon UniParty type groups.
    That combined with the fact that he comes from a very progressive, liberal family and he gave the election to Peltola the last time by not dropping out of the race when he finished in third place, like all his sycophants were demanding Nancy do.
    Begich got 1 out of every 4 votes.
    Nancy got one out of every 5 votes.
    Peltola got one out of every 2 votes.
    Endorsements dont come free, especially when you are soliciting them.

    • Please ,please explain in more detail your comment “Endorsements dont come free, especially when you are soliciting them.” Are you insinuating Nick is paying to get money????? …..have you ever gotten a bank loan? It’s seems you hate yourself for being part of the world of politics!

  6. If republicans ever want to win congress again they need to stop running two candidates! When will they ever learn.

      • Frank
        Einstein of the Democrat Party.
        Brilliant one-line summations. You must be a hero of your party. Do you smoke a lot of dope, too?

      • Some of your own medicine Frank! Your comments 2020 in the heights of Covid I bet you took the Jab right along with the rest of the SHEEP!
        Letter: Good riddance to trolls
        By Frank Rast
        Updated: May 13, 2020
        Published: May 13, 2020
        I am glad the Anchorage Daily News has stopped publishing anonymous comments online. I tire of seeing the same trolls using pseudonyms on ADN’s website. The ADN should require legal names of subscribers to post comments, as is required by other respected publications such as the Wall Street Journal.

        — Frank Rast

    • Jeff ,Here is the reality of any election in Alaska! There are 84 people who live on Seacliff St in Anchorage, Alaska that are registered to vote. Out of those people 22 are Republicans and 13 are Democrats while 49 are affiliated with a different political party or have no party affiliation at all.

      35 to 49….49 that can’t make up their mind what side of reality exists, good or evil ………

  7. The full repeal of ObamaCare? What would you replace it with? Insurance companies refusing to insure people with pre-existing conditions or with a substantial price increase? We all know a few people with hypertension, cardiovascular problems, diabetes, etc. Trump promised a replacement about every other week when he was in office and presented us with nothing. Same for infrastructure. How about an article on the Arlington fiasco?

    • Mia Costello stated she had a private plan to replace MediCaid Expansion 8 years ago, I am still waiting for it lol. The ACA is very popular and Trump runs off voters every time he talks about it.

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