Rep. Mary Peltola has been campaigning in Alaska for a month, and now that Congress is back in session, she put out a notice on Monday saying she will be in Bethel this week to celebrate the life of her late husband, who died a year ago this coming Thursday. She explains this week off is part of Yup’ik culture.
The U.S. House of Representatives meets Monday through Thursday this week and Monday through Friday next week. Among items to be considered are measures to pass stop-gap funding to prevent a government shutdown.
Gene “Buzzy” Peltola was piloting a small plane when it crashed last Sept. 12 upon takeoff from a hunting site near St. Mary’s. He was the only person on board, ferrying more than 500 pounds of moose meat and a set of antlers.
The NTSB has issued a preliminary report on the accident but as of Sept. 9, 2024 has not issued its final report.
I respect cultural traditions and believe that they should be honored..that said, traditions such as these that impact any candidate’s ability to perform the duties of the office they seek to win should be disclosed up front during the campaign. Is is a tragedy indeed to lose a loved one and I am sorry that happened to her and her family.
On the good side of this, at least she won’t be there to vote in lockstep with the left on anything that ignores the Alaskan culture as a whole…
She needs to resign.
No-Show Peltola. No surprises here. Even if she was there, she’d have to vote present or go to the bathroom. I think she should permanently stay in Bethal.
No offense, but her mom died May 12, 2023. Did she also take a week off for that this year? Not that I can tell. She didn’t show up for work for a whole month in July because of Yup’ik culture (to process fish she said because no one else in her family can do that) and all of August she was off, and now she wont be at work for half of September, and it’s all the same Mary Peltola, biggest no-show out there.
Statistics released today show that Joe Biden (the silent quitter) took vacation 41% of his time in office.
These people.
Just stay home, there is no need for you to go to DC and waste our taxpayer dollars.
We can just send Nick early next year….
Waste of time Peltola…..
Praying for a one and done “career” on this sub-par choice for US Representative.
How with 700,000 residents, is this our best and brightest…SAD STATEMENT on AK really.
The bottom line, other than continually illustrating the low quality of an individual who was manipulated into office that Mary is, it really does not matter. Congressmen and senators are simply placeholders, who vote on the continuing funding resolutions, or are bribed, threatened or manipulated to vote for, or against, the thousands of pages bills presented to them by the lobbyists, hired by the special interests that actually own the government. It isn’t as though she and her staff would normally be researching issues, writing bills or at least small components of them. The bills congress votes on are so filled with special interest subsidies and the legal theory basis for the administrative agencies to write downstream “regulations” (which have the force of law in the Federal Register”, which protect their sponsor corporations from competition, none of them actually read, analyze or in Mary’s case have the intellectual capacity to even comprehend what is in them. She is doing exactly what she was installed to do, which is reliably doing what she is told to do. Representing the actual people of Alaska is a quaint and long abandoned job description for a US Congressman.
She hasn’t done anything good for our state and people, contrary to the campaign adds running on TV. We are better represented if she stays home.
We are always more secure when they are on break or home cutting fish or picking berries.
Maybe Mary will find Husband number 6 at the celebration event?
How can she be representing “all of Alaska” as she claims when she’s hardly ever there actually representing?
Excuses are like a**holes, everyone’s got one and they all stink….
Since they are dealing with a government spending measure, it’s better that she have the week off.
Every time I have heard of a native potlatch or rememberance gathering done, it was not always on the year-mark, but more when people could travel and get together. I am not trying to be disrespectful towards the native ways, but I think that Peltola is using the native tradition card to her advantage.