Alaska Congressman Nick Begich III took a break last year from campaigning for Congress to hunt for Kodiak brown bear on Kodiak Island. He had just finished attending the Alaska Republican convention, where he had a tremendous reception from delegates. And then he had a successful hunt. It was a good month.
Now, as the congressman for Alaska, his office in Washington, D.C. needed some decor to remind him of home. The brown bear hide has taken its place on the wall of his office in the Cannon Office Building.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan has a similar brown bear hide on the wall of his office in the Hart Building. So did the late Congressman Don Young, who served Alaska in Congress for 49 years and whose office was legendary for taxidermy mounts. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has Native art, masks, and regalia as her Alaska theme.
The first time I met Don Young I was standing in his office looking at his bear on the wall. As I was there he came out of his private entrance and said something about where he took the bear. My answer was mine was bigger. You can guess where that led.
Looks great, Nick!
So Begich wants to emulate Don Young, the guy he stabbed in the back.
Not a good look if one knows the history:
“I hired that young man to show him the ropes, run for the job, don’t run against me…it’s not loyalty, nor is it honest…That’s a person I don’t want to serve me in Congress.” Don Young.
In the statement that you serially repost Young says he hired Begich to show him the ropes and run for the job. Young was upset because he decided he wanted to stay in office until he died of old age. He succeeded.
M’s comment is so dumb it lowers the IQ of the entire state. Just stop, M. Don Young was going to retired, and said so, but then changed his mind. These are words DY said on the campaign trail against his younger, more energetic opponent. I don’t believe him now and didn’t believe him then. DY was just blowharding. And do you really think anyone who has a bearskin is emulating DY? What a duma– comment.
It looks smaller on the wall.
Your’s looks smaller too.
Yeah. It happens.
Well played, Sir.
NB3 … I recommend placing additional AK907 trophy mounts in your office: Moose, Caribou, Elk, Mtn Goat, Dall Sheep and Polar Bear!!!