According to Axios, Mary Peltola has been interviewing potential campaign managers in preparation to challenge Senator Dan Sullivan for his seat in the U.S. Senate in this year’s general election.
In 2022, Mary Peltola was elected to the 117th Congress to fill the vacancy left by the death of Representative Donald Edwin Young. She was re-elected to serve a full term in the 118th Congress but lost her bid for re-election in 2024. Readers can find her full voting record here.
Alaskan Republicans express general disdain for Peltola. The Alaska GOP keeps a “Peltola Files” tab on their official website to inform Alaskans about ways Peltola failed in Congress. According to the Alaska GOP, some of Peltola’s failures include ignoring President Biden’s mental decline, voting against common-sense border security, voting to reduce penalties for violent crime, failing to show up for various meetings and votes, and promoting transgender ideology.
On the other hand, Alaskan Democrats favor Peltola with some even expressing desire for her to run for governor. Peltola’s earlier campaign for Congress shows her political priorities, which largely align with Democrat values: advocating for Alaskan Natives, supporting universal Pre-K and expanded childcare access, backing unions, fighting high food costs and inflation, investing in infrastructure to connect Alaskan rural communities, protecting social security benefits, expanding abortion access, prioritizing environmental protections, lowering healthcare cost and expanding Medicaid, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, reviving Native language instruction in schools, advocating for higher teacher pay and higher funding for student retention, and advocating for expanded government programs for Veterans.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has received much criticism from Alaskan Republicans for her tendency to side with Democrats, including her public support of Peltola. In an interview with the Alaska Beacon, Murkowski offered her opinion of Peltola potentially running for Senate: “If she were to run against my colleague, yeah: It puts me in a difficult spot. But I also think it puts a lot of Alaskans in a difficult spot. Mary, not unlike me, is able to attract support from both sides, right? And granted, it’s early right now. But my sense is that Dan is doing a pretty good job of shoring up this support from not only traditional Republican voters and donors, but from many who kind of view themselves more independently.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is pressing Peltola to take on the challenge. Dedicated to unseating Sullivan, Schumer backed a $600,000 ad campaign smearing Senator Sullivan. Although Peltola has not officially announced her intention to run, it is expected she will do so before the end of the month.
Well, that should secure Sullivan’s reelection.
Good God, spare us please!
Maybe she should run for higher office with AOC? The jokes could write themselves. It would be epic.
Mary Peltola is a box checker and her campaign is run on the same old tired narrative of lies. Half the stuff she advocates for is ripe for fraud. We only need to look at Minnesota.
What about a chicken in every pot? Or, for Alaska, every chicken gets free pot? I don’t think the Minnesotafication of Alaska will fly.
The life long 74 year old bush Alaskan knows one thing she excels at, “incompetence “.
Can’t Mary get a real job? Must she perpetually run for office as a career? Alaska’s Beto O’Rourke?
Beto Peltola? I hereby copyright that term, anybody who uses it, you owe me a nickel!
What did she do as a representative? Nick Begich is doing so much more and good for the Alaskan people. So has Senator Dan Sullivan. Identity politics at play by the Democrats.
Investing in infrastructure to connect Alaskan rural communities, like what though? Rail roads? Hovercrafts might be a good alternative to transport freight from the hubs to the villages, but they use a lot of fuel too. Doing that might also just raise the cost of airline tickets from the hubs to the villages.
Far eastern Russia always get fresh vegetables in their local stores. They get everything flown in too.
Go Dan go.
Schumer funding a schmear campaign?! Say it isn’t so!
He can’t even cook a cheeseburger 🍔…. What a putz!
I get the tongue in cheek comment, but that’s why we lose. Every body thinking it’s a sure thing and blowing off voting. Every election, conservatives need to vote like their lives depend on it, because it absolutely does.
That’s right, our Lt. Governor did absolutely nothing about our election flaws, and now she wants to be Governor.
Let her embarrass herself. I’ll pop some popcorn and clean my 3D glasses! This should be good entertainment!!!
Her supposedly backing the oil development bill while secretly slipping a note to her colleagues in the house should be the icing on the cake for exposing her deceptive practices. Then look at her bill record. Nuff said.
There is a reserved room for Mary at API and another one for Lisa her good buddy!
Since she couldn’t find husband #6 in the US House, she might as well try the US Senate. Older stock in the Senate, but Peltola is only after the money. She learned her lesson with my nephew. My old seat is safe with Dan. And my dumb brother told her to find another race to compete in. Looks like our family got rid of her. She can squaw.k somewhere else.
“Ignoring Biden’s mental decline”. Like hell!
She surrounds herself with those in mental decline. Politicians like her thrive in a sea of low IQ voters. How else do you think they make a career out of politics? Dumb people can’t do for themselves so you have the Mary Peltolas of the world swooping in to save (exploit) them for their votes. Then they get all this popularity from virtue signaling to the dumb dumbs and taking all our hard earned money and laundering back to themselves while fooling the dummy masses into believing they are sticking it to the man when in fact they are leeching off the hard work of those who supply all the hard labor to their tax coffers.
Our system needs an enema.