On Jan 12, Mary Peltola announced her campaign for Senate, challenging Senator Dan Sullivan, who has been serving Alaska in the Senate for 10 years.
Peltola’s campaign video showcases political deception at its finest. The video is warm, appealing, and has a “homey” Alaskan feel. Peltola speaks to the average Alaskan by highlighting “the rigged system in DC” and her priorities of “fish, family, freedom.” In fact, the video almost has a conservative feel. Her campaign slogan “To hell with politics… Put Alaska first” seems to harken to Republicans’ “America First” focus.
Democrats had long begun their wide-reaching effort to disparage Sullivan and convince the average Alaskan that Sullivan is destroying Alaska for his own benefit. Peltola herself is now trying to win over conservatives and independent voters with deceptive rhetoric.
According to Senate Majority PAC spokesperson Lauren French: “Mary Peltola is a dedicated champion for Alaska, and her leadership in the Senate is what working families need to reverse the economic harm caused by Donald Trump and Dan Sullivan…Her entrance into the Senate race completely upends the campaign, putting an already unpopular and weak Dan Sullivan on his heels.”
In her video, Peltola states: “My agenda for Alaska will always be fish, family, and freedom. But our future also depends on fixing the rigged system in DC that’s shutting down Alaska while politicians feather their own nest.”
Many conservatives can agree that politicians are often out for their own interests rather than the interests of their constituents. However, Peltola skids right passed the obvious questions: “Who is shutting down Alaska?” and “Who is benefiting?”
Under the Biden administration, 70 acts were signed into law that locked down Alaska’s natural resources. On President Trump’s first day in office, he signed the Executive Order “Unleashing Alaska’s Extraordinary Resource Potential.” The EO lays out a detailed roadmap for unlocking Alaska, and the Alaska Congressional Delegation (Senators Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski and Rep. Nick Begich III) got to work making it happen.
Senator Sullivan backed the joint resolution, now passed into law, that “prevents BLM from implementing sweeping and permanent restrictions on access, development, and infrastructure across more than 13 million acres of public land in Alaska within the 56-million-acre planning area (a land mass nearly the size of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania combined).”
The Trump Administration has clearly shown its prioritization of unlocking Alaska’s resources for the benefit of Alaskans and Americans.
Trump’s EO states: “By developing [Alaska’s] resources to the fullest extent possible, we can help deliver price relief for Americans, create high-quality jobs for our citizens, ameliorate our trade imbalances, augment the Nation’s exercise of global energy dominance, and guard against foreign powers weaponizing energy supplies in theaters of geopolitical conflict.
“Unleashing this opportunity, however, requires an immediate end to the assault on Alaska’s sovereignty and its ability to responsibly develop these resources for the benefit of the Nation. It is, therefore, imperative to immediately reverse the punitive restrictions implemented by the previous administration that specifically target resource development on both State and Federal lands in Alaska.”
What does Peltola have to prove her commitment to stopping the politicians shutting down Alaska? During her stint in Congress, she missed the vote on legislation to stop Biden from depleting our national reserves to historically low levels, supported anti-carbon policies that cause consumer prices to rise, voted against reinstating oil leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, supported expanded environmental protections in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, opposed Pebble Mine, and opposed the Ambler Road.
Peltola is right that Alaskans cannot afford crooked politicians locking up our land and our resources. The irony is that she expects Alaskans to believe she is the one who will stop Democrats from locking up of Alaska.
Mary was integral to shutting down Alaska. Her only priority seems to be Being Somebody and having people to call her Madam Senator and carry her bags for the rest of her life like her BFF Lisa.
Beto Peltola.
Petola’s quote on Biden being one of the smartest, sharpest people she knows makes me seriously question her mental acuity. Here’s what she said in December 2023 on “Meet the Press”: “I think that Joe Biden’s mental acuity is very, very on. He’s one of the smartest, sharpest people I’ve met in D.C. And as a Native person, I think age is a good thing. Wisdom and experience are a good thing. I think he leads with love and compassion, and I appreciate that in a leader.” Petola is either a terrific liar or stupid by that quote. I’ll let you the reader determine which one she is,
Democrats at the US congress level are expected, actually forced, to vote as a bloc. Party is always more important than the needs of a particular Democrat’s congressional district. That is why Mary Peltola, when she was accidentally elected to Congress, consistently voted against Alaska. As a Senator, nothing would change.
In a perverse way, it’s good that Ms. Peltola is the only candidate the Democrats have to run against our great senator.
Are you saying that Republicans don’t vote as a block as well? Are you kidding me? They all vote as a whole to do their bidding for the Desr Leader. Why don’t you smell some of what you’re shoveling?
Away soak are terminally deluded, you’ve been eating too much of what comes out of the back end of the Democrat mascotaaa
“To hell with politics… Put Alaska first”, a catchy slogan. But it’s just that. She leaves out how she plans to consider the federal deficit, or is it, to hell with that, just get what she can for Alaska. Who cares about the deficit. Or working to make Alaska more independent of the feds. Oh, to hell with that. Or how will she vote on immigration (ICE etc matters) oh to hell with that. Or if a vote comes up to impeach Kristi Noem? Oh to hell with that. She’s running for the Federal Senate, not the State Senate. So she will have a play in national issues along with state issues. That is unless she plans to vote “present” to avoid politics.
How do Republicans plant a deal with the federal deficit given that they just passed the big beautiful bill that added another $3 trillion to the debt. Did that not bother you?
She AND Murkowski gotta go !
She doesn’t need to go if she’s not in office, right? And as far as Murkowski is concerned, she’s the only Republican that has any balls left. Ironic, given that she’s a woman.
Mary has no plan, she is just a puppet being used by her party. She has a record she has to explain. She sided with her party against our state and our resources. Only fools would support her.
Peltola and Murkowski are BOTH total losers and are liars and are nothing but solid liberals!!
Ad hominem. The last vestige of someone who has no real argument.
The squaw.ker from Bethel is as mixed-up in the head as one can be. Until she finds husband number six and rides away, the Democrats will use her like the fool that she is.
Spot on comment Kemosabee no-show-mary is a train wreck!
The squaw.ker. Now that’s a colloquialism that we won’t ever forget.
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Squaw? Really? So you’re telling me the only thing you have is racist name-calling?. So what you’re saying is you have no real point.
cman,
Are you calling Mary Peltola a squaw?
You must be a racist pig. Go to a different site and preach your hate.
Actually, “squaw” is a term that can be found in any dictionary. “A female Indian.”
Male Indians use the term frequently. What is racist about “squaw?”
There are dozens and dozens of lakes, streams and landmarks in Alaska and all over the Lower 48 that are referenced with the name…squaw.
How about Squaw Valley? Beautiful ski resort at Lake Tahoe. Does Bethel have one too?
Petola was elected by Rank Choice Cheating! Clean up Alaska Voter rolls and get rid of RCV and Alaskan’s might have a chance to fairly elect someone who will prioritize Alaska goals. We need a stellar education system (no more throw money at unions/admin and infrastructure). Alaska needs good jobs and diversified industries. Alaska needs affordable housing. Alaska needs affordable energy. Alaska needs affordable nutritious food.
NO more DEI! No more locking up resources! No more ESG! NO MORE carbon bs! No more geo-engineering! Plants and trees need carbon aka carbon dioxide. We need plants and trees to turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen.
Every community in Alaska needs to vet the politicians before voting for them. No more uniparty bs. We need fiscal control not bigger budgets! Government at every level should be smaller. Anchorage Assembly must go!
Peltola voted to put water on private land under the EPA. Socialist Democrats cannot be trusted.
I hate the term “lockup “ Natalie. It’s completely backwards. Take, for example, public land designated as Wilderness. It is open to any human to enjoy. It supports intact ecosystems. It provides many ecosystem services like water filtration and retention. If it becomes private, it is available only to the owner. Everyone else is locked out.
😢😢😭😭😭😭 me a river.
We don’t need wilderness areas larger than half the states in the union.
You missed my point.
You’re making too many rational points. That’s not popular on this website.
Cman has a tranny.mommy? Of course. They don’t know whether they’re coming or going.😆
Best comment of the week.
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Something smells Fishy about Peltola, and it is not the Fish.
I hope Alaskans are not that dumb to vote for her again.
She should go home and cut bait; that’s about all she is good for.
I stopped when she made the case that there is something she can do to decrease rural Alaska food prices. She is right that no one believes it. But she’s not even close to convincing anyone she can change that through Congress. What she can do (and didn’t) is restrict mineral and infrastructure development so remote communities have enough money (cash flow, employment, economic growth) to thrive. When I say “she didn’t” I mean she ran the OPPOSITE direction. Caribou herds and Canadian native (Gwitch’n) are not her voters, but she uses them as props as if she is their representative in Congress.
Such balanced and unbiased reporting.
I’ll NEVER vote for Kamala 2.0 (aka Peltola).
But.
Sullivan needs to stop being a RINO NeoCon.
His continual votes for billions of $’s to Ukraine, voted for Biden’s infrastructure bill, is a big FreeTrader and Open Border guy – and don’t get me started on his Zionist leanings.
Please do better Sullivan.
America First.
Blood, Soil, Culture.
People, Money, Land.
to hell with peltola, put sullivan first
we can all agree that we need someone better in the seat but its not Peltola
there has to be a better candidate
The deception began well before her run for AK Rep. Where I work, we had the leftist intelligentsia proffering and promoting her email newsletter and hyping her as bright and visionary. And backed Peltola to the hilt at meet-and-greets, strong-arming company bigwigs to donate stacks of cash and ensuring she was on the dais with Washington insiders whenever the opportunity arose. Now, many of those king-makers (queen-makers) have moved to other companies or even in top government positions where, I’m sure, they will continue offer this fetid swamp creature up as the next best thing for Alaska’s future. I wouldn’t vote for her if a gun was put to my head. Peltola needs to dry up and blow away, as Inspector Callahan once said.