WILL DEMOCRAT GALS DRESS ALL WHITE, ALL BLACK OR…?

Just two days after she led the impeachment of President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday invited the target of her partisan dagger to deliver his 2020 State of the Union address on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

The address is given before a joint chamber of the House and Senate. Trump accepted the invitation.

Trump’s speech could come at the same time as his Senate trial for the articles of impeachment, if and when Pelosi sends those articles to the Senate. She has delayed that action, saying she needs more information from the Senate about how they intend to conduct the trial.

During his last State of the Union address, the women Democrats in the House dressed in all-white ensembles, just as they had the year before for his speech. Their group-think fashion choice was mirrored by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who clapped in an exaggerated fashion when Trump spoke of working together in a spirit of cooperation.

“We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good,” Trump had said, just before Pelosi’s now-immortalized alligator clap.

The year prior, the Democrat women of the House wore all black, to protest Trump and as a nod to the MeToo movement and Black Lives Matter.

Will the Democrat women don their whites again on Feb. 4? The odds are they will, since 2020 marks the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing women the right to vote.

In 2017, Rep. Rep. Lois Frankel, a Florida Democrat, said the all-white garb was intended to send a message to the Republican Party:

“Democratic members will wear suffragette white to oppose Republican attempts to roll back women’s progress,” Frankel wrote on Twitter. So the white is about women’s progress, which refers to abortion, in Frankel’s world, unless she really thinks that women will lose the right to vote.

Must Read Alaska predicts there will be a run on white in the F Street Stores in Washington D.C. in February. But the ladies may want to add a bit of irony for their accessories. It was the Republican Party that led the fight for women’s right to vote.

In 1878, at the request of Susan B. Anthony, a Republican senator from California introduced the 19th Amendment. It was defeated four times by the Democrat-controlled Senate.

It wasn’t until the Republican Party regained control of Congress in 1919 that the Equal Suffrage Amendment passed. It still needed to be ratified, which didn’t occur until 1920, when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were held by Democrats. Twelve states, all Republican, had already given women the right to vote before the amendment was ratified.

Twenty-four hours after the U.S. House Democrats voted in favor of impeaching the president, Alaska candidate Alyse Galvin has still made no public statement on the historic matter, the third time in history a president has been impeached by the House.

Galvin has held coffee meetings in Anchorage and Fairbanks, and may be making private statements in small, supportive groups, but her social media account has not mentioned a word about where she stands on impeachment of the president, a man who has received her harshest words in the past. She’s issued no statement. In fact, in the past 48 hours, all she’s done is post a fundraising video pitch on Facebook. And announced her swag shop for stickers and shirts.

“We have stickers, shirts, and hoodies for every campaign supporter on your holiday shopping list!” she wrote.

It may be that she has studied the polling in Alaska, and knows that her probable opposition to President Donald Trump would not play well among the undeclared voters whom she seeks to woo. She is, after all, running as a nonpartisan who is not a registered Democrat but who is in the Democrats’ primary and who has been endorsed by the Democratic Party. But she needs those undeclared voters.

Galvin has picked up the pro-abortion endorsement of NARAL and Planned Parenthood.

Congressman Don Young issued the following statement on impeachment:

“From the moment President Trump was elected, Congressional Democrats have been working to undermine him; trying to undo the results of the 2016 election. Frankly, this has been a political stunt all along. The impeachment process is very serious, and if Democrats are so intent on removing the President from office, they should leave that up to the American people to decide on election day, and not through an entirely partisan process with a pre-determined outcome. House Democrats tried to take down President Trump with the Mueller Report and failed. When this circus makes its way to the Senate, they will fail once again.

“I have seen no evidence of an impeachable offense. That is why I voted NO on both articles. It is my great hope that the House can now return to the people’s business. I am going to continue doing the job I was sent here to do: fighting for Alaska, and making our state and country a better place for future generations.” – Congressman Don Young

After the vote on impeachment the House gaveled out; it will convene Jan. 7.

Congressman Young is returning home to Alaska for the Christmas holidays. He’ll be ringing the bell for the Salvation Army in Anchorage in the days leading up to Christmas. Between lunch at the Lucky Wishbone and constituent meetings, Young has a full schedule over the holidays.

Sen. Shelley Hughes made it official this week, filing for reelection for Senate Seat F, Palmer.

Hughes has lived in Alaska 43 years and in Palmer 29 years. With her husband Roger, she raised four children and now is grandmother to seven. She served for four years in the State House, and three in the Senate.

In her last election, she was primary challenged by Steve St. Clair and Adam Crum, and won in the solidly Republican district.

There’s a primary challenge in Eagle River. Ken McCarty has filed as a Republican against incumbent Rep. Sharon Jackson, who serves Eagle River District 13. McCarty applied to be chosen as representative when Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom became the commissioner of Corrections at the outset of the Dunleavy Administration, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy selected Jackson to serve out that term. This will be Jackson’s first run for the seat. She was previously a candidate for lieutenant governor.

[Read: Who will replace Nancy Dahlstrom?]

Rep. Tammie Wilson filed for the state primary this week, but did not specify if she is running for her own House seat or if she’s going to challenge Sen. John Coghill, as has been rumored.

Both are up for re-election; Coghill filed with Alaska Public Offices Commission in November for Seat B, Fairbanks / North Pole.