Rep. Eric Swalwell, a strong opponent of the Alaska energy economic sector, will be a featured guest at a fundraiser for Rep. Mary Peltola in Juneau this week.
Swalwell will be joined by other Democrats — Rep. Mike Thompson of California, and Rep. Dan Kildee of Michigan.
Swalwell supported the senatorial bid of Alan Gross in 2020, and wrote that the Democrats could flip the Senate if Alaskans only voted for Gross, who ran against Sen. Dan Sullivan with the endorsement of the Alaska Democratic Party. He wrote a book about his role in the Trump impeachments. And he proudly sponsored H.R. 815, an attempt to repeal the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil and gas program and to designate approximately 1,559,538 acres of land within Alaska in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System, which would violate the “no more” clause of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, Section 1326.
The fundraiser is at a home in North Douglas Island, with a host of Juneau Democrats, including Sen. Jesse Kiehl, Rep. Sara Hannan, former Sen. Beth Kerttula, and various climate change activists and politicos.
Peltola won the special general election last August to replace the late Congressman Don Young, and then went on to win the November general election in 2022. She will come up for reelection in 2024 and will face Nick Begich, a Republican and the only candidate to challenge her so far.
