Rep. Mary Peltola has marketed herself as a boat captain and village elder. She likes fish, mainly to eat them, but also because they are good campaign companions. Her fish theme is her most persistent and sticky image.
But the record shows that, far from being the hunter-gatherer she portrays, she actually lives in one of the highest-priced neighborhoods in Alaska — in South Anchorage’s Goldenview neighborhood, where she owns a house valued at more than $823,000.
Her ads show a different side of her, however. She wears a kuspuk and puts a kerchief on her head when she is out in rural Alaska, where she is currently hosting a series of “free food” for votes events with rural Alaskans; she has one schedule for Fort Yukon this week, where she will slip on her village persona.
According to Bankrate.com, Peltola’s palace in Goldenview is more than double the $398,900 that is the median price of a home in Alaska. She also owns a home in Bethel, but is seldom seen there. Her Bethel home is a mansion compared to the average village home in Alaska. It sits across from a homeless encampment, however.
Peltola attended private boarding school in Allentown, Pennsylvania and high school in Fort Collins, Colorado, as well as attending Bethel Regional High School. Earlier she claimed to have graduated from college, but that claim was found to be a lie.
This is not to say that she has not spent many years in rural Alaska, where she has many family members and political alliances. But Peltola has moved on, not only from her several marriages, but also from harsh village life, to her wealthy suburban estate in the city, where she actually lays her head when not in Washington, D.C.
I remember a picture of Mary on here a number of weeks, of her holding a rod and reel, pretending to be fishing, and I commented then that she looked exactly like someone who was holding a fishing rod for the very first time.
And yes, she was wearing the obligatory “I’m just folks” kerchief, all to impress upon people who don’t know better, that she is authentically “bush Alaska”…..
Yup and I believe she was holding it upside down
Village idiot