Rep. Mary Peltola was scheduled to speak at the Bethel Regional High School graduation, appearing in a pre-recorded message on Friday.
But the audiovisual feed was glitchy and kept switching to random internet content, such as a promotion for the comedy film “Argylle,” all making her message unintelligible to the Class of 2024, but providing lots of hoots and laughs.
Peltola was on her way to Juneau, where she partied with Democrats on Friday night, including National Democratic Party Chairman Jaime Harrison, who had flown in for the state convention. Peltola was the keynote speaker on Saturday at the gathering of top Democrats from around the state, with several Democrat legislators in attendance.
Meanwhile, Republican congressional candidate Nick Begich was at the Cruisin’ With Santa Car Show in North Pole, sponsored by the Lions Club, where a couple of thousand people came through on Saturday to look at classic cars and savor the goodies from food truck vendors in the Hotel North Pole parking lot.
Begich also attended Fairbanks Aviation Day at the Fairbanks International Airport and appeared on five radio shows in Alaska between Friday and Saturday. In Salcha, he had a fundraising event at Arctic Harvest Farm Distillery took a tour of the facility, which is the farthest-north farm-to-bottle distillery in North America, growing the grain used in the production of its spirits.
Congressional candidate Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom was at the southern border in Texas, where, as seen in the photo below, she viewed part of the unfinished border wall and appeared at a private campaign fundraiser.
