By KELLY TSHIBAKA
Following Rep Mary’s Peltola’s election in 2022, Alaskans have awaited the 2024 election for the opportunity to remove her from office. Having previously run against Peltola in 2022, Nick Begich has again chosen to take on the challenge of running as a Republican for House in an effort to secure Alaska’s future.
“I’m an America-First candidate.” Begich stated during an interview on STAND, with Kelly and Niki Tshibaka. Peltola, he argued, does not have Alaska’s best interests in mind. “People run for the right reasons…and they start to compromise…and this is the problem we have with our current representative in office.”
Begich spent the interview discussing topics important to Alaskans, including the complications surrounding resource development, the troubles with ranked choice voting, and the intolerable social extremism of the radical left.
“It’s common sense values that are on the ballot this election.” Begich said. “It’s the left, the radical left today, that is trying to deconstruct that constitutional republic. That form of government that we so value.”
Begich also highlighted the many issues he and Alaskans have with Peltola’s representation, especially about her flimsy stance on resource development.
He told the story about how Peltola undermined Alaskans on a bill the House introduced to push back on Biden’s attack on Alaska’s resource development. “Mary Peltola in committee votes for it, says she’s supportive of it. It hits the House floor and she sends a ‘Dear Colleague’ letter to all the Democrats and says, ‘Please, I urge you, vote no on the bill’ that she had just co-sponsored and voted for in committee! And then, when it actually came up for the vote, she didn’t vote yes, she didn’t vote no, she voted ‘present.’ And that is a gutless decision, a gutless move from someone who is supposed to be supposedly her words, carrying on the legacy of our former Congressman Don Young.”
He also expressed Alaskans’ concerns with her high rate of staff turnover. “She has one of the highest staff turnovers in Congress…she’s definitely in the top five,” Begich pointed out.
The interview also covered Peltola’s endorsement of Joe Biden for president, refusal to denounce anti-Semitism, and her massive amount of non-Alaskan campaign funding.
Begich also pointed out that Rep. Peltola votes 90% of the time with Nancy Pelosi and 85% of the time with leftist squad member Rep. Ilhan Omar.
“If there’s anything that I’m certain of when it comes to Alaskan political ideology,” Begich said, “it’s that we would never hire Nancy Pelosi to be our representative. She is a San Francisco Democrat. We have nothing in common with her. She has no interest in seeing Alaska grow or develop. And yet here Mary Peltola is voting in virtually lockstep with her.”
Begich, on the other hand, has vowed to be a conservative, Alaska and America First candidate, should he be elected to office. “America does best when government is small, kept in its lane, and the people are left alone”, he declared.
Begich has been endorsed by America First candidates like Vivek Ramaswamy, Congressman Scott Perry, and Congressman Byron Donalds.
To hear more about Begich’s campaign and his plan for Alaska’s future, catch the newest episode of STAND. You can also view the episode on YouTube, Rumble, and your podcast streaming platform.
Kelly Tshibaka is the host of the podcast, TV, and radio show STAND, and the 2022 Alaska Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. She co-hosts the show with her husband, Niki Tshibaka.
