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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy former staffers for Alaska's long-serving GOP Rep. Don Young are backing Democratic Rep. Mary Pe
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-former-staffers-alaskas-long-165917917.htmlJust two months after scoring an upset victory over former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin in a special election for the state's sole House seat, Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola is about to face voters once more.
But this time, she's doing it with the public backing of several former staffers and long-time associates of Don Young, the Republican congressman who held the seat for 49 years until his death in March.
Former staff and friends have signed a letter which was shared with Insider and released after publication on Friday urging Alaska voters to give the congresswoman a full, two-year term, highlighting Peltola's "commitment to running a positive race, bipartisan approach to public service, and legislative priorities that put Alaska at the forefront."
Their endorsement also notes Peltola's short but productive legislative record the Alaska Democrat has introduced 8 bills previously put forward by Young and already passed a bill tackling food security for veterans despite serving for just a few weeks as well as her support for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which the late Republican congressman backed despite pressure from party leadership and former President Donald Trump.
But this time, she's doing it with the public backing of several former staffers and long-time associates of Don Young, the Republican congressman who held the seat for 49 years until his death in March.
Former staff and friends have signed a letter which was shared with Insider and released after publication on Friday urging Alaska voters to give the congresswoman a full, two-year term, highlighting Peltola's "commitment to running a positive race, bipartisan approach to public service, and legislative priorities that put Alaska at the forefront."
Their endorsement also notes Peltola's short but productive legislative record the Alaska Democrat has introduced 8 bills previously put forward by Young and already passed a bill tackling food security for veterans despite serving for just a few weeks as well as her support for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which the late Republican congressman backed despite pressure from party leadership and former President Donald Trump.
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Why former staffers for Alaska's long-serving GOP Rep. Don Young are backing Democratic Rep. Mary Pe (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Oct 2022
OP
Srah sees all the airtime MTG and boebert are getting and thinks she deserves more since
ZonkerHarris
Oct 2022
#2
calimary
(81,509 posts)1. Just please keep Sarah Palin OUT OF THERE!
DO NOT let her get a foothold again, and for a second time attention-whore herself to all the cameras and microphones she can eat.
It would be NAUSEATING!!!
ZonkerHarris
(24,259 posts)2. Srah sees all the airtime MTG and boebert are getting and thinks she deserves more since
she started the batshit crazy republican lady thing.
tanyev
(42,622 posts)3. I don't want to see MTG, Boebert and Palin in Congress at the same time,
but if it did happen I bet MTG and Boebert would go full Mean Girls on Palin.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,447 posts)4. Go Peltola!
Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!
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