Mary Peltola Could Make History As First Alaskan In Congress

She has a warm relationship with Palin, who once gave her family’s trampoline to Peltola’s family, and once spent Thanksgiving with the late Rep. Don Young, an old professor colleague and her father’s hound whose former seat now it’s her and Palin. seeking to fill the remainder in 2022. Young died in March after representing Alaska in the House for 49 years. Regardless of who wins Wednesday, Palin and Peltola will face off again in November to fill the state’s lone seat for the next full term. Peltola, who turned 49 on Wednesday, is the daughter of a Yup’ik mother and a Nebraska father who had moved north to teach school and later became a bush pilot. He had spent a decade in the Alaska House of Representatives, from 1999 to 2009, where he chaired the bipartisan farm caucus and overlapped with Palin, her top challenger in a special congressional race, who had been governor since late of 2006 to the middle. -2009. Peltola later became a Bethel City Council member, lobbyist and salmon advocate as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission. The Yup’ik people, she told CNN on Wednesday, are “holistic” thinkers. “Everything is interconnected,” Peltola said. “When we talk about community wellness, we’re talking about the whole community. I think about things in very broad terms, and I recognize that in Alaska, even though we have a huge footprint, we’re a very small population. And we’re all related.” If he wins when the Alaska Department of Elections records the results of the ranked-choice vote at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, she will complete the remaining months of the term started by Young — who, before becoming the longest-serving Republican congressman in U.S. history, was a close friend of her father. Both were teachers in Fort Yukon — Peltola’s father taught 8th grade while Young taught 4th grade — and they were chasing buddies. Once, in the 1960s, Peltola said, the two men bought a bulldozer together and worked 12-hour shifts fighting a fire. Every time Young saw Peltola, he told her to screw her father up with a story about not bringing the antlers back from an elk hunting trip. After a strong commercial fishing year, Peltola’s father sent her to a private boarding school near Allentown, Pennsylvania, for her sophomore year of high school. Her family couldn’t afford plane tickets home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, she said, so her father called his old friend Young and asked if Peltola could spend Thanksgiving with his family in the Washington, DC area. He visited with Young’s family and heard the story of the recent engagement of Dawn Young, one of the congressman’s two daughters. The holidays, she said, were when she began to understand Young in a context beyond his friendship with her father. “I realized at that moment how important Don’s position was,” Peltola said.

Colleagues before they were rivals

Peltola also has what she describes as a warm relationship with Palin. The two were expectant mothers working at the same time in Juneau State. When Palin left Juneau in 2009, she and her then-husband Todd gave their backyard trampoline to Peltola’s family. The two had lost touch, but Peltola said one of the highlights of her run for Congress was reconnecting with Palin and other former colleagues. “I love it when Sarah and I are in the same forum. Every time I see her, I give her a hug. I’m always happy to see Sarah,” she said. Because of Alaska’s small population and the tight-knit nature of politics, Peltola said, she sees Palin and the third runner-up, Republican Nick Begich III, as “people I’ll be working with for the rest of my life, whether I win the match or not”. “I feel camaraderie and a sense of sisterhood with both Nick and Sarah,” the Democrat said. Peltola has campaigned as a fisheries advocate, labor rights supporter and abortion rights advocate. He said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade goes against Alaska’s political instincts. “We are very keen on our freedoms and our privacy,” he said. She also pointed to the dark history of Alaska Native women who were targeted for forced sterilizations in the mid-20th century. “Seeing that I’m concerned with the Dobbs decision and the other issues that this other radical Supreme Court — a radical conservative Supreme Court — has pointed out, the other personal rights that they’re talking about being infringed upon I’m very concerned. ” he said. Peltola was little known when she entered the special election in April. He was fourth in June’s “open” primary, in which Alaska whittled a field of 48 candidates from all parties to a final four who advanced to an August special election: Peltola; Palin? Begich, a Republican member of the state’s most famous Democratic political family. and independent Al Gross, who had been endorsed by Democrats in a Senate race less than two years earlier. When Gross dropped out of the contest shortly after the primary, it created an opening in a state where President Joe Biden had won 42 percent of the vote in 2020. Peltola could consolidate all of the Democratic votes, while Palin and Begich made fans for the Republicans support. Peltola finished the Aug. 16 special election as the top vote-getter with 40 percent support to Palin’s 31 percent and Begic’s 28 percent. But since no one secured a majority of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting process began. Under the system, which is being used for the first time in the state, the last-place finisher is eliminated and votes are redistributed to voters’ next available choice until a candidate exceeds 50 percent of the vote. If Peltola wins about a third of the second-place votes of those who backed Begić earlier this month, she will win the seat. Win or lose, though, Peltola, Palin and Begich are ready to run again in November. All three advanced to another ranking showdown to earn Alaska’s lone home berth for a full term.

title: “Mary Peltola Could Make History As First Alaskan In Congress Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-15” author: “Joan Bertolino”

She has a warm relationship with Palin, who once gave her family’s trampoline to Peltola’s family, and once spent Thanksgiving with the late Rep. Don Young, an old professor colleague and her father’s hound whose former seat now it’s her and Palin. seeking to fill the remainder in 2022. Young died in March after representing Alaska in the House for 49 years. Regardless of who wins Wednesday, Palin and Peltola will face off again in November to fill the state’s lone seat for the next full term. Peltola, who turned 49 on Wednesday, is the daughter of a Yup’ik mother and a Nebraska father who had moved north to teach school and later became a bush pilot. He had spent a decade in the Alaska House of Representatives, from 1999 to 2009, where he chaired the bipartisan farm caucus and overlapped with Palin, her top challenger in a special congressional race, who had been governor since late of 2006 to the middle. -2009. Peltola later became a Bethel City Council member, lobbyist and salmon advocate as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission. The Yup’ik people, she told CNN on Wednesday, are “holistic” thinkers. “Everything is interconnected,” Peltola said. “When we talk about community wellness, we’re talking about the whole community. I think about things in very broad terms, and I recognize that in Alaska, even though we have a huge footprint, we’re a very small population. And we’re all related.” If he wins when the Alaska Department of Elections records the results of the ranked-choice vote at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, she will complete the remaining months of the term started by Young — who, before becoming the longest-serving Republican congressman in U.S. history, was a close friend of her father. Both were teachers in Fort Yukon — Peltola’s father taught 8th grade while Young taught 4th grade — and they were chasing buddies. Once, in the 1960s, Peltola said, the two men bought a bulldozer together and worked 12-hour shifts fighting a fire. Every time Young saw Peltola, he told her to screw her father up with a story about not bringing the antlers back from an elk hunting trip. After a strong commercial fishing year, Peltola’s father sent her to a private boarding school near Allentown, Pennsylvania, for her sophomore year of high school. Her family couldn’t afford plane tickets home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, she said, so her father called his old friend Young and asked if Peltola could spend Thanksgiving with his family in the Washington, DC area. He visited with Young’s family and heard the story of the recent engagement of Dawn Young, one of the congressman’s two daughters. The holidays, she said, were when she began to understand Young in a context beyond his friendship with her father. “I realized at that moment how important Don’s position was,” Peltola said.

Colleagues before they were rivals

Peltola also has what she describes as a warm relationship with Palin. The two were expectant mothers working at the same time in Juneau State. When Palin left Juneau in 2009, she and her then-husband Todd gave their backyard trampoline to Peltola’s family. The two had lost touch, but Peltola said one of the highlights of her run for Congress was reconnecting with Palin and other former colleagues. “I love it when Sarah and I are in the same forum. Every time I see her, I give her a hug. I’m always happy to see Sarah,” she said. Because of Alaska’s small population and the tight-knit nature of politics, Peltola said, she sees Palin and the third runner-up, Republican Nick Begich III, as “people I’ll be working with for the rest of my life, whether I win the match or not”. “I feel camaraderie and a sense of sisterhood with both Nick and Sarah,” the Democrat said. Peltola has campaigned as a fisheries advocate, labor rights supporter and abortion rights advocate. He said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade goes against Alaska’s political instincts. “We are very keen on our freedoms and our privacy,” he said. She also pointed to the dark history of Alaska Native women who were targeted for forced sterilizations in the mid-20th century. “Seeing that I’m concerned with the Dobbs decision and the other issues that this other radical Supreme Court — a radical conservative Supreme Court — has pointed out, the other personal rights that they’re talking about being infringed upon I’m very concerned. ” he said. Peltola was little known when she entered the special election in April. He was fourth in June’s “open” primary, in which Alaska whittled a field of 48 candidates from all parties to a final four who advanced to an August special election: Peltola; Palin? Begich, a Republican member of the state’s most famous Democratic political family. and independent Al Gross, who had been endorsed by Democrats in a Senate race less than two years earlier. When Gross dropped out of the contest shortly after the primary, it created an opening in a state where President Joe Biden had won 42 percent of the vote in 2020. Peltola could consolidate all of the Democratic votes, while Palin and Begich made fans for the Republicans support. Peltola finished the Aug. 16 special election as the top vote-getter with 40 percent support to Palin’s 31 percent and Begic’s 28 percent. But since no one secured a majority of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting process began. Under the system, which is being used for the first time in the state, the last-place finisher is eliminated and votes are redistributed to voters’ next available choice until a candidate exceeds 50 percent of the vote. If Peltola wins about a third of the second-place votes of those who backed Begić earlier this month, she will win the seat. Win or lose, though, Peltola, Palin and Begich are ready to run again in November. All three advanced to another ranking showdown to earn Alaska’s lone home berth for a full term.

title: “Mary Peltola Could Make History As First Alaskan In Congress Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-04” author: “Shawn Clark”

She has a warm relationship with Palin, who once gave her family’s trampoline to Peltola’s family, and once spent Thanksgiving with the late Rep. Don Young, an old professor colleague and her father’s hound whose former seat now it’s her and Palin. seeking to fill the remainder in 2022. Young died in March after representing Alaska in the House for 49 years. Regardless of who wins Wednesday, Palin and Peltola will face off again in November to fill the state’s lone seat for the next full term. Peltola, who turned 49 on Wednesday, is the daughter of a Yup’ik mother and a Nebraska father who had moved north to teach school and later became a bush pilot. He had spent a decade in the Alaska House of Representatives, from 1999 to 2009, where he chaired the bipartisan farm caucus and overlapped with Palin, her top challenger in a special congressional race, who had been governor since late of 2006 to the middle. -2009. Peltola later became a Bethel City Council member, lobbyist and salmon advocate as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission. The Yup’ik people, she told CNN on Wednesday, are “holistic” thinkers. “Everything is interconnected,” Peltola said. “When we talk about community wellness, we’re talking about the whole community. I think about things in very broad terms, and I recognize that in Alaska, even though we have a huge footprint, we’re a very small population. And we’re all related.” If he wins when the Alaska Department of Elections records the results of the ranked-choice vote at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, she will complete the remaining months of the term started by Young — who, before becoming the longest-serving Republican congressman in U.S. history, was a close friend of her father. Both were teachers in Fort Yukon — Peltola’s father taught 8th grade while Young taught 4th grade — and they were chasing buddies. Once, in the 1960s, Peltola said, the two men bought a bulldozer together and worked 12-hour shifts fighting a fire. Every time Young saw Peltola, he told her to screw her father up with a story about not bringing the antlers back from an elk hunting trip. After a strong commercial fishing year, Peltola’s father sent her to a private boarding school near Allentown, Pennsylvania, for her sophomore year of high school. Her family couldn’t afford plane tickets home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, she said, so her father called his old friend Young and asked if Peltola could spend Thanksgiving with his family in the Washington, DC area. He visited with Young’s family and heard the story of the recent engagement of Dawn Young, one of the congressman’s two daughters. The holidays, she said, were when she began to understand Young in a context beyond his friendship with her father. “I realized at that moment how important Don’s position was,” Peltola said.

Colleagues before they were rivals

Peltola also has what she describes as a warm relationship with Palin. The two were expectant mothers working at the same time in Juneau State. When Palin left Juneau in 2009, she and her then-husband Todd gave their backyard trampoline to Peltola’s family. The two had lost touch, but Peltola said one of the highlights of her run for Congress was reconnecting with Palin and other former colleagues. “I love it when Sarah and I are in the same forum. Every time I see her, I give her a hug. I’m always happy to see Sarah,” she said. Because of Alaska’s small population and the tight-knit nature of politics, Peltola said, she sees Palin and the third runner-up, Republican Nick Begich III, as “people I’ll be working with for the rest of my life, whether I win the match or not”. “I feel camaraderie and a sense of sisterhood with both Nick and Sarah,” the Democrat said. Peltola has campaigned as a fisheries advocate, labor rights supporter and abortion rights advocate. He said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade goes against Alaska’s political instincts. “We are very keen on our freedoms and our privacy,” he said. She also pointed to the dark history of Alaska Native women who were targeted for forced sterilizations in the mid-20th century. “Seeing that I’m concerned with the Dobbs decision and the other issues that this other radical Supreme Court — a radical conservative Supreme Court — has pointed out, the other personal rights that they’re talking about being infringed upon I’m very concerned. ” he said. Peltola was little known when she entered the special election in April. He was fourth in June’s “open” primary, in which Alaska whittled a field of 48 candidates from all parties to a final four who advanced to an August special election: Peltola; Palin? Begich, a Republican member of the state’s most famous Democratic political family. and independent Al Gross, who had been endorsed by Democrats in a Senate race less than two years earlier. When Gross dropped out of the contest shortly after the primary, it created an opening in a state where President Joe Biden had won 42 percent of the vote in 2020. Peltola could consolidate all of the Democratic votes, while Palin and Begich made fans for the Republicans support. Peltola finished the Aug. 16 special election as the top vote-getter with 40 percent support to Palin’s 31 percent and Begic’s 28 percent. But since no one secured a majority of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting process began. Under the system, which is being used for the first time in the state, the last-place finisher is eliminated and votes are redistributed to voters’ next available choice until a candidate exceeds 50 percent of the vote. If Peltola wins about a third of the second-place votes of those who backed Begić earlier this month, she will win the seat. Win or lose, though, Peltola, Palin and Begich are ready to run again in November. All three advanced to another ranking showdown to earn Alaska’s lone home berth for a full term.

title: “Mary Peltola Could Make History As First Alaskan In Congress Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Anna Jett”

She has a warm relationship with Palin, who once gave her family’s trampoline to Peltola’s family, and once spent Thanksgiving with the late Rep. Don Young, an old professor colleague and her father’s hound whose former seat now it’s her and Palin. seeking to fill the remainder in 2022. Young died in March after representing Alaska in the House for 49 years. Regardless of who wins Wednesday, Palin and Peltola will face off again in November to fill the state’s lone seat for the next full term. Peltola, who turned 49 on Wednesday, is the daughter of a Yup’ik mother and a Nebraska father who had moved north to teach school and later became a bush pilot. He had spent a decade in the Alaska House of Representatives, from 1999 to 2009, where he chaired the bipartisan farm caucus and overlapped with Palin, her top challenger in a special congressional race, who had been governor since late of 2006 to the middle. -2009. Peltola later became a Bethel City Council member, lobbyist and salmon advocate as executive director of the Kuskokwim River Intertribal Fish Commission. The Yup’ik people, she told CNN on Wednesday, are “holistic” thinkers. “Everything is interconnected,” Peltola said. “When we talk about community wellness, we’re talking about the whole community. I think about things in very broad terms, and I recognize that in Alaska, even though we have a huge footprint, we’re a very small population. And we’re all related.” If he wins when the Alaska Department of Elections records the results of the ranked-choice vote at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, she will complete the remaining months of the term started by Young — who, before becoming the longest-serving Republican congressman in U.S. history, was a close friend of her father. Both were teachers in Fort Yukon — Peltola’s father taught 8th grade while Young taught 4th grade — and they were chasing buddies. Once, in the 1960s, Peltola said, the two men bought a bulldozer together and worked 12-hour shifts fighting a fire. Every time Young saw Peltola, he told her to screw her father up with a story about not bringing the antlers back from an elk hunting trip. After a strong commercial fishing year, Peltola’s father sent her to a private boarding school near Allentown, Pennsylvania, for her sophomore year of high school. Her family couldn’t afford plane tickets home for both Thanksgiving and Christmas, she said, so her father called his old friend Young and asked if Peltola could spend Thanksgiving with his family in the Washington, DC area. He visited with Young’s family and heard the story of the recent engagement of Dawn Young, one of the congressman’s two daughters. The holidays, she said, were when she began to understand Young in a context beyond his friendship with her father. “I realized at that moment how important Don’s position was,” Peltola said.

Colleagues before they were rivals

Peltola also has what she describes as a warm relationship with Palin. The two were expectant mothers working at the same time in Juneau State. When Palin left Juneau in 2009, she and her then-husband Todd gave their backyard trampoline to Peltola’s family. The two had lost touch, but Peltola said one of the highlights of her run for Congress was reconnecting with Palin and other former colleagues. “I love it when Sarah and I are in the same forum. Every time I see her, I give her a hug. I’m always happy to see Sarah,” she said. Because of Alaska’s small population and the tight-knit nature of politics, Peltola said, she sees Palin and the third runner-up, Republican Nick Begich III, as “people I’ll be working with for the rest of my life, whether I win the match or not”. “I feel camaraderie and a sense of sisterhood with both Nick and Sarah,” the Democrat said. Peltola has campaigned as a fisheries advocate, labor rights supporter and abortion rights advocate. He said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade goes against Alaska’s political instincts. “We are very keen on our freedoms and our privacy,” he said. She also pointed to the dark history of Alaska Native women who were targeted for forced sterilizations in the mid-20th century. “Seeing that I’m concerned with the Dobbs decision and the other issues that this other radical Supreme Court — a radical conservative Supreme Court — has pointed out, the other personal rights that they’re talking about being infringed upon I’m very concerned. ” he said. Peltola was little known when she entered the special election in April. He was fourth in June’s “open” primary, in which Alaska whittled a field of 48 candidates from all parties to a final four who advanced to an August special election: Peltola; Palin? Begich, a Republican member of the state’s most famous Democratic political family. and independent Al Gross, who had been endorsed by Democrats in a Senate race less than two years earlier. When Gross dropped out of the contest shortly after the primary, it created an opening in a state where President Joe Biden had won 42 percent of the vote in 2020. Peltola could consolidate all of the Democratic votes, while Palin and Begich made fans for the Republicans support. Peltola finished the Aug. 16 special election as the top vote-getter with 40 percent support to Palin’s 31 percent and Begic’s 28 percent. But since no one secured a majority of the vote, the state’s new ranked-choice voting process began. Under the system, which is being used for the first time in the state, the last-place finisher is eliminated and votes are redistributed to voters’ next available choice until a candidate exceeds 50 percent of the vote. If Peltola wins about a third of the second-place votes of those who backed Begić earlier this month, she will win the seat. Win or lose, though, Peltola, Palin and Begich are ready to run again in November. All three advanced to another ranking showdown to earn Alaska’s lone home berth for a full term.