Republican Nick Begich III, Libertarian Chris Bye, Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin and current Congresswoman Mary Peltola, a Democrat, all debated Alaska's top priorities.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Candidates for Alaska’s open U.S. House seat participated in the Debate for the State Wednesday evening. Candidates were pressed with questions about issues currently facing Alaska.
The Debate for the State was hosted by Alaska’s News Source, Alaska Public Media, and KTOO — and was be moderated by Alaska Public Media News Director Lori Townsend and Alaska’s News Source Managing Editor Mike Ross. Additionally, Alaska’s News Source Assistant News Director Rebecca Palsha asked questions of the candidates submitted through social media live during the debate.“We also need to make sure that government spending is in control, that government is put back in its lane,” Begich said.
“We do have astronomically high inflation rates across the country and this is certainly, especially true in Alaska, especially when you compound that with shipping costs,” Peltola said. “I do believe that getting our energy prices under control is a huge piece of this puzzle, I’ve already been working on moving forward with the Willow Project.”
“We make sure that Fauci is not head of the CDC,” Palin said. “We depoliticize the agency that did play politics. The whole COVID crisis was more about control than it was actually about a virus.”“The fact that across America people can go on television and radio and print media and online and tell lies and there are no repercussions, I think that being able to broadcast lies has really caused a lot of division on things that should be an open and shut case,” Peltola said.
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