The New York Times published an article Wednesday portraying U.S. Senate challenger Mary Peltola as a hothead prone to yelling at staff, name-calling and, in one case, shoving an aide in her congressional office two years ago.<\/p>\n
The allegations<\/a> of angry outbursts are based on unnamed sources, including former aides. Text messages The New York Times obtained back up some of the accounts.<\/p>\n The Times reporter was in Alaska in August and wrote briefly <\/a>about a staff shake-up on the Peltola campaign, just before the primary election.<\/p>\n Wednesday\u2019s story says that blowup started with an all-caps text from Peltola to her staff, complaining that Southeast Alaska didn\u2019t have enough large campaign signs.<\/p>\n Peltola is a Democrat who served in the U.S. House from 2022 to 2024. She\u2019s in a tight race against Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan. It\u2019s not clear what impact the Times story will have on the election.<\/p>\n California Congresswoman Katie Porter lost a Senate race in 2024, in part due to reports that she treated her staff badly<\/a>. Yet Alaskans repeatedly reelected Peltola\u2019s congressional predecessor, Rep. Don Young, despite multiple instances of brash, profane and even violent<\/a> behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n In a written statement, a Peltola campaign spokesman noted that in 2023, Peltola was grieving her mother’s death, and the loss of her husband in a plane crash. <\/p>\n “Exaggerating and outright lying about moments from the hardest period of her life, and falsely presenting them as a pattern of behavior, is wrong,” the statement says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Times published an article Wednesday portraying U.S. Senate challenger Mary Peltola as a hothead prone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-356432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}