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Alaska congressional candidate Mary Peltola says there's power in making friends.

U.S. House candidate Mary Peltola discusses new ideas with her campaign team at a downtown Anchorage coffee shop on Wednesday.

If Peltola considered it a bust, she didn’t show it. She approached two undecided voters at a picnic table and cheerfully answered their every question. “The region where I’m from, there is a big premium on being respectful, on not using inflammatory language or harsh tones, not speaking to things that you haven’t seen with your own eyes or heard with your own ears, you know, hearsay, not gossiping,” Peltola said. “I think that those are really good principles to live by.”

“I don’t want to say anything harsh about Ivan, but at that time, I did feel that there were moments when the district needed an advocate,” she said. Andrew Halcro saw Peltola in action in 1999 when he was a freshman Republican in the House and she was a freshman Democrat.

 

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