More from a Mary Peltola fan girl (yep, that's me)

I continue to follow Mary Peltola's Twitter feed with rapt attention and appreciated this Tweet today, as well as the responses it engendered: 

And here are just the first three responses: 

These evince a perspective beyond the, shall we say, generic rural and move into something much more distinctive--even unique--that is the great 49th state.  

These also remind me of the rural bashing on display a dozen years ago when infrastructure investment to connect Ketchikan, Alaska and its airport were at stake. The operative phrase then was a "bridge to nowhere." I wrote about it here.  

Earlier Tweets about Peltola and her unexpected rise to this congressional seat are here.