UPDATE: Fall 2018 - After a four-year hiatus from public service, Senator Begich won Alaska's Democratic nomination for Governor and will take on Republican Mike Dunleavy this fall. We encourage all our friends in Alaska to join the Begich team once again and support Mark in his campaign.

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Mark Begich served for over six years as mayor of Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, overseeing economic growth in a fiscally responsible manner. His record and personal appeal led to what many felt was a surprise win in the 2008 race for the United States Senate. Although Alaska's voters tend to vote more conservatively, Senator Begich's position on gun rights and his common sense approach to economic, healthcare, Social Security, and many other issues have shown that the right kind of Democrats can be successful in Alaskan politics.

As a Senator, Mr. Begich knew that infrastructure was a key to economic growth. Not only are roads, ports, bridges, etc. necessary to support a growing economy, they also are great projects for the government to fund in order to help boost jobs and wages during economic down times.

That's the kind of smart fiscal policy that Democrats used to grow the economy after the GOP's Great Recession of 2007-2009. (As most economists and smart businessmen like Warren Buffett will tell you, tax cuts for the already wealthy just drive up the federal deficit without helping anyone else.) Mark was a champion for infrastructure spending during his tenure in Washington, helping to bring over a billion dollars in funding to Alaska for these types of projects.

Unlike most Republicans, Senator Begich believes a pre-existing health condition should not affect your ability to acquire affordable healthcare coverage. He never supported repeal of this, or other, critical components within the Affordable Care Act.

With respect to our basic freedoms, Mark is right there with us. It isn't just gun rights that make us secure in our homes; it's also keeping a watchful eye on all levels of government to make sure our fourth amendment rights and right to privacy continue to be respected. The Senator consistently opposed Republican legislation that would allow government agencies to spy on any of us without first getting a warrant.

For some reason the Republican Party won't stop trying to get their hands on your Social Security and Medicare dollars, two of the most popular and successful government programs ever enacted, programs that allow our seniors to live their retirement years in dignity. Senator Begich opposed the GOP whenever they tried to risk those dollars on Wall Street, or to turn them into a voucher system, or to cut their funding in order to pay for the GOP's ongoing tax cuts for the already wealthy.

For all of these reasons and more, we're glad to have former Senator Mark Begich in our corner, and we'll keep supporting him so his voice will keep supporting us.

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