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Alaskan Democrat senate candidate Mary Sattler Peltola is off the charts corrupt and glued to the hips of her father's insidious involvement with the most corrupt member of congress in the history of the United States, Bridge To Nowhere earmarks-addicted GOP RINO Congressman Don… pic.twitter.com/2RDRPQ5VXR

— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) August 22, 2026

Alaskan Democrat senate candidate Mary Sattler Peltola is off the charts corrupt and glued to the hips of her father's insidious involvement with the most corrupt member of congress in the history of the United States, Bridge To Nowhere earmarks-addicted GOP RINO Congressman Don Young.

Mary Peltola's father is Ward Sattler. Ward Sattler's connection to Alaska's political life runs deep. He served as a staffer to super-corrup GOP RINO Congressman Don Young, the longest-serving Republican in congressional history. Young died in 2022.

As a child, Mary Peltola traveled with her father, Ward Sattler, around Alaska as he campaigned for Don Young.

The "Bridge to Nowhere" was a famous proposed $398 million federally funded project championed in 2005 by Congressman Don Young to connect Ketchikan, Alaska, to the sparsely populated Gravina Island, which housed the local airport. It became a national symbol of wasteful government spending before being officially canceled. (Screenshot 2)

The failed Knik Arm bridge wasted $100 million. Don Young's name is still on it.

A street sign on a lonely gravel road in the birch forest of Point MacKenzie bears the name of Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, the last token of $100 million wasted on his vanity.

In 2005, as chairman of the House Transportation Committee, Young earmarked the national highway bill with $230 million to build a bridge across Knik Arm. The bill named the 2-mile bridge, which would have cost more than $1 billion, for Young himself.

But the greed of Young's earmarks in the bill embarrassed Congress into changing the system. The bill gave Alaska 17 times more money per capita in earmarks than the average U.S. resident, an imbalance symbolized by bridges to nowhere in Ketchikan and on Knik Arm.

Young had used his position to steer money to projects benefiting campaign contributors in other states, including the Coconut Road freeway interchange in Florida. Congress passed an unprecedented request for the FBI to investigate him in 2008.

That investigation ended in 2010 after a case against corrupt Alaska Senator Ted Stevens collapsed due to misconduct by the Department of Justice. Possibly, Young benefited from lucky timing, when the lawyers pursuing him were themselves disgraced.

FBI documents show Young spent campaign money on hunting trips. Documents released by the FBI show that a source told investigators that Young and his late wife spent campaign money on hunting trips and flights and wrote checks to themselves over years of allegedly profligate spending on his contributors' dime.

Congress asked the Justice Department in 2008 to investigate Young's role in securing a $10 million earmark to widen a Florida highway.

Mary Peltola's father, Ward Sattler, has set up a political action committee, Aurora PAC, for the purpose of getting Peltola elected to the U.S. senate. (Screenshot 1)

In addition to Sattler and his daughter's insidious ties to the King of Congressional Corruption Don Young, Sattler has a history of operating aircraft involved in dangerous crashes in Alaska. (Screenshot 4)

In one of those crashes on May 27, 1998, the National Transportation Safety Board determined the probable causes of the accident to be:

The pilot's continued flight into adverse weather conditions, and his inadequate in-flight planning/decision.

Mary Peltola's THIRD husband, died while piloting a small aircraft in Alaska on Sept. 12, 2023. The cause of the crash was due to Eugene Peltola Jr.'s own catastrophic decisions.

The final NTSB report found no evidence that the plane had been approved for carrying antlers externally, and that the antlers likely degraded takeoff performance. Petola Jr. hung the antlers on the outside of the plane. It also found that the plane was loaded roughly six percent above its maximum takeoff weight. The report says these factors combined with the turbulent conditions in the area likely caused Peltola Jr. to lose control of the aircraft. (Screenshot 3)