Begich is definitely delusional and he definitely has a mental disorder. He is narcissist for sure. He lives in a warped reality of his own twisting. He never conceded, lied through all of this, essentially cursed us all for firing him and started every angry, ranting, self-aggrandizing paragraph with “I” or “My.” No class. No common sense. No humility. No respect. Pure entitlement and pompous speech.

Mark Begich, you voted with Obama 98% of the time and against Alaska. You only won last time because you kicked Sen. Stevens when he was down and you played the pity card over your father’s death. You ran a dirty, lying campaign this time and Alaskans saw through you. You belittle every Alaskan who wasn’t “born and raised here,” as if we are second-class citizens because you had nothing else to throw at Sen-elect Sullivan. Maybe if you left the state to go to college and earn a degree or serve in the military, like Sen-elect Sullivan did, you wouldn’t have such a small, ignorant and insular mentality.

And your utter disrespect for Sen. Murkowski when she told you to stop using a photo of her to lie to voters that you and she were a team is indicative of YOUR war on women. You then lied and said the senator only asked you to stop using it because “she doesn’t like the photo,” thereby reducing her to a vain and petty teenager girl who didn’t like her hair that day. And worse, insinuating that she isn’t smart enough to know herself or what she wants as well as you do. At least she had the intelligence and ambition to go to college and learn something. You’re just a deceitful politician. All you have in life, Mr. Begich, is your reputation. You’ve earned yours in the last 6 years.

It brings me great pleasure to inform you that, despite your refusal to concede for 2 weeks, you’re fired! Never return to public service or we will use your words here against you in an ad. Get a job and learn some humility, if possible. The cement may be dry for you.

Jon this is ridiculous. Mark Begich would never have voted against Alaska’s interests on these issues for outside support. You cannot name a single resource development issue important to Alaska on which Mark Begich sided with national liberal or environmental groups. But, the Koch brothers national agenda has far more to do with extreme right wing politics than resource development or the unique needs of Alaska (federal spending, etc.). Dan Sullivan is aligned with the Koch brothers in lock step. Mark Begich voted against the will of the national party and Obama, and did so again today. Dan Sullivan is a climber, you of all people know that. He will do what he needs to do to climb, Alaska is just a step. The Koch brothers and national party politics are far more essential to his climb than the unique interests of Alaskans.

The commenter who compared him to an emperor cursing the peasants is spot on! This one should be published in Alaska’s history books as the most disgraceful ‘concession’ letter from one of the most disgraceful politicians in our history. Anyone know a worse one?

I am so sick of his insular mentality and his ridiculous digs at the Alaskans he deems beneath him because they weren’t born and raised in Alaska. He relished every opportunity and even invented 2 opportunities in this letter to use it as an attack on Sen-elect Dan Sullivan that he was born outside of Alaska. How unthinkable to such a small mind that anyone born outside of Alaska might have anything to contribute to our great state. Clearly, that’s all you had against Dan Sullivan but we had substantive things against you when we went to the polls. You voted against Alaska and for Obama 98% of the time. You lied throughout your campaign and falsely accused Sen-elect Sullivan of being responsible for the Jerry Active crimes, even after the family asked you to stop running your spurious ads. You showed great disrespect for Sen. Murkowski when she asked you to stop using a photo of the two of you together for your political gain, insinuating that you worked well together. When she asked you to stop using it, you belittled her like a petty, vain teenaged girl. You said, “She just doesn’t like the picture.” The thinly veiled translation: “She didn’t like how her hair looked that day. She doesn’t know herself as well as I know her.” And then you join in on the outrageous lie that the Republicans waged a war against women? And you have the audacity to say that you ran a good campaign? If this weren’t so egregious, it would be laughable.

Sen. Begich — THE ONLY REAL ALASKANS are native Alaskans. We are ALL transplants from somewhere else, whether it’s first, second, or third generation. But, we are ALL Alaskans. And that seat in the U.S. Senate belongs to us, not you. You were not a good steward of it and we took it back. The only reason you won the last time was because you kicked a man when he was down and ran against Sen. Stevens, profiting from his convictions and manipulating people’s emotions because of your father’s death. You didn’t win for any other reason. Now, you had an honorable opponent who has exponentially more experience, grace and class than you do and he ran a good and honest campaign and won the people’s votes.

You voted against Alaska and for Obama just about every time. We voted against you. We should all save this ‘concession’ — which is really a self-aggrandizing speech and bring it up in the unfortunate event that he decides to run for public office again.

Mr. Begich, you’re fired. Please don’t run for office again. Please get a real job and learn some humility, if at all possible. The cement may already be dry.

Classless is indeed the appropriate response to that delusional political pablum.
What was even worse about his self-aggrandizing stump speech is his insistence
that his public service has actually made things better. Really ? Are you serious?

I think he will be in the power mix forever, somehow slipping through the cracks and
be elected to something. After all, they don’t call him the asterisk kid for nuthin.

Since everyone seems to agree that billionaires are basically purchasing our elections and politicians, why don’t we just remove the impediments they face and just do away with legislators? Just think of how much further the billionaires could push their agendas if they weren’t being forced to spend their hard earned money on pesky trivialties like media saturation and lobbying firms? If they didn’t have to try to maintain the appearance of propriety, and everyone just let go of their illusions of democracy, things could get done much more efficiently.

I lol’d

This is a good point – which group of billionaires is more aligned with the interests of this state? If we narrowly define those interests to mean resource development so we have jobs and revenue to fund state services, who is more aligned with Alaska – the outside money behind Begich or the outside money behind Sullivan? Which groups want to open up the NPRA and the OCS? Which groups oppose those efforts? Which groups support the EPA making land use decisions on state lands and which oppose?