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Buttigieg picks sides in Iowa
Pete Buttigieg is picking sides in a heated Senate Democratic primary in the state that cemented his national political profile.
Buttigieg, who won the Iowa Democratic caucuses in 2020, is backing state Rep. Josh Turek — a move that shows his willingness to wade into contested primaries ahead of another possible presidential campaign.
The endorsement comes shortly after Buttigieg’s former 2020 rival, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, visited earlier this week to campaign for Turek’s opponent, state Sen. Zach Wahls.
“We made history in Iowa in 2020 because our campaign went everywhere,” Buttigieg said in a statement shared first with POLITICO. “We connected with people in rural towns and the largest cities, focused on the issues that affect everyday life, and brought Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans into the fold. Josh Turek has taken that same proven approach to his campaign, and that’s why I know he will be successful. I believe Iowa can make history again in 2026 by sending Josh to the U.S. Senate.”
Buttigieg’s decision to pick sides in the once-early nominating state is a reversal for him. In March, he told POLITICO it was “not in my plans” when asked whether he would endorse in sharply contested primaries in his adopted home state of Michigan or in Iowa. And while it could help elevate Turek — and potentially give Buttigieg a valuable ally if he runs in 2028 — it carries some risk of alienating Wahls’ supporters in the hard-fought contest.
It’s not a shock, however. Turek’s campaign in Iowa marks something of a reunion for Buttigieg’s 2020 campaign operation: his former national press secretary Chris Meagher is a Turek adviser, while Buttigieg’s former senior adviser Lis Smith and former aide Matt Corridoni are both advisers to The Bench, a new political group that’s been choosing sides in other Democratic primaries.
It’s not clear whether Iowa will have anywhere near the outsized role it historically held in the Democratic nomination process next time around. A calamitous caucus-night vote count and app breakdown played a role in Democrats bumping Iowa from the front of the primary line in 2024. Iowa Democrats are trying to get back in the first four states, along with a bevy of other states. Democrats are expected to choose their nominating order later this year.
Buttigieg joins Sens. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada, and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire in Turek’s corner — as well as former Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the last Democrat to represent the state in the Senate.
“I am deeply honored to have Pete’s support in this race,” Turek said in a statement. “His unique ability to connect with Iowans who feel forgotten and left behind is exactly why he won the caucuses in 2020, and it’s that same approach that will help us win Senator Harkin’s seat back.”
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SEARHC plans to build an 8,000-square-foot medical services building to consolidate dental and behavioral health services into a single campus, anchored by the hospital.
“We’re calling it the Wrangell Campus,” Ryan Matej, the Sitka-based chief administrative officer for the health care provider, said in a phone interview on Friday, May 1.
SEARHC has been looking at how to consolidate its multiple service locations in town, he said.
The dental clinic currently operates out of a SEARHC-owned building at Front and McKinnon streets, about a mile from the hospital. Behavioral health services are housed in a SEARHC-owned building at Church and St. Michaels streets.
Matej said no decision has been made on the future use of the two buildings after they are vacated.
“It’s really in the infant beginning stages,” he said of the construction project next to the hospital. “We’ve broken some ground,” with no specific timeline for construction.
Contractors will work over the next several months on site prep, preparing for a foundation and roughing in utilities, he said, but no actual construction.
At about 8,000 square feet, the medical services building will be about one-fifth the size of the Wrangell Medical Center, which SEARHC opened in 2021 with a hospital and long-term care unit.
The next phase, Matej said, will be the design work.
The health care provider has not yet applied for a building permit.
The new building also will include space for one or two optometry bays, he said, providing a dedicated area for visiting optometrists who currently work out of the hospital building.
SEARHC last month dedicated a new $300 million hospital and medical center on its Sitka campus. Charles Clement, who has served as president the past 14 years, talked about plans for Wrangell in a newspaper interview after the opening. “We have multiple facilities all over town, and we have enough land there to bring it all into a medical campus.”
SEARHC is the largest employer in Wrangell, with about 170 full-time equivalent employees and direct contractors in 2025, according to a Rain Coast Data economic report for the borough last fall.
The report said the health care payroll in Wrangell in 2024, at $15.2 million, exceeded all other industries in town.
SEARHC is the largest health care provider in Southeast, with facilities in 15 communities and traveling services for 13 more towns across the region.
This story was originally published by the Wrangell Sentinel.
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