Don Young is an unabashed partisan for Alaska.  He knows how to work the House of Representatives and the Washington bureaucracy. He works in a bipartisan manner more than most people realize. His forty-three years of seniority gives him substantial sway. If he were to be replaced by anyone regardless of political persuasion that person would be relatively ineffective until they had accumulated years of seniority.  That’s the way the House works.  Alaska is well served by Don Young regardless of his occasional gaffes.