NYT reporting that Alaska state senator Mary Peltola sent text messages this year calling someone a slur and expressing contempt for a political opponent. The messages came after a commercial fishing executive posted a selfie with her that created blowback because she opposes large-scale commercial trawling. Party label doesn't matter here. Using slurs and losing it in workplace communications is a fitness question, full stop. This isn't distant from her job, it's showing how she operates when her guard drops.