With this week marking the filing deadline for the U.S. Senate race in Alaska, Dan Sullivan is officially kicking off five more months of defending his self-serving record to Alaskans.
“Dan Sullivan spent years catering to special interests and padding his pockets, and now Alaskans are facing record-high costs of living and devastating cuts to critical federal agencies,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft. “Self-Serving Sullivan has put Alaska last every day in DC, and he will answer for his indefensible record at the ballot box in November.”
A look back at just some of Dan Sullivan’s extensive, disqualifying record of putting Alaska last:
Sullivan is raising costs for Alaskans. Sullivan has repeatedly supported the war in Iran, leading to skyrocketing gas prices for Alaskans, driving up prices of shipping, goods and airfare in tow. He backed health care cuts that spiked premiums for 27,000 Alaskans and slashed Medicaid, which one third of Alaskans rely on. And he supports the reckless tariffs that are sending the cost of goods and groceries skyrocketing, despite Alaska being “uniquely vulnerable” to tariff-driven price increases. To add insult to injury: right before Memorial Day Weekend, Sullivan sent a fundraising email begging Alaskans to help him “pay for gas.”
Sullivan has repeatedly sold out Alaska fisheries and fishermen, and the communities that rely on them. He reported trading stock in a direct competitor to Alaska’s salmon fishermen – Mowi, the “world’s largest farmed salmon company” – and got caught red-handed concealing it. Sullivan also has a nearly two-decade “long relationship of advocacy” for Pebble Mine, a project that is overwhelmingly opposed by Alaskans because it would jeopardize Bristol Bay, the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
Sullivan has enriched himself in office, tripling his net worth while passing on higher costs to Alaskans. He reported up to $2 million in stock trades during his Senate tenure while simultaneously casting votes to pass higher costs on to Alaskans, with his stock portfolio dramatically outperforming the market multiple years in a row. Sullivan broke the law in the process, violating the STOCK Act by failing to disclose trades in the world’s largest farmed salmon company.
Sullivan has slashed federal funding for law enforcement and response systems that keep Alaskans safe. After Typhoon Halong devastated Western Alaska, Sullivan failed to secure full federal recovery funding Alaska desperately needs to rebuild our communities, and voted to defund local radio stations and emergency alert systems that rural Alaskans rely on for life-saving storm warnings. Sullivan also voted against $200 million in funding for the Alaska maritime industry and the Coast Guard, as well as $12 million in funding for Alaska law enforcement.
In DC, Sullivan has prioritized the interests of the multibillion-dollar chemical company he owns stock in. Self-Serving Sullivan has “repeatedly voted to advance the interests” of the multi-billion dollar chemical company – RPM International – in which Sullivan himself holds up to $5 million in stock. This includes voting to “block[] an amendment that would have allowed the EPA to crack down on cancer-causing pollutants and substances.”
Sullivan has been living large on his donors’ dime and voted for tax handouts for billionaires. Sullivan spent hundreds of thousands of donor dollars on five-star resorts, an “oasis” with “luxuriant spas,” and elite DC restaurant dinners – then voted for tax breaks for billionaires and hiked prices for Alaskans already struggling to make ends meet. Reporting detailed how Sullivan “splurged” from his campaign account to bankroll a lifestyle of luxury, including $132,000 at the five-star “premier luxury” Kiawah Island Golf Resort and $35,000 at the Capital Grille, “home of the $200 bone-in dry-aged ribeye.”
Sullivan has repeatedly refused to meet with Alaskans and answer their questions. Last week, Sullivan was a no-show to a meet-and-greet in Kodiak where Alaskans wanted his stance on a slush fund that that would give him a special payout funded by taxpayers, and in April he abruptly ran off of a live Q&A after being asked questions about his broken promise to return Pebble Mine-tied donations.
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