With today marking 50 days until the election for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat, Dan Sullivan has 50 more days of Alaskans being reminded of his indefensible, self-serving record.
“Dan Sullivan has spent years putting himself first and Alaska last – lining his own pockets while his price-hiking agenda harms Alaskans,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft. “From tripling his wealth while in the U.S. Senate, to enjoying DC fine dining and a lavish lifestyle on the donor dime, to his steadfast loyalty to special interests at the expense of Alaskans – Sullivan has only ever focused on enriching himself. Self-Serving Sullivan has put Alaska last every day in DC, and he will answer for his indefensible record at the ballot box in 50 days.”
Sullivan’s policies are causing prices to skyrocket, including the cost of gas, air travel, groceries, and heating fuel. Sullivan has voted twelve times for the price-hiking war in Iran, leading to skyrocketing fuel prices for Alaskans, driving up prices of shipping, goods, and airfare in tow. He backed healthcare cuts that spiked premiums for 27,000 Alaskans and now nearly 10,000 fewer Alaskans are on Medicaid. 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. Sullivan personally profited off of these tariffs through his shares in his family’s multibillion dollar chemical company, RPM International, after the company passed the prices off to customers. Sullivan has not commented on high fuel prices or its effects on Alaskans since March – though he has sent fundraising emails begging for gas money.
Sullivan has repeatedly sold out Alaska fisheries and fishermen, and the communities that rely on them. He took hundreds of thousands of dollars from factory trawlers as subsistence, sport, and commercial fishing struggle under trawling-tied fishing restrictions across Alaska. Dan Sullivan 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. He 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 is among the most prolific stock traders in the Senate and reported up to $2 million in stock trades during his Senate tenure. Sullivan broke the law in the process, violating the STOCK Act by failing to disclose trades in the world’s largest farmed salmon company for months. Sullivan saw record shareholder dividends from RPM International, his family’s multibillion-dollar chemicals company, after they passed higher prices onto customers in response to Sullivan’s tariffs.
Sullivan has slashed federal funding for 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 repeatedly reported sold shares in RPM International shortly before significant price drops, raising questions about if Sullivan has been leveraging non-public information to make beneficial trades. He continued to profit from his investment even after RPM International allegedly defrauded the government.
Sullivan has been living large on his donors’ dime and voted for tax handouts for billionaires. Sullivan spent hundreds of thousands of donor dollars at ritzy DC restaurants, spending $15,000 at the 116 Club, “a private establishment well-known among DC power players,” and $28,000 at Bistro Cacao, a “French restaurant and one of his most frequented spots.” Sullivan also spent $27,500 at The Phoenician resort “in the ritzy enclave of Scottsdale, Arizona,” where the cheapest room runs $1,000 a night and amenities include a “three-level pool” and “18-hole golf course.”
Sullivan has repeatedly refused to meet with Alaskans and answer their questions. Sullivan was a no-show to a meet-and-greet in Kodiak where Alaskans wanted his stance on a slush fund 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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