This week in Fairbanks, Alaska leaders slammed Dan Sullivan for his self-serving, Alaska-last agenda, while across town Sullivan was calling up his Lower 48 fellow Ohioan – J.D. Vance – to come bail him out.
“Sullivan sent word to his home state of Ohio to get another Ohio politician to fly in,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft. “There is something inherently wrong with our U.S. Senator having no answers to Alaskans’ questions, and having to punt to outside sources to do that. I think it’s wimpy, and I think that’s why Alaskans are going to vote Dan Sullivan out in a month.”
This is not the first time Dan Sullivan has outsourced from the Lower 48:
Minnesota: After getting dominated in the August primary by Mary Peltola, Dan Sullivan went back to his tired playbook, calling on his Lower 48 cronies to boost his political career and airing an ad spotlighting an out-of-state Congressman, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, to peddle more lies about Peltola’s record.
Ohio: Since 2015, Sullivan has earned up to $550,000 from his holdings in the multibillion dollar chemical company, RPM, based in his home state of Ohio. Sullivan has “repeatedly voted to advance the interests” of RPM, which raised costs on customers in response to Sullivan’s tariffs – then paid record dividends to shareholders like him.
Seattle: Sullivan has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from out-of-state factory trawlers based in Seattle, and he’s sitting quietly on the sidelines as Alaskan subsistence, sport, and commercial fishermen struggle under trawling-tied fishing restrictions across Alaska.
DC: Sullivan has been living large on special-interest campaign cash, splurging on five-star vacations and elite DC dinners, including $35,000 at the Capital Grille, home of the $200 bone-in dry-aged ribeye.
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