After getting dominated in the primary on Tuesday night by Mary Peltola, Dan Sullivan is back to his tired playbook, calling on his Lower 48 cronies to boost his political career. Wednesday morning, Sullivan aired an ad spotlighting an out-of-state Congressman, Pete Stauber of Minnesota, to peddle more lies about Peltola’s record.
“Alaskans know Mary and they trust Mary,” said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft. “The results from Tuesday’s primary show that clearly, and now Dan Sullivan is running scared. That’s why he’s turned to his political cronies in the Lower 48 to spread lies about Mary’s record. Unlike Dan Sullivan and Pete Stauber, Mary is a lifelong Alaskan. We know Ohio Dan and his pal from Minnesota are in DC to serve the special interests, while Mary will always put Alaska first. Alaskans see right through this nonsense.”
This is not the first time Dan Sullivan has outsourced from the Lower 48:
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 has also continued to rake in millions of dollars in government contracts during his tenure in the United States Senate despite settling with the Department of Justice for “allegedly defrauding the federal government.”
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 with special interest campaign cash to splurge 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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