Sen. Dan Sullivan can’t stop himself from lying about gasoline prices, peddling a fantasy that increased oil production in Alaska will lower prices at the pump in the distant future.
The cost per gallon for gasoline, diesel fuel and heating oil in Alaska has nothing to do with the pace of Alaska oil production, which is currently about 0.5 percent of world oil production.
Read MoreThe addled Donald Trump, chief campaigner for Sen. Dan Sullivan, is now claiming that people in Alaska are so stupid they don’t know what incumbent means.
“People are totally confused. They shouldn’t be confused when voting. At least let him use the name Sen. Dan Sullivan, as opposed to incumbent because a lot of people don’t know what incumbent means,” Trump claimed to reporters in Washington.
Read MoreA Russian company sanctioned by the U.S. secretly backed a plan in Alaska to ship LNG off the North Slope by tanker. The head of the company said he quit when he learned about the secret funding and reported what he had learned to the Trump administration.
Read MoreWhat Trump is trying to do is illegal, but Sullivan is putting his personal desire to remain in power above the rights of Alaskans. His political cowardice is front and center.
Read MoreSullivan’s silence in the face of Trump’s attack on Alaska will benefit Peltola by giving her a powerful closing argument in the U.S. Senate campaign about—Sullivan is complicit in the political corruption scheme created by a desperate man trying to save himself.
Read MorePresident Donald Trump is already trying to use the federal courts to meddle with the U.S. Senate election in Alaska.
The lawsuit he had his Department of Justice employees file has no merit, but it will impact the ability of Alaskans to hold a free and fair election.
Read MoreWith the sun about to set on the Dunleavy years, the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority is rushing to divert $25 million in state funds to purchase stock in an Idaho startup that intends to build nuclear microreactors.
Read MoreSen. Dan Sullivan, who complains constantly about Mary Peltola not wanting to debate him, is skipping the Alaska Federation of Natives candidate forum Friday, according to KNOM radio in Nome.
Read MoreThe problem with Sullivan’s story is that he did not speak out to defend McCain, the man who Sullivan insists was his mentor in ther U.S. Senate. Sullivan did not contradict any of Trump’s repeated insults. He stayed silent.
Read MoreSullivan boasted to Alaskans last Thursday that he “led the effort” to get the Russia sanctions bill approved by Congress, a bill he has promoted for more than a year-and-a-half as the secret to getting more leverage over Putin.
But the next day Trump dumped all over the new Russia sanctions law, ignoring the will of Congress and granting a lifeline to Putin.
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