Robert Dillon

Judge Gleason dismissed the DOJ lawsuit attempting to delay certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if @SenDanSullivan loses the race to @MaryPeltola due to Decoy Dan Sullivan being on the ballot.

Hearing a lot of national media repeating @GovDunleavy’s statement about possibly not certifying Alaska’s U.S. Senate election. There’s one problem with that. In Alaska the lieutenant governor, not the governor, oversees elections and is responsible for certifying the election.

For some historical context on the U.S. Senate race in Alaska between @SenDanSullivan and @MaryPeltola: In 2008, Democrat Mark Begich (who was then mayor of Anchorage) beat incumbent Sen. Ted Stevens (who had served in the U.S. Senate since 1968) by just 3,953 votes, or 1.25%. Alaska Independence Party candidate Bob Bird received 13,197 votes. 8 days prior to that, Stevens was found guilty on several counts relating to receiving gifts for a home renovation (he was eventually cleared of that bogus prosecution but it was not until April 2009). Just like the wall-to-wall coverage now about Mary Peltola and the Decoy Dan Sullivan scheme, there was wall-to-wall coverage right before the 2008 election when Stevens was found guilty. While the two situations are not directly comparable, what is comparable is that a ton of negative coverage about one of the candidates in a high profile Senate race in Alaska has a precedent in resulting in a very close outcome, especially with a spoiler candidate in the race. Note that Sullivan beat Begich in 2014 by 6,014 votes, or 2.13%.

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BREAKING: Sen @lisamurkowski just provided the Landmine with this powerful statement following the @nytimes scathing article on @MaryPeltola’s involvement in the Decoy Dan Sullivan scheme: “While some may try to write this off as just how politics works now, ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process. Run and win on your merits: your views, your policy ideas, and your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign—what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials.”

Dude sued to be listed as a Republican to challenge incumbent Republican @SenDanSullivan. But he checked Undeclared when he absentee voted in the primary. This whole thing is such a clown show.

So this is wild. Daniel J. Sullivan (Decoy Dan) has a son Noah. Noah works for Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the co-chair of the Blue Dog Democrats. When @MaryPeltola was in Congress, she was a co-chair of the Blue Dog Democrats along with… Gluesenkamp Perez! The odds of Decoy Dan filing to run against @SenDanSullivan and Decoy Dan’s son workin for Gluesenkamp Perez being a coincidence are near zero.