AK - Dan Sullivan is running for Senate but won't tell us who he is.

[Blue_In_AK]

This is a scathing opinion piece appearing in today's Alaska Dispatch News about Ohio Dan Sullivan. We just cannot let this guy be elected. This is well worth reading all the way through.

http://www.adn.com/article/20141101/dan-sullivan-running-us-senate-wont-tell-us-who-he

Who is Cleveland Dan Sullivan, candidate U.S. Senate? What does he stand for? Will he work for Alaska and Alaskans? Or will he just carry water for the GOP and feed his own ambitions. Thereʼs a difference.

Is he his own man with his own principles? Or a cipher rattling around in a box built by others?

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He seems ignorant or indifferent about Alaskaʼs issues. And clueless about how he would address them. He seems afraid he might blurt something damaging to his campaign or that might irritate the PACs supporting him and disrupt the substantial money flow.

He should know more than he admits. He was Attorney General from mid-2009 until December 2010, he claims he knew nothing about the National Guard scandals coming to a boil. No one told him. The FBI was looking into aspects of that mess. It didnʼt tell Alaskaʼs chief law enforcement officer?

He settled a billion-dollar malpractice suit about the shortfall in the stateʼs pension funds for 20 cents on the dollar. That left Alaska still on the road to fiscal catastrophe. Why didnʼt he pursue the suit? Who or what was he afraid of? Failure? A black mark on his carefully crafted book?

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Dan Sullivan would be another senator serving the interests of the great state of Koch Brothers.

[RandySF]

1. How's it going up there.

I keep thinking/hoping Alaska of all places will be a bright spot on Tuesday night.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. Anybody's guess.

Mark is fighting hard. Ohio Dan is parading around Alaska with Mitt Romney and Ted Cruz. In the immortal words of Shania Twain, "That don't impress me much," but you never know with these Republicans, and especially the independents. We probably won't know Tuesday night.