“…this experience has been beyond anything I could have ever imagined. To say that it has now become overwhelming and intimidating is an understatement.” - Petersburg resident Dan J. Sullivan, on the national and legal scrutiny of his U.S. Senate campaign.
(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By Yereth Rosen
From the opening to the closing of the Alaska Federation of Natives convention, speaker after speaker, information booth after information booth and placard after placard had the same message: a call for Alaska’s Indigenous people to vote.
Michelle Sparck, leader of the Get Out the Native Vote, held up four fingers during her brief remarks on Thursday, the convention’s first day, to emphasize that Alaska Natives make up about a quarter of the electorate.
(Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
By James Brooks
One of the most prominent figures backing Sen. Dan Sullivan’s re-election campaign is speaking out against a Department of Justice lawsuit intended to aid him.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said on Friday that the DOJ should have never filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to pause certification of the ongoing U.S. Senate election if another candidate defeats Sullivan.
(Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
By Corinne Smith
Southwest Alaska’s Senate district will see new representation in the Alaska State Legislature next year, after the retirement of the state’s longest-serving legislator, Lyman Hoffman. At a forum this week, four candidates offered different views on the district’s most pressing issues, from fisheries to energy and the rising cost of living in rural Alaska.
(Photo courtesy of Dan J. Sullivan Jr.)
By James Brooks
Alaska U.S. Senate candidate Dan J. Sullivan is heading into the general election as an undeclared voter, a type of independent.
According to records kept by the Alaska Division of Elections, Sullivan switched from a Republican to an undeclared party affiliation when he requested an absentee ballot for the August primary election.
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