Dan Sullivan is a shill for big energy, and now big mining.
Courtesy of the Anchorage Press:
Control of the United States Senate may come down to the results in Alaska, where Senator Dan Sullivan (R) is facing a serious challenge from Dr. Al Gross. In recent days, the race has centered on $500 billion of gold and other precious metals hidden deep in Southwest Alaska.
About two-thirds of Alaskans oppose permitting extraction of metals at the site. The opposition to the proposal, known as Pebble Mine, is centered around the site’s proximity to the Bristol Bay salmon fishery, which is treasured by commercial fish farmers, recreational fishers, and Alaska Natives. In 2014, Sullivan opposed a decision by the Obama EPA to shelve the project.
Since then, Sullivan’s position has been hard to pin down. But in explosive tapes released late last month, the CEO of the company developing the mine, Pebble Limited Partnership, said that Sullivan’s vagueness was strategic and, based on backchannels with Sullivan’s office, he was confident Sullivan would not stand in the way of the project.
After the release of the tapes, Sullivan abruptly changed his position and, for the first time, said he was definitively opposed to the mine. But Sullivan has thus far refused to return campaign contributions connected to Pebble Limited Partnership. A Popular Information investigation reveals that Sullivan has received at least $34,150 in campaign contributions tied to the mine, roughly three-and-a-half times what has been previously reported.
For the non-Alaskans among you, the Pebble Mine project is a plan for an open mine near Bristol Bay that environmentalists have determined represents a significant danger to the local native populations not to mention the fishing industry.
In 2014 Obama shut it down, but of course, Donald Trump has tried to undo every damn thing Obama did, so here we are.
Most Alaskans hate this fucking thing, but they have lots of money and spread it around liberally.
Dan Sullivan is never not for sale, but he might have to step away from this one since Al Gross is currently breathing down his neck.
I hate Dan Sullivan and will definitely vote for Gross even though I think his commercials are incredibly irritating.
As a Native woman of Alaska, it always irks me when these guys pull out their Native wives during election time. Don Young did that. Governor Dunleavy did that. Now, I know these women have minds of their own but they seem to sit back and smile docile like. Like Melania. It’s irksome. Don Sullivan is sure in Don Trump’s favor. I hate his commercials putting Nancy Palosi,, OAC, Elisabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in his commercials as if they didn’t have a right to be Americans when the fuhrer idolizes Putin, a very anti-American. Ugh. Those Republican men like to beat down women.
Sullivan spends most of his time in bed with other men, so his “docile” little Native wife is also nothing more than his beard. She’s a lying POS just like hi,. She should be ashamed of herself but she just loves that power too. Fuck Them Both
Dan is willing to kill all the fish for a donation of $35,000
Never voted for Sullivan,never will. But yeah, we get it Al. You killed a bear in a DOP situation. Should have learned the rule of the west. Shoot shovel and shut up!
Kept abreast of this debacle through the Mudflats site and still look for news about it on the ‘net. Good luck to you in getting this stopped unless we elect sane Joe Biden and turn the Senate deep blue and imeach every last judge has nominated and had confirmed.
I thought carpetbagger Sullivan spent every waking hour campaigning for cash in Cleveland. Wasn’t bad enough when Alaska’s wingnuts allowed cruise ships to dump their shipboard waste in fishing grounds. Now they want to poison the source of all salm on fisheries in Alaska.
How many millions have the Clinton stolen from the Haitian people?