Alaska Sen. Sullivan warns alleged Decoy Dan scheme is working: Im going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery
WASHINGTON — Incumbent Alaska Sen.Dan S.
Sullivan on Sunday warned that the alleged scheme by allies of Dem rival Mary Peltola to recruit another Dan Sullivan onto the ballot “is working” and confusing voters.“Their first order of business, like I said, is, ‘How can we trick people in Alaska so they can throw the vote in a way that’s certainly deceitful, if not illegal, towards Peltola?'” the Republican senator vented to CNN’s “State of the Union.”“By the way, their scheme is working,” he said.“They got the decoy guy on the ballot.
I’m sure I’m going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery.”Peltola, a former congresswoman, has been slammed by bombshell revelations from the New York Times that her allies worked to recruit retired public-school teacher Dan J.Sullivan, now known as “Decoy Dan,” to run for the Senate seat, too.Although she has denied involvement, the outlet quoted her former campaign manager, Elisa Rios, who claimed Peltola was “definitely aware.” Rios had been pushed out of the campaign during an August reshuffling, along with other top staff.“Decoy Dan” is registered as a Republican, despite voting Democrat in recent presidential election cycles and reportedly having a magnet of far-left revolutionary Che Guevara on his refrigerator.
For months, both “Decoy Dan” and Peltola’s camp had denied a connection between her team and his decision to run, but the outlet also found other staffers on her old campaign operation and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and text messages to identify a connection.A Dem operative named Jerid Kurtz had reportedly searched for another Dan Sullivan to recruit for the election.“This is treating the people of my state with utter disrespect and disdain,” Sen.Sullivan told CNN.
“And I don’t think it’s worthy of a US senator or a US Senate candidate.”The Justice Department has been ramping up its probe into whether any laws were broken with the pres...