Dan Sullivan Embraces Socialism?!
Thom Hartmann is in town! He’s the guest of honor at a dinner tonight in Anchorage, and is broadcasting live from KUDO 1080am this morning. I just listened to him in the car on the way to work. He spoke with both Acting Mayor Matt Claman, and Mayor Elect Dan Sullivan. The latter was an [...]
Election Night in Anchorage. To Be Updated Throughout the Evening.
Election results: 10 precincts reporting out of 119 Croft: 640 Sullivan: 676 13 precincts reporting out of 119 Croft: 899 Sullivan: 937 21 precincts reporting out of 119 Croft: 2047 (48%) Sullivan: 2218 (52%) 57 precincts reporting out of 119 CROFT:7360 42.8% SULLIVAN:9817 57.2% Number of Precincts reporting: 87/119 [...]
Sullivan Saga…Chapter 2. The Cocktail Waitress Speaks.
Court documents came to light yesterday which seemed to point to Dan Sullivan mayoral candidate and bar owner, as the infamous ”Dan” who served drinks to a young cocktail waitress in his employ until she was over the legal limit and then sent her out into the world at 4am to drive the wrong way down [...]
Two Candidates and the Bridge to Debt.
I popped in to see the mayoral candidates forum hosted by the AARP at Central Middle School last night. Each candidate has made his views known, and has honed their answers to most of the questions by now. These two have been seeing a lot of each other lately. So, I’ll just note a few [...]
Bottoms Up for Dan Sullivan? (Updated)
As the mayor’s race looms near, this just landed in my inbox. It is written by former Assemblyman Allan Tesche, who served on the Assembly with Dan Sullivan. And here’s a .pdf of the letter ==> mcginleys1 Here are the court documents related to this case: sullivan1 sullivan2 sullivan3 Most of the relevant information is [...]
Dan Sullivan Likes Bein’ All Mavericky.
I read with amusement yesterday the Anchorage Daily News articles about Dan Sullivan, candidate for Anchorage mayor. Sullivan and Eric Croft are the two survivors of a heated race that resulted in a run-off to be settled a week from tomorrow. The amusing part? The title. “Sullivan Takes Pride in record of going against the [...]
Stevens Endorsement – Kiss of Death?
Wow. I didn’t expect this one. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In a poll conducted by Channel 2 News, Thursday, April 23, 2009, respondents were asked if they were more or less likely to vote for Dan Sullivan with Ted Stevens’ endorsement of Sullivan. Here is the official question and results: Are you more or less likely [...]
The Mayoral Race from Election Central
We have a runoff. On May 5, Alaskans will have a very clear choice for mayor between conservative candidate Dan Sullivan and progressive Eric Croft. I almost didn’t want to go down to election central last night. If Sullivan had managed to pull of 45% of the vote, it would have all been over right [...]
Croft vs. Sullivan – The Torture is Over.
No longer tortured by which candidate to support, moderates and progressives across Alaska are breathing a sigh of relief today. Yesterday’s mayoral election came down like this: Dan Sullivan – 43% Eric Croft -19% Sheila Selkregg – 16% Walt Monegan -9% Matt Claman -6% Paul Honeman – 5% Lone conservative candidate Dan Sullivan walked away [...]
VOTE TODAY! (and My Pet Peeve)
Great minds think alike, but one of them is usually quicker. In this case, one of them was a LOT quicker. As I was driving around town yesterday, I grumbled to myself about all the illegally posted campaign signs. There were signs in snowbanks on the side of the highway, posted on public areas, on [...]
Political Torture – Jump In, You’ve Got Plenty of Company.
The Anchorage mayoral race has been a special brand of political torture for progressives. The general overview is this. There are a host of very good, viable, capable candidates for mayor, any of which the moderate or progressive populace would probably be happy to have running our city. And it’s painful to have to choose. [...]
Citizens Against Dan Sullivan
The new group called “Citizens Against Dan Sullivan and Liquor Industry Influence” which seems to have the unfortunate acronym CADSLII, will be holding a press conference this morning at 11am. The press conference will be at 645 G Street, across from McGinley’s Pub, of which Sullivan is part owner. The purpose is to publicize Dan [...]
Bedtime in Alaska – The Daily Wrap Up.
Quote of the Day - After listening to the House Finance Committee, and Rep. Anna Fairclough wonder how she could justify giving the university more money if they were just going to churn out a bunch of anti-development liberals, and then listening to the chancellor tell her that they were young and hopefully would “mature” [...]
Claman is In. Pie Anyone?
In the least shocking announcement of the day, Acting Mayor Matt Claman will announce his candidacy for Mayor of Anchorage this afternoon. For months he’s been saying, “I haven’t decided.” “My wife and I are talking seriously about it.” Bla bla bla. And now he’s done it. You know how you have a “herd” of [...]
“What’s Best for Anchorage” – the Mayoral Meme That Doomed a Race?
Just heard that Matt Claman, Assembly Chair turned Acting Mayor, has announced that on Monday he will reveal the names of the appointments to his economic advisory panel. Anchorage’s new acting mayor plans to meet regularly with a yet-to-be-named panel of economic and business experts to keep up to speed on how global financial and credit [...]
