{"id":1284,"date":"2026-06-12T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2026-06-12T16:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:39:49","slug":"dan-sullivan-could-be-kicked-out-of-alaska-senate-primary-but-not-that-dan-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1284","title":{"rendered":"Dan Sullivan could be kicked out of Alaska Senate primary \u2014\u00a0but not that Dan Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Division of Elections Director Carol Beecher in a letter to challenger Dan Sullivan said her office had received two complaints regarding his eligibility and determined \u201cthat the preponderance of evidence does not support your eligibility for the office of United States Senator.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1282\">Patagonia sues drag queen Pattie Gonia, seeking $1 for trademark infringement<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She gave him a Thursday deadline to submit \u201cany additional information and evidence\u201d in response.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sullivan, the challenger, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment about the letter from Beecher,\u00a0a registered Republican\u00a0who in the past has donated to Republican groups and campaigns. Her letter, dated Wednesday and published by the Anchorage Daily News, did not specify the evidence it found to potentially remove him from the primary ballot, and her office did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan\u2019s candidacy has caused a stir in one of the most prominent U.S. Senate races in the country. It\u2019s a seat Democrats have targeted as they\u00a0try to regain the majority\u00a0in the chamber in this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Sullivan has accused his namesake challenger of working with Democrats to try to trick voters and boost the chances of his top opponent, former Democratic\u00a0Rep. Mary Peltola, a claim both deny. The challenger, who lives in the small fishing community of Petersburg south of Juneau,\u00a0told The Associated Press\u00a0earlier this week that the decision to run was \u201cmy choice.\u201d He said he had no contact with the Peltola campaign \u2014 \u201czero, none, zilch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, the challenger also pushed back in response to Republican Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom\u2019s announcement that she was opening an investigation into his candidacy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe law forbids your office from denying me access to the ballot just because Senator Sullivan and the NRSC would prefer I not be allowed to run,\u201d he wrote, referring to the National Republican Senatorial Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He called the investigation \u201can unprecedented affront to my rights as a candidate and the rights of Alaska voters to select their own representation in the U.S. Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was not immediately clear whether he had retained an attorney to help him remain on the ballot.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some attorneys also have raised questions about Dahlstrom\u2019s investigation, which among other things demanded that Sullivan explain his party affiliation, how long he had been going by the name Dan Sullivan, his affiliation with a consultant and any interactions he might have had with other candidates in the race or the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1280\">Elon Musk, the trillionaire: pay packets go multi-planetary in SpaceX IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Dahlstrom, who oversees elections, said in her letter to the challenger that the investigation pertained to \u201ccredible allegations\u201d that he did not declare his candidacy \u201cwith a good faith purpose to seek office but rather with a purpose to confuse voters and have them mistakenly vote for you rather than the incumbent with the same name and same political party affiliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The questions are in line with claims outlined in a letter to her and Beecher earlier this month from an attorney with the National Republican Senatorial Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU of Alaska, in a statement, said it is \u201cunaware of any other instance where the Lieutenant Governor has investigated a specific candidate for reasons other than determining whether a candidate meets federal, state and local eligibility requirements.\u201d The group said it was monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Jahna Lindemuth, who was an Alaska attorney general under an independent governor, said investigating why someone would run for office \u201cstarts infringing on free speech concerns and other protections under the Constitution.\u201d She said Dahlstrom could label the senator as the incumbent on the ballot if she were concerned about voter confusion.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Constitution requires senators to be at least 30 years old, a U.S. citizen for at least nine years and live in the state they\u2019ve chosen to represent at the time of election. Sullivan, who will turn 69 this weekend, told the AP he moved to Alaska in 1980 and worked for the U.S. Forest Service before switching careers and becoming a teacher. He\u2019s now retired.<\/p>\n<p>The declaration that the elections division requires candidates to fill out asks for their name, the party affiliation they want on the ballot, their address and how they want their name to appear. In signing the declaration, candidates are asked to affirm they meet citizenship, age and residency requirements.<\/p>\n<p>The division previously certified challenger Sullivan\u2019s candidacy, noting him on the candidate list as Dan J. Sullivan. The senator is listed as Dan S. Sullivan and as the incumbent.<\/p>\n<p>At least one group running ads in support of the senator, One Nation, has begun referring to him as Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1278\">Your AI is already setting prices. 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