AK Senate race - R candidate Sullivan seems to have committed voter fraud in 2008

[Blue_In_AK]

http://www.adn.com/article/20140930/maryland-tax-breaks-received-us-senate-candidate-sullivan-legitimate-officials-say

A review by Maryland officials into property tax breaks received in that state by Alaska Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan has found the tax breaks were appropriately granted.

In an emailed statement Tuesday, the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation said Sullivan, who received the tax breaks while working at the U.S. State Department and living in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Bethesda between 2006 and 2008, accurately declared Maryland his principal residence during that period -- a finding likely to provide ammunition to Sullivan's opponents.

The review was conducted at the request of the chairman of the Alaska Democratic Party, Mike Wenstrup. Democrats have raised questions about Sullivan’s Alaska residency history over the course of the campaign, and noted that Sullivan voted absentee in Alaska’s 2008 general election -- a year he also declared Maryland his principal residence for tax purposes.

The Democrats also noted that Sullivan said he'd been an Alaska resident since 1997 on a notarized form he filed this year when declaring his candidacy for U.S. Senate.

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In other words, while claiming to Maryland officials that he was a resident of that state so that he could get significant tax breaks, he was voting absentee in Alaska. You can't have it both ways, Dan.

In the meantime, he skipped a candidate debate here in Alaska so that he could go to a fundraiser in Ohio, his original home, where his billionaire parents now reside. His parents have contributed almost a million dollars to Crossroads GPS, and were that organization's second largest donors in August. But there's no coordination with the campaign, right? Right??

Here is The Mudflats' hilarious take on this http://www.themudflats.net/archives/44582

Ohio Dan gets cocky, goes to Ohio

There’s nothing like a couple polls giving you a slight edge in an Alaskan political race, to make the inexperienced Alaska politician feel a little cocky.

U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan has spend the entire election cycle so far dodging accusations he’s a carpetbagger from Ohio, who moved to Alaska for a Senate seat which will be purchased for him by the Koch brothers, and his wealthy family and friends in the Buckeye state.

Sullivan turned up Sunday as the dreaded “empty chair” at a candidate forum that was attended by incumbent Senator Mark Begich, and Libertarian candidate Mark Fish. That’s two marks against Dan Sullivan. (<—See what I did there?)

Election day is 36 days away, and campaigning is fast and furious. Every debate is critical… so what could have kept Ohio Dan away? Not the flu, not a family emergency, not a delayed flight. Turns out Dan was feeling a little homesick, and hightailed it out of Alaska, showing up in Cleveland to raise more cash for his Senate campaign. Hey, it takes a lot of money to convince Alaskans you’re an Alaskan, and the best source of that money is apparently, his home town.

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See, also, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/09/29/dan-sullivan-spotted-raising-money-in-cleveland-after-candidate-forum-absence/

And on a more serious note, Afghan Dan/Ohio Dan/Maryland Dan or whoever he is is having some problems with Alaska's fishermen.



http://www.adn.com/article/20140930/debate-approaches-sullivan-swims-upstream-challenge-begich-fisheries-0

The difference in reception for the two U.S. Senate candidates was stark.

The Republican, Dan Sullivan, got 45 minutes Friday morning to make his pitch to the United Fishermen of Alaska’s board of directors in a dimly lit hotel conference room in Anchorage -- a pitch that at best would draw just a few votes away from his opponent, incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Begich, whom the group had endorsed months earlier.

Begich, by contrast, was invited to give the keynote address Friday night at the UFA’s glitzy 40th anniversary banquet, where he presented a fish-centric stump speech and described how he’d gone to bat for attendees by fighting against genetically modified salmon and illegal fishing in Alaska waters.

As the two candidates prepare for a debate Wednesday in Kodiak over fisheries, Begich is counting on strong support from the multibillion-dollar industry, which employs more than 30,000 people statewide.

He chairs a key Senate committee charged with shepherding legislation through Congress that’s critical to the fishing industry, joins fishermen in opposing the Pebble mine project in Southwest Alaska, and boasts the endorsement of several trade groups, like the UFA, the Bering Sea Crabbers, and even the Purse Seine Vessel Owners Association.

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So things may not be all doom and gloom for Mark Begich, despite squirrelly polls. I personally know several people who are deliberately lying to pollsters, and I don't answer my phone.

[LonePirate]

1. This is a perfect opportunity for rank and file Repubs to prove their intolerance of voter fraud.

I am not holding my breath, though.

[Jim Lane]

2. On a side note, why are people "deliberately lying to pollsters"? (n/t)

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Well, I guess that's because they're sick and tired of them.

From what I've heard - since I haven't taken any of them - they're obviously push polls asking stupid questions. We get at least eight calls a day here at our house that are either polls or robocalls because they never leave messages and the originating number is New Jersey or something.

I think people are messing with the pollsters because they can.

There are about 450,000 registered voters here and hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent. The Senate candidates have bought so much air time, the state candidates can't even run ads. It's ridiculous.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. If true, IOKIYAR