U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, who has represented Alaska for 10 years, has endorsed Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson in his bid for reelection. The Anchorage municipal election ends on April 2.
“I’ve always worked well with Mayor Dave Bronson, including on key issues like rebuilding the Port of Alaska, working to address affordable housing, strengthening our Alaska-based military, and revitalizing our local economy. We have unfinished business and I hope you’ll join me in voting to re-elect Mayor Bronson for a second term,” Sullivan said.
The endorsement comes two days after former Mayor Dan Sullivan announced his endorsement of Bronson, who first ran for elected office in 2021 and blocked Democrat Forrest Dunbar from becoming Anchorage’s mayor.
The two Sullivans, who are not related, have solid reputations among Anchorage conservative voters.
This is the kind of campaign news that readers might see in other daily newspapers covering races in cities across America, but in Anchorage, endorsements of Bronson have been ignored by the mainstream media.
Since Bronson was first elected, the media has pushed out headline after headline attacking Bronson, parroting the accusations lodged against him by the liberal Anchorage Assembly, which mayoral candidate Suzanne LaFrance led as chair up until she resigned to try to run Bronson off.
LaFrance has used those media headlines in her campaign to try to show how Bronson has fallen short, but what it actually shows is how much the media has been gunning for Bronson since Day One and is covertly pushing to have the Democratic Party control both the Mayor’s Office and the Assembly. LaFrance has also had help from the dark-money group 907 Initiative and its campaign arm 907 Action.
LaFrance may be losing steam, however. Bronson has a $100,000 campaign cash advantage over LaFrance, who is endorsed by the Alaska Democratic Party and the powerful (Alaska Center for the Environment.)
That cash advantage Bronson has built may help his team as they work to get out the vote among the segment of Anchorage voters who have been too busy to get their ballots completed and mailed or placed in drop boxes.
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