As the midterms get closer, the Puddle's desperation gets wilder.
Six days ago, the Puddle's DOJ sued the state of Alaska over two men with nearly identical names running for the Senate...
President Donald Trump said Friday that he had directed the Justice Department to preemptively file a lawsuit to try to block the certification of the crucial Alaska Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, citing name confusion among the candidates.
Republicans have alleged that candidate Dan J. Sullivan is running a sham campaign to purposefully confuse voters and draw votes away from incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan based on their names being similar.
Asked Friday about the lawsuit, which the Justice Department filed on Thursday, Trump said, "Well, I'm one that said, 'Do it.'"
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An earlier legal challenge to Dan J. Sullivan's candidacy was rejected by Alaska's supreme court, which ordered that he be included on the ballot.
ABC News. 10/23/2026.
Yesterday, Puddle using the New York Times, took the fight to the Democratic candidate for Senate, Mary Peltola.
In the summer of 2025, a staffer for Mary Peltola, the Alaska Democrat who was eyeing a run for Senate, received unusual instructions from top campaign aides: Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.
The staffer complied, combing through voter records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across the state.
This was no random request. Dan S. Sullivan is the name of the state’s Republican senator. And if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, the confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state’s unusual, four-person ballot.
The plan worked. This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea, announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J. Sullivan.
The Peltola campaign has repeatedly denied any involvement in his candidacy. But The Times has found, based on interviews and text messages, along with documents prepared for a potential lawsuit against the campaign, that not only did Ms. Peltola’s team work with people trying to recruit Mr. Sullivan to run for Senate, but the effort was much broader. The group worked to coax other would-be spoilers into the race, to dilute the incumbent’s support and help catapult the Democrat to victory.
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“Alaskan voters need to know,” said Elisa Rios, Ms. Peltola’s former campaign manager and longtime aide, who was fired amid a staff shake-up in August, and agreed to a series of interviews with The Times since then. “There was a lot of speculation, and voters should get the full picture when making their decisions.”
Ms. Peltola was not directly involved in the project, Ms. Rios said, but she was “definitely aware.”
The operation had impact. On Tuesday, Ms. Peltola will be the only Democrat on the ballot, facing off against the two Mr. Sullivans and a long-shot candidate named Gerald Heikes who was also recruited into the race, according to The Times’s reporting. Polls give Ms. Peltola a strong chance of winning.
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Both the Peltola campaign and the D.S.C.C. denied participating in efforts to recruit spoilers to the ballot in Alaska. Neither group addressed a detailed list of questions provided by The Times.
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Last week, as The Times prepared to publish this article, Ms. Rios, who had been planning to file a wrongful termination lawsuit against the Peltola campaign, contacted The Times and said she wanted to take back her previous statements.
“As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,” Ms. Rios wrote. “I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity.”
It is rare for a source to seek to retract comments made in previous interviews, and The Times’s standards do not obligate reporters to comply with such requests. The Times had never agreed that those previous interviews could not be published, and informed Ms. Rios last week that they would be a part of this story.
In addition, Ms. Rios’s interviews were consistent with The Times’s other reporting. She has not filed a lawsuit against the campaign.
The New York Times. 10/28/2026.
Pretty sure Puddle wasn't told about this part:
“As discussed on our call earlier today, I am confirming that I have retracted all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate Race in connection with any article you may or may not be writing,” Ms. Rios wrote. “I am not willing to be a source for any story in any capacity.”
The New York Times. 10/28/2026.
Since he went on a Lies Social spamming spree to make this dog hunt...
Speaking of Alaska...
VP Puddle was asked his thoughts about ranked-choice voting...
VP Puddle:
What do you think it says about ranked choice voting in general? There's been some pushback to the whole system because in situations like this.
Yeah, I've heard the pushback to ranked choice voting. I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election. The person who wins the most votes should win. That seems to be not what happens with ranked choice voting. So I'm not a big fan of it. The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics. I think suggests we should do our elections in like the normal way, which is if you vote for a person. And they get more votes than the other person they should win.
Buzz App. My Ears. 10/29/2026.
Narrator: Ranked-choice voting still elects the candidate who wins the final count. FFS.
