In case you missed it, pro-Peltola Democrats Jim Lottsfeldt and Jonathan Kreiss Tompkins recruited Fraud Dan Sullivan, according to a new report. Kreiss-Tomkins, Lottsfeldt, and Amber Lee refused to answer when asked why they recruited Fraud Sullivan. JKT’s recruitment effort in Alaska is also tied to a national operation led by Fake Independent Dan Osborn in Nebraska. Osborn was just exposed for recruiting Graham Platner in Maine.
“As we have said from the start, Fraud Dan Sullivan is a Democrat who was recruited by Mary Peltola and her Democrat lackeys. The evidence is overwhelming, and Alaskans deserve answers from Peltola,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
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How Democratic Operatives Got a Copycat Candidate on the Alaska Senate Ballot to Confuse Voters
Kamden Muler
National Review
July 10, 2026
How Did Democrats Find the ‘Fake’ Sullivan?
So how did Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher from the 3,000-person town of Petersburg, Alaska, get drawn into this scheme? It doesn’t appear he came up with the idea himself.
Sullivan’s son, Noah Sullivan, previously worked for Alaska Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, both as an intern for his state house office and as field representative for Kreiss-Tomkins’s state representative reelection campaign.
Kreiss-Tomkins, who moonlights as a political consultant, has connections to James Lottsfeldt, who served as the treasurer of the Vote Alaska Before Party PAC, which, despite its bipartisan branding, is actually a single-candidate Super PAC supporting Democrat Mary Peltola. Peltola, who served in the House from 2022 to 2025, is now running for Senate.
Lottsfeldt runs a political consulting firm called Lottsfeldt Strategies, which was paid $23,000 by the Vote Alaska Before Party PAC in February, 2025, according to FEC filings. He also served as treasurer of the Put Alaska First PAC, which was created in 2014 to oppose Republican Dan Sullivan’s first Senate bid against incumbent Democrat Mark Begich.
Lottsfeldt and Kreiss-Tomkins co-hosted a campaign launch event back in February for Kreiss-Tomkins’s gubernatorial campaign.
Kreiss-Tomkins and Lottsfeldt did not respond when asked whether they recruited the copycat Sullivan into the race.
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Lee has worked for many Democratic-affiliated Alaska groups and campaigns, and while she doesn’t list the Sullivan campaign on her firm’s website, the candidate confirmed in a letter to Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom that he had hired Lee. Further, Lee authored Sullivan’s campaign announcement, according to metadata taken from a PDF posted online. While she’s ostensibly working for Sullivan, Lee was quoted earlier this year as saying Peltola is a real challenger for the incumbent Sullivan.
Lee also has connections to the other consultants hovering around Sullivan. She was working at Lottsfeldt Strategies in February, 2025, when the firm was paid by Peltola’s PAC, according to an archived version of the firm’s website. Lee’s bio has since been scrubbed from the website and her affiliation with the firm is not reflected on her LinkedIn account.
Lee did not respond to National Review’s request for comment.
The political operatives who appear to be behind the copycat Sullivan campaign haven’t limited themselves to Alaska.
Kreiss-Tomkins, who’s running for governor of Alaska as a Democrat, also runs a political consulting firm whose clients, according to Kreiss-Tomkins’s LinkedIn page, include Dan Osborn, who is running for Senate in Nebraska as an independent despite his extensive Democratic ties and progressive commitments.
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