Dan Sullivan presents himself as a working-class Alaskan — Carhartt jacket, work boots, regular guy. But his campaign groups have spent
more than $1.5 million at luxury hotels and golf resorts since 2015 — nearly his entire Senate career.
In 2025 alone, his groups spent $333,291 on lodging, meals, and catering — more than double the prior year. In the first quarter of 2026, about 92% of his food and lodging spending was outside Alaska. This is not Alaskan money. It is outside donor money, spent at resorts far from the people he claims to represent.
The venues tell the story. His groups reported 24 payments totaling $160,737 at a Palm Springs golf resort where The Bachelorette was filmed. More than $151,000 on Kiawah Island, most of it at the Kiawah Golf Resort — site of the 2021 PGA Championship — where he co-hosted a fundraiser with Sen. John Boozman during a government shutdown. $21,000 at The Phoenician in Scottsdale, where rooms run up to $9,500 a night. $3,500 at the Four Seasons in Palm Beach.
Back in Washington, he
dined at Bistro Cacao 21 times between January 2025 and March 2026 — billing more than $21,500 to his campaign and his PAC at a spot described by The Washingtonian as where "Capitol Hill power brokers fill the tables." He visited the 116 Club, a private DC establishment packed with high-powered lobbyists, 10 times for nearly $12,300. He spent $5,376 in a single visit to Joe's Stone Crab.
And while doing all of this, he sent donors emails begging for $3, $5, and $10 contributions so he could fill up his tank. Alaska gas prices had hit $5.20 a gallon — nearly a dollar above the national average, up from $3.65 the year before. His campaign had $7 million in the bank.
"While we're paying $5 for a gallon of gas, choosing between paying for groceries or health care, and struggling to afford housing," said Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft, "Self-Serving Sullivan has literally been wining and dining Lower 48 special interest donors at luxurious golf resorts."