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, 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. He spent $160,737 at a Palm Springs golf resort where The Bachelorette was filmed. More than $151,000 at Kiawah Golf Resort — site of the 2021 PGA Championship — including 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 in 14 months — spending $21,500 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 $12,300. He spent $5,376 in a single visit to Joe's Stone Crab.
And while doing all of this, he sent fundraising emails begging Alaskans for $3, $5, and $10 donations to help him "pay for gas." 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."