I’ve decided to involve myself with the Dan Sullivan for Senate race in Alaska. One of his primary opponents is a nut, the other one is Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell, one of Hickel’s boys. Sullivan’s the better man, and candidate. He came to AK in ’97 or so, and I don’t know him, and probably don’t know his campaign manager either. So I’m going to introduce myself to them by writing a piece in the Anchorage Daily News. I wrote a bi-weekly column for them for five years in the 90’s until they asked Sen. Ted Stevens if they could do anything for them. Ted said, “Get rid of Pettyjohn”, so they did. The guy who told me that story was Mike Carey, my editor there. I’ve emailed him, and I’m sure he’ll help get me on. It’ll be about Jay Hammond and the Permanent Fund, and include the story of Jay’s first National Governor’s meeting. He went to a governor’s prayer meeting and met Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Jay called me up at the height of the Lewinsky scandal and said he wanted to visit my law office. He’d never done that. He wanted to share a laugh at his own expense, about how Clinton’s big blue eyes were so sincere and convincing.
If this goes over well, I’ll write one or two more about Hammond. There’s lots of stories. This will re-identify me in Alaska, and associate me with Hammond. It will introduce me to Sullivan. And maybe Sullivan and I can figure a way to use it to identify Sullivan with Hammond.
In Alaska, that’s political gold.
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