Civics: Politics and “False Flags”

Alana Goodman and Collin Anderson:

Days after Chuck Schumer denied any involvement in the campaign of Dan J. Sullivan—the newly declared Republican known as “Decoy Dan” who is running for Senate in Alaska in an apparent bid to siphon votes from GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan—the Senate minority leader’s nonprofit group began running an ad starring a Dan J. Sullivan campaign representative, a Washington Free Beacon review found.

The spot from Majority Forward, the nonprofit affiliate of Schumer’s Senate Majority PAC, features a man identified as “Alan” from “Anchorage” who owns a moving company and accuses Sen. Sullivan of “voting to raise our costs.” His full name is Alan Harris, and his moving company, Allstar Moving, is registered to a residential address in Anchorage, Alaska, records show. So is a second business, Amber Lee Strategies, a political consulting firm owned by Harris’s romantic partner, Democratic strategist Amber Lee, who owns the property, according to local records.

Dan J. Sullivan confirmed in June that he hired Lee as a campaign adviser after the metadata from his campaign launch press release listed “Amber Lee” as its author. But Lee is not supporting the lesser-known Sullivan alone: Dan J. Sullivan’s declaration of candidacy states that a “rep” for the campaign, “Alan Harris,” delivered the declaration form to the Alaska Division of Elections in Anchorage “on behalf of Daniel J. Sullivan” on June 1.

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