“Work with the Alaska Legislature in the coming years to expand broadband/internet connectivity for rural Alaska.”
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All three cited PRIMARY sources are reachable, all three quotes/headlines appear verbatim, and all three postdate the 2023-02-07 promise (2023-06-26, 2024-11-08, 2026-03-10). They document genuine, substantial post-promise follow-through on the promise's core goal — expanding broadband/internet connectivity for rural Alaska: Sullivan's role in the $1B+ IIJA broadband deployment, celebrating the FCC's Alaska Plan 2.0 10-year extension, and welcoming NTIA's approval of Alaska's $629M BEAD proposal. However, the specific promised mechanism — 'work with the Alaska Legislature' (the state legislature) — is not mentioned in ANY of the three sources. Sullivan's documented roles are federal-facing (welcomed/celebrated/advocated with federal officials and the FCC/NTIA, jointly with Sen. Murkowski), and his clearest personal leadership act (authoring the IIJA broadband provisions) predates the promise window. That mechanism mismatch, plus the welcoming/joint (rather than distinct new state-level leadership) character of the post-promise actions, correctly keeps this short of FULL and well short of CHAMPIONED, while the verified advancement of the underlying goal makes UNRATABLE inappropriate. PARTIAL is supported by the evidence and does not overstate it.
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