Posted on 06/05/2023 8:12:43 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Governor Ron DeSantis’s chief strategist – Jeff Roe – is being sued by a group of “teachers, families, and businesses” in Nevada over a botched ballot initiative, with a company under his direction allegedly delivering campaign data riddled with bogus, obscene signatures. One bizarre complaint in the lawsuit filed in May is that some of the paperwork provided by Roe’s firm Axiom Strategies even “smelled like bong water”.
The Community Schools Initiative (CSI) hired Vanguard – a “subsidiary or alter ego of Axiom and [Jeff] Roe” – for a Clark County (NV) ballot initiative to “allow cities and municipalities to opt-out of the county-based school district to form their own community-based school districts”. Their job – for a cool $2.2 million – was to collect hundreds of thousands of signatures for the organization and its petitions. Roe’s firm was to guarantee a 70 percent “validity rate” and even allegedly boast to CSI that they were over 80 percent.
When the petition was submitted, however, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office found an average validity rate of just 53.2 percent. In Nevada’s First Congressional District, the complaint shows as low as a 41.6 percent rate. “The Clerk of Carson City verified the validity rate for the signatures Defendants submitted to it, at a meager 29.4 percent.” Ultimately, this caused the initiative – which cannot be attempted again for years – to fail.
The suit brought in U.S. district court against Vanguard and Axiom says the Nevada Secretary of State’s office described Vanguard’s efforts as “one of the worst signature gathering exercises they had seen in Nevada history,” citing “thousands of fraudulent signatures.”
Among other glaring issues, the Secretary of States’ office is said to have found that:
Moreover, the lawsuit alleges that Vanguard and Axiom are not “registered with the State of Nevada, are not recognized as entities in the state, nor do they have the required state, county, or city licenses as required by Nevada law” – making them “fraudulent and/or unlawful, shell entities owned ultimately by [Jeff] Roe.”
A refund offer is said to have been extended to CSI, though later rescinded. The lawsuit is therefore attempting to secure a court order for a refund, plus attorney fees and “treble damages for fraud”.
Eddie Greim, counsel for Vanguard, told The National Pulse: “Bogus lawsuits funded by shadowy interests have been the bane of the conservative movement. We expect to prevail.”
Sounds like DeSanctics should vet his people better, eh.
What I’ve been saying, the same folks who have been sabotaging Trump, will now sabotage DeSantis.
Both are naive, as to how the Deep State plays.
Jeff Roe? The same guy that ran Ted Cruz’s dirty campaign back in 2016? How low can DeSantis sink?
Yes. Trump does a so much better job of that.
Lol.
And they would know this because.......................
And they would know this because.......................
It’s like they think that if they allow deep state players in and parrot some deep state talking points, the deep state will be on their side and work against their opposition. Of course, that’s not how it works at all. Plus, it speaks to their willingness to suffer corruption as long as it benefits themselves.
To be fair, these sorts of political consultants are all dirtbags to some extent.
Of greater concern to me are the establishment types flocking to his campaign. Those people are real parasites, and can inflict permanent damage.
To be fair, these sorts of political consultants are all dirtbags to some extent.
Of greater concern to me are the establishment types flocking to his campaign. Those people are real parasites, and can inflict permanent damage.
McCain’s Campaign Manager didn’t even vote for him.
Known for his aggressive campaign techniques, Roe has earned a reputation as a “bare-knuckle” political operative who “plays to win.” Roe has been called “the next Karl Rove”.
His political consulting firm, Axiom Strategies, has won over 50 “Pollie” & Reed awards on its way to an “81% win rate”.
Roe has consulted for a variety of local, state, and federal political campaigns including the presidential campaigns of Mike Huckabee, Rick Perry and Ted Cruz. Roe was the senior strategist and campaign manager for Cruz’s 2016 presidential bid. Roe has also advised numerous members of Congress, U.S. Senate, governors and other statewide candidates including Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
I’d argue that Jeff F*****g Roe is a valid name.
Bong water??? Who would know what that smells like?
I couldn’t stand McCain either!
Is this supposed to logically prove something about DeSantis? Or is it another low IQ thread where people can make jokes about DeSantis while calling him DeSanctis?
So the left cries when things don’t go their way, but when the Right complains we are “deniers”. We have to laugh out loud at them in public. Ridicule the morons. Use their tactics against them. They hate that. They think “turning the other cheek” means we accept their position no matter what. They are wrong. It isn’t Right vs Left, it is Right vs Wrong.
Petition signatures need to be the signer’s legal name. Mike Hunt would have to sign “Michael Hunt.” Signature sabotage was a hallmark of Oregon’s petition process under SOS Bill Bradbury.
He ought to be ... democrat process, and all.
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