Posted June 20th, 2016 @ 8:20pm
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Paul Nehlen has made his business experience the centerpiece of his primary campaign against House Speaker Paul Ryan, but while he claims to be a “Wisconsin small business owner,” there is no evidence that his business has ever actually done business in Wisconsin...or anywhere else, for that matter.
In a biography posted on his official campaign website, Nehlen says that he has "established his own small business in Wisconsin. Blue Skies Global LLC leverages key networks and technologies on behalf of the companies with which it partners, in order to ensure that they can deliver outstanding, cost-effective engineered products and projects."
On his LinkedIn page, he lists one of his current occupations as "Small Business Owner," having run Blue Skies Global LLC from March of 2014 until the present. Nehlen’s profile describes the company as being "dedicated to providing outstanding engineered products and projects. Through expertise and experience each customer receives personal, professional attention."
However, a closer examination of Blue Skies Global LLC reveals a small business that doesn’t appear to do any business at all.
Its website, BlueSkiesGlobalLLC.com, features a brief and vague description of the services that it provides, but displays no way for users to contact the business. There is no phone number, no email address, no physical address; no way whatsoever for a potential customer to reach anyone at Blue Skies Global LLC.
The only link on the site is a “Volunteer” tab, which redirects to Operation Homefront, a charity for whom Nehlen serves as an advisory board member (according to his LinkedIn page).
Similarly, a LinkedIn page for Blue Skies Global LLC provides no way to contact the company, it is not listed in the Yellow Pages or any other phone book, and neither its phone number nor physical address is easily accessible on the internet.
In fact, the only place online that Blue Skies Global LLC’s number and address appear to be published is on the domain registration for Nehlen’s campaign website, PaulNehlen.us, which has since been renamed PaulNehlen.com.
The address is a single family home in Lake Geneva that is owned by Nehlen, while the number appears to be a personal cell phone.
Of course, plenty of small businesses are run out of their owner’s homes, but Blue Skies Global LLC does not appear to have done any business since it was formed two years ago.
It was incorporated in Delaware on June 6th, 2014, but Wisconsin’s Department of Revenue does not have any record of Blue Skies Global LLC ever filing a tax return in Wisconsin.
Similarly, Delaware’s Division of Corporations does not have a record of Blue Skies ever filing an annual tax report, which is “required by law [and] due March 1 annually.”
The Division says the “Last Annual Report Filed” field in its publicly available Corporate Entity Report “reflects the most current tax year that has a report on file,” but Blue Skies Global apparently never filed the legally required report in either of the two tax years since it was incorporated.
This does not necessarily mean that Blue Skies Global LLC has not done any business since it was founded nearly two years ago, but it does indicate that there is no record of the company paying taxes either in the state in which is headquartered or the state in which it was incorporated.
There is also no record of Blue Skies Global LLC ever employing anyone.
When asked about this lack of evidence that Blue Skies Global LLC actually operates as a small business, a Nehlen campaign spokeswoman provided contradictory answers.
"Blue Skies is a side gig, doing mostly pro bono work at this point to help build businesses," she said, but in an email to News/Talk 1130 WISN added that "Blue Skies doesn't charge for service yet. They help others grow."
So has Nehlen never charged his clients? Or has he charged some clients, as indicated by the phrase "mostly pro bono work?"
And who exactly are those clients? The Nehlen campaign refused to name any of them.
"Companies insourcing from other countries or utilizing Nehlen's sourcing network and skill set, developed through almost 30 years of manufacturing and engineering experience, don't need to advertise for him, or him for them," the campaign said in an email. "Their growth is the only gratification Nehlen wants or needs, so the client list remains private."
As for how those clients would ever be able to contact Blue Skies Global LLC since it does not have a publicly accessible phone number, email address, or physical address, the campaign said “Nehlen isn't actively soliciting new business at the present time."
"When he hears of someone who needs a hand, he lends it to them as best he can, or directs them to someone he personally knows who may be able to help."
“Nehlen essentially only does word of mouth right now. He works with those he knows.”
In other words, Blue Skies Global LLC appears to be nothing more than Nehlen giving business advice to his friends. It is a small business with no employees, no revenue, no tax filings, and no clients that the Nehlen campaign wished to identify.
Isn’t it a tad disingenuous to call that a small business?
When asked directly what states Blue Skies Global LLC has done business in and in what states the business has paid income taxes, the Nehlen campaign responded, "No taxes have been paid so far precisely because nothing has been charged for services to date."
In other words, by the Nehlen campaign’s own admission Blue Skies Global LLC has never conducted any actual business.
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Paul Nehlen - phony small businessman
Paul Nehlen - unknown to local GOP AND TEA Party groups
Paul Nehlen - possible Democrat plant?
Nehlen is the senior vice president of a water filtration company.
Entirely possible.
Paul Ryan - possible Democrat plant?
No "possible" about it.
Paul Nehlen - possible Democrat plant?
Who cares. Ryan should be taken out either in the primary or in the general election. So what if a Dem replaces him? Ryan in his current position is far more dangerous than a freshman Dem congressman.
Trying to prop up your Cheap Labor Express stooges, eh?
What positions did he have before? It’s not like he just materialized on Earth, birthed from a UFO.
Maybe it’s better to have a low power democratic plant occupy a congressional seat than have a closeted progressive globalist elite one world order bought and paid for schmuck as the GOP Speaker of the House. At least unseating Ryan would send a clear message to these traitors that they better get with the program and vote their constituency or they will be sent home.
I feel that the article you cited from the Pro-Ryan talk radio station is intentionally disingenuous. Many, if not the majority of small businesses in this country do not spend their resources on websites that are more than rudimentary. The internet is used as a tool by small business and for many it is not important to their operations.
My father still runs a small construction company from his home. He hasn’t been very active lately, since he is 80 years old, but he is still buying and selling land and building sites using his corporate name. In his heyday his corporation built a lot of houses. He has no website and many years the corporation has no taxable income. This is the same for many people who own small businesses. A corporation is at its root a tax entity... and nothing more in many cases.
Mr. Nehlen works as senior vice president of operations for Neptune-Benson, Inc., a subsidiary of Evoqua Water Technologies.
From Mr. Nehlen Website:
“Currently, Mr. Nehlen serves as senior vice president of operations for a company that leads the industry in water filtration and disinfection technologies. In that role, he oversees all facets of the organization’s engineering, new product development, production, supply chain, business development, and acquisitions. During his tenure with the company, Nehlen relocated manufacturing operations and jobs previously based in Canada to the eastern seaboard of the United States. Additionally, under his leadership, several of the company’s product lines and jobs were moved to Wisconsin.”
“Mr. Nehlen has likewise established his own small business in Wisconsin. Blue Skies Global LLC leverages key networks and technologies on behalf of the companies with which it partners, in order to ensure that they can deliver outstanding, cost-effective engineered products and projects.”
“As an inventor, Mr. Nehlen holds several patents both in the United States and abroad and has others pending. Two of those patents relate to the design of tube sheets, a subcomponent of various pieces of engineered industrial equipment. Where most tube sheets are comprised of a single, thick sheet, Nehlen’s designs call for innovative, stacked thinner sheets of metal. Stacking creates zones that wouldn’t have existed otherwise, tasking the various regions for filtration, flow control, shock absorption, magnetic characteristics, ion exchange, dosing, chemical or medical treatment, or other purposes. One of Mr. Nehlen’s tube sheets has applications in water filtration. Mr. Nehlen also holds the patent on a strainer and control system that has implications for worker safety. Some of Mr. Nehlen’s patents also lend themselves to additive manufacturing technologies, of which 3D printing is but one example.”
“Previously, Mr. Nehlen was a division president at the Georgia-based company TydenBrooks, where he managed the 80 percent relocation of a Mexico-based factory back to the U.S. Prior to TydenBrooks, he worked his way from the shop floor through middle management and all the way to executive leadership at SPX Corporation. Nehlen’s roles with SPX took him to a variety of states, including Wisconsin, as well as to international locations.”
“Since 2013, Mr. Nehlen has served as an advisory board member for Operation Homefront, a Wisconsin non-profit organization with a strong record of bringing direct financial assistance to the families of active duty service members.”
This is the contact info for Blue Skies Global Llc - Contact Tel: +1.8882842669
Contact Our Office: 1561 Highland Dr Lake Geneva WI 53147
email: info@blueskiesgloballlc.com
Did you get your brain out of a Cracker Jack box?
After you posted, others did some simple research to find out just how incredibly stupid your post shows you to be.
YOU are the sideshow, Bob.
It may be necessary to sacrifice some seats to the democrats to get rid of the entrenched operatives from the so-called gope.
I don’t care who Nehlen is and about the accusations against him.
Ryan must be defeated, we now know all we need to know about him.
If Nehlen doesn’t work out, we can deal with him later.
But right now the most important thing is to defeat Ryan, which will also send a message to all other Republicans.
Paul Ryan = definite Democratic plant
Most of us here want to see him replaced with anyone at all. His replacement as a rep. will not be Speaker of the House, of course, but merely the most insignificant of 435 US reps. I’ll take a door stopper or a Bernie Sanders acolyte over Paul Ryan, thank you.
If Nehlen is a plant, I’ll support him any way. Ryan is a curse. I’d rather have Nancy than Ryan.