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A refund offer is said to have been extended to CSI, though later rescinded.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.”
demand 100% validity.
Make them check AT THE SOURCE of the signature. Not at the end...
When I worked at a defense contractor they paid extra for 100% testing compliance. The company wanted to ask them to settle for 97% and were denied. Did they want 3 out of 100 aircraft to crash?
The testing had to be done anyway. Just test them when you build them. Same logic applies here.
Who one earth told them they would settle for 70% validity?
Well, he did work for Lyn’ Ted before so he was probably continuing in character.
I think DeSantis record on who he hires is better than Trumps.
Trump’s admin was line a constantly swirling recvolving door - one gets the boot and another one comes in, and they get the boot.
The National Piss is one of the OP's favorite publications to quote, along with Politico, when trying to diminish DeSantis's standing.
By the way, are you suggesting by your posts, that we should probably start posting every bit of criticism about Trump 24 x 7? I was a Trump supporter, one of the first on FR, previously supported Lyn’ Ted. If you really want to see all the negative about all the candidates, I’d be happy, and I’m sure others would be happy to oblige you about Trump’s many failings.
Saint Desantis has done more to diminish himself than any other .. hiring Roe to run his campaign merely validates what some have accused him from gitmo..
How would that be any different from your trash postings on any other given day? Post away DUmmy!
“I think DeSantis record on who he hires is better than Trumps.”
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So you have a crystal ball, eh.
Ron DiSneakiness has a handle on politics.
Neither did I, thankfully.
Or, should I say...Ron DiFrauded.
No. Looking back at all the duds Trump hired that the had to fire. Have not seen that with DeSantis in his Florida admin.
Clearly, the strategy at this point is to kneecap the GOP candidates by attacking their staffs to undercut their organizations before they can gain traction. What is Ronna doing to counter this offensive?
-PJ
LOL. Trump has already been President. Did you somehow forget that?
LOL, Desantis has not already been President, did you fall down and hit your head?
Roe is incompetent. No surprise to see he failed at this job. He’s enacting the exact same stupid anti-Trump ideas he sold to Lyin Ted.
“Looking back at all the duds Trump hired that the had to fire. Have not seen that with DeSantis in his Florida admin.”
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SoS, CFO and CoEd - a whopping 3 appointed cabinet positions, LOL.
LOL!
Like Trump did?
You don’t need a crystal ball to see what’s already happened. Please try to do better.
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