EXCLUSIVE:
IOWA CAUCUS VOTE COUNTING CONFLICT OF INTEREST
I have discovered that the Iowa GOP has hired Patrick Stewart of Red Oak Strategic LLC to oversee the process of counting the votes on the day of the Iowa Caucus.
The owner of Red Oak Strategic
@redoakstrategic
is Mark Stephenson, who is married to Ashlee Rich Stephenson
@ashleewrich
. Ashlee Rich Stephenson is the President of AxAdvocacy (Axiom’s lobbying shop). Axiom is owned by Jeff Roe, who was the head of Ron DeSantis’s Super PAC Never Back Down
@NvrBackDown24
.
Along with being the President of Axiom’s lobbying shop and joining the US Chamber of Commerce, Ashlee Rich Stephenson was formerly working for WPA Intelligence, the company that gets paid to do Ron DeSantis’s super PAC's data & polling. Ashlee was also the polling coordinator for the RNC.
I have looked at her X account, and Ashlee frequently likes posts that attack President Trump, and she likes posts that favor
@RonDeSantis
and his Never Back Down PAC.
It’s worth noting that the previous President of AxAdvocacy was
@DavidPolyansky
, who is currently
@RonDeSantis
’s Deputy Campaign manager and the current Chief Strategy officer at
@jeffroe
’s Axiom Strategies.
Prior to joining Axiom and AxAdvocacy, David Polyansky served as Chief of Staff to Senator Ted Cruz, who still refuses to endorse President Trump for 2024.
Jeff Roe is notoriously anti-Trump and many of his clients are Never Trumpers.
Red Oak Strategic is also a vendor to the Senate Leadership fund that’s operated by Trump hater Mitch McConnell.
How can the voters in Iowa have faith in their votes being counted correctly and fairly when Red Oak Strategic
@redoakstrategic
, the company that has been retained to manage and oversee the calculation of the votes for the Iowa Caucus, has a very blatant conflict of interest with Ron DeSantis’s campaign and his Super Pac that they never disclosed to the public?
This is very concerning!