Four years ago, the GOP fired some loser political operative named Nathan Sproul. I’ll Let User #6 do the heavy lifting. This is from the 2012 election. Meteorblades gives the short version of the extent of the crimes “veteran political operative” Nathan Sproul and his firms had been accused of when he was fired, albeit apparently only fired for the moment.
www.dailykos.com/…
Federal Election Commission filings show that the Republican National Committee paid Strategic Allied Consulting LLC $416,665 for "management consulting services" in September. The firm, owned by GOP operative Nathan Sproul, was fired by the RNC and five state Republican parties after apparently fraudulent voter-registration forms turned up in 10 Florida counties. The payments were provided before Republican ties with the firm were cut off.
A spokesman for the RNC said at the time Strategic Allied Consulting was fired that the party has "zero tolerance" for anything that smacks of voter-registration fraud. But it has stuck with Sproul over nearly a decade despite repeated allegations in various states that his firms have been involved in trickery and deceit. There's a pattern of alleged misbehavior.
The Florida party had previously paid the firm, Strategic Allied Consulting, $1.3 million in July and August, according to the Palm Beach Post. The RNC had directed a total of $3.1 million to the firm through state organizations in Florida, Nevada, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia, according to the Los Angeles Times.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched a criminal investigation of Sproul and Strategic Allied Consulting because of allegations of 220 criminal acts. Among there were allegations of dead people being registered to vote as well as numerous other voter-registration infractions used to try to increase Republican voter rolls.
Sproul's firms have previously run similar voter registration efforts for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, for McCain-Palin in 2008 and Romney since late last year. Operating under different names, the firms have been accused of altering information on Democratic voter registration forms in several states, including Oregon and Colorado. The Florida Party, a spokesman said, had hired SAC "at the request of" the RNC.
...over the past nine years, Sproul and his companies have been paid a total of more than $21.2 million by the Republican Party despite the several instances of suspected trickery and deceit in the voter registration efforts. No charges have ever been filed.
The last use of the tag Nathan Sproul was in 2012.
Until today.
Trump and the GOP are paying Nathan Sproul again! Never mind that he has criminal accusations going back more than a dozen years. Never mind that they supposedly canned the sorry cheater during the last presidential ass whipping.
Trump, GOP Paying Consultant Dogged by Voter Fraud Charges
From 2016
...recent federal campaign finance reports reviewed by The Associated Press show Sproul is now back on the RNC's payroll, this time with a firm named Lincoln Strategy Group, a renamed version of his former firm Sproul & Associates, an Arizona-based firm that was investigated for alleged voter registration misconduct in Nevada and Oregon.
The RNC paid Sproul's company a total of $1.2 million in October for get-out-the-vote efforts. Records show Donald J. Trump For President, Inc., paid another $600,000 to Lincoln Strategy on Oct. 27.
Naturally, the GOP is once again shocked to find out that they keep rehiring the same criminal over and over and over.
The Republican Party shouts daily in public that the votes are being stolen, and that devious people of all sorts are trying to sneak in and register in order to vote in a single election.
And yet, they can’t seem to remember the names of the people who are actually accused of attempting to rig the registration and/or the vote.
Nathan Sproul’s “edgy” tactics go back further than 2012. In 2009, Think Progress, in an article titled Coal Lobby’s ‘Purest Form Of Grassroots’ Delivered By GOP Voter Fraud Company wrote about him. They cited an even earlier incident with him- from 2004!
- In Oregon and Nevada, Lincoln Strategies — then known as Sproul and Associates — was investigated for destroying Democratic voter registration forms. The Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign paid Sproul $7.4 million for campaign work. [CNN, 10/14/04; KGW News, 10/13/04; East Valley Tribune, 09/07/06]
Hmm, must be just an honest mistake that they’ve paid the mf’er nearly two million bucks already. I mean, really. Who really cares about a couple mill?
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