Ron DeSantis’s ‘Never Trump’ chief strategist, Jeff Roe, saw nearly 50 percent of the Florida Governor’s Never Back Down PAC cash flow through his companies, several of which are currently subject to law suits related to a botched ballot initiative in Nevada.
Per campaign finance filings, Roe and his company Axiom – which features a litany of establishment/RINO consultants on payroll – handled $16.4 million of more than $40 million spent in just two months’ campaigning.
The figure includes a whopping $14.8 million of media buys, for which “an Axiom subsidiary took a commission of 1.75 percent for the media placement, or about $259,000,” according to the Washington Post.
Blitz Canvassing, a vendor owned by GP3 – a Soros and Paul Ryan-linked firm first exposed by The National Pulse – was paid $1.2 million over the same period. GP3 also owns pollster ‘POS Strategies’, which has consistently published ludicrous outlier polling attempting to aid DeSantis. POS does not share its raw data, like reputable pollsters.
The DeSantis campaign also spent near $1.5 million on travel expenses and private jets over just six weeks, accounting for nearly 20 percent of its total spending, with the Governor apparently refusing to fly commercial for fear of being around members of the public.
Filings are also set to reveal $5.5 million in dark money donations from a group known only as Faithful & Strong Policies Inc, which was founded in Florida last year. Faithful & Strong Policies has a generic, default website, though National Pulse research reveals the company’s listed officer as Scott Wagner – a Florida lawyer handed a cushy government role by Governor DeSantis in 2019, and who chaired his “transition team” in 2022.
The dark money group’s name change filings also list Jessica Brouckaert, a political lawyer who worked for Mitt Romney and Jeb Bush. Brouckaert is married to Brian Bartlett, also a Romney alumnus, who now works at establishment public relations and lobbying firm Kekst.
