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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMake an easy $100..attend JD Vance rallies
https://iowastartingline.com/news/politics/paid-attendees-nunn-jd-vance-rally-des-moines/Reynolds-connected lobbyist recruited paid attendees for JD Vances Iowa rally on behalf of an ethanol company
An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash paymentsplus referral bonusesto pack JD Vances Des Moines rally this week.
An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash paymentsplus referral bonusesto pack JD Vances Des Moines rally this week.
Just hours before Vice President JD Vance took the stage in Des Moines, an ethanol lobbyist with deep connections in the Reynolds administration offered money to contacts willing to attend the rally.
Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here, he wrote in a text message. I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing Vice President JD Vance this afternoon in Des Moines. I do some work for an ethanol company and so if youre able to join, I will give you $100, and for anyone that you recruit, an additional $25. No limit on referrals, so if someone recruits a group of 20 to show up, thats $500.
Iowa Starting Line obtained the screenshot of the text message which was sent at 1:11 p.m. on May 5, just before a chartered bus was scheduled to depart for the Vances event. Iowa Starting Line confirmed its authenticity with one of its recipients.
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Make an easy $100..attend JD Vance rallies (Original Post)
BlueWaveNeverEnd
22 hrs ago
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RockRaven
(19,704 posts)1. Ugh... Sounds like a hard $100 to me.
usonian
(26,468 posts)2. Is there a discount if you dress up in a seat cover?
Asking a Lazy Boy.
Dave Bowman
(7,405 posts)3. That's not pathetic at all. 🙄
johnp3907
(4,336 posts)4. Ya call that easy?
BlueWaveNeverEnd
(14,873 posts)5. Bring 20 DUers... add $500
jmowreader
(53,361 posts)6. "I do some work for an ethanol company"
That sounds to me like a version of what they tell you to try to get you to come to Amway meetings.
Kid Berwyn
(24,983 posts)7. Fake leader making fake news.
Manufacturing support is un-American.
Besides, only rich people like resource extraction executives and Peter Thiel can afford it.
LymphocyteLover
(10,089 posts)8. No thanks. But freaking pathetic anyone is paying for this. JFC
perfessor
(386 posts)9. 100 measly dollars? Soros is paying me $200 to stay home.
haele
(15,571 posts)10. If I were deaf and brought a craft (like knitting)
And didn't have to look up.
The smell of the crowd might be horrible, though.