Dan Dow's "Disgusting" (and highly paid) Political "Consultant" [finger quotes] Question for SLO County District Attorney Candidate, Judge Mike Cummins
Hello Judge
Mike,
I'm a SLO County based blogger, and I'm researching a story
involving "slimy" "political consultants," like,
locally, Tom Fulks and Pandora Nash-Karner, that get paid big bucks to sneak around
behind-the-scenes during election season to (or, at least
attempt to) destroy the lives of anyone that is not on their
clients' side.
Now, I was recently going over your opponent's campaign finance
disclosures, and those documents show that the "Dan Dow for
District Attorney 2018" committee pays a political consulting
firm, "Axiom Strategies LLC," tens of thousands of dollars
for "consulting" [finger quotes] work.
And if you do a quick Google search, you will find that Axiom is
headed-up by someone named Jeff Roe.
And, in that same quick Google search, you will also discover
that Jeff Roe, apparently, is a very "disgusting human
being."
For example, at this link:
... it reads:
"Today, Broomfield (an opponent of one of Roe's clients)
says he regrets not pressing charges against (Axiom). 'They’ll do
anything,' Broomfield says of Roe and his associates. 'There's no
limit.'"
and;
"In the 2006 election, (Roe's client's) Democratic
challenger was 62-year-old Sara Jo Shettles, who once held a job
selling ads for a science magazine owned by the parent company of
Penthouse. The (Roe) camp accused her of having a 'Pornographic
Connection,' and ran a TV ad that displayed a large 'XXX' beside her
picture, as an announcer warned that she had 'outrageous values.' Roe
defended the attack."
and;
"Roe didn't only target Democrats. During a 2006 state
Senate race, he dug up a painful episode from the past of Joe Brazil,
a fellow Republican running against Roe’s preferred candidate... In
March 2007, Brazil sued Roe for defamation... 'Jeff Roe is a
disgusting human being,' he says. 'He leaves a path of
destruction.'"
And, at this link:
... it reads:
"Days after the (Axiom produced) spot aired, Schweich took
his own life. Some of Schweich's friends quickly concluded the ad
played a role in the suicide and accused Roe of bullying the
candidate. Former U.S. Sen. Jack Danforth urged Republicans to walk
away from Roe, a request he repeated last week. 'We should
disassociate ourselves from anyone who conducts this sort of
campaign,' he said in an email."
and;
"(Roe has) hired operatives to track opponents with video
cameras, leading some to complain of unnecessary provocation and to
file complaints with police. His deep research into his opponents’
personal records is legendary. He’s been accused of orchestrating a
lawsuit to gain access to a candidate’s personal papers."
and;
"Missouri state Sen. Mike Parson... repeated his sharp
criticism of Roe's tactics last week. 'For some reason, we say it’s
OK to win at all costs... But it's not OK to win at all costs when
you've got to destroy somebody's lives… This has been going on for
way too long, and it needs to stop.'"
And, at the following link, headlined: "Jeff Roe was the
biggest loser in Kansas City's primaries":
... it reads:
"Four candidates for the Kansas City Council say they hired
Jeff Roe's Axiom Strategies to help them win in Tuesday night's
primaries... Roe, the badly tarnished Kansas City area political
consultant who often uses slimy tactics to try to win elections,
couldn’t help pull any of the candidates through to
victory."
and:
"(Roe's client) Wright's loss was the most satisfying for
people who are thoroughly disgusted by Roe and all he stands for in
his often-shady way of running campaigns."
and;
"... in reference to Roe, Davis said people 'need to run
that guy out of town.'"
and;
"Greitens (a Roe client opponent) wrote a letter to
supporters calling out Roe and his allies specifically. He called them
snakes. He said they were shameful and disgusting. 'Liars, cowards,
sociopaths,' he wrote. 'They are often deeply broken and disturbed
people, who — like criminals who prey on the innocent — take their
pleasure and make their living by victimizing honest
people.'"
And, at this link:
... it reads:
"They ('slimy' political 'consultants,' like Roe [and, I'll
go-ahead in toss in, locally, Fulks and Nash-Karner]) are drawn to
politics as vultures flock to rotting meat—and they feed off the
carcasses of vice. Every lie makes them money. Every fake website,
fake Facebook account that spouts falsehoods makes them cash. They pay
kids to follow you (and your spouse) around with a camera, and they
often pay those same kids to shout questions at you—and in this they
profit. They engage in the lowest of tactics, the most slanderous
lies—and all the while their bank balances rise."
and;
"They stand in such stark contrast to the honest people who
make up most of Missouri, that it takes a leap of imagination for
normal people to even understand how crooked many people in the
business of politics are. They are corrupt in ways that I didn’t
know people could be corrupt."
Now, with all of that in mind, I'm just curious: Have you, during
this campaign season, experienced any of that?
Have you, as an opponent of one of Roe's clients (Dan Dow),
experienced any of the "disgusting," slimy,"
"crooked," "corrupt," "deeply disturbed,"
campaign "tactics," by Dow's highly paid, "broken and
disturbed," "liars, cowards, sociopath(s)," and
"badly tarnished" "consultants" [finger quotes]
that, "to win at all costs," are highly paid to
"destroy lives?"
Have you experienced any of that during this campaign
season?
I (and, I'm sure, the K.C. Star, that I've cc'd on this
email) would be very interested in hearing your takes, if any,
involving Dan Dow's highly paid, "disgusting"
"consultant" [finger quotes] (and, notice no "finger
quotes" on the word "disgusting") Jeff Roe, and his
Axiom "Strategies" [finger quotes].
If you have any questions, please just ask.
Thank you for your time,
Ron
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"Open Source Journalism," where I cc my reporting emails,
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If you choose to reply, I'll also publish your response.
Thanks again! :-)
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12:46 PM
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