We apologize for not posting “Uncle Jeff’s Guide To Political Truth and Ethics Vol. I” as promised. Things are moving “fast and furious” around here and we’ve uncovered so much more information in our quest for Truth (we’ll get to that soon) that we thought we should lay out a little foundation for our story.
The following statements, opinions and conclusions are based on our review of public documents. We will tell you how to obtain them for yourself when we conclude.
Hold on everyone, this is going to be a bumpy ride!
Introduction: The “Players”
Let’s look a little closer at what we call The Strategery Cabal…
The “Big Cheese”
The Strategery Group, Inc. is an Idaho For Profit, Business Corporation. One “Ron Lahr” of Post Falls, Idaho, incorporated it on March 14, 2011 at 8:58AM. The corporation is authorized to issue 10,000 shares of stock and according to their web site; the principals are Ron Lahr, Jeffery Ward, Jonathan Pool and Scott Carpenter. Most people we have spoken to are of the opinion that principally Jeff Ward and Ron Lahr own Strategery.
The “Shill”
The Kootenai County Reagan Republicans claim they are “an unincorporated nonprofit social welfare public benefit association and is not organized for the private gain of any person. It is organized under the IDAHO UNIFORM UNINCORPORATED NONPROFIT ASSOCIATION ACT for public purposes. Further, they claim that they are organized and operated exclusively for social welfare purposes within the meaning of United States IRC 501 (c) (4).”
We have verified that Reagan Republicans is NOT registered with the Idaho Secretary of State (SOS web site), and it has NOT obtained tax-exempt status recognition from the IRS (IRS web site).
The top three executives of the “association” are Ron Lahr, President, Jeff Ward, Treasurer and Jeff Tyler, First Vice President.
The “Accomplices”
The “Reagan Republican Victory Fund” is a registered political committee. Its “Chairman” is Jeff Ward and its “Treasurer” is Jeff Tyler.
The “Reagan Republican Victory Fund – Municipal” is a registered political committee. Its “Chairman” is Jeff Tyler and its “Treasurer” is Jeff Ward.
Next Episode: “The Shell Game” Wait until you see where the money’s been flowing!
Note to Uncle Jeff…go ahead and mail out that big campaign piece…we dare you! We know how much you have spent and how you think you can keep it a secret. Even the FEC will see through it after we lay out the facts. Do you really think you can dissuade us by claiming you cleared it with a phone call? Ha!. (The trail to your graphics Gal and how she was paid was pretty easy to uncover too, by the way.)
Note to current and former board members of KCRR…you better pay attention to this story and take it seriously!
Note to Donors…If you have “contributed” money to the KCRR, RRVF or RRVF-Municipal, you will want to pay special attention too!