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After a Daily Beast report on Joe Kents mystery job, the Republican House contender is changing his storyand his public filings
William Bredderman
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Updated Oct. 25, 2022 11:18PM ET / Published Oct. 25, 2022 10:22PM ET
Two days after The Daily Beast reported that American Enterprise Solutionsthe company Washington State House candidate Joe Kent has identified as his employer on 34 political donations, two personal financial disclosures, and in at least one public appearancedid not appear to exist, the Republican asserted that he and his team had been saying and writing it wrong the whole time. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Kent produced heavily redacted materials on Tuesday indicating the companys name was in fact Advanced Enterprise Solutions.
Theres a good chance I screwed it up, the PBS and National Public Radio affiliate quoted Kent as saying, regarding the donations and his own public statement. He blamed the repeated errors to the firm supposedly using the name American Enterprise Systems in the past.
Meanwhile, a campaign staffer took responsibility for the repeated inaccurate financial disclosures, describing the name mix-up as a typo, and vowing to submit corrected materials to the House Ethics Committee post haste.
Two days after The Daily Beast reported that American Enterprise Solutionsthe company Washington State House candidate Joe Kent has identified as his employer on 34 political donations, two personal financial disclosures, and in at least one public appearancedid not appear to exist, the Republican asserted that he and his team had been saying and writing it wrong the whole time. According to Oregon Public Broadcasting, Kent produced heavily redacted materials on Tuesday indicating the companys name was in fact Advanced Enterprise Solutions.
Theres a good chance I screwed it up, the PBS and National Public Radio affiliate quoted Kent as saying, regarding the donations and his own public statement. He blamed the repeated errors to the firm supposedly using the name American Enterprise Systems in the past.
Meanwhile, a campaign staffer took responsibility for the repeated inaccurate financial disclosures, describing the name mix-up as a typo, and vowing to submit corrected materials to the House Ethics Committee post haste.
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Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)Captain Zero
(6,813 posts)nt
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)You can see how anyone could make a typo like that.
Isn't the candidate supposed to sign off on those forms under penalty of perjury? How does a "typo" keep creeping in like that?
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Proud boys and other neo Nazis.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)So that makes sense.
Hate to say it but it's true.
Initech
(100,087 posts)Not sure who to shame in that one.
FakeNoose
(32,659 posts)Probably nobody on that campaign even gives 2 spits.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Grifting assholes.
KS Toronado
(17,274 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)I googled Advanced Enterprise Solutions, and got eight different companies spread out all over the country before I decided to stop counting. Since they all do some sort of VAR work on various high-end corporate computer software systems - usually Oracle - I have no idea why this knucklehead's minders didn't just set him up a shell company to claim he works for.
rsdsharp
(9,188 posts)I honestly dont recall the number of name changes we had, as senior partners came and went, and we changed from a partnership to a professional corporation. It had to be 8-10. But I always knew the proper firm name.
blogslug
(38,004 posts)Torres-Advanced Enterprise Solutions, LLC
They were (are?) a security company who made the rounds during the right-wing Benghazi freakout. In fact, one of the guys who ran that company (Jerry Torres) just lost a primary for a congressional district in Florida.