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kpete

(71,994 posts) Thu May 11, 2017, 03:55 PM May 2017

What We Have Been Waiting For: Dots Are Connecting .....

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SCL (Strategic Communication Laboratories) Group is a private British behavioral research and ... of Ted Cruz. CA is heavily funded by hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer,a major supporter of Cruz and then Donald Trump. ... "Cruz campaign paid $750,000 to 'psychographic profiling' company". The Washington Post.

Link to tweet

The FBI has raided the Annapolis office of Strategic Campaign Group, a Republican fundraising and campaign consulting firm in Maryland, according to several local news outlets.

The firm, founded during the 2008 election cycle, has represented Republican candidates around the country.

Founder Kelley Rogers credits himself with leading the charge in using technology in political campaigns, including holding allowing candidates and lawmakers to hold “telephone town halls” with constituents.

“Today, Strategic Campaign Group is the largest provider of Telephone Town Hall technology for Republican campaigns and conservative organizations in the United States,” its website says.

WBAL TV, a local news station, first reported the raid on in the early afternoon on Thursday. A reporter for the television station posted a picture of FBI agents covering windows at the firm with trash bags as they began searching the office.

It is unclear what the FBI is investigating and what prompted the search warrant.

http://www.wbaltv.com/article/fbi-searching-annapolis-fundraiserconsulting-firm/9639787
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/332991-fbi-raids-office-of-gop-consulting-firm-in-maryland

And in a previously unreported transaction, Bannon Strategic Advisors received $300,000 from Bossie’s Citizens United Foundation in 2012, a fundraising fee apparently in exchange for bringing in a $2 million grant from the Mercers’ foundation.

Mercer has provided more than advisers and cash. He’s reportedly a significant investor in Cambridge Analytica, an offshoot of British company SCL that recently opened offices in New York, which claims to help clients target voters or donors by using a personality model to determine the type of appeal that will be most effective.

The company has been a vendor for the Mercer super PAC, currently known as Make America Number 1, and now, the Trump campaign, which paid it a total of $350,000 this summer.

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/10/07/20307/reclusive-mega-donor-fueling-donald-trumps-white-house-hopes