REPORT TO THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF STATE SENATOR KENT SORENSON October 2, 2013 Mark E. Weinhardt, Independent Counsel to the Senate Ethics Committee WEINHARDT LOGAN, RC. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 450 Des Moines, IA 50312 Telephone: (515) 244-3100 Facsimile: (515) 288-0407 mweinhardt@weinhardtlogan.com Volume II - 1 - REPORT TO THE SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE ON THE INVESTIGATION OF STATE SENATOR KENT SORENSON APPENDIX TABLE OF CONTENTS Complaint Documents Exhibits 1 - 4 Depositions Exhibit 5-7 Weinhardt Logan Interview Memoranda Exhibits 8-21 Emails Exhibits 22-29 Public Filings Exhibits 30-35 Financial Documents Exhibits 36-43 News Articles/ Web Material Exhibits 44-54 {020005531300} 1 - Pagell MEMORANDUM TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Mark Weinhardt DATE: September 27, 2013 RE: Telephone interview with David Cohen Today I spoke with David Cohen. Mr. Cohan was returning a call I had placed because I found on the internet a listing for a David Cohen Law Of?ce at 4316 Hamilton Street in Hyattsville, Maryland. Mr. Cohen told me that he had maintained a solo law practice at that location but that he had since retired. I told Mr. Cohen that I was investigating a payment of funds from ICT, Inc. into a bank account in Iowa and that the advice of wire transfer documents showed that ICT had its address at 4316 Hamilton Street where his law of?ce used to be. I asked him what he could tell me about ICT. Mr. Cohen said that he was limited in what he could say because he believed there could be confidentiality issues surrounding ICT. He said, however, that there is a real business called ICT, but he is not sure what all it does. He said that ICT was connected with William Howard, another attorney who still maintained a practice at 4316 Hamilton Street. He said that the name of the firm was Howard Marcus, although he later implied that Marcus was retired. He said that Mr. Howard was still in active practice and gave me his phone number. Mr. Cohen also said that if I wanted to learn more about ICT, I should look up an individual named Sonny Izon. He said he did not have a phone number for Mr. 12011 but that Mr. Howard would have contact information for him. I told Mr. Cohen that I was particularly trying to find out whether payments of funds from ICT had something to do with the Ron Paul for President campaign in 2012. Mr. Cohen said that he did not know anyone who worked at the 4316 Hamilton Street building, which he characterized as very small, to be a Ron Paul supporter. He said that it may be, however, that ICT had done work for clients it ?did not like.? Mr. Cohen apologized that he could not be more helpful but again told me to contact Mr. Howard. g: W?g?deL? 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 3 Page 1 EMO RAN DU TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 16, 2013 RE: Interview of Chris Dorr On September 16, 2013, Holly Logan met with Chris Dorr in our of?ce. Mark Weinhardt met joined for part of the interview. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Dorr grew up in Ocheyedan, Iowa. He grew up in a political family. His parents took him to abortion clinic protests when he was seven or eight years old. He was homeschooled and believes he graduated in 2001. He took some on?line college courses, but never received a college degree. After high school he worked for Villager Construction doing road construction from 2001 through 2007. From 2007 through 2010, Mr. Dorr was working part?time doing road construction or harvest work in northwest Iowa. In 2010, Mr. Dorr moved to Des Moines to work for the National Right to Work Committee. Mr. Dorr worked as part of the Committee?s ?eld staff during the 2010 election season. He worked there from summer through the election. After the 2010 election, Mr. Dorr was not employed until he became Senator Sorenson?s legislative clerk in January 2011. Vero Consulting, LLC is Mr. Dorr?s company. When the General Assembly is not in session, Mr. Dorr does political consulting. Since there are no elections right now, he has no income coming in. Mr. Dorr searches nationally for candidates and offers his services. Mr. Dorr also ?does some printing on the side.? He prints junk mail. He has a small printer that he prints on and ?makes mail.? He doesn?t have any marketing material for his printing company. He just makes phone calls to businesses to try to get their business. He sends out invoices under the name Christopher Dorr, not a company. He also does odd jobs, like roo?ng houses. Sometimes he ?helps out? his in Tennessee. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 1 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 I PageIZ Relationship with Senator Sorenson: Mr. Dorr had heard of Senator Sorenson before the 2010 election season, but had not met him. Mr. Dorr does not remember the exact day he met Senator Sorenson, but knows they met during the 2010 election season at campaign events. Although he is not certain, he assumes that the National Right to Work supported Senator Sorenson?s candidacy. Senator Sorenson seemed like someone who would uphold Iowa?s right to work law. Mr. Dorr asked Senator Sorenson if he had a legislative clerk position open. Senator Sorenson was looking for a clerk, and Mr. Dorr ?didn?t have anything going on.? Mr. Dorr describes his relationship with Senator Sorenson as friends. He stated they had gone through a ?pretty brutal campaign,? referring to the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Dorr stated that he and Senator Sorenson ?believed the same things.? Senator Sorenson was a person Mr. Dorr could support. They worked together to promote their views. Mr. Dorr personally helped Senator Sorenson in his senate campaign. He passed out candy and walked in parades. Mr. Dorris still employed as Senator Sorenson?s legislative clerk. Mr. Dorr stated that technically he was hired by the Senate and is assigned to Senator Sorenson. He has worked for Senator Sorenson for three terms. Mr. Dorr hasn?t decided if he is going to be Senator Sorenson?s clerk during the 2014 session. He wants to see how everything turns out before he decides whether to return. The Bachmann campaign: Mr. Dorr believes Ms. Bachmann is a ??rebrand? in Congress and he liked what she was doing there. Senator Sorenson was already involved in the campaign, but he didn?t solicit Mr. Dorr?s involvement. Mr. Dorr liked Ms. Bachmann?s position on ?traditional values.? He decided he wanted to get involved and spoke with Senator Sorenson about it. He interviewed with Andy Parrish. The night of the interview Mr. Dorr was working as a volunteer for the Bachmann campaign at a photo shoot with pastors. He was asked to join the campaign the next day. Mr. Dorris not sure if Senator Sorenson was ?officially? involved in the campaign when Mr. Dorr was interviewed, but knew Senator Sorenson was at least helping them in an ?unof?cial capacity.? Senator Sorenson was already professing that he liked Ms. Bachmann as a candidate. Mr. Parrish offered Mr. Dorr a position. All of this was before Ms. Bachmann announced her candidacy. Mr. Dorr started getting paid in May, probably at the end of the legislative session. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagc 3 Mr. Dorr interviewed with Andy Parrish right after the legislative session was over. Mr. Parrish hired him as a ?eld staffer in May of 2011. Vero Consulting was paid $3,000 a month from the Bachmann campaign. He received paper paychecks from Bachmann For President. Senator Sorenson negotiated that pay amount with the campaign. Senator Sorenson told the campaign ?these are the staffers who are going to work on the campaign and their salary requirements.? Mr. Dorr told Senator Sorenson he wanted $4,000 a month. He is not sure if the campaign had enough money to pay him that. He worked for the Bachmann campaign through the caucuses. He was the one who cleaned out the campaign of?ce. In his position as ?eld staffer, Mr. Dorr was in charge of northwest Iowa. He was to ?nd people in his area of the state who would support the campaign. The position ended up being substantially broader than he would have liked, and he didn?t get to go to northwest Iowa as much as he wanted. He was given the job of driving the campaign van, because he knew the roads in Iowa. Mr. Dorr?s duties for the campaign are laid out in his af?davit. He ran the campaign?s internet services and networking, he networked the employees? laptops, and found companies for leasing printers and copiers. He out?tted the of?ce. Mr. Dorr took care of tech problems and worked as a ?eld staffer at the same time. Mr. Dorr was asked to draw an organizational chart of the Bachmann campaign. He reluctantly did so and stated that the organizational chart functions differently in theory than it does in practice. The national campaign initially was headed up by Ed Rollins as Campaign Chairman and David Polyansky as Deputy Campaign Manager. They both left the campaign after the straw poll and Keith Nahigian became National Campaign Chair. Guy Short was Political Director and National Field Director. Mr. Short was the national staffer who spent the most time in Iowa. Wes Enos was the Political Director for the Iowa campaign. Mr. Dorr stated that he reported to Mr. Enos, Senator Sorenson, Craig Handzlik, Guy Short, and Keith Nahigian. He reported to a different person depending on what was going on and what job he was doing. The way Mr. Dorr sees it, the problem with the campaign was there wasn?t a lot of structure with the people above Mr. Enos. Mr. Dorr does not know to whom Senator Sorenson reported. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 Pagc 4 Peter Waldron was the Iowa pastoral outreach person. Mr. Dorr doesn?t think Mr. Waldron had any say in how the campaign was run. Barb Heki was in charge of homeschoolers, Steve Hensler was hired after he left the Herman Cain campaign. Ashley Grossman had been with Ms. Bachmann as her personal assistant and campaign worker for the congressional campaign. She became Volunteer Coordinator after straw poll. Mr. Woolson was originally the campaign media person. He worked with Alice Stewart at the national level. Mr. Woolson later became the Iowa Campaign Manager. Before the straw poll, it was clear that everyone should ?stay in your own lanes and get your job done.? After the straw poll, everybody just ?did your own thing and no one knew what that was.? The NICHE list: Mr. Dorr was not aware of the existence of a NICHE list, and did not know that there had been discussion in the campaign about it. He wasn?t part of the upper level of advisors. He never heard frustration in the of?ce regarding Ms. Heki?s list. Mr. Dorr was never in a meeting where the list was discussed. Mr. Dorr didn?t hear anything about Ms. Heki not doing her job. In fact, whenever they had homeschool night, she could ?ll the place up. Ms. Heki would give Mr. Dorr leads in certain counties. No one speci?cally asked Mr. Dorr to get the NICHE list from Ms. Heki. It was part of his job to get lists from the campaign workers. Getting lists was part of a bigger ?push? by Guy Short to get lists into the national campaign database. At the time Mr. Dorr believed Ms. Heki?s list was just a list of homeschoolers, not the NICHE list. When Rick Perry started to take the lead, the push came from the national campaign to get lists sent in. Mr. Dorr believes he probably did ?hundreds of list transfers.? Mr. Dorr cannot narrow down the one instance when he took the list from Ms. Heki. He would get lists from Mr. Eastman, Mr. Enos, Senator Sorenson, Ms. Heki, Mark Doland, and Larissa LNU (an intern who was making phone calls). Mr. Dorr had conversations with Mr. Short about getting people?s lists into the campaign database so they didn?t lose people?s names. Mr. Dorr doesn?t believe Mr. Short was directing him to get the NICHE list. Mr. Dorr feels Mr. Short is ?an upstanding guy.? Mr. Short didn?t single anyone out about lists, he wanted all of the lists. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Mr. Dorr doesn?t remember when he downloaded the list from Ms. Heki?s computer. It was sometime after the straw poll (August 13) and when email went out (November 10). During the period between the straw poll and caucuses, the campaign ?was in disarray.? It is hard to for him to pin down which day he downloaded the list. He cannot recall what time of the year it was either summer or fall. Mr. Dorr would get campaign workers? lists by using a jump drive that he wore on a string around his neck. He would always use the same jump drive to retrieve lists. It was not necessary for Mr. Dorr to ask people if they had lists. If people weren?t at their computer he would just take the lists. Everyone had their lists up on their screens that they were working on. Mr. Dorr was also in charge of performing updates on computers. The campaign of?ce had problems with the printer drivers all the time. Mr. Dorr would have to delete the printer driver and install new ones. When people asked for help with computer issues he would help them. Mr. Dorr stated that Ms. Heki left her computer unattended a couple of times. Mr. Dorr would go in Ms. Heki?s of?ce or she would come to him if she had computer questions. There were ?certainly occasions? where Ms. Heki would give him her computer and she would go around the corner ?or wherever? and he would ?x it for her. The updates he was doing were very quick, less than 10 minutes. Mr. Dorr did not know if Ms. Heki?s computer was her personal computer or the campaign?s. He assumed it belonged to the campaign. Ms. Heki was not sitting at her computer when he took the NICHE list. Mr. Dorr presumes she was in the of?ce but not sure. Her light was on and her of?ce door was open. He plugged the jump drive into Ms. Heki?s computer and took the list that was up on her screen. He had never taken a list from Ms. Heki before. This was just ?part of the whole thing that everyone had to get their lists in.? No one served as a look out for Mr. Dorr when he took Ms. Heki?s list. He walked in her of?ce and took the list that was on her screen. It could have been any list and he didn?t know it was the NICHE list. Mr. Dorr believed he was fully authorized to access Ms. Heki?s computer. It was his job in the campaign to compile supporters? names and to get those names into the national database. He believes that he accessed Ms. Heki?s computer only once. Mr. Dorr did not have a conversation with Ms. Heki about accessing her computer to get the list. He remembers the computer was in her of?ce, that he didn?t have to type a password, and that ?a list? was open and visible on her computer screen. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I PagelG After he took the list from Ms. Heki?s computer, he gave the jump drive to Senator Sorenson, Mr. Enos, Mr. Short or one of the data guys from the campaign. He would usually take the jump drive containing lists to Mr. Enos, Senator Sorenson, Mr. Short or Ashley Simpson. Whoever he gave the jump drive to would then send it to the national campaign. He did not give lists to Mr. Woolson. Mr. Dorr often gave Senator Sorenson other lists and information. He would do that because Senator Sorenson was ?easy.? Mr. Dorr has no idea if Senator Sorenson would want the lists for his own campaign. Senator Sorenson didn?t ask him to give him updated lists. It was Mr. Dorr?s job to ?pass up the line? the lists. He would give the information to whoever was ?convenient or clamoring for them.? Mr. Dorris not sure if Ms. Heki carried her computer around in the of?ce. This is not something he observed or tried to pay attention to. Mr. Dorr never saw Ms. Heki crying around the of?ce. He didn?t see her react about the list at all. He found out at a later date that Ms. Heki got kicked off the NICHE board. He read something about NICHE saying it was not because of the list incident. He knows the campaign and NICHE were negotiating regarding a settlement. No one told Mr. Dorr not to tell Ms. Heki that he took the list. Mr. Dorr is not sure if his parents were on the ICHE list. Mr. Dorr has read about Senator Sorenson saying ?We took the list.? Mr. Dorr does not know whether that happened, since he wasn?t at the campaign of?ce all the time. He knows Senator Sorenson has denied saying that he said it. He has read What has played out in the media and the Iowa Republican. Senator Sorenson never asked Mr. Dorr to take the NICHE list. Mr. Dorr assumes he is the one who took the ICHE list since that was his job, but he can?t rule out the possibility that somebody else took the list. The campaign held a rally at the campaign headquarters for their opening event. Mr. Dorr did the grilling. He could not have taken the list from Ms. Heki?s computer on the same day he did the grilling. It was hot and they were doing crowd control. He didn?t have time to grill and do other work at the same. Senator Sorenson?s compensation: Mr. Dorr said he has ?no understanding? about whether Senator Sorenson was getting paid. Mr. Dorr thought it didn?t matter if Senator Sorenson was receiving financial support or not, because it seemed to be a good position for Senator Sorenson to be in since 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 I Pagel7 he is a social conservative. As chair of Ms. Bachmann?s campaign, Senator Sorenson would get his face in a district larger than his own. Mr. Dorr did not hear until after the straw poll that Senator Sorenson was being paid. Mr. Dorr thinks it was after ?the jump? that he heard Senator Sorenson was being paid. Ms. Bachmann said that Senator Sorenson told Mr. Dorr that he was being paid. Mr. Dorr doesn?t remember Senator Sorenson saying he couldn?t be paid. Mr. Dorr has read the rule and believes it is not speci?c. Mr. Dorr doesn?t remember Senator Sorenson ever saying that ?he wasn?t doing this for free.? Mr. Dorr?s interaction with Senator Sorenson is limited to the Senate. They deer hunted together once. They have had no conversation about Senator Sorenson?s personal income. Mr. Dorr likes the hard-line stances that Senator Sorenson takes. He doesn?t have a problem with Senator Sorenson taking people to task. Mr. Dorr has no knowledge of Grassroots Strategy. The Paul campaign: Before Senator Sorenson jumped to the Ron Paul campaign, Senator Sorenson had conversations with Guy Short about ?blowings up? within the campaign. Speci?cally, during a debate, the Iowa campaign was trying to recruit people to ?ll in the good seats to watch the debate but the national staff took those seats. The Iowa people were complaining that the advance team was harming them on the campaign trail. After Thanksgiving, around Christmas, Senator Sorenson told Mr. Dorr that he was thinking about leaving because Ron Paul supporters were also his supporters. Senator Sorenson felt that Ms. Bachmann?s campaign was falling apart. Mr. Dorr advised Senator Sorenson not to jump, noting they were way too close to the end. Mr. Dorr believes Mr. Short told Senator Sorenson the same thing. Mr. Dorr had no knowledge prior to this conversation that Senator Sorenson was thinking about leaving. Mr. Dorr and Senator Sorenson had discussions on a routine basis about everything falling apart in the campaign. Mr. Dorr was at the campaign office when they saw on the news that Senator Sorenson was leaving to go to the Ron Paul campaign. The news article stated that Senator Sorenson showed up at a Ron Paul event. Mr. Dorr had a conversation with Senator Sorenson that night and told him that it was ?insane.? Mr. Dorr thought the interview with Megyn Kelly was a ?dandy.? Senator Sorenson ?sat stuttering and looking like an idiot.? 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I Page 8 Senator Sorenson did not ask Mr. Dorr to go with him to the Ron Paul campaign. Senator Sorenson didn?t say anything to Mr. Dorr about receiving money to go to the Ron Paul campaign. The accusations were leveled pretty quickly in the press against Senator Sorenson. That is when Mr. Dorr heard about the alleged payment by Ron Paul. In his conversations with Mr. Dorr, Senator Sorenson was adamant that he had not been paid by Ron Paul. Mr. Dorr doesn?t believe they had conversations about Senator Sorenson getting paid by the Bachmann campaign. The two have had a numerous conversations about wanting to move on and get this over with. Aaron Dorr: There was an article on the Iowa Republican website regarding Mr. Dorr?s brother, Aaron Dorr. The article said that Aaron Dorr was negotiating salaries with the Ron Paul campaign on behalf of Chris Dorr and Senator Sorenson in October. Aaron Dorr never worked for the Bachmann or the Paul campaign. Chris didn?t know his brother was negotiating on his and Senator Sorenson?s behalf, but it doesn?t surprise him that he did. It would be natural for him to do that. Chris was odd on an email but doesn?t remember reading it until after the story broke in 2013. He saw the email after the story broke. Chris had a conversation with his brother in which he thanked Aaron for dragging him into that. Mr. Weinhardt and Ms. Logan both asked Chris for his brother?s contact information. He stated that he believes that information is publicly available and he doesn?t want to drag his brother into this. He refused to provide his brother?s contact information. The October 29 memorandum that Aaron Dorr wrote mentions a homeschool list, but Chris doesn?t know what list his brother is referring to. Mr. Dorr imagines that all presidential campaigns have lots of homeschool lists. Mr. Dorr doesn?t know if Senator Sorenson has his own homeschool list, but knows he is popular among homeschoolers. Mr. Dorr thinks there is every reason to believe it could have been another list, not the NICHE list that he took from Ms. Heki?s computer. He did not tell his brother he took Ms. Heki?s list. He didn?t tell Senator Sorenson that he took the homeschool list. Communications with Senator Sorenson: Mr. Dorr spoke to Senator Sorenson a couple days ago. Mr. Dorr thanked him for the continuing ?saga.? Senator Sorenson has sent him text messages saying that ?this not going away.? Senator Sorenson told Mr. Dorr that he didn?t do the things he is accused of doing. Neither Senator Sorenson nor Mr. Eastman pressured Mr. Dorr to sign the af?davit. Tony 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 9 Page Eastman, Senator Sorenson, and Mr. Dorr have gone to the same deer camp. They have talked about it being a ?never ending saga.? Mr. Dorr doesn?t think his phone would have text messages from Senator Sorenson re?ecting his part in this. If Mr. Dorr thought that Senator Sorenson had a part in this, Mr. Dorr wouldn?t have written the af?davit. Mr. Dorr told Senator Sorenson that he was meeting with the Independent Counsel for an interview, and Senator Sorenson said he was sorry. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 Pagell EMO RAN TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 20, 2013 RE: Interview of Tony Eastman On September 19, 2013, Holly Logan and Mark Weinhardt interviewed Tony Eastman regarding the investigation of Senator Sorenson. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Eastman grew up in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He moved to Winterset in 1990 when his parents divorced. After he graduated from Winterset High School he moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to attend Rhema Bible Training School. Senator Sorenson didn?t attend the same bible school as Mr. Eastman and they did not live in Oklahoma at the same time. After graduating from bible school, Mr. Eastman moved back to Winterset and worked construction and at Sam?s Club. He then moved to Chillicothe, Missouri, where he worked as a youth pastor until 2001. He moved to Indianola and worked for Waste Management for a short period. He started his own construction business in June 2002, which he operated until 2008. After his business closed, Mr. Eastman sold life insurance until he started working on the Bachmann campaign in May or June of 2011. Mr. Eastman is married with three children. History with Senator Sorenson: Mr. Eastman ?rst met Senator Sorenson when both families attended Cornerstone Family Church in West Des Moines in 2002 or 2003. Mr. Eastman volunteered on Senator Sorenson?s 2008 campaign. He had never been involved in politics before he started working on Senator Sorenson?s campaign, and he helped Senator Sorenson decide to run for Senate in 2010. Mr. Eastman considered Senator Sorenson his best friend. A 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I Pagel2 When the Sorenson family was struggling ?nancially, Mr. Eastman would help buy them groceries. Likewise, when Mr. Eastman sold his construction business and was struggling ?nancially, Senator Sorenson helped him out. Prior to Senator Sorenson declaring his candidacy for the Iowa House of Representatives, Mr. Eastman and Senator Sorenson met with Staci Appel, then the state Senator from their district, at the capitol. They talked to Ms. Appel about the need to give Iowans the right to vote about marriage between a man and a woman. Mr. Eastman did most of the talking. Ms. Appel walked away telling them that the courts need to decide the issue. This spurred Senator Sorenson into wanting to run for of?ce. Mr. Eastman stated that Senator Sorenson makes his mind up very quickly. Once Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that he was thinking about selling antiques. Within three days Senator Sorenson had rented a warehouse. The Sorenson family was attending the Eastman?s church about the time Senator Sorenson was running for the House. After about a year, and after the church had helped Senator Sorenson get elected, the Sorensons stopped going to the same church. Mr. Eastman and Senator Sorenson remained friends after this incident. Mr. Eastman stated that Senator Sorenson was different when they ?rst met and became friends. He said the Senator was more ?loose then.? He was more ?real.? After a year or two of being in politics, Senator Sorenson changed. The Bachmann campaign: Mr. Eastman worked for the Bachmann campaign beginning in May or June of 2011. He was in charge of central Iowa, helping set up events, getting volunteers to events and calling to raise funds. He was in the of?ce six or seven days a week, working from 9:00 am. to 9:00 pm. The ?suits? were the important people that would sit on the bus. There was a huge disconnect between the ?suits? and the worker bees within the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Eastman was paid $3,000 per month for working on the campaign. He received a paper check. He stated that the campaign was ?piss poor? about paying timely. He thinks his ?rst check was from Bachmann for Congress or MichelePAC then they were from Bachmann For President. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 3 52.: U: a Mr. Eastman ?rst met Wes Enos at the Bachmann campaign. He thinks Mr. Enos was brought into the campaign by Senator Sorenson. He knows Senator Sorenson was the Campaign Chair, but he was never really sure what that meant. Mr. Eastman doesn?t know what the relationship was between Mr. Enos and Senator Sorenson. Mr. Eastman ?rst met Chris Dorr when Mr. Dorr was working for Senator Sorenson?s senate race. Chris? older brother, Aaron Dorr, works for the Iowa Gun Owners Association. Senator Sorenson and Aaron Dorr?s relationship is ?secretive.? Mr. Eastman has not heard of Grassroots Strategy. When Mr. Eastman was working for the Bachmann campaign, Senator Sorenson was meeting with Chris Dorr, Aaron Dorr, and Wes Enos about starting their own PAC. Regarding whether Senator Sorenson was paid for his work on the Bachmann campaign, Mr. Eastman knew ?nobody in their right mind would do this for free.? Being a campaign chair is very time consuming. It was Mr. Eastman?s understanding that Senator Sorenson was being compensated by a ?third party.? He knew it was Guy Short?s company, but didn?t know the name of the company. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that all of the political candidates were offering him money. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that he worked for the Bachmann campaign because her political and religious views most lined up with his. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that the rules had changed that allowed him to be compensated. Mr. Eastman said you?d have to be ignorant to think that Senator Sorenson didn?t get paid. Senator Sorenson told him that it was once okay and then it wasn?t okay and now it?s okay again to receive compensation. Mr. Eastman knew Senator Sorenson was receiving compensation but did not discuss details. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman it was okay to be paid because he was being paid by a third party. Senator Sorenson and Peter Waldron did not like each other. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman to not listen to anything Mr. Waldron told him to do. The Paul campaign: Demitri Kesari asked Senator Sorenson to join the Ron Paul campaign. Mr. Eastman knew Senator Sorenson liked Ron Paul before he joined the Bachmann campaign. Senator Sorenson didn?t believe Ron Paul had a chance of winning. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that the Ron Paul campaign offered him $250,000 to join his campaign. Mr. Eastman tried to talk some sense into Senator Sorenson. He told him he needed to do what 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 4 was right and stay with the Bachmann campaign. The offer from the Ron Paul campaign was before the straw poll. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman it was tempting because it was a lot of money. About one month before Senator Sorenson left the Bachmann campaign he told Mr. Eastman that he was thinking of leaving because he didn?t think Ms. Bachman would be a good president. Mr. Eastman told Senator Sorenson that it was not a good decision and he didn?t think he should do that. Senator Sorenson talked about Ron Paul a lot. He watched a Ron Paul You Tube commercial over and over again. Mr. Eastman believes that Senator Sorenson was entertaining leaving for a while. Senator Sorenson?s wife was a strong supporter of Ron Paul. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that he was offered $30,000 to switch to the Ron Paul campaign, but he wasn?t going to do it. The same night Senator Sorenson left the Bachmann campaign, Mr. Eastman called him to see if he was okay. Mr. Eastman told him he couldn?t believe he did it. Senator Sorenson told him that he felt the Bachmann campaign didn?t appreciate him. Senator Sorenson didn?t mention money in that conversation. Mr. Eastman knew he had been offered money and assumed he took what he thought was a better job. Mr. Eastman went to the Bachmann event in Indianola with his wife and children. He remembers Senator Sorenson was there because Senator Sorenson was mad that Mr. Eastman brought his wife and children to the event. It was the same night Senator Sorenson went to the Ron Paul event. Guy Short told Mr. Eastman ?great job what your friend did.? Mr. Eastman didn?t know that Senator Sorenson had gone on the news and said he was leaving the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Eastman was so upset that he cried. He could not believe Senator Sorenson actually did that. Senator Sorenson later told Mr. Eastman that he regretted going to the Ron Paul campaign. But Senator Sorenson told Mr. Eastman that Representative Bachmann didn?t listen to him and he felt used. The NICHE list: Mr. Eastman only knows Barb Heki through the Bachmann campaign. Ms. Heki was supposed to be contacting homeschoolers for the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Eastman?s family is a member of NICHE. He is not sure if Senator Sorenson?s family is a member of 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I Pagefs NICHE, but Senator Sorenson asked the Eastman family to attend a NICHE conference with them. Mr. Eastman was aware that Ms. Heki had the NICHE list. Everyone on the campaign staff was hired for their political connections. Mr. Eastman didn?t have any political connections so he worked calling people. It was Mr. Eastman?s understanding that the ?powers that be? wanted everybody?s lists. Mr. Eastman?s understanding is that the NICHE list was an email list of homeschoolers. He originally thought that the list was something Ms. Heki could share because she referred to it a lot. He asked her if she would share the list. She told him but didn?t tell him why. He found out after the straw poll that the list could not be used. Mr. Eastman stated ?everybody wanted the list.? Andy Parrish told Mr. Eastman that Ms. Heki had the list and he wanted it even though it was con?dential. Mr. Eastman was more vocal because he was mad that Ms. Heki wouldn?t use it. Mr. Eastman doesn?t know of any conversations around the campaign about needing the list. Everybody was hired for their lists and contacts. The week of the straw poll, Mr. Eastman went into Ms. Heki?s of?ce to look for the list. He assumed the list was in paper form. Ms. Heki?s of?ce light was on and her door was open. Everything was shared in the campaign of?ce, so Mr. Eastman assumed ?nothing was off limits.? Mr. Eastman looked for the list because he was upset that he was making a lot of phone calls and Ms. Heki wasn?t. Ms. Heki?s computer was not in her of?ce when he went to look for the list. She took her computer with her all the time. Mr. Eastman?s understanding is that Chris Dorr asked Ms. Heki for her computer to perform an update and that is when he took the list. Ms. Heki ??ipped out? when she realized the list had been used. Mr. Dorr didn?t tell Mr. Eastman what he did with the list after he took it. Mr. Eastman didn?t talk with Ms. Heki after the list was used. The story that Mr. Eastman believes Mr. Dorr has told about Mr. Eastman serving as a lookout while he took Ms. Heki?s computer is not true. Mr. Eastman told the Urbandale Police Detective that this story was not true. Mr. Eastman doesn?t know if the story is true as to other people serving as lookouts. Mr. Dorr told Mr. Eastman that Mr. Dorr was going to say that Mr. Enos, Senator Sorenson and Mr. Eastman were ?all in on it.? Mr. Woolson told Mr. Eastman that Senator Sorenson took the list. Mr. Eastman did not ask Senator Sorenson if he took the list. No one told Mr. Eastman not to talk to Ms. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 Page 6 Heki. BFP Attorney Bill McGinley called Mr. Eastman to ask him about the list being taken. This conversation was after the caucuses were over. Senator Sorenson called Mr. Eastman after Ms. Heki ?led her complaint. Senator Sorenson wanted to know if Mr. Eastman had anything to do with Ms. Heki ?ling her complaint. Senator Sorenson sent Mr. Eastman a text, which Mr. Eastman shared with the Urbandale Police Department. The text felt like a threat to Mr. Eastman. Mr. Eastman had no conversation with Mr. Enos about the list. He talked with Mr. Dorr about coming forward but Mr. Dorr said he was ?not talking to anybody.? In addition to the Urbandale Police Department, Mr. Eastman has been interviewed by Ms. Heki?s attorney, Ms. Bachmann?s attorney and Senator Sorenson?s attorney. He has not spoken with anyone from Washington, DC. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I a <3 1 EMORAN DU TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 16, 2013 RE: Interview of Wesley Enos On Friday, September 13, 2013, Holly Logan interviewed Wesley Enos regarding the ethics investigation of Senator Kent Sorenson. Mark Weinhardt joined part of the interview. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Enos graduated from Southeast Polk High School in 1998. He went to DMACC and then transferred to Grandview College, where he graduated in 2005. He worked at Nationwide Insurance until 2007. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Enos worked for the Mike Huckabee campaign with Eric Woolson. He also worked on Peter Teahen?s congressional campaign. Mr. Teahen didn?t win his primary. He then went to work for the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. In 2009 Mr. Enos began working for Bob Vander Plaats? campaign for governor. He stayed with the Vander Plaats campaign through the end of the primary in mid-2010. Mr. Enos then went to work at Wal-Mart until early I 2011, when he began working on the Bachmann campaign. He was ?pretty frustrated and disillusioned,? after the Bachmann campaign, so he got his real estate license. Mr. Enos worked for Iowa Realty until July when he was hired by Senator Dix to become one of his two aides. He currently has an office in the capitol. The Campaign Organization: Mr. Enos first got involved with the campaign in April of 2011. He technically worked for MichelePAC. Mr. Enos? title was Political Director for the State of Iowa. His duties included handling events coordination, making sure people turned out for events, working with ?eld coordinators, and bringing leaders into the campaign. When Ms. Bachmann officially launched her Presidential campaign, Mr. Enos became part of the campaign, so he was no longer working for the PAC. At some point during the campaign his job title changed to Deputy Campaign Manager, but his duties remained the same. He was also still called i t? WWQL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 2 Political Director. He received the title of Deputy Campaign Manager after Keith Nahigian became the National Campaign Director. Mr. Nahigian started with the campaign in late September or early October 2011. Mr. Enos noted that internal fighting started at the national level after the straw poll. This is when Ed Rollins and David Polyansky left the campaign and Mr. Nahigian took over. In the Bachmann Iowa campaign office, the organizational chart would have Mr. Enos at the top of the state organization, with Guy Short and David Polyansky over him running the national campaign. (Mr. Enos drew an organizational chart which is attached to this memorandum.) After the straw poll, Eric Woolson became campaign director. Mr. Woolson was handling the press and Mr. Enos had more event?related duties. He also prepared and turned in staff invoices and expenses to Nancy Watkins in Florida. Mr. Enos believes he was considered a consultant, not an employee, with the Bachmann campaign. The campaign withheld taxes from his wages. Senator Brad Zaun, Tamara Scott, and Senator Sorenson would be off by themselves on the organizational chart because they were volunteers. They would do introductions at events. They would be the ?Iowa ?avor? at events because they were local faces. Barb Heki was supposed to be in charge of homeschoolers. Mr. Enos only dealt directly with Ms. Heki when he was dealing with her invoices. He understood that she helped organize some events, but he perceived that people often did not know what she was doing. Drew Klein was in charge of the evangelical outreach. Peter Waldron was hired later and took over the evangelical outreach portion. Once Mr. Woolson arrived, Mr. Enos reported to Mr. Woolson. The field directors, Mark Doland, Emma Nemecheck, and Tony Eastman, reported to Mr. Enos. Chris Dorr was a field director in the beginning, but he broke off on his own and started maintaining the databases. Mr. Dorr reported to Guy Short at this time. Mr. Enos doesn?t know if there was a national database. He knows that when campaign workers obtained supporters? names, those names would go to Mr. Dorr to be input into the database. Mr. Dorr would also follow the campaign bus in a van and would get food and water for the people on the bus. Mr. Dorr wasn?t reporting to the Iowa people any more? he became more of an advance person. a 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 3 Mr. Enos and Senator Sorenson: Mr. Enos ?rst met Senator Sorenson when Senator Sorenson was running for the House of Representatives in 2008. Susan Geddes was helping Kent Sorenson with his campaign. Mr. Enos knew Ms. Geddes from her work as a county chair for the Huckabee campaign. He considered her a friend. Ms. Geddes came to Mr. Enos for help putting together a plan for the Sorenson campaign. Mr. Enos met with Senator Sorenson a couple of times. He liked him, he was a ?nice guy.? Mr. Enos didn?t think Senator Sorenson would have a chance of winning the house seat, but surprisingly he did. Senator Sorenson was seen as a ?throw away candidate the district was believed to be unwinnable. While he was a representative, Senator Sorenson would come to Mr. Enos for advice and the relationship ?became more friendly.? It was a tough transition for Senator Sorenson going from someone no one knew to suddenly being a ?rock star? in the Republican party. Mr. Enos helped Senator Sorenson ?level himself out? and served as an informal assistant. The NICHE list: Ms. Heki talked about the NICHE email list ?all the time.? She felt important because she had it. Ms. Heki brought it up while working on the Vander Plaats campaign. The list was not a secret; she told anybody that would listen about the list. When Mr. Enos and Senator Sorenson interviewed Ms. Heki, she told them she had the NICHE list but it couldn?t be used. Mr. Enos never saw the list. Mr. Enos feels Ms. Heki would have been a good volunteer but he wouldn?t have paid her. Mr. Enos feels it would have been helpful to have Ms. Heki use the list, but he knew she wouldn?t use it. Although he believes it would not have opened any more doors than if the campaign would have bought a homeschoolers list somewhere else. There was no chatter around the office about the list. The chatter was about Ms. Heki not doing her job; not her refusal to turn over the list. Ms. Heki was ?very, very direct,? saying as a member of the NICHE board she could not use the list. Mr. Enos is not sure why she ever brought up this list since she couldn?t use it. He doesn?t remember anyone asking Ms. Heki about the list. Mr. Enos learned the list was taken the date the email was sent. He was not in the office that day. He was going out with his wife for their wedding anniversary. Somebody from the office called him and told him that the list had been used. Mr. Enos? best recollection is that it was Mr. Dorr who called him and told him. He was told that the national campaign had used Ms. Heki?s list and sent out an email. NICHE found out the list had been used because of salts in the list. NICHE was upset the list was used. This telephone conversation was a ?so you are aware? WQEEL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagel4 conversation. Mr. Enos went on to have dinner with his wife; he didn?t really care about the incident at that moment. He was out of the office for two days, getting back in office on November 12. He only received the one phone call from Mr. Dorr. Mr. Woolson and Mr. Enos did not talk about the incident. He doesn?t remember talking to Mr. Woolson about the list. He thinks Bill McGinley called him and asked ?what the hell is going on?? Mr. Enos responded by telling him he didn?t know. This conversation would have taken place later that week since he was not in the office. Today Mr. Enos only knows the information from Mr. Dorr?s affidavit. That description of the event makes the most sense to Mr. Enos. He believes since the list was proprietary information, if someone purposely took it they would have looked for salting before the list was used. Mr. Dorr would take information off Mr. Enos? computer ?all the time,? and dump it into the national database. This was not an uncommon practice. Half of the time Mr. Enos wouldn?t tell Mr. Dorr that he had information, Mr. Dorr would just come and take it. Mr. Enos knows very little about Mr. Dorr?s background. He knows he grew up in northwest Iowa and was a clerk for Mr. Sorenson when he was serving in the House. Mr. Dorr also helped out Sorenson?s Senate campaign. Mr. Enos thinks that Mr. Dorr may not have known that the NICHE list was proprietary. Mr. Enos keeps any list he wants to keep private at home, he doesn?t load it on the campaign?s computer. Everything on Mr. Enos? Bachmann campaign computer belonged to the campaign. He assumes Mr. Dorr would take the lists off his computer, but he didn?t see him do it. Mr. Enos wasn?t watching people in the of?ce, he was always worried about the next campaign event. Mr. Dorr would get lists at random times to do a ?data dump.? He would ask Mr. Enos if there was anything new to add. Mr. Enos assumed Mr. Dorr did this with other campaign workers. Mr. Enos didn?t have any information about how the list was taken before he read Mr. Dorr?s affidavit. When the situation became a legal issue, Mr. Enos decided he didn?t want to know anything. There was not really any chit chat around the office about what happened. In the campaign office there was not ?water cooler? time. Field people were out of the office and volunteers didn?t care what was going on. Mi n, . . . 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des M01nes,lowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 Pagcls Mr. Enos found out about the details of the incident earlier this year, when he read Mr. Dorr?s af?davit. He also read about it in the newspaper. The first time he heard that Ms. Held had an Apple computer was when he read it in a news article. Mr. Enos stated that everybody carried their computers around to meetings. He assumed Ms. Heki would leave her computer in her of?ce at night, but he couldn?t see what she was doing in her office. Mr. Enos has never had any conversations about the list incident with Senator Sorenson. He hasn?t talked to Mr. Dorr in ?a while.? Mr. Enos has been interviewed by media people and two agents from Office of Congressional Ethics last year in Des Moines. That conversation focused on where money from MichelePAC was being used. Senator Sorenson?s departure to the Ron Paul campaign: The media is reporting that Senator Sorenson?s departure from the Bachmann campaign was about money. Mr. Enos believes, however, the reason Senator Sorenson left was because he was angry at the campaign. Mr. Enos stated that two or three days before the caucuses, Senator Sorenson knew that the campaign was in trouble. Senator Sorenson knew the only hope of surviving was to pull influential evangelical leaders to the campaign. Senator Sorenson, Drew Klein, and, Mr. Enos believes, probably Mr. Waldron, used their contacts and rounded up ministers to have a conversation with Ms. Bachmann a ?heart to heart? round table discussion aimed at trying to pull the evangelicals back into the campaign. Senator Sorenson thought this was a ?last ditch effort? to save the campaign. The meeting was to take place after a debate in Sioux City. Senator Sorenson and the ministers were met at the door by Bachmann?s national advance coordinator, Craig Hanslick and were told to go away. Ms. Bachmann did not want to, and did not have time, to speak with them. Mr. Enos said Senator Sorenson went ?ballistic.? Senator Sorenson got in a campaign van and drove back to Des Moines by himself. Senator Sorenson called Mr. Enos on his drive to Des Moines and the two were on the phone ?pretty much the whole time.? Senator Sorenson told Mr. Enos that he was done with the Bachmann campaign because of what the campaign did to the ministers. Mr. Enos told Senator Sorenson to ride it out and stay because of the volunteers. Mr. Enos eventually got Senator Sorenson calmed down and ?talked him off the cliff.? Senator Sorenson told Mr. Enos that he was so angry he could not speak with anyone from the campaign anymore. WE: 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page I6 A few days later, Mr. Enos called and told Senator Sorenson about campaign stops in Indianola and Winterset and said Senator Sorenson needed to be there. Mr. Enos told him all he had to do was wave and smile; he didn?t have to speak to anyone from the campaign. Mr. Enos was not at the campaign stops; he was having lunch with his wife. He wanted to check on the size of the crowd, so he sent a text to Senator Sorenson. Senator Sorenson wouldn?t respond. Mr. Enos then tried calling and emailing Senator Sorenson. Again he received no response. Early that same evening Mr. Enos received a Facebook alert that stated that Senator Sorenson had endorsed Ron Paul. Mr. Enos speculates something happened at the Indianola event that ?pushed him over the cliff.? He believes someone from the national campaign said or did something at the event to Senator Sorenson. He spoke with Senator Sorenson earlier this year and asked what happened, but Senator Sorenson would not tell him what was said or what happened at the event. Mr. Enos did not switch to the Ron Paul campaign. Personnel payments from the Bachmann campaign: All invoices from the campaign would go through Mr. Enos. He never sent in an invoice for Senator Sorenson. Mr. Enos did not have authorization to do salary negotiation. The salaries were set by the national campaign. Mr. Enos started in early April 2011 working for MichelePAC. He understands he got paid by MichelePAC and Bachmann for Congress. When he worked for MichelePAC he organized events for Bachmann for Congress. He was contracted at $4,500 a month but had to allocate his time by the hour between MichelePAC and Bachmann for Congress. He worked on the Bachmann campaign until December 31, shortly after Senator Sorenson left the campaign. Mr. Enos was unhappy with how the campaign responded to Senator Sorenson leaving, and Mr. Enos said so in the media. Mr. Enos stated that the Bachmann campaign told the media that Senator Sorenson left the campaign because of money. Mr. Enos left the Bachmann campaign also because he didn?t like what the campaign was doing to Senator Sorenson in the media. Mr. Enos knew something was wrong with Senator Sorenson but didn?t know he was thinking about leaving the campaign. Mr. Enos knew, however, that if Senator Sorenson did leave the Bachmann campaign, he would go to the Ron Paul campaign. . a ML 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 7 Mr. Enos did not have a conversation with Senator Sorenson about why he left the campaign because Mr. Enos knew why he left. He also had no conversations with Senator Sorenson about being offered money to join the Ron Paul campaign. Senator Sorenson?s income: Mr. Enos stated that in 2011 Senator Sorenson?s source of income was selling items on E-Bay. Senator Sorenson would buy items from ?ea markets, garage sales, and consignment shops and resell them on EBay. As far as Mr. Enos knows, that was Senator Sorenson?s only income. Senator Sorenson didn?t talk about his financial situation. Mr. Enos said that there were rumors ?oating around the campaign that ?people like Kent? were getting paid. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Enos, however, that he was working on the campaign for free. Senator Sorenson never said anything in private conversations with Mr. Enos that he was being paid. Mr. Enos had conversations in his of?ce with Senator Sorenson in which Senator Sorenson would say he wasn?t getting paid. Mr. Enos said that there was a possibility that Senator Sorenson was being paid because he heard him say don?t know how I?m going to feed my kids.? Mr. Enos also heard Senator Sorenson make the claim to others that don?t do this for free.? Mr. Enos believes this was just a ?chest thumping thing.? Senator Sorenson did not want to look like he was being taken advantage of by the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Enos did not take those remarks seriously. Mr. Enos knows nothing about Grassroots Strategy, Inc. Mr. Enos has seen the articles that Senator Sorenson puts out about how other Republicans voted in committee or on the ?oor. Mr. Enos doesn?t know for sure if Senator Sorenson gets paid to write those articles. Mr. Enos feels Senator Sorenson writing those articles relates back to the ?whole hothead thing.? He actually is not sure why Senator Sorenson writes these articles. Mr. Enos received a call from Urbandale Police Department. The call lasted about three minutes. Mr. Enos doesn?t talk to Senator Sorenson right now. Since Mr. Enos is currently working for Senator Dix, he doesn?t want to talk with Senator Sorenson. He is trying to avoid Senator Sorenson until the investigation is ?nished because he doesn?t want to wind up hurting Senator Dix. ?21 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Fagell 0 RA TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 20, 2013 RE: Interview of Susan Geddes On September 17, 2013, Mark Weinhardt interviewed Susan Geddes by telephone regarding the ethics investigation of Senator Kent Sorenson. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Ms. Geddes grew up in Miami, where her parents were involved in a lot of political campaigns. She was basically raised in a campaign office. She married a native Iowan, and they moved to Iowa 23 years ago. Her husband builds houses, but he also helps her with her campaigns. Ms. Geddes has three children, ages 22, 19, and 14. Ms. Geddes started her own political consulting business, Strategic Opportunities, a couple of years ago. She has been doing political consulting since 2008, always on the Republican side. Relationship with Senator Sorenson: Ms. Geddes met Kent Sorenson just before he filed his papers to run for the Iowa House. He hired her to run his race. Senator Sorenson came to Ms. Geddes? church and discussed her running his race. She also managed Senator Sorenson?s 2010 campaign. The Bachmann campaign: Ms. Geddes pursued the Bachmann campaign in an effort to join the campaign as a paid consultant. Ms. Geddes told Senator Sorenson that she was pursuing the Bachmann campaign and had requested $8,000 a month. Ms. Geddes had conversations with Andy Parrish and Ed Rollins about joining the Bachmann campaign. She didn?t realize that Senator Sorenson was having his own {it W631: 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 i Page 2 conversations with the Bachmann campaign. Within a couple of months, Senator Sorenson told Ms. Geddes that he might be running the Bachmann campaign. Ms. Geddes didn?t think that Senator Sorenson had enough experience to run a national campaign. Senator Sorenson mentioned to Ms. Geddes that he had requested $7,500 a month. She told him that he could not get paid, and Senator Sorenson responded that ?there are ways around that.? Ms. Geddes had several conversations with Senator Sorenson in which she stressed that, under senate rules, he could not be paid. Senator Sorenson responded that have to feed my family.? She told him he shouldn?t be doing this. She told him that doing something dishonest always catches up with you. She thinks one conversation occurred at the Smokey Row coffee house in Des Moines. She knows she had one conversation there but the two also spoke by phone. The conversation about ?ways around that? was on the phone. Ms. Geddes stated that she still had a friendly relationship with Senator Sorenson up until the ?whole Bachmann thing.? When Ms. Geddes sees Senator Sorenson on the senate ?oor now, she is polite to him but not friendly. Ms. Geddes doesn?t know if Senator Sorenson still had his cleaning business in 2011 or if he had already sold it. She knows he was still managing it. Ms. Geddes does not know how Senator Sorenson ended up getting paid, but knows he got paid. Senator Sorenson told her that he ?doesn?t do these things out of the goodness of my heart.? Ms. Geddes wonders if the money went to a family member. The Dorrs and the Sorensons are a very close knit group. She refers to it as a ?cult.? She would not be surprised to learn that they were part of this. The Paul campaign: On November 1, 2011, Ms. Geddes and Senator Sorenson were in Marshalltown at a campaign event. Ms. Geddes was there on behalf of her company. A pastor friend had set it up and asked her to come and speak to the Republican candidates. Senator Sorenson told her at that time that Ron Paul wanted him to switch. Ms. Geddes told Senator Sorenson to tell the Ron Paul campaign to ?go away.? Senator Sorenson told her that Ron Paul was offering him a lot of money and he didn?t want to be on a losing campaign. Ms. Geddes told Senator Sorenson she wanted to ?slap him on the back of his bald head, he needed to stay with Michele.? Initially when the two had conversations about Senator Sorenson switching campaigns, Senator Sorenson did not mention money. She told him to think about how it would look for his political career if he would switch. Ms. Geddes believes they had at least \N?itisiL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagcl3 five conversations about switching. The conversation in Marshalltown was last conversation they had before he switched. Ms. Geddes stated that the Fox News interview she did after Senator Sorenson switched to Ron Paul was the hardest thing she has ever done and was very ?painful.? She watched it again about six weeks ago. The statements Ms. Geddes made in the interview were correct. She made the statements in the interview that she and Senator Sorenson had conversations about Ron Paul trying to get Senator Sorenson to move to his campaign. The NICHE list: Ms. Geddes doesn?t know anything about the NICHE list incident. She heard in the media that Senator Sorenson said he didn?t have anything to do with the list being taken. Ms. Geddes told her husband that Senator Sorenson is lying. ww?L 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 l} a e. 1 RAN TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 23, 2013 RE: Interview of Robert Heckman On September 23, 2013, Mark Weinhardt interviewed Robert Heckman with his attorney, Jeffrey Hunter, by telephone regarding the ethics investigation of Senator Kent Sorenson. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Heckman is a native of New York. He attended high school in Valley Stream, New York, and attended Adelphi University in Long Island. He attended two years of law school at St. John?s, but is not an attorney. Mr. Heckman moved to Washington, DC, in 1977, where he ran a PAC for ten years. After that, he worked as a political consultant for a number of years. For the last twelve years, Mr. Heckman has worked at a public affairs firm called Capitol City Partners in Washington, DC He has worked on a number of campaigns, including seven presidential campaigns. He gets to do what he loves for a living. The Bachmann campaign: At some point, Mr. Heckman became involved in the Bachmann campaign. He has met ?Michele? once or twice, and he saw her speak. He was very impressed with her. He works primarily with communities that she appeals to, including evangelical Christians and Tea Party supporters. He was approached by Ed Brookover, who managed Rep. Bachmann?s Congressional campaign and was involved in the early stages of organizing her presidential campaign. Mr. Heckman sat down with Mr. Brookover and Guy Short. The two of them laid out a role for him with the Bachmann campaign. He met with Andy Parrish, whom he described as Bachmann?s chief of staff. Eventually he took a train to New York, where he met with ?Michele? in Manhattan for about two hours. Mr. Short and Mr. Brookover made him an 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines,1owa 50312 515.244.3100 . Page 2 offer to join the campaign as a senior consultant. They parties went back and forth over the terms of the offer. All this occurred prior to May 2011. According to Mr. Heckman, Mr. Parrish was the chief of staff for Rep. Bachmann?s Congressional office, and was a native of Minnesota. He had never dealt with Mr. Parrish before. Mr. Short was primarily a fundraiser who worked with the both campaign and the PAC. Mr. Heckman had dealt with him before when Mr. Short was with Wiland and Associates, a database management firm. Mr. Heckman joined the campaign as a senior consultant in May 2011 and at a salary of $7,500 per month. His role was a senior consultant was to provide strategic 8: political advice, to set up church outreach, and to create other coalitions. The campaign was run by Mr. Short, Mr. Brookover, and Mr. Parrish (?Guy, Ed, and Andy?). At some point they brought on David Polyansky, and after that, everyone reported to Mr. Polyansky. At some point after that, Mr. Heckman reported to Keith Nahigian. Mr. Heckman worked with the entire Iowa staff, but primarily with ?Peter and Drew and Barb.? He also interacted a lot with Guy Short. He explained that he, Mr. Heckman, was the ?senior coalitions guy,? whereas Mr. Short was ?the senior guy on the political end.? In May 2011, Mr. Heckman met Senator Sorenson for the ?rst time. ?Kent? picked him up at airport in Des Moines along with Wes Enos. They drove to Waterloo to scout locations for a potential announcement, and drove back that evening. At some point during that day, Mr. Heckman complimented Senator Sorenson and said the campaign was ?lucky to have you.? Senator Sorenson responded, ?I?m not doing this for free. I?m getting paid.? Mr. Heckman wasn?t sure if Senator Sorenson was getting paid or not, and didn?t care. Mr. Heckman didn?t ask any more questions, and Senator Sorenson didn?t elaborate about how much or how he was getting paid. Senator Sorenson indicated that if he were being paid by BFP, it would put him in an ?awkward? position. In a subsequent part of conversation, Senator Sorenson said that there was an ?ethics concern.? By the end of the conversation, Mr. Heckman was pretty convinced that is what he meant about being ?awkward.? Mr. Heckman did not recall other conversations on the topic, but said it was general knowledge within the campaign that Senator Sorenson was being paid $7,500 per month. ?Everyone? knew the Senator Sorenson was being paid and how much, because ?Kent is not shy.? Mr. Heckman?s impression was that Senator Sorenson had been bragging to ?everyone? about how much he was being paid. Mr. Heckman has no idea how the money was getting to Senator Sorenson. He did not have a conversation with Mr. Short about Senator Sorenson?s compensation. Senator Sorenson -3 \N?f?z 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 1 Des Momes, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 Pagc 3 was a ?figurehead? 0f the Iowa campaign, who accompanied ?Michele? wherever she went. He was the public face of the campaign. Senator Sorenson was in the office a lot when Mr. Heckman was in town. He traveled with Rep. Bachmann whenever she was in town. Mr. Heckman was not sure what Senator Sorenson did when he (Mr. Heckman) wasn?t there. He never heard Senator Sorenson talk about having another job, other than being a senator. The NICHE list: Mr. Heckman has no personal knowledge of how the list was removed from Ms. Heki?s computer. He knew she had a small list of contacts, but he did not know she had an extensive list like the one stolen. . Mr. Heckman learned that Ms. Heki had the list shortly before it was stolen. He recalls having a conversation in the hallway with Senator Sorenson, in which Senator Sorenson said Ms. Heki had ?extensive list? of homeschoolers. He recalls that there were three or four people in the hallway, including Senator Sorenson, engaged in a general discussion to the effect that the campaign did not have as many homeschooling volunteers as it should. Mr. Heckman opined that they needed a list of homeschoolers. ?Kent said, ?Barb has a list like that on her computer.? Kent was going to come in on Sunday night and take it off her computer.? Senator Sorenson said that he knew that Ms. Heki wouldn?t be in the office since she would be in church services. Mr. Heckman does not recall who else was present during that conversation. It might have been Mr. Dorr and Mr. Enos, and ?maybe Peter and Drew.? Mr. Heckman was ?very startled? by Senator Sorenson?s statement that he would take the list. He thought it was a ?stupid statement,? and remembers thinking, ?that?s Kent.? In November, Mr. Heckman had a phone conversation with Peter over the phone about the theft of the list, and Peter had had a conversation with Ms. Heki about it. Mr. Heckman recalls that he wound up in the middle of series of emails between Peter and Eric Woolson. Mr. Heckman recommended that the campaign ?make it right? and that Senator Sorenson make restitution. Mr. Heckman recalled that Peter told him that the office was ?in turmoil? over the theft of the list. Ms. Heki felt her career had been damaged. She thought that Senator Sorenson had stolen the list from her computer. Mr. Heckman thought that was a logical conclusion. He did not have any further conversations with Senator Sorenson after the list was stolen. He recalls that at some point, after Rep. Bachmann was out of the race, gt Wirji 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagc 4 the campaign reached some sort of a settlement with Ms. Heki, but he doesn?t remember details. He recalls that the press release referred to ?accidental use of the list.? The Paul campaign: Mr. Heckman recalled that Senator Sorenson ?disappeared for a few days? after Thanksgiving. He recalls a conversation with Guy Short in which Mr. Heckman said he was afraid ?Kent was going to jump to someone else.? Senator Sorenson had become more belligerent, and his complaints had grown louder. Mr. Short said everything was fine, and Senator Sorenson was okay. In mid?December, he recalls a post-debate confrontation between Senator Sorenson and the senior staff of campaign. Mr. Heckman was worried because Senator Sorenson was a ?hot head.? He remembers Senator Sorenson ?getting into it? with Brett O?Donnell and a few others. On the night of the debate, December 13, Senator Sorenson and Guy Short and Mr. Heckman were extremely upset with the campaign over a variety of things. Senator Sorenson was constantly saying, ?If I leave they will fall apart.? Mr. Heckman knew that Senator Sorenson was very upset and knew there was a good chance he would jump to another campaign. He never had a conversation directly with Senator Sorenson about jumping, though. Although he does not remember a specific conversation, Mr. Heckman remembers that Senator Sorenson complained about wanting more money. He does not recall Senator Sorenson saying that he could get more money from a different campaign. When ?the story broke,? Mr. Heckman thinks it was Peter who called him, but he is not sure. Mr. Heckman has not spoken with Senator Sorenson since he went to the Paul campaign. {wt 2600 Grand Avenue, State 210 Des M01nes,Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 1 Pagell RAN TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 7, 2013 RE: Interview with Barbara Heki On September 3, 2013, Mark Weinhardt met with Barbara Heki to discuss her role in the Senator Sorenson matter. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Ms. Heki grew up in northern Minnesota. She graduated from high school in 1974. She attended Drake University, where she ultimately received her Master?s Degree in journalism. She worked for the Register Syndicate for four years, and then went to work for Maytag, where she worked in public relations for 9 or 10 years. At that time she gave birth to twins and decided to stay home with her children. She now does freelance work. She and her husband have four children, ages 27, 25, and twins that are 23. Mr. Heki has worked principally as a photographer for 23 years. Ms. Heki has worked as a volunteer on various campaigns over the years. When her children were younger she would take them to caucuses. She has worked on local, state, and presidential campaigns. She was an advocate for Jimmy Carter, but since then she has always worked on Republican campaigns. The Bachmann campaign: Ms. Heki started as a volunteer with the Bachmann campaign. Ms. Heki let it be known that she was interested in obtaining a paid staff position. An individual spoke with her about joining the staff and she accepted a paid position at the end of June 2011. The staff was paid through the caucus. Ms. Heki was paid $2,500 a month. Ms. Heki has had no full time employment since the Bachmann campaign. EXHIBIT 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Momes, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 The NICHE list: PageIZ The Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators list is a database of names of actual homeschoolers and people who were interested in homeschooling. NICHE is incorporated as a 501(c) corporation. People are added to the list after attending conferences or requesting information. Ms. Heki does not physically add people to the list. If she received an inquiry she would send the information in and the name would be added to the list. The names are not just Iowa names; there are names from all over the nation. The list is supposed to be confidential. Ms. Heki and husband were both board members of NICHE. Board members are not supposed to give out information about members. Ms. Heki believes there are over 7,000 names on the list. Ms. Heki?s database was an Excel spreadsheet. The main database was held by someone else in a different program. Ms. Heki believes there is a statement on website stating that all information will be kept confidential. Ms. Heki used the list to answer inquiries from homeschoolers. If a homeschooler wanted to be put in contact with local groups or individuals in their area, those groups and individuals were on the list. She would also use the list to answer phone inquiries. NICHE did not, as an organization, back Ms. Bachmann for president. Ms. Heki used the database to help the homeschoolers, not the Bachmann campaign. Her employment on the Bachmann campaign was as an individual, not as a NICHE member. If an inquiry came through to her through NICHE, she wouldn?t Speak specifically about candidates, she would speak about issues. Ms. Heki worked as a Home School Coalition Director for the Bachmann campaign. She tried to get homeschoolers on board with Bachmann. She would contact individual people she knew and members of two homeschool groups that she is a member of. Those two groups are: Serving Home Educators in Eastern Polk (?Sheep?) and Home Educating for Excellence in Des Moines She could not contact anyone from the NICHE list since it is supposed to be kept private. Ms. Heki had a private office at the campaign office. Ms. Heki used her personal MAC computer at the campaign office. She never gave anyone permission to access her computer. She protects her computer, and it contains all of her personal information, including credit card information, social security numbers, passwords, etc. Ms. Heki wouldn?t take her computer with her, but she would close her door when she went to the restroom. She would take it home with her when she left for the day. She never left her computer in her office overnight. She would not even go to the coffee shop (Panera) without taking her computer. The only time she can remember she left her computer in her office if ?i ix . Wf?gL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagei3 unattended was when the campaign was hosting a lunch for the staff and she walked out the back door to help grill for the staff members. Ms. Heki never allowed anyone else to use her computer. No one was permitted to access her computer while she was in the room. She remembers she brought her computer to Mr. Dorr?s office to look at the straw poll data. She may have had a question when they were doing the straw poll data. Mr. Dorr knows Excel, and Ms. Heki believes she asked him to help her put in an additional column and had him show her how to keep the header frozen at the top of the list. That is the only time Mr. Door saw her computer. She was adding information to the campaign database, not the NICHE list, when she asked Mr. Dorr for help. Chris Dorr worked as the Northeast Iowa rep but spent most of his time in the office. He claims he was the unofficial IT person, but Ms. Heki does not think that is true. Ms. Heki stated that Chris Dorr?s affidavit is false in that regard. She would go fix computers; she would fix the router if they had problems, not Mr. Dorr. She did not consult Mr. Dorr about computer issues. She never heard of Mr. Dorr helping anyone with computer issues in the campaign. The open office environment that Mr. Dorr describes about in his affidavit did not exist. The volunteers were mainly outside her office. If staff members outside her office were making calls, Ms. Heki would shut her office door. Theft of the NICHE list: Ms. Heki has no personal knowledge of who took the NICHE list. She didn?t see who took the list with her own eyes. Mr. Woolson?s affidavit states he was told ?we took it.? She heard that Senator Sorenson stood watch. Ms. Heki assumes from what she read in affidavits that Mr. Dorr was the one who took it. Ms. Heki stated that Mac computers have a search bar that makes it easy to search the computer. Whoever took the list could have typed NICHE in the search bar, found the database, and drug it directly onto a ?ash drive. People knew Ms. Heki had the list, but she said she couldn?t use it for the campaign. Senator Sorenson knew what NICHE was. He had spoken at NICHE events before. She had a conversation about the list with Senator Sorenson and Mr. Enos when they hired her. She is not sure if both were in the room at the same time or she had interviews with each separately. Senator Sorenson and Mr. Enos knew the list was on her computer. Tony if 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagel4 Eastman was the main one asking for the list. Mr. Eastman stated to her that they needed to call people and that list would help. Mr. Eastman wanted lots of lists. He asked Ms. Heki if he could have the names from the NICHE list, and she declined. Ms. Heki was not making a lot of phone calls, because she was working with events. Mr. Eastman asked her to call homeschoolers from the list and she repeated that the list could not be used. Ms. Heki and Mr. Eastman talked about the list more than once. Ms. Heki doesn?t feel she was harassed about turning over the list. She believes they were being pressured from the higher-ups to get more lists. Ms. Heki became aware that the list was used right after the email went to the NICHE members. The list was ?salted,? meaning fake names and fake email addresses were on the list to ensure NICHE would find out if the list was used without their knowledge. Two emails within a half hour bounced back. She was contacted by Justin Lavan, who is a member of NICHE. Julie Neighborhouse found the fake emails that bounced back. Ms. Heki could not tell that anyone had been on her computer. The computer is in the process of being forensically investigated at the Urbandale Police Department. They have had the computer since March 2013. Urbandale Police looked at the computer first in September 2012. She brought it to them the day after they asked for it. The Urbandale Police say they will be done by the end of September or early October. Ms. Heki found out who took the list the day after the caucuses from Ms. Bachmann. Ms. Bachmann took the Iowa and national staff to the Machine Shed for lunch after she had announced she would bow out of the race. Ms. Heki and Ms. Bachmann were talking semi- privately, but Mr. Woolson was nearby. Ms. Bachman said she was sorry about what happened. Ms. Heki assumed Ms. Bachmann was talking about Ms. Heki being kicked off the NICHE board. Ms. Bachmann stated, ?They told me Kent did it.? Ms. Heki had been trying to figure out how the list was taken, but she didn?t suspect her co~workers. Ms. Bachmann didn?t tell her any other information. Ms. Heki went to Mr. Woolson and asked ?Kent stole it?? and Mr. Woolson agreed. She asked Mr. Woolson if he heard it from Senator Sorenson and Mr. Woolson said yes. Later that day, Ms. Heki met Mr. Woolson in his office, and he confirmed it again. She then started her own investigation. Peter Waldron told Ms. Heki that Bob Heckman was there when they were discussing the NICHE database and the fact that Ms. Heki wouldn?t let them have it. Senator Sorenson' said ?we?re going to get it.? After hearing this from Mr. Waldron, Ms. Heki started calling people to figure out what happened. {i Wg?fL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Ms. Heki stated that she probably has notes from the investigation, handwritten and typed. She did not produce them in the lawsuit. She could search and find them. Mr. Waldron told Ms. Heki that Mr. Dorr, Mr. Enos and Senator Sorenson met with Mr. Woolson where they told Mr. Woolson about it. Ms. Heki stated that Mr. Enos received a phone call from Ms. Bachmann?s attorney. Ms. Heki believes that Mr. Enos, Senator Sorenson, Mr. Woolson and Mr. Heckman all had knowledge of what happened. Ms. Heki was interviewed by the OCE. Urbandale Police have spoken with her. The Urbandale detective in charge is Andy Morlan. The Bachmann campaign subpoenaed documents from NICHE. There is false information in the documents about Mr. and Ms. Heki. The false information pertains to the Hekis being kicked off board. Book signing: Ms. Heki was also asked about an issue relating to a book signing. Ms. Heki volunteered to attend the book signing and her husband took pictures. The campaign found out that they were not supposed to do campaigning at a book signing. She believes Senator Sorenson should have known they were not supposed to do that. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 a I 1 MEMORANDUM TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Gail Brashers?Krug DATE: September 30, 2013 RE: Interview with Cherie Johnson On September 26, 2013, I interviewed Cherie Johnson via telephone to discuss her role in the Senator Sorenson matter. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Background: Ms. Johnson is an attorney with the firm of McCormick Associates in West Des Moines, Iowa. She knows Ted Sporer, counsel for Senator Sorenson, professionally. She also runs a support group for pregnant and parenting teens at the Child Abuse Prevention Council. Ms. Johnson is not active in politics, and does not want to be involved in politics. The Sorenson response: Ms. Johnson was contacted at her office by Ted Sporer, whom she knew professionally. Mr. Sporer told her that he needed some help on a time?sensitive matter. Ms. Johnson responded that she had a lot of work to do, but Mr. Sporer prevailed upon her to help him out, and she agreed. Mr. Sporer told her had a case in which bank records were at issue. He asked if she would review some bank records, which he would provide, to look for two things: First, whether the records reflected any deposits from Guy Short or Strategies, Inc.; and second, whether the records re?ected deposits from any single source that totaled $7,500 in any one month period. After examining the records, she was to draft and execute an affidavit describing her findings. Mr. Sporer did not tell Ms. Johnson who his client was, or make any reference to the Senate ethics inquiry. Consequently, she was surprised and dismayed when Senator EL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 5 a 6. l2 Sorenson showed up in her office shortly thereafter, bearing the bank records she had agreed to review. Ms. Johnson was aware of the controversy surrounding Senator Sorenson, and she was not happy to get involved, because she does not like politics and did not want her ?name dragged into this.? She did not engage in any substantive conversation with Senator Sorenson when he dropped off the bank records. Ms. Johnson telephoned Mr. Sporer to express her dismay, and told him that she would examine the bank records as she had agreed. She emphasized that she did not want to get involved in the matter any further, and that her affidavit would be truthful and complete no matter what she found. Mr. Sporer agreed. The bank records: Senator Sorenson provided written bank statements for a single account at Wells Fargo Bank, for the period December 2010 through December 2011. He also provided copies of checks he had deposited and copies of deposit slips for that account for the same period, except for the time period of December 8, 2010 to December 29, 2010 and the time period of June 8, 2011 to July 7, 2011. Using the bank statements, the copies of checks, and the copies of deposit slips, Ms. Johnson was able to discern the sources of most of the deposits to the account. To help her review the records, Ms. Johnson created a spreadsheet and logged all of the deposits in it. Ms. Johnson provided our office with a copy of that Spreadsheet. Ms. Johnson did not do any independent investigation, nor did she question Senator Sorenson or Mr. Sporer about any of the entries. She reviewed the documents promised, and drafted a truthful affidavit describing her findings. She also provided a copy of the spreadsheet she created to Mr. Sporer. Afterwards: Ms. Johnson has not had any contact with Senator Sorenson, except that he met her at her church so that she could return his bank records to him. He joked that she might not want to be seen with him. She has had no further involvement in this matter. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 a I 1 MEMORANDUM TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Mark Weinhardt DATE: September 27, 2013 RE: Telephone conference with olanda Kesari Today I spoke with olanda Kesari by phone. I identified myself as independent counsel to the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee and described the nature of my investigation. I reached her at the phone number publicly associated with Designer Goldsmiths Inc. in Leesburg, Virginia (703?777?766 1). I told her that I had arranged to speak With her husband, Dimitri Kesari, earlier in the morning, and Mr. Kesari had not responded to my call. I asked her if she could facilitate my speaking to him, and she said she would let him know I was attempting to speak With him. I asked Ms. Kesari if she operated the Designer Goldsmiths business, and she said she did. I told Ms. Kesari that we were in possession of a copy of a check drawn on Designer Goldsmiths dated December 26, 2011 payable to ?Grass Roots Strategies? in the amount of $25,000, and I told her that ?Grass Roots Strategies? was associated with Senator Kent Sorenson. I asked her what she could tell me about the nature and purpose of that check. She told me that I would have to speak to her husband about that, and that she would not answer any other questions. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 I 515.244.3100 0 RA TO: Senate Ethics FROM: Mark Weinhardt DATE: September 27, 2013 RE: Telephone conference with Mike Marshall Today I spoke with Mike Marshall, the Secretary of the Senate. We discussed the interpretation of Senate Rule 6. I asked Mr. Marshall about the quotation attributed to him by Jennifer Jacobs in the Des Moines Register article on July 21, 2013 at page 10A. The passage that I asked about, and which I read to him in its entirety, states as follows: But it [Rule 6] goes on the say: ?For the purpose of this rule, a political action committee means a committee, but not a candidate?s committee Some interpret that sentence to mean working for a presidential candidate?s committee is acceptable. Others say that the apostrophe is the key. It means senators can pay themselves from their own campaign committee; it?s not permission to work for someone else?s campaign. Secretary of the Senate Mike Marshall said the latter interpretation is correct. The Senate Ethics Committee has historically interpreted the Rule to mean senators or senators?elect can?t be paid to work on any campaign except their own. Mr. Marshall said that Ms. Jacobs accurately quoted him, although he noted that he had given this quote to Ms. Jacobs months before the article, and he had not specifically mentioned the apostrophe when describing his interpretation of the rule. Mr. Marshall described his interpretation for me by saying that here had been an ?informal understanding? among senators and staff throughout the 15 years he had worked in the Senate that senators could pay themselves for working on their own campaigns, but they could not be paid for working on other campaigns. I asked whether the evil to be remedied by this provision was to avoid the appearance of 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 ?l?L senators selling their offices in exchange for boosting the campaigns of other candidates or issues. He agreed that this was exactly what the rule was intended to accomplish. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I Pagell RAN TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 7, 2013 RE: Interview of Andy Parrish On September 6, 2013, Mark Weinhardt had a telephone interview with Andy Parrish. Mr. Parrish?s attorney, John Gilmore was also on the call. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Parrish is employed as an independent contractor doing campaign work. He has been doing campaign work for nine or ten years. Mr. Parrish grew up in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, in 1997. Mr. Parrish attended Normandale Community College. He then attended Brown Institute where he majored in computer technology. He attended Inver Hills Community College and then transferred to the University of Wisconsin at River Falls, where he received his Bachelor?s degree in political science in 2004. During his career, Mr. Parrish has almost exclusively worked in campaigns or in state or federal government. He lobbied for a year and a half, worked in the Minnesota State Senate as an assistant, and worked for Congresswoman Michele Bachmann as Director of District Outreach and Chief of Staff from August 2009 through June 13, 2011, when she announced her candidacy for president. After Ms. Bachmann announced her candidacy for president, Mr. Parrish became her senior political adviser. He held that position through September 2011, at which time he returned home to work at the congressional office. He worked at the congressional office through February 2012. At that time he took the job of deputy campaign manager for a Minnesota mayoral candidate through the 2012 campaign cycle. He is currently working on three campaigns: Ortman for Senate, Mike Benton for Congress, and as an advisor for a friend, for which he is not being paid. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 i 515.244.3100 PagelZ In January 2010, Michele Bachmann was invited to speak at Iowans for Tax Relief, where she and Mr. Parrish met Kent Sorenson. Senator Sorenson indicated at that time that he would be interested in joining the campaign if there was one. From that time on, Mr. Parrish and the Senator would have email and casual telephone contact regarding when and where Ms. Bachmann should visit on her next trip to Iowa. The relationship between Mr. Parrish and Senator Sorenson developed over time through trips to Iowa and through emails receiving advice about whom to talk to and where to visit. Mr. Parrish cannot pinpoint the time when the campaign decided to pay Senator Sorenson. He believes it was a mutual feeling between the campaign and Senator Sorenson that he should receive compensation. Mr. Parrish had conversations with Senator Sorenson regarding compensation, but doesn?t remember who initiated the conversation. He believes it was Senator Sorenson who initiated, but he is not sure. Mr. Parrish still has emails that re?ect those conversations and could confirm through those emails who initiated the subject. Senator Sorenson was publicly announced as campaign chair right after Ms. Bachmann announced her candidacy. In response to Mr. Parrish?s post on his Facebook page stating he was moving to Iowa, Senator Sorenson commented about ?getting to work.? Compensation had already been put in place by the time Senator Sorenson was announced as campaign chair. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Parrish in a telephone conversation that according to Senate Ethics Rules he couldn?t be paid by the campaign directly. The conversation had to have taken place in April or May because Mr. Parrish moved to Iowa in June 2011. Senator Sorenson told them that the best way to pay him was to hire him as an independent Contractor though Strategies. Mr. Parrish needed to find a way to get Senator Sorenson paid. He checked with an attorney, Kathie Beiber at the Patton Boggs firm, to see if the campaign could pay the Senator as an independent contractor. Ms. Beiber advised that it was okay to hire the Senator as an independent contractor if he were paid through a different company. Mr. Parrish then contacted Guy Short to see if that was something Mr. Short could set up through his company. Mr. Parrish remembers Mr. Short stating that he would have to issue Senator Sorenson a 1099 and check with Patton Boggs firm to confirm. At this point Mr. Parrish walked away from the situation. Mr. Short and Senator Sorenson were to talk and figure it out. i WWJL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pago 3 When Mr. Parrish and Senator Sorenson discussed compensation, Mr. Parrish had offered him $7,000 or $7,500 a month and a computer. Ultimately Senator Sorenson was paid through Mr. Short?s company, Strategies. He was paid $7,500 and was reimbursed for a computer. Mr. Short was ?nance director and then changed to political director for the campaign. As finance director, Mr. Short was in charge of all fundraisers and direct mail. As political director, Mr. Short was in charge of voter identification and parades. Strategies would invoice the presidential campaign for consulting services. This was a set amount. Mr. Parrish is not sure if was paid or every two weeks. Employees were paid every two weeks and contractors were paid Mr. Parrish is not sure whether Mr. Short increased his invoice by $7,500 a month to cover Senator Sorenson?s payment. Mr. Parrish never saw invoices and doesn?t know what they look like. The invoices would go directly to Nancy Watkins in Florida. Ms. Watkins? email address is nwatkins@robertwatkinscom. Ms. Watkins works for Robert Watkins Company, which was the Bachmann campaign?s treasurer. At this point the phone call was interrupted. Thereafter Mr. Weinhardt contacted Mr. Parrish?s attorney to schedule a deposition. ML 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 1 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagell EM 0 RAN TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 20, 2013 RE: Interview of David Polyansky On September 20, 2013, Mark Weinhardt conducted a telephone interview of David Polyansky in connection with the Senator Sorenson ethics investigation. Mr. Polyansky?s personal attorney, Ron Jacobs, from the Venable firm in Washington, BC. was also on the phone. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Polyansky grew up in Miami, Florida. He attended the University of Miami, where he played football for two years. He then joined the Marine Corps and served from 1992 through 1997. After the Marine Corps, Mr. Polyansky moved to Texas, where he attended and graduated from the University of St. Thomas. He then attended the University of Houston Law School. He practiced at the Phillips Akers firm, practicing commercial litigation defense and medical malpractice. He went back to the Marine Corps and served one year in Iraq. After he returned from Iraq, Mr. Polyansky joined the McFall, Sherwood law firm. Mr. Polyansky was interested in politics, and began to work with the Fair Tax Organization. Mr. Polyansky started his own consulting company. His main clients were trade organizations and nonprofit companies. Mr. Polyansky met Ed Rollins while working for the Huckabee campaign. When Governor Huckabee decided to drop out of the 2012 race, Mr. Rollins asked Mr. Polyansky if he wanted to get involved with the Bachmann campaign. The OCE interview: Mr. Polyansky recently reviewed his interview with the Office of Congressional Ethics. He believes that the OCE interpreted some of his testimony differently than he recalls. i 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 PagelZ Mr. Polyansky?s attorney, Mr. Jacobs, stated that Mr. Polyansky had submitted a later declaration to the DOE because a second OCE interview would have been prohibitively expensive, requiring Mr. Polyansky to ?y to Washington. Nor did Mr. Jacobs want Mr. Polyansky to give an interview to the OCE by telephone. Mr. Polyanksy submitted the declaration during the closing week of the OCR investigation. The Bachmann campaign: Mr. Polyanksy became involved with the Bachmann campaign sometime around when she announced her candidacy, perhaps early June. He was living in New York at the time, and Ed Rollins called and said they were going to get involved in the campaign. The two met with attorney Bill McGinley to set up the campaign. Mr. Polyansky knows that Ms. Bachmann had two existing entities Bachmann for Congress and a leadership PAC. He believes that the PAC was the vehicle they were using in Iowa at the time to put the campaign together. These two entities were formed before Mr. Polyansky became involved. Mr. Polyansky believed that Bachmann for Congress could share financial assets with the Bachmann For President entity. He assumed that BFP was the entity that paid staffers in Iowa, North Carolina, and New Hampshire. Mr. Polyansky met Senator Sorenson after Ms. Bachmann had announced her candidacy. He doesn?t remember when he met Senator Sorenson, but knows it was at the Machine Shed. Mr. Polyansky believes Senator Sorenson had already been hired by the campaign when he met him, but is not sure. It was late June when the press release was issued announcing Senator Sorenson as the Iowa campaign chair. Mr. Polyansky?s job was to make sure that the campaign paid its staffers fairly and realistically. He had a role in negotiating pay for Guy Short. Mr. Short had a preexisting relationship with Ms. Bachmann. He knew Mr. Short had to be on board but wanted to make sure the pay rate was acceptable for the campaign. Mr. Polyansky remembers one meeting with Mr. Short in particular that was ?heated and contentious.? It was a face?to- face meeting in Old Town, Virginia (a suburb of DC). They did not come to a conclusion at that meeting. The two finally agreed that Mr. Short would receive $15,000 per month. Mr. Polyansky gave the information to Mr. McGinley so that he could draft the contract. Mr. Polyansky was contacted by either Mr. Short or Senator Sorenson telling him that Senator Sorenson had a ?preexisting contract with Guy.? He assumed Senator Sorenson was a subcontractor of Mr. Short?s. Mr. Polyansky was told that they would like to continue that relationship, and that Mr. Short?s payment needed to increase from $15,000 to ?i ?0 . . W324 2600 Grand Avenue, Su1te 210 Des Memes, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagef3 $22,000 per month. Mr. Polyansky spoke with Mr. McGinley to verify this arrangement, and Mr. McGinley told him it was acceptable. Mr. Polyansky?s best recollection is that he and Mr. McGinley talked about whether there were any ethics rules that would preclude the campaign from paying Senator Sorenson. His recollection is that Mr. McGinley advised that they were compliant with all statutes, regulations, and ethics rules. Senator Sorenson?s duty with the campaign was doing grassroots organization to get the campaign up and running and seeking endorsements. Since Senator Sorenson was being compensated as a subcontractor for the Bachmann campaign, Mr. Polyansky expected that Senator Sorenson would not be receiving compensation from the Bachmann campaign, and doing work for any other candidate. Mr. Polyansky?s expectation is that a subcontractor should be devoting his complete time to the Bachmann candidate. He assumes those expectations would be in the contract, and that working for another candidate would be a breach of the contract. Mr. Polyansky does not know why the campaign started paying Senator Sorenson as a subcontractor and not directly from BFP. When Mr. Polyansky got involved in BFP, Senator Sorenson was already subcontracting with Mr. Short. He was told the arrangement was something ?we?ve been doing for a while.? The contract to pay Senator Sorenson through Mr. Short was an extension of an existing arrangement. Both Senator Sorenson and Mr. Short told Mr. Polyansky that the relationship was preexisting. Mr. Polyansky assumed that Andy Parrish knew of the preexisting relationship. Most staffers were paid by the PAC initially, but when they joined the campaign, they began to be paid by the campaign. Ms. Bachmann said she wanted to participate in the Iowa straw poll. Mr. Polyansky and Mr. Rollins thought their time would be better spent building the campaign. When Ms. Bachmann stated she wanted to participate in the straw poll, Mr. Polyansky started coming to Iowa more frequently. Mr. Polyansky doesn?t recall having an issue with Senator Sorenson?s work ethic or work product. He can?t remember an incident in which he felt Senator Sorenson wasn?t working hard. Mr. Polyansky left the Bachmann campaign because he felt that he had fulfilled his promises to Ms. Bachmann regarding organizing the campaign and winning the straw poll. He advised Ms. Bachmann that the campaign?s focus should be on raising money and continuing to perform well in debates. Ms. Bachmann turned her attention ?abruptly away 5 i tire. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 4 from those avenues? and toward her book. In Mr. Polyansky?s opinion, the focus on the campaign was not there. MEZL 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagell MEMORANDUM TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Mark Weinhardt DATE: September 8, 2013 RE: Telephone interview of Peter Waldron On August 30 and 31, 2013 I conducted a telephone interview of Peter Waldron. This memorandum summarizes the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Biographical: Mr. Waldron is retired and receives Social Security benefits. Until his retirement he was employed since 1980 as a political consultant. Without explanation, he said that the ?Bachmann campaign killed by career.? Mr. Waldron did not work for a company but worked independently for a number of different candidates or campaigns over the years. Where the elections were partisan, he always worked on the Republican side. He said that his specialty was reaching out to faith-based organizations and to the ?value?based voter.? He said he did this with people of various faiths. Mr. Waldron provided a personal and employment history for himself, although there were a few gaps in time that I did not press him to fill. Mr. Waldron grew up in McClain, New York. He joined the Army at age 17 and served for 39 months. In 1970 he went to Beirut, Lebanon and worked as a consultant of some sort, he said, until 1977 when he returned to the United States. In the 1980 election cycle he volunteered to work on the Reagan/ Bush campaign. After that he hosted a broadcast on Capitol Hill called Contact America. In 1987 the Republican Party hired him to work on US. Senate campaigns. In the 1991?92 presidential cycle, he worked on the Bush?Quayle campaign. Including this work, apparently he worked in his own political consulting firm until 1993. In 1993 he left politics for a time and worked with a foundation for at?risk children in Florida. In 1997, Gary Bauer asked him to organize the campaign to adopt a constitutional rt? Wgyf, 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 - Pagelz amendment in Alaska to de?ne marriage as between a man and a woman. Mr. Waldron did that and also worked on the campaign for the governor?s race in Alaska. In the 2000 presidential cycle, Mr. Waldron worked on the Gary Bauer campaign. When Mr. Bauer was eliminated he moved to the John McCain campaign, and when Mr. McCain was eliminated he moved to the George W. Bush campaign. In 2002, a business called Southwest Development Company from Billings, Montana sent Mr. Waldron to Uganda to distribute anti-HIV drugs to the population there. He spent four years in Uganda. In 2005 he was accused in Uganda of being a terrorist, and he was jailed by that nation for 37 days in solitary confinement where he said he was tortured. After pleas from, among others, his then?Wife, the Bush administration interceded with the Ugandan government and secured Mr. Waldron?s release. In the 2008 presidential cycle, Mr. Waldron worked on the McCain campaign. After the election he went to Zambia for a year to work on AIDS prevention. In 2011, Mr. Waldron was hired to work on the Bachmann For President campaign in Iowa. After Ms. Bachmann was eliminated, Mr. Waldron worked on organizing Catholic voters for Mitt Romney. Mr. Waldron was married for many years but the strain of his situation in Uganda resulted in the dissolution of his marriage after he returned from that country. He has five children who are aged 33, 26, 25, 18, and 16. Mr. Waldron and the Bachmann campaign: Mr. Waldron was hired by BFP effective July 5, 2011. BFP paid him $5,000 per month before Ms. Bachmann?s victory in the Iowa Straw Poll, and $5,500 per month thereafter. His job was organizing evangelical voters. He said he reported to Robert Heckman, a political consultant from Washington, DC. whom he described as ?senior adviser? to the campaign. BFP was the third campaign Mr. Waldron and Mr. Heckman worked together on. He also worked with Mr. Heckman on the 1997 Alaska and 2008 presidential campaigns. Mr. Heckman is the person who hired Mr. Waldron to work for BFP. Mr. Waldron worked at Iowa headquarters in Urbandale. He had one person who worked direCtly with him in evangelical organizing. That person was Drew Klein. ?w?i Wi?t 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 3 I asked Mr. Waldron who was in charge of the EFF Iowa operation. He said that at ?rst the operation was run by David Polyansky, the Deputy National Campaign Manager. Mr. Polyansky was second in command nationally to Ed Rollins. Mr. Polyansky left the Iowa position on August 14, 2011, immediately after Ms. Bachmann?s victory in the Iowa Straw Poll. On approximately September 15, 2011, Keith Nahigian took over as head of the Iowa operation, but, according to Mr. Waldron, Mr. Nahigian was infrequently in the Iowa office until December of 2011, as Mr. Nahigian spent most of his time campaigning with Ms. Bachmann. In between Mr. Polyansky?s departure and Mr. Nahigian?s arrival in September, Mr. Waldron said, Andy Parrish ran the Iowa office.1 I asked Mr. Waldron how and when Kent Sorenson became involved in the Iowa campaign. Mr. Waldron said he believed that Senator Sorenson became involved in the campaign in approximately March 2011. He gets this date from recalling a press release announcing Senator Sorenson?s involvement in the campaign. Mr. Waldron said that when he arrived in Iowa, Senator Sorenson was well?involved in the campaign, and there was ?already a to the office.? He understood Senator Sorenson to be the chairman of the Iowa campaign, which he described as a ?primarily ceremonial? role. Senator Sorenson would accompany Ms. Bachmann to campaign events in order to provide a familiar Iowa name and face on her side. Mr. Waldron characterized Senator Sorenson as being in the Urbandale office daily and being active in that office. He said that Senator Sorenson was ?kinetic,? talking with lots of people, shaking hands, and introducing himself. Pay to Senator Sorenson: Mr. Waldron said he was not aware of any job or source of income Senator Sorenson had other than the compensation he received as an Iowa Senator and whatever he was being paid to be the EFF co-chair. Senator Sorenson never talked about having a job outside of politics. Mr. Waldron said that he did not have personal knowledge of What and how Senator Sorenson was paid, but that in the office at Urbandale, ?everyone knew he was being paid by the campaign.? Mr. Waldron did not have any personal conversation, however, with Senator Sorenson about what or how he was being paid. I asked Mr. Waldron who he believed would be a witness to the fact that Senator Sorenson was being paid for his work on the Bachmann campaign. He said that Wesley Although his name comes up later in this interview, Mr. Waldron did not expressly mention Eric Woolson as being in charge of the Iowa operation at any point. MEL, 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page l4 Enos, Senator Sorenson?s closest friend and the political director on the campaign, told Mr. Heckman that Senator Sorenson was being paid. He said that Mr. Heckman was ?Confidential Witness in his complaint to the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee. He said that Andy Parrish was ?Confidential Witness and Mr. Parrish has knowledge about what and how Senator Sorenson was being paid. He identified Mr. Parrish as formerly being Ms. Bachmann?s congressional chief of staff. Mr. Waldron said he was aware generally that Senator Sorenson had started his own consulting firm called Grassroots Strategy. Beyond its existence, he didn?t really know anything about it, however. Mr. Waldron also said that Guy Short would have knowledge of payments to Senator Sorenson. Mr. Short was a fundraiser for Ms. Bachmann. Mr. Short had a record of success in fundraising, particularly in the ?value voter? community. Mr. Waldron said he saw Mr. Short infrequently on the BFP campaign until late November or early December 2011. After that he saw him much more often. He noted, perhaps coincidentally, that Mr. Short was present more in Iowa after the alleged theft of the computer list from Barbara Heki. Mr. Short was in Iowa more or less steadily for about five weeks. When Mr. Short was in Iowa, he and Senator Sorenson were ?in the same office? -- Mr. Short worked at a table next to Senator Sorenson?s desk and ?joined at the hip.? They ate together. I asked Mr. Waldron if he had any evidence of Strategy or Guy Short serving as an intermediary for payments to Senator Sorenson. He said the only evidence beyond rumor that he possessed of this was emails discussing the payment arrangement that were attached to the affidavit Andy Parrish submitted in support of Mr. Waldron?s complaint to the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee. We discussed whether Senator Sorenson believed that he could not be paid for his work on the campaign under Senate Ethics rules. Mr. Waldron said that BFP issued a press release in late October 2011 that simply said that Senator Sorenson could not be paid for his campaign work under Senate rules. Mr. Waldron also said that he had heard Senator Sorenson say on multiple occasions in front of visitors to the office that he could not be paid by the campaign because he was a sitting Iowa Senator. On at least one occasion, Senator Sorenson said directly to Mr. Waldron that he could not be paid for working on the campaign. That occasion was in October 2011. Mr. Waldron recalled that Guy Short had ?own into Iowa for a meeting. The meeting was among Mr. Waldron, Mr. Short, Mr. Heckman, and Senator Sorenson. He recalls that he had meetings scheduled in southeast Iowa on that day and that he had to cancel them to accommodate Mr. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagcls Short?s arrival. The topic of the meeting was Ms. Bachmann?s poor performance to date in Iowathis Guy Short meeting that Senator Sorenson was having a one? on?one conversation with Mr. Waldron. The topic was how the Bachmann campaign was being rude to the faith community and that this was a liability to the campaign. To this discussion Senator Sorenson then added that he could not be paid for his work on the campaign. If was a non sequitur to their conversation. Mr. Waldron did not ask for any explanation or elaboration. Mr. Waldron said that he had concerns about what he understood to be payments to Senator Sorenson being routed through an intermediary. He said that he exchanged a series of emails with Jim Pollack, national finance chair, about this issue in January 2012. The list: We discussed the alleged theft of a list from Barbara Heki?s computer. Ms. Heki?s role on the campaign was to reach out to voters in the homeschool movement. BFP paid her for this work. He did not know how much but knew the number was less than $5,000 per month. Ms. Heki?s office was 40 to 50 feet from his of?ce, and a central area with a phone bank was in between their offices. Ms. Heki had a private of?ce. Two events caused Mr. Waldron to learn that a list had been stolen from Ms; Heki?s computer. First, there was an evening where Mr. Waldron was working late in his office, probably around 9:00 to 10:00 pm. Mr. Waldron believes this event was during the first ten days of November 2011. Down the hall in another office, he heard Senator Sorenson?s voice along with voices of other men. He also heard Senator Sorenson say something like ?she didn?t know.? Senator Sorenson sounded jubilant as he said this. Mr. Waldron believes that Senator Sorenson and the men he was with did not know that Mr. Waldron was in the office to hear this conversation. Mr. Waldron said additional details about this event are in the statement he provided to the Urbandale Police, which is attached to his Senate Ethics complaint. The second thing that alerted him to the idea that there was a theft was that he saw Ms. Heki upset about something. This was approximately two weeks after the event where he overheard Senator Sorenson, perhaps around Thanksgiving. Ms. Heki explained her distress to Mr. Waldron because she was being blamed for giving a contact list belonging to the homeschooling group NICHE to the Bachmann campaign. She said she did not do it on purpose but thought she had done it by mistake and was blaming herself. NICHE had if W34: 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Pagel? discovered that the Bachmann campaign had sent two emails to people on the NICHE list, and people associated with NICHE were very upset. A few days later, Mr. Waldron saw Ms. Heki again, and she was still extremely upset over this incident. Mr. Waldron was concerned about her and went to Eric Woolson in the office about it. He told Mr. Woolson that based on what he had overheard, he believed Senator Sorenson took the list without Ms. Heki?s knowledge. He wanted to know what they should do about this, but Mr. Woolson had no ideas. Sometime after this, Guy Short arrived in the office and reacted to the situation. NICHE had gone to the media about the use of the list, and the campaign needed to respond. Mr. Short told Mr. Woolson that the campaign would pay $2,000 to NICHE to compensate it for the use of the list. Mr. Waldron believes this occurred around December 1, 2011. At some point around this time Mr. Waldron learned from Mr. Woolson that Mr. Woolson had had a couple of meetings about this topic with Senator Sorenson, Wesley Enos, and Chris Dorr. Mr. Waldron understands that in those conversations Mr. Woolson pressed the trio to tell Ms. Heki how the list had been taken from her computer. The trio refused. Mr. Waldron understands, however, that the trio admitted to Mr. Woolson that they had taken the list, but they refused to tell Ms. Heki that they had done so, because they believed it would look bad for the Bachmann campaign if this became public. Concerned over the fact that Ms. Heki appeared to have been the victim of a theft but that no one was telling her and that she believed she had made her own mistake, Mr. Waldron contacted Robert Heckman and asked him to intercede to illuminate Ms. Heki about what happened. Mr. Heckman, too, said the matter needed to be kept quiet. Mr. Waldron next took this issue to Ms. Bachmann and her husband. On December 18, 2011, Mr. Waldron traveled to Fort Dodge to meet with the Bachmanns and talk to them about problems with the campaign. Among the problems with the campaign he discussed, Mr. Waldron told the Bachmanns about the evidence he possessed described above suggesting that there was the theft of the list from Ms. Heki about which she had never been told. (Another issue he raised was Senator Sorenson being paid through an intermediary when he was denying receiving compensation.) Mr. Waldron met with the Bachmanns for about 70 minutes. Nothing happened after this meeting. Ms. Heki did not learn of the claim that Senator Sorenson had taken the list until January 4, 2012, the day after the caucuses. There was a lunch at the Iowa Machine Shed restaurant on that day for the Bachmann campaign workers. At the lunch Ms. Bachmann 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 7 took Ms. Heki aside and told her that Senator Sorenson had taken the list from her computer. By this time, Mr. Waldron noted, NICHE had fired Ms. Heki and her husband from its board. Mr. Waldron said he had seen Chris Dorr?s af?davit in which Mr. Dorr innocently takes responsibility from removing the list from Ms. Heki?s computer. Mr. Waldron said he does not believe that Mr. Dorr went from computer?td?computer at the campaign office acquiring things from computers or working on them. He said that Mr. Dorr did not ever access Mr. Waldron?s computer. He also said that Ms. Heki had made clear to people that her computer was off limits to the other employees. Senate ethics complaints: Mr. Waldron filed a complaint on January 18, 2013 about the financial matters involving Senator Sorenson with the Federal Election Commission. Mr. Waldron filed his complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee in response to a statement by Iowa Senator Wally Horn that the Senate Ethics Committee had no jurisdiction to act on a complaint ?led with the FEC. I asked Mr. Waldron about the recent news article stating that he intended to file another Senate Ethics complaint about the alleged arrangement by the Ron Paul campaign to pay Senator Sorenson to defect to that campaign. Mr. Waldron said that he was filing that complaint based upon the information available on the Iowa Republican website, and that the complaint was being prepared only now because the information had only come to light on that website. He denied any connection between his wanting to ?le a new complaint and the fact that he now had a book about his experiences with the Bachmann campaign for sale. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 Pagell MEMORANDUM TO: Senate Ethics File FROM: Lori Kreutzman DATE: September 12, 2013 RE: Interview of Eric Woolson On September 5, 2013 Holly Logan met with Eric Woolson in our of?ce. This memorandum summarizes the interview. Mark Weinhardt joined for part of the interview. This memorandum is organized by topic and does not exactly follow the chronology of the interview. Mr. Woolson and the Bachmann campaign: Mr. Woolson began working on the Bachmann campaign in mid-September 2011 as a communications consultant. As the campaign progressed, his experience in managing campaigns became known and he was named campaign manager on October 27 and remained in that position through the caucuses. As campaign manager his job duties were supervision of of?ce staff and ?eld staff, strategy, where the candidate needed to be, and what needed to be talked about pertaining to Iowa. When Mr. Woolson was named campaign manager, staff people were talking about quitting. He was trying to talk people into saying. The feeling was that it was a new team and he would ?right the ship.? The national campaign manager was Keith Nahigian and the political director was Guy Short. Mr. Woolson reported to Mr. Short. Mr. Woolson would often communicate with Alice Stewart in the national of?ce also. Wes Enos was the deputy campaign manager, and the ?eld staff consisted of Chris Dorr, Tony Eastman, Emma Nemicheck, and Mark Doland. The campaign had a couple of people on the pastor coalition. Those people were Drew Klein and Peter Waldron. These two did not report to Mr. Woolson. Barbara Heki was the homeschool coalition coordinator. That position was at the same level as the ?eld staff people. Ms. Heki was the liaison with homeschool families across the state. No one reports to the ?eld staff, they are considered the ?worker bees.? When a candidate visits their part of the state, it is the ?eld staff member?s responsibility to take care of everything. They have input on the event location and getting people to attend. .35 .-I 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 3: Pagell Senator Sorenson?s position with the campaign was State Chair. That position is more of an honorary position. It is typically a ?gurehead sort of role. The campaign?s challenge before Mr. Woolson became campaign manager was that Senator Sorenson was the campaign chair. Mr. Enos was deputy chair but didn?t have authority to manage the campaign. People within the campaign thought Senator Sorenson was calling the shots. Senator Sorenson was already working on the campaign when Mr. Woolson started. Senator Sorenson was on board before the straw poll. Mr. Woolson was with the Rick Pawlenty campaign prior to joining the Bachmann campaign. Steven Hensler was the IT guy. He came in late to the campaign, as he was working on the Herman Cain campaign. Mr. Woolson believes Mr. Hensler started in early December 2011. Ryan Rhodes was a volunteer from New Hampshire, who served as the Iowa tea party chairman. Tamera Scott came on as co-chair late in the campaign. It was an honorary position but she worked really hard. Mr. Woolson feels he didn?t have anyone in the office he could trust to keep things confidential. The relationship between the national staff and the Iowa staff was strained. Mr. Woolson would share his concerns with national staff about certain people on the Iowa staff, and the national staff would want him to deal with the Iowa staff in a certain way. He felt he always had to keep information con?dential between the national and the Iowa staff. The NICHE list: Mr. Woolson heard about the NICHE email list either before he became the campaign manager or the day he was made manager. Mr. Nahigian stated that the campaign was not making headway with the homeschoolers. Mr. Nahigian?s issue with Ms. Heki had nothing to do with the fact that she would not give the campaign the NICHE list. Mr. Woolson?s sense was that Ms. Heki was supposed to be contacting people on the list, not turning the list over. Mr. Woolson had worked with Ms. Heki on the Huckabee campaign. The NICHE list is proprietary information and the campaign is not entitled to it. When Mr. Woolson and Ms. Heki worked together on the Huckabee campaign, he knew the list was something they could not use. Mr. Woolson did some work for NICHE in the past. They asked him to send emails for them. Mr. Woolson helped them out since NICHE was supportive in the Huckabee campaign. The computer that Ms. Heki used was her personal computer. Mr. Woolson doesn?t know what Ms. Heki?s pattern was as far as leaving her computer. This incident prompted a Mr. Woolson to worry about leaving his laptop laylng around. Mr. Woolson became aware of the list incident when Ms. Heki came to him around November 10 and said she had received a call from Justin LaVan telling her that the 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 I Pagef3 Bachmann campaign had used the email list. NICHE salted their list with 10 or 15 phony names so those emails would bounce back and they would know someone had used their list. NICHE members received two emails from the Bachmann campaign. Mr. Woolson called Mr. LaVan to ?nd out what happened. He thinks he was standing or walking around in the middle of campaign of?ce when he called Mr. LaVan from his cell phone. He believes Ms. Heki was there. Mr. Woolson spoke with Mr. LaVan the same day the email went out - November 10, 2011. Mr. Woolson?s sense is that the content of the email had already been laid out prior to getting the list. It takes longer than one day to get agreement on what emails say. So, Mr. Woolson believes, the list was taken prior to November 10 or the email had been written prior to November 10 and was ready to send. Mr. Woolson didn?t have a sense that people in the campaign of?ce ?really wanted the list.? The campaign was frustrated that they were not making headway with homeschoolers, but the frustration was not about the list. After Mr. Woolson spoke with Mr. LaVan, he asked around the campaign of?ce about the list. He spoke with Senator Sorenson and told him that NICHE said the campaign used the list. Senator Sorenson smiled and said ?Do you want to know what happened?? Mr. Woolson tried to leave the Senator?s of?ce because he really didn?t want to know. Before he could leave Senator Sorenson said, ?We took it.? It is physically impossible to see Ms. Heki?s of?ce from the entrance of the campaign of?ce. Senator Sorenson told Mr. Woolson that ?we stood watch? when the list was being taken. Mr. Woolson believes that meant that there was more than one person involved. Chris Dorr said he accidently downloaded the list. Mr. Woolson stated that he is not sure how you ?accidently? download something. Senator Sorenson stated that when Ms. Heki left the of?ce, that?s when they took it. Mr. Woolson?s recollection is after he found out about the email he called Mr. Nahigian and got his voicemail and left a message. He then called Mr. Short and said ?we have a big fucking problem.? When Mr. Woolson spoke with Mr. Short they did not formulate a strategy. Mr. Woolson spoke to the campaign?s attorney, William McGinley. He had several conversations with Mr. McGinley, but the ?rst one was within an hour of ?nding out what happened. Mr. McGinley told Mr. Woolson to ?keep it con?dential.? Mr. Woolson was told by the national people that they would take care of it. In hindsight, national ?clearly didn?t deal with it.? It became clear to Mr. Woolson that the national of?ce preferred to ride it out until after the caucuses. Mr. Woolson believes Mr. Enos was in the room when he spoke with Mr. McGinley, but he is not positive. He doesn?t believe anyone else was conferenced into the call. Mr. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 1 Pagel4 Woolson and Mr. Enos talked a little before talking to Mr. McGinley. They discussed the fact that the NICHE list was used and it was a problem. Mr. Enos didn?t say he was involved. No one would admit to Mr. Woolson that they were involved. Mr. Woolson had sense that people were ?holding out on him.? Mr. McGinley told Mr. Woolson that he represented the campaign not Mr. Woolson. Mr. Woolson wondered if he needed an attorney for himself. The conversation with Mr. McGinley ended with Mr. McGinley stating ?don?t discuss with anyone and national will handle it.? Mr. Woolson went on with his daily work after his conversation with Mr. McGinley. He believed that national would handle the situation. He spoke with Mr. McGinley later that same evening but doesn?t remember what that conversation was about. He knows it was on the same topic but doesn?t remember different instructions. He is not sure if Mr. McGinley spoke with Mr. Nahigian or Mr. Short. The next morning Mr. Woolson spoke with Mr. Eastman and asked him what was going on. Mr. Eastman responded by saying, don?t know what you?re talking about.? He is not sure if the trio (Dorr, Enos, and Sorenson) had ?circled the wagons? or not. Mr. Eastman told him that he didn?t recall anything about the list. Peter Waldron came into Mr. Woolson?s of?ce and said you need to do the right thing; you need to tell Barb. Ms. Heki was crying in the of?ce wondering how this could have happened. Since Mr. Woolson had been instructed not to share anything, he felt he couldn?t talk with Ms. Heki about what happened. He felt he had a moral obligation to say something but also a legal obligation to not say anything. Ms. Heki told him that NICHE members now hate her and are going to throw her off the board. NICHE was trying to remove Ms. Heki from the board and she wanted to stay. Mr. Woolson believes Chris Dorr would ?fall on the sword? for Senator Sorenson. There is ?no way he accidently did this.? It is not believable that he accidently saved the NICHE list to a thumb drive, then accidently loaded that thumb drive contents on the computer and then accidently sent it to national for an email to be sent out. Mr. Woolson doesn?t ?nd Mr. Dorr?s story believable. Mr. Enos and Mr. Woolson spoke about talking with Ms. Heki about what had happened. They talked about why didn?t Senator Sorenson tell Ms. Heki what they did. Mr. Enos said he was going to tell Senator Sorenson that he had a responsibility to tell Ms. Heki what they had done. Mr. Waldron told Mr. Woolson that he heard Mr. Dorr, Mr. Enos, and Senator Sorenson laughing about the list. Senator Sorenson?s demeanor when he told Mr. Woolson made him think it was like a prank, since he was smiling. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 PagelS Mr. Woolson cannot rule out that he had late night conversations with Mr. Dorr, Mr. Enos, and Senator Sorenson about what happened. Mr. Waldron told Mr. Woolson that he should tell the three that they should speak with Ms. Heki. He remembers having a conversation with Senator Sorenson about why they won?t come clean. Mr. Woolson doesn?t honestly remember telling Senator Sorenson that he needed to come clean but would not dispute Mr. Waldron?s claim that Mr. Woolson had conversations with the three that they needed to speak with Ms. Heki. Mr. Short was negotiating with NICHE for payment for the email list. NICHE had requested $10,000 to make them whole. Mr. Woolson is not a mailing list person so he doesn?t know value of the list. Mr. Short took on the responsibility of reaching a settlement with NICHE. Mr. Woolson?s understanding from Mr. Short is that with any list each name is worth nine cents. The irony is, the NICHE list wasn?t very good. There were only about 2,000 names on the list and had lots of bounce backs from bad addresses. Mr. Short stated that the list was worth a maximum of $4,200. Mr. Woolson?s recollection is that Mr. Short reached agreement with NICHE for $2,000. The press release dealing with the list situation was written in December, fairly late in the campaign. It was the ?nal week or 10 days. An earlier draft of the press release said that the campaign had obtained the list ?accidentally,? but Mr. Woolson objected to that word; he did not think this was an accident. Mr. Woolson thinks they took out the work ?accidently? and replaced it with ?inadvertently.? The release would have been seen by Danielle LNU, Alice Stewart, Mr. Nahigian, and maybe Mr. Short and Brett O?Donnell. Mr. Woolson believes everyone understood why he said they could not use the word ?accidently.? It was early December when NICHE voted Ms. Heki and her husband off the board. She was distraught about it. She devoted a lot of time to the cause and to the organization. She was heartbroken. Ms. Heki was still working with the campaign. Mr. Woolson thinks she stayed on because she felt she lost one cause and wanted to stay involved with the other cause. Mr. Woolson?s recollection of the lunch after the caucuses at the Machine Shed is vague. He had been awake for 29 hours at that point. He vaguely remembers Ms. Heki and Ms. Bachmann talking at lunch. He did not overhear the conversation. He remembers Ms. Heki coming up to him at the Machine Shed saying ?Kent took the list.? He recalls nodding and telling Ms. Heki, ?We?ll talk about it later.? He felt relieved that Ms. Heki ?nally knew. He remembers that Ms. Heki was shocked because she thought the email list being used was an accident. She could not believe anyone could have done this on purpose. She believed they are all friends and are all religious people. Ms. Heki and Mr. Woolson talked in his of?ce in either March or April. She told him at that time she was considering legal action. Within a week, he got a call from an attorney 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 I Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 6 asking him questions. He didn?t ask who the attorney was representing but assumed it was Ms. Heki. He gave this attorney information about what happened with the NICHE list. In uly Mr. Woolson was having lunch with his attorney, Brian Rickert, when he received a call from politico.com asking him to comment on Ms. Heki?s lawsuit. Mr. Woolson called Ms. Heki and told her that he was very upset with her. He felt that he gave her information and now she was using that information and is suing him. It turned out it wasn?t Ms. Heki?s attorney he gave the information to; it was the attorney for the Bachmann campaign. After he found this out he spoke with Ms. Heki again and told her that he was happy to speak with her lawyer and tell him what he told the Bachmann campaign attorney. In July or August of last year Mr. Woolson did speak with Ms. Heki?s attorney and therefore was released from her lawsuit. In a conversation later in his of?ce, Mr. Woolson con?rmed for Ms. Heki that Senator Sorenson had taken the list. He told her Senator Sorenson told him, ?We took it.? Senator Sorenson never gave Mr. Woolson any indication who the ?we? was. Ms. Heki asked him who else was involved. He told her that Senator Sorenson said somebody stood watch. He was assuming based on the physical layout of the of?ce that there was at least three people involved. Mr. Woolson believed that Mr. Dorr, Mr. Enos, Mr. Eastman and Senator Sorenson were most likely the ones involved. Those four men hung out together. Mr. Eastman is close to Senator Sorenson. Mr. Eastman had never worked in a campaign before the Bachmann campaign. Senator Sorenson asked him to join the campaign. Mr. Dorr clerked for Senator Sorenson. Mr. Enos defended Senator Sorenson and ?went after? Ms. Bachman saying she lied about Senator Sorenson being paid. Mr. Dorr stated that he accidently took the list. Mr. Dorr was wearing the IT hat at the time the list was taken. Being guy? meant that Mr. Dorr was the person you went to if you wanted a certain email list. He would have been the one who physically moved the list to the national mailing house. Mr. Woolson stated that having emails lists are ?gold.? Mr. Woolson doesn?t know how Mr. Dorr could have ?accidently? downloaded Ms. Heki?s list. He believes Senator Sorenson would have loved to have the NICHE list to use in future campaigns. The national staff was asking why no progress was being made with the homeschooling groups. Pay for Senator Sorenson: Mr. Woolson came in late to the campaign, not joining until October 17, 2011. He doesn?t know what pay arrangements were made before he was hired. He had been told that Senator Sorenson was probably being paid through Mr. Short?s business. The campaign wasn?t paying him directly but Mr. Short was being paid by the campaign. Mr. Woolson said it was most likely Mr. Enos that told him about the payment arrangement. Mr. Enos and Senator Sorenson had a close relationship. Mr. Enos and Mr. Woolson had a cordial 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Page 7 relationship, but they didn?t share information. Mr. Eastman could have also said something about the pay arrangement. Mr. Waldron seemed to know about the arrangement also. Senator Sorenson?s move to Ron Paul: Mr. Woolson had a conversation with Senator Sorenson about him being paid by the Ron Paul campaign. Senator Sorenson had sold his business and was not making money except for the campaign and his Senate salary. The inference in the office was that Senator Sorenson was ?running out of money.? Senator Sorenson?s Wife was telling people that they didn?t have any money. The two never had any conversation about Senate ethics rules. Senator Sorenson gave Mr. Short a ride to Indianola for a Bachmann campaign stop. Mr. Short told Mr. Woolson that he saw a check for $30,000 from the Ron Paul campaign in the Senator?s car. Senator Sorenson attended a Ron Paul event that same evening. In December 2011, Mr. Woolson and Senator Sorenson had several late night conversations regarding the Ron Paul campaign. Senator Sorenson told him that Ron Paul was going to pay him $30,000 up front and $8,000 a month as long Ron Paul remained in the race. Senator Sorenson said at that time that Bachmann is done. Senator Sorenson?s said his Wife was telling him that everybody in politics sells out, why doesn?t he. Mr. Woolson told Senator Sorenson that if he was comfortable switching to another campaign he needed to think about the next campaign, will peeple portray him as a traitor. Senator Sorenson said they were not going to be able to make their January mortgage payment and that he was being pushed by his wife to switch campaigns. Mr. Woolson told the Senator that he needed to live with his wife. Mr. Woolson told him that loyalty has its own rewards, but he was also sensitive to the Sorenson?s financial issues. Mr. Woolson has spoken to two investigators from the US House Ethics Committee. The ?rst conversation was by phone in March and the second was in person in April. Mr. Woolson was interviewed by phone by the Urbandale Police Department more than year ago. They asked him about the about computer theft. They had no follow up conversations. Mr. Woolson has not spoken to Senator Sorenson since the day the Senator switched to the Ron Paul campaign in late December. 2600 Grand Avenue, Suite 210 Des Moines, Iowa 50312 515.244.3100 Original From: GuyShort . To: parrishandy Sent: Thu, Mar 10, 2011 9:33 am Subject: Re: is your workload increasing where we need to make some moves forward and spend some money on these people or we will lose them. People are getting bought off. In a message dated 3/10/2011 9:32:03 AM. Mountain Standard Time, parrishandmeecom writes: We are - Kent really is ready to go Pawlenty, Huckabee people are going there. On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:30 AM, GaySho?anlgom wrote: Who we losing? hopefully non-polticial people. We need political people. in a message dated 3/10/2011 9:28:23 AM. Mountain Standard Time, writes: We're loosing people. On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Guy Short wrote: Not right now. Maybe later in the year. Originat Message From: Andy Parrish To: Guy Short Subject: is your workload increasing where Sent: Mar 10, 2011 9:00 AM you might need to bring someone on. Guy Short Wiiand Direct 303-834-5936 2 63000007 Original From: GuyShort To: parrishandy Sent: Thu. Mar 10, 2011 10:37 am Subject: Re: is your workload increasing where i think we should hire Rent and a NH person. If MB runs it wiEl be well worth it. if she doesn't we are out for a few months. Big deal. in a message dated 3/10/2011 9:32:03 AM. Mountain Standard Time, oarrishandv?mepom writes: We are - Kent really is ready to go Pawlenty. Huckabee people are going there. On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Qay?hg??agtgom wrote: Who we losing? hopefully non~polticiai people. We need political peOple. in a message dated 3/10/2011 9:28:23 AM. Mountain Standard Time. parriahandmegcom writes: We're ioosing people. On Mar 10, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Guy Short wrote: Not right now. Maybe later in the year. Original Message From: Andy Parrish To: Guy Short Subject: ls your workload increasing where Sent: Mar 10, 2011 9:00 AM you might need to bring someone on. Guy Short Wiland Direct 303?834?5936 From: To: Subject: Date: Kent . 1 31 Iowa Trip Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:03:39 PM I spoke to a well known lobbyist from here in Iowa Scott Weiser that is very interested in Mlchele and would like to meet her if time permits. He is pretty well respected. Kent . Em. :5 Parrish 025 EX 23-1 From: To: Cc: Subject: Date: Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:23:39 PM Third=floor of the Iowa Supreme Court Building has a baicony that overiooks the c=pltol, and they use it often For the caucuses. If you?re interested, =?il check into getting it set up. When you say 4:30, are you taiking =m or pm? Since you?re talking about Good Morning America, I thought ask. Sincerely, Kent Sorenson On 3/17/11 10:59 AM, ?Andy Parrish" Senator Kent Sorenson 1104 Salem Ave Indianola, IA 50125 515.962.2192 Sent f=om my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: "'Rick Shaftan" Subject: Please tell the Congresswoman that if we are tight to: time, which I do not expect to be, I mIght have to chop ?Congresswoman9I'd like a read with and without. Let me kno= if this is ok, when she can get' In a studio to record (or if you need me to setzit up) and also ifI can listen in to make sure it will match up with Steve. &nb= an 5 Rick Shaftan Mountaintop Media =/htmi>= Parrish 020 Ex 23?4 MOUNTAINTOP MEDIA :60 RADIO ?Bachmann DC April Client: Americans for Prosperity SFX: Morse Code V0: This is the Taxpayer Minute with Mayor Steve Lonegan, brought to you by Americans for Prosperity. MB: This is Congresswoman Michele Bachmann SL: And this is Steve Lonegan. Our Americans for Prosperity Stop Spending Tour is pressuring Washington to do something now about out of control spending. MB: And it?s starting to pay off. Americans are more aware than ever about Washington's refusal to cut spending now. SL: But more needs to be done. 4* MB: That's why I'm urging taxpayers to join Americans for Prosperity and me in Washington on Wednesday, April Sixth at the Cut Spending Now Revolt. SL: We had an election, but too many in Congress haven't gotten the message. MB: That's why we?re counting on you to join us in Washington on April Sixth. SL: Buses will be leaving from points in New Jersey, New York and MB: Join thousands of fellow Americans for Prosperity activists as we fight to save our nation. SL: For bus reservations or more information, go to taxpayerminute dot com. This is Steve Lonegan. MB: And i'm Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. SL: Thanks for listening. Parrish 021 Ex 23~5 From: Won To: Ce: Ealtb?nmm Subject: Calls to he made Date: Sunday, March 27. 2011 11:25:08 PM People MB met that should be called Pastor Albert Caloway I (older pastor that spoke the most) Pastor Terry Amann (had the adopted foster daughter) Pastor Brad Cranston (head of Baptist for Biblical Vaiues) (National Committee Woman) Tamara Scott 22 (Head of CWA) Barb Heckey .2: (Organized the Homeschool Conference) Vicki Crawfor .- (Other Home School Lady) Kim Pearson 43%} (Representative She met with along with Danny =arrotl) Danny Carroll (Former Representative targeted by Tim Gill) (National Committee Man) Shawnee Sorenson Eric (My wife and willing to head up prayer =eam in Iowa with my mother in-law) That should be about I am working on getting the pictures to you zuys from the Pastors event. Thanks Kent Parrish 004 EX 23?6 From: To: Cc: Subject: Re: Calls to be made Date: Monday, April 04, 2011 10:36:38 PM The following are the Senate republicans and should receive a note =rom Michele touching base about the caucus she spoke at. Thanks, Kent =br> Senator Bill =nderson' 1138 Mason Ave. Pierson IA, 51048 Senator Rob Bacon 422 First St. Maxwell IA, 50161 Senator Meriin Bartz 2081 - 410th St. Grafton IA, 50440 Senator Jerry Behn . 1313 Quill Ave Boone IA, 50036 Senator Rick Bertrand 1501 Peavey St. Sioux City IA, 51105 Senator Nancy Boettger 926 Ironwood Rd Harlan IA, 51537 Senator Mark Chelgren 14470 Terminal Ave. Ottumwa IA, 52501 Senator Bill Dix 317 S. Walnut St. Shell Rock IA, 50670 Senator Joni Ernst 910 Sixth St. Red Oak IA, 5156 Senator Randy Feenstra 641 Second St. Hull IA, 51239 Senator Sandy Greiner 1005 Hwy. 92 Keota IA, 52248 Senator Jim Hahn 900 Fourth SI: Muscatlne IA, 52761 Parrish 034 EX 23?7 Senator Shawn Hammeriinck 802 Davenport St. Dixon IA, 52745 Senator Hurbert Houser 34697 Beechnut Rd Carson IA, 51525 Senator David Johnson PO Box 279 Ocheyedan IA, 5135 Senator Tim Kapucian 1275 - 69th St Keystone IA, 52249 Senator Steve Kettering 275 Crescent Park Dr Lake View IA, 51450 Senator Paul McKinley 21884 - 483m Ln Chariton IA, 50049 Senator James Seymour 901 White St Woodbine IA, 51579 Senator Roby Smith 2036 E. 48th St. Davenport~ IA, 52807 Senator Pat Ward 4205 Oakwood Ln West Des Moines EA, 50265 Senator Jack WhiWer 2819 SW Chestnut Ankeny IA, 50023 Senntor Brad Zaun <5pan styiem"white-space: normal; IA, - Parrish 035 Ex 23?8 Original Message?m- From: Kent Sorenson To: Dreleein Cc: Andrew Parrish GuyShort Sent: Mon, May 9, 2011 12:31 pm Subject: Offer to be Organizational Director Drew, it would be an honor to have you join the Bachmann team here in lowa. Below is your proposed job description. As discussed via our meeting your compensation would be $3800 per month billed by invoice to Michele PAC. Michele PAC will provide you with a laptop and reimbursement for phone and data package not to exceed $100 per month. Organizational Director Position Description: The Organizational Director is responsible for building. training and maintaining relationships with the grassroots network for the campaign. The function of the Organizational Director is to recruit, train and retain new county chairs and coalition leaders and then work with those leaders to construct a robust. active and productive grassroots infrastructure for the campaign. Basic Functions: . Act as the campaign?s chief point of contact for grassroots leadership wanting to get involved in the campaign. . Will cultivate new volunteers statewide from the organization to incorporate into volunteer efforts. . Will coordinate with the Operations Director to utilize volunteer resources for various projects. . Will be directly responsible for implementation of the campaign's caucus and primary strategy as it relates to grassroots involvement. 5. Wilt coordinate with Operations Director to engage the grassroots structure of the campaign for major event implementation. 6. Responsible for supplying various grassroots leaders with knowledge of the campaign?s public schedule to drive supporters to events. 7. Will train new grassroots leaders on best practices for seeking out. working with and retaining new grassroots supporters. 8. Will be for sending weekiy list updates to county leaders and bringing new names from those ieaders back into the campaign for incorporation into the list. hmMu-i Execution: 1. Successfuily recruit and retain various leveis of grassroots leaders from county leaders to church congregation leaders. 2. Participate as directed in senior ievel meetings to update participants of the state of the Team Bachmann grassroots network. 3. Provide strategic input to the overall health of the grassroots network for initiatives and timelines. 4. Create a team oriented work climate that enables professional development and encourages creative Solutions and strategies. 5. Support the management of resources within the grassroots network. If this is acceptable Micheie PAC will provide you with a formal contact, but your start date wiil begin immediately. 2 Once again Drew I look fomlard to working with you and buiiding a team here in Iowa. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions. Sincerely, Kent Sorenson 1104 Salem Ave. Endianoia, Iowa 50125 515-250?7555 63000026 Original From: Andrew Parrish To: guyshort Cc: Kent Sorenson Andy Parish Sent: Tue. May 17, 2011 8:41 am Subject: Re: Status Do it. On May 17, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Guy Short wrote: i say go. Andy? Guy Short Wiland Direct 1303-8346936 From: Kent Sorenson Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 08:59:35 -0500 To: i Subject: Re: Status We de?nitely want them on our team. Because they are great at spreading taking down other candidates. In fact Chris Dorr was instrumental at taking down Huckabee in South Carolina as that was the goal of the Ron Paul crowd. They also have the same list i gave you i am not sure even Dimitri has that list as Chris is the one that compiled if they land somewhere else then that list will be there as well and i am assuming that is why Dimitri is courting them so strongly. Chris has been my legislative clerk and is a very hard worker and extremely committed. We could probably pick him as a ?eld staffer for $3000 per month and if we do a couple mailings with Aaron we would be good to go. We have divided the state into 5 regions and will be needing staffers for each area. Let me know what you think Kent On May 16, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Guy Short wrote: What to do? Guy Short Wiiand Direct 303~834-5936 From: Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 11 :54:12 ~0700 T0: <0u?hcrt?a9tcom> Subject: RE: Status Hey Guy, Can you give me an Update? I?m not looking for insider information but there are some other opportunities staring me in the face regarding the balance of 2011 that I am looking at pretty heavily. We not heard anything from anyone regarding MB's plans in some time. I assume that after Huck's announcement tonight the decision will be much easier, either direction. . Of course, tumor in DM is that MB will announce at the Polk Co dinner this month Just looking for a general lay of the land here and also wondering if you heard any more about that pub note? We did roll about 25k pieces three weeks ago cause we wanted to do it while in session. Still hoping to try hers in a future piece. BTW, Chris and i know all the RP field staff here would have had a tough time picking more unsuited people to talk to lowa, Christian, evangelical, conservative families with one exception. Thanks, Aaron Dorr Executive Director lowa Gun Owners 3 quer 0 63000033 Original From: parrishandy To: Sheri Few Cc: guyshort Sent: Tue, May 24, 2011 12:54 pm Subject: Re: A few things See you then! Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4GLTE smartphone Reply message From: "Sheri Few" To: "'Andrew Parrish'" ri ii.com> Cc: Subject: A few things Date: Tue, May 24, 2011 2:36 pm Andy, have hired two Field Coordinators and have one to hear back from this evening. They are as follows. Taylor Mason Low Country Field Coordinator Natalie Lennon - Upstate Field Coordinator i also have a volunteer Assistant who will begin under salary July ist per our previous discussion. His name is Gavin Smith. Resumes are attached. look fonivard to the call tomorrow! Shen Original Message?-?-- From: Andrew Parrish Sent: Tuesday. May 24, 2011 11:14 AM To: Jeff Chidester; Sheri Few; Kent Sorenson Cc: Short Subject: A few things Guys - things are heating up. I took fonivard to talking to each of you Wednesday. 1 need to know if there are any new staff hires that i don't know about. i have three for Jeff two for Kent, Sheri - any staff? Additionally don't forget to send your invoices in to MichelePAC, you can send it to Guy so we can mail you a check. Please list expenses and your 2L saiary. Talk soon! Andy Original From: GuyShort To: dpolyansky Sent: Tue, Jun 21, 2011 2:14 pm Subject: Re: contract No problem. I know you guys are busy. Just let me know when is good. In a message dated 6/21/2011 2:12:30 PM. Mountain Daylight Time, writes: Okay, but need to loop in On Jun 21, 2011, at 4:10 PM, erote: Let's discuss and get this locked down and behind us. Let me know when a good time is. Thanks, Guy in a message dated 6/21/2011 1:58:13 PM. Mountain Daylight Time, writes: Guy, we never discussed a percentage of funds raised. That is an entirely new "ask" from what we discussed with Ed where you said you needed between $12-15k per On Jun 21, 2011, at 12:14 PM, guyshort@aol.com wrote: David, How would you like to proceed. i was proceeding with having Bill draft the proposed contract that i would ?ll in the compensation terms and then submit to you and Ed for approval. The agreement was suggesting Bill draft would compensates me as a Senior Advisor to BFP and a percentage of funds raised through direct marketing channels (mail, phones, internet/email). i know you have a busy let me know how and when you would like to proceed. Thanks, Guy Original Message-?-?- From: David Polyansky To: GuyShort Sent: Tue. Jul 5, 2011 3:17 pm Subject: Re: Biiling Is the whole chairman thing kosher? You should run by Bill one last time. On Jul 5, 2011, at 5:16 PM, wrote: What is the best way to get this done this week? Bill needs to get you a contract for Strategies for $22,500 per month to cover me and my employee. In a message dated 715/2011 1:32:00 PM. Mountain Daylight Timewrites: Guy? On Jul 5, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Kent Sorenson wrote: I am unabie to biil the campaign due to State Senate rules which is why i have been billing Guy's "s corp" with my "3 corp" Thanks Kent On Jul 5, 2011, at 1:50 PM, David Polyansky wrote: i am happy to make payment. Sent from my iPhone On Jui 5, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Kent Sorenson ni wa it. wrote: Gentieman i need to get the billing situation worked out. i am reaching the point where i will begin to be charged interest on my credit card. Please advise how you wouid like me to proceed. Thanks Kent 2 8 5 0 etc [Wt-em] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 11:35 AM To: Timothy Nurnberger; Eric Frenchman; R. Rebecca Denateltt; Whitney Ctatk Subject: additional IA christian ematts These are from Kent. 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(0) Unless otherwise ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction, at ali meetings of shareholders one?third of the shares of a voting group entitled to vote at such meeting, represented in person or by proxy, shall constitute a quorum of that voting group. THIRD: The number of directors of the corporation shat] be ?xed by the bylaws, or if the bylaws tail to ?x such a number, then by resolution adopted from time to time by the board of directors, provided that the number of directors shall not be less than the minimum number required by law. FOURTH: The following provisions are inserted for the management of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and the same are in furtherance of and not in limitation or exclusion of the powers conferred by law. ts-1274h0014 OCE 058 Ex 30?4 Con?icting Interest Transactions. As used in this paragraph, conflicting interest transaction means any of the following: a icon or other assistance by the corporation to a director of the corporation or to an entity in which a director of the corporation is a director or officer or has a ?nancial interest; (it) a guaranty by the corporation of an obligation of a director of the corporation or of an obligation of an entity in which a director of the corporation is a director or officer or has a ?nancial interest; or a contract or transaction between the corporation and a director of the corporation or between the corporation and an entity in which a director of the corporation is a director or of?cer or has a ?nanciai interest. No con?icting interest transaction shalt be void or voidable, be enjoined, be set aside, or give rise to an award of damages or other sanctions in a proceeding by a shareholder or by or in the right of the corporation, solely because the con?icting interest transaction involves a director of the corporation or an entity in which a director of the corporation is a director or of?cer or has a ?nanciai interest, or soleiy because the director is present at or participates in the meeting or the corporations board ofdirectors or of the committee of the board of directors which authorizes, apprOVes or rati?es a con?icting interest transaction, or solely because the directors vote is counted for such purpose if: (A) the material facts as to the directors relationship or interest and as to the con?icting interest transaction are disclosed or are known to the board of directors or the committee, and the board of directors or committee in good faith authorizes, approves or rati?es the con?icting interest transaction by the af?rmative vote of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors are tees than a quorum; or (B) the material facts as to the directors relationship or interest and as to the con?icting interest transaction are disotosed or are known to the shareholders entitled to vote thereon, and the con?icting interest transaction is speci?cally authorized, approved or rati?ed in good faith by a vote of the shareholders; or (C) a con?icting interest transaction is fair as to the corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or rati?ed by the board of directors, a committee thereof, orthe shareholders. Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board of directors or of a committee which authorizes, approves or rati?es the con?icting interest transaction. Loans and Guaranties for the Bene?t of Directors. Neither the board of directors nor any committee thereof shall authorize a loan by the corporation to a director of the corporation orto an entity in which a director of the corporation is a director or of?cer or has a ?nancial interest, or a guaranty by the corporation of an obligation of a director of 13?1274,,0015 OCB 059 EX 30-5 the corporation or of an obligation of an entity in which a director otthe corporation is a director or of?cer or has a ?nancial interest, until at least ten days after written notice of the proposed authorization of the loan or guaranty has been given to the shareholders who wouid be entitled to vote thereon if the issue of the loan or guaranty were submitted to a vote of the shareholders. The requirements of this paragraph are in addition to, and not in substitution for, the provisions of paragraph ofArticie FOURTH. indemni?cation. The corporation shall lndemnify, to the maximum extent permitted by law, any person who is or was a director, of?cer, agent, ?duciary or employee of the corporation against any claim, liability or expense arising against or incurred by such person made party to a proceeding because he is or was a director. of?cer, agent, ?duciary or employee of the corporation or because he is or was serving another entity or employee bene?t plan as a director, of?cer, partner, trustee, employee, ?duciary or agent at the corporations request. The corporation strait further have the authority to the maximum extent permitted by law to purchase and maintain insurance providing such indemni?cation. Limitation on Directors No director of this corporation shall have any personal liability for monetary damages to the corporation or its shareholders for breach of his ?duciary duty as a director, except that this provision shall not eiiminate or limit the personai liability of a director to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for: any breach of the directors duty of loyalty to the corporation or its shareholders; (it) acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law; voting for or assenting to a distribution in vioiation of Colorado Revised Statutes 7-106~40i or the articles of incorporation if it is estabilshed that the director did not perform his duties in compliance with Coiorado Revised Statutes? 7408-401, provided that the personal ilabllity of a director in this circumstance shall be limited to the amount of the distribution which exceeds what could have been distributed without violation of Colorado Revised Statutes 7406?401 or the articles of incorporation; or (iv) any transaction from which the director directly or indirectly derives an improper personal bene?t. Nothing contained herein will be construed to deprive any director of his right to all defenses ordinariiy available to a director nor will anything herein be construed to deprive any director of any right he may have for contribution from any other director or other person. 1342743016 OCE 060 EX 30~6 Negation of Equitable interests In Shares or Rights. Unless a person is recognized as a shareholder through procedures established by the corporation pursuant to Colorado Revised statutes? 7-1 07-204 or any similar law, the corporation shall be - entitled to treat the registered holder of any shares of the corporation as the owner thereof for ail purposes permitted by the Colorado Business Corporation Act. including without limitation ail rights deriving from such shares, and the corporation shalt not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to, or interest in, such shares or rights deriving from such shares on the part of any other person inotudlng without limitation, a purchaser, assignee or transferee of such shares, unless and until such other person becomes the registered holder of such shares or is recognized as such, whether or not the corporation shall have either actual or constructive notice of the claimed interest of such other person. By way of example and not of limitation, until such other person has become the registered hoider of such shares or is recognized pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes 7-107?204 or any similar applicable law, he shall not be entitled: to receive notice of the meetings of the shareholders; (ii) to vote at such meetings; to examine a list of the shareholders; (iv) to be paid dividends or other distributions payable to shareholders; or to own, enjoy and exercise any other rights deriving from such shares against the corporation. Nothing contained herein wilt be construed to deprive any bene?ciai shareholder, as de?ned in Colorado Revised Statutes 7?113~ 101(1), of any right he may have pursuant to Article 113 of the Colorado Business Corporation Act or any subsequent law. 13.1274_oo17 OCE 061 EX 30-7 1813513253388 7 W. . W.-. . . .. r? . . 1 PEG STATEMENT OF FORM 1 ORGANIZATION gfl'mm an CITY 31313 ZIP 00535. E-MAIL wuaass [Fianna ama?a?dm) (Chad: 1166?!? I9 WEB PAGE ADDRESS ?swam I 2. DATE "1 a. r?ec Immimcmou NUMBER - d. 13 THIS 37mm Niawm} on I win? thal [hm ?mm this Statement and to they bosI a! my Mdga and hello! II If: two, cows! and mplare. 15m or Nam a! 'l'msurer Barry Arrington I I NOTE: Eubmfualnn 0! Iain?. mums. or mm? mm may 3::me ma Mam timing ?is to the imam: 9! 2 5437.; my ewes smouw as ammo mum 1D ems. Of?ce rectum [mum came I FEC FORM 1 Ian Use ru?muon Cumin 79,: _gi?'i .1. -.1 l-Ii-d? ?1 274,1] 025 .- OCE O69 EX31-1 "1 F56 Form 1 (Revised 022008) Page 2 6. TYPE OF COMMITTEE Candldam Committee: This mums Is a principal campaign comm. [Compute-me camikfnha lnfennatlon below.) This mrnittne In an authonznd comm?. and Is NOT a campaign nominee. (emulate the candidate Informallun Wow.) Name! Cl??datu owes 9m Fatty Af?liation 801mm: House Senate Pmtdant Dim Thin only ona madame. mi 18 NOT an common. mm candida. Wu?mahsmle (Democratic. Th1: committee Isa er mrmnatu) committee oflha Political Arman Commune (PAC): (6) [j Th?s common [a a separate summed fund. (?6911lede organizn?on on line 6.) no (numbed minim is a: erma?on [j Lube: Organization Mumbamhlp Omanlza?m Corpum?on wio Capital Skid: 11min Asancla?llon In additian. this commune [a a Lobb?a?aogblm PAC. "ml: commlwaa suppamioppam more than one Federal candidate. and is NOT a Mpunta fund or party gunman. (1.5.. nonmaled mine?) in this comma ss'a mo. ?in In mu: namm?toe Is a 1.68.6.6me PAC. ?datum: sponsor on line a; Join! Fundralsing Repmehmlva: This committee callous nontdbu?nna. pay: mum and dlsbursaa he: 91903368 for two or mere million! at least me a! which (a an unmarked comm 9! a mine! Gunman. [1 ?mln 69118:}: cont?bu?ons. mm and dlahuma mt proceeds it? two af?rm nuns aim us an authorized committee a! a fedml sanctum. in Joint Fundrakar 1. a. ?12:1 4. L. mam?- .uun- .. 1 3~1274_0026 OCE 070 Ex 31?2 ?1 Fee (Revised 0212mm - pm 3 Wtho nr?frpa Comm?m Nam MichellePAC a ham LI Any comm Grumman, mum Gunmmee, mm gamma mm; m: Spam ?mum IMNI 835.125. CITY STATE ZIP CODE Ramtiurahlp: DOW mum-imam Widen! Unint?undralatng Represonmrwa 153853393889 books and mom. Fmiunmo Icie??twmak [gm?w TWO or Gm STATE ZIP CODE [gm-42.32.: lam L. . human List my mum and nddmaa (9mm: number um: mum of the commlm: and lhu name and addmsa a: any damask-c: agant (am mum: trauma). .Maiih?ua?ddmsa CW ZIP CODE 11631:??ToIepImmImboc OCE O71 EX31-3 "1-8-33 39 363313 .1 FullNameol I cl A?ir?m I55EQ5I?th$t?e$..I.I IMNI I55106II-I . I I CITY STATE ZIP CODE Title or Position Telephonenumber Bank: or Other List all banks or other In which Ihe deposits funds. holds accounts. rams safely deposit boxes or maintains iumla. Name oi Bank. Depository. etc. MailingAddI-ess CITY STATE ZIP CODE Name of Bank. Deposiiary. etc. MallingAddrase CITY STATE ZIPCODE To print and ?le this form, select "Print" from the "File" menu above. in the "Print? window, select ?Document" from the drop down menu labeled "Comments and Forms" icons and other instructions will not appear on your ?ling. Click here for a video printing demonstration. Doing so will ensure that the 1 3-1274~0028 OCE 072 EX 31~4 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC A FOR-PROFIT CORPORATION 1. The name of the corporation is GRASSROGTS STRATEGY INC. 2. The purpose of the corporation is to transact the business of the corporatiori and any other business net forbidden by law. 3. Theperiod of Operation is perpetual. 4. The corporation shall have authority to issue 1,000,000 shares all without par Value. E, :3 5. The corporation will not commence business untii at least 53 ,000 has been receEVed as consider-33pm For issuance of shares. Ind?i an 01 a 6 The address of? its initial registered of?ce IS I 104 Salem, PO Box 633, [owe 50125. The name}; of the Registered Agent at the same address' 15 Kent Sorenson. 7. The Board of Directors and incorporators will consist of one whose name is Kent Sorenson whose; address is the same as in 6 above. 8. The Corporation is in Warren County, Iowa 9. Every director and of?cer shall be indemni?ed against all liabilities, civil and criminal, incurred in relation to his duties, including ali reasonable expenses of defense, except to for negligence or misconduct in the matter out of which the iiability arises. Dated this ist day of January, 2010 Kent?) Sorenson, incorporator and Director FILED @3539? 550.00 KARE 2 ZIZQHO 553818 ?3 .I 13 . ATE Wig? EX 32-1 Business Entity Summary Page I of 2 IOWA SECRETARY OF STATE Matt Schultz Home Bustaeas Services Search Databases Onltne Ftilng Elections Notarias Nonpro?ts Home Search Databases 3: Business Entities :1 Results 3: Summary STAY CONNECTED Business Entity Summary a 93's! Summary Address Agent Filings Names Of?cers Stock SearchAgain Print Certi?cate of Existence VOTER FRAUD HOTLINE Searched: Grassroots Strategy 1-338-SOS-VOTE Business No. Legal Name Status 409292 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC. Active Type Stats 0! Inc. Modified Legal IA No Exniration Date Effective Date Filing Date PERPETUAL E2129i2010 12l2912010 Chapter CODE 490 DOMESTIC PROFIT Names (Viet'nng 1 of 1) Type Status Modl?ed Name AGING N0 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC. NEWS Registered Agent or Reserving Party Full Name KE NT SORENSON Address Address 2 1104 SALEM PO BOX 633 FEATURED RESOURCES City, State. Zip QUICK LINKS outing SERVICES SEARCH INDIANOLA. fA. 59125 0 Am I Registered to Vote in Iowa? Track Your Absentee Ballot Request an Absentee Ballot Home Of?ce - Find My Potting Place - Business Entity Forms 8. Fees Fu" Name - Business Entities Search KENT SORENSON - UCC Search Address Address 2 P0 80" 333 JOIN OUR MAILING LIST City? State, Zip Ema 1 Address 9'5? momma. iA. 50125 3 Back to log Secretary ofState Home State of Iowa Sltemap Disclaimer I Contact Us First Floor. Lucas Building sos@sos.iowa.gov (515) 281-5204 321 E. 12th St. .. 9/2 9/201 3 Ex 32-2 Business Entity Summary Page 2 of 2 Des Moms IA 50319 9/29/2013 Ex 32?3 IOWA 2012 MATT SCHULTZ BIENNIAL REPORT Secretary of State for an State Iowa IOWA CORPORATION Required by Iowa Code Chapter 490 1. Name of the corporation, its registered agent and of?ce. MATT SCHULTZ Secretary of State FILED Date: 815/2012 2:29 PM Corp 409292 Cert Nth: A12409292 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC. KENT SORENSON 1 104 SALEM PO BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 2, The corporation has: No of?cers [1 No directors 3. Officer(s): Pres Sec Treas[] Dir Name KENT SORENSON Address 14358 23 HWY Address PO BOX 633 City State Zip Country INDIANOLA IA 50125 USA 4. Address of the principal office of the corporation: Name KENT SORENSON Address PO BOX 633 Address City State Zip Country INDIANOLA IA 50125 USA 5. Does the corporation hold an interest in agriculturai land in Iowa? No 6. Is the corporation 3 "family farm corporation"? No 7. Signed: KENT SORENSON Capacity: DIRECTOR Ex 32-4 nun: . FED HAIL 353m FEE STATEMENT OF ?7 FORM 1 ORGANIZATION om 1. (Check name Examplezll typing, Iypa NAME OF [In full} {a changed) over the Ema. (Ghaokifaddraas WINI I I II CITY STATE ZIP CODE COMMITTEES EMAIL ADDRESS (Please pmvida only an: e-mail address) -orobextwahkius Icon: Ichaned as) WEB PAGE ADDRESS (URL) I I I I. (Checklrada?ress I I I I I {331815ng 2. DATE I i a. FEGIUENTIFIGATION NUMBER iol j? 4. IS THIS STATEMENT NEW (N) on AMENDED I earth? the: [ham examined thIs Staleman! and to the beat of my knowiadga and barre! is bun, Garrard and commie. Typo or P?m Mama nf'l?raasumr Nancy Watkins - Signature Ismeaaurar WLW Date Em, ?3 -3 I 2.9..1 More: Submission of Inigo. erroneous, or Momuuon may subjw 22m person signing {his Siatamant lo the panama o! 2 ?34319. ANY CHANGE IN INFORMATION SHOULD BE REPORTED WITHIN 10 DAYS. 0mm Fm? (mm mu 9mm: Use Fodml ammo: Gamgmion FEB FORM 1 Uni ?rnII FIon aowma (Rwised 62:20:19: Local A DOB 081 EX 33-1 Ln Ci) Hi ['th C33 r-?l rs! l? FEG Form 1 (Revised OZIZOOB) Page 2 5. TYPE OF COMMITTEE Candidate Committee: [53 This committee is a principal campaign committee. (Comptala the oanotdato iotonnaiion below.) a This committee is an authorized committee. and is NOT a prlnotpoi campaign oommittae. (Compteto the candidate information below.) Nameot Candidate IMI Im Iarnl?iL I J_i_Ll Gandirlaita Dillon Houao Senate [Ii] Praaidoni State Party Sought: District EMS in) This committee aupporiefopposos onty one candidate. and is NOT an authoriled committee. Namaof swam Ll' llittiiljli PartyCommitiee: (National, State (Democratic. Thin oommittao is a ?kw or subordinate) ot the Hopubiioan. ate.) Party. Political Action Committee (PAC): to) El This committee is a separate segregated iund. (identity connected organization on line 8.) Its connected organization is a: Corporation Corporation wlo Capital Stock Labor Organization Membership Urgentoatioi: Trade Asaoetation Cooperative in addition. this ls aLottbyiotIFlogsirani PAC. (0 This commutes supporboloppoeaa more than one Fodarat oanoidato. and Is NOT a separate sagragatad hard or party committee. (to. nonoohnocted committee) In addition. this committaa is a Lobbyiotl?ouiatrantPAG. in addition. this is a Loader-ship FAG. sponsor on lino 6.) Joint Fundraising Representative: (9) [1 This committee collecia contributions, pays iuruiretaing expanses and disburse; not procaeda {or two or more political aliens! am of which is an authorized committee at a inderai candidate. This oomminee collects contributions. pays iundraioing expenses and disburses not prooaods for two or more political oommitieaslorgnnizaliono. none oi which is an authortzad committee of a federal candidate. Committees Participating In Joint Fundraiser 2. 3- 4- iLiLiillLiI L. 13427441033 OCE 082 Ex 33-2 In! U) 13} r" '1 Fee Form 1 (Revised omens) Page a Wriia or'iypa Committee Name Bachmann for President 6. Name of Any emanated Organimilon, AIfIiinIed Commi?ec, Joint Fundraiaing Repmsenm?w, or Leadership FAG Sponuur Nicklell STAT ZIF CODE Relationship: neonnactad OrganIzntion GommIItea 'Join! Fundralatng Represemaiive Landerahip PAC Spenser Canadian of Records: iGaniin by mama, address {phone number op?o?nai} and position u! th2 person In possession of books arid records. FuIINnme jBl?l lsloiuillelvlnixidl iFIhl I I I I Tilla or CITY STATE ZIP 009E WII?IelnIBIuirrelrI TeEuphonanumbar 8. Treasurer: Us! iha name and addross [phone number .. op?onal) oi the of ihe commutes; and the name and address of my designaled agent (9.11.. assiaiun: treasurer]. oi'i'raasumr IKJJI Maiilng?d?ens CITY STATE ZIP CODE Fashion Toiophonanunmr I?-??hlzi??l?g L. 13-1274?0039 OCE 083 EX 33?3 FEG Form 1 (519de 0212099) Page 4 FuIlNamaof Designated . Agent MalIlngAddress 133 1Tlalm1piall I I I I I I CITY STATE ZIP CODE IJ LA. ?ll; 1. "ICIaInlmwajI I Telephnna number M?w?m Banks ar OIh-r Depos?ndea: Us! at! banks or olhm? depositorlas In which the committee deposits funds. holds manuals. rents safety depoalI boxes or maimalns fund; Name of Bank. Deposszory. etc. I _l_l [Bialylalhlolrlei Egalm?lai 1311'; I CITY STATE ZIP CODE Name of Bank, Depaallom etc. lxac?lx?Ih?ItIEI'II?IaInIkI [3:315lolzl?l II CITY STATE ZIP CODE .J OCE 084 Ex 33-4 SECRETARY OF STATE OF INCORPORATION I, Mark Ritchie, Secretary of State of Minnesota, do certify that: Articles of Incorporation, duly signed and acknowledged under oath, have been filed on this date in the Office of the Secretary of Stater for the incorporation of the following corporation, under and in accordance with the provisions of the chapter of Minnesota Statutes listed below. This corporation is now legally organized under the laws of Minnesota. Corporate Name: Bachmann for President Corporate Charter Number: 4338689?2 Chapter Formed Under: 317A This certificate has been issued on 06/13/2011. . . .I . 12?? 115:; r?g?nf? 57/2; 43385890002 ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION 1 OF BACHMANN FOR PRESIDENT THE UNDERSIGNED incorporator is an individual 18 years of age or oidcrkaud adopts the following articles ?of incorporation: FIRST: The name of the corporation is Bachmann for: President (the ?Corporation?). SECOND: The registered Of?ce of the Corporation is 1010 N. Dale Street; St Paul, MN 55117-5603. The Registered Agent at the address listed in the preceding sentence is Incorporating Services, Ltd. THIRD: The Corporation shall-not have any members. I FOURTH: Corporation shall be a political organization, as described tn sectiOn 527 of the Interns} Revenue Code of 1986, as now in effett or as may hereinafter be amended (?the Code? a and the Regulations thereunder and a principal campaign committee as described in the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, and as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Act of 2002, and the Regulations thereunder (coliectively the The Corporation 15 organized, and shall be Operated, for. the purpose Of, directly or . indirectly, accepting contributions and ?naldng expenditures to further the nomination and election of Micheie Bachmann to the of?ce of President of the United States, and to participate in the presidential election process in other ways permitted by the FECA and any other applicable federal, state and local laws 13.. In ofits corporate purposes, the Corporatidn shall have all the general powers enumerated 1n the Minnesota Nonpro?t Corporation Act as now in effect or as may be amended in the future together with the power to solicit contu'butions permissible under FECA for such purposes. - EX 34?2 FIFTH: I, the undersigned, certify that I am signing this document as the person whose signature is required or as agent of the person(s) whose signature would be required who has authorized me to sign this document on his/her behalf, or in both capacities. I certify that I have completed all required ?elds, and that theinforrnation' 111 this document 13 true and correct and compliance with the applicable chapter of the Minnesota Statutes I understand that by signing this document I am subject to the penalties a of perjury set forth Section 609 48 as if I had signed this document un . David Folyansky 419 Lafayette Stre . New Yotk, New Yo NESOTA 'S?gf??gh?i?gp STATE JUN 13 2011 EEMWW of State (A EX 34-3 daisy-2311 14:33 7638366256.. TARRMGE . . PAGE {nil-B am.- 1+3 44? ?65? .- Th'is (imam-in entered km and this byandbmeen th?' fa; Re! ?the a Minneamm aptb?i: cm}; oratipn loghted-?f: PO 391513513219, ng?bqty. MN 53125.;md ?magmas, whosqyrin 33pm?- afibpaumas Is it: pntgad at 1-617 Fn?ddal? Uk?l??cif?igf??bi' - WETNEWH WHEELS. uhd"f?xidxnisihg {addiki-?ampt?gl canm??tegm?n'd 1., Aut?ii'. . WHEREM them-1P aagires to~imgiige p?fo?mn?e df-aba?? Mid. ?mdm?siugmmagcmuntaewlwz ?05: the 4. NOW, THEREEORE, 111. mnaidmation o'f'thc fb?egolhg-md??w mutual aowria?gtq ?at forth hexcin, and for Omangand'mawalunble may! ma mf??mqy DE wlnc}; is hereby the I?ur??cs ugccasia?owa: ARTICLE I a- ay'comsum'mz' . A . .. covenant; aha ?ghter; :6 pmida to the am following gsrfiaas: pau?m? .a?nsu?ltin?g s?miim and manage. 1cm :iollm: {wanking sc?vi.GnS, 5m dudi?g' dime? mail; phone, on?Imgfundxpining nbdvitiaa?, and ?1955:le committing acdviti?a and manta 1b: thy BEE. Theac?amvi?cs a?m'?i hepatic; he magma it: as the amusing Sorvizza?. A. W- I?-perrom?ng ita musivlt with anti mam: quvtt?to National Camp aign 15mm and Manly cmpaign Manager, ox the q?acmise: du?gmm?'by EFF regarding pcxf'cm?ta?w (if thefumixalaing Swims-.- mey apa?ons ?gaming Conat?mni?s?psx?onnmco af?m Fundmi?ng Set-vice; maen'ehia Contact shall be adamamdtu the degigumd autho?md 339nm ideg??gd above. my??gg in the foregoing, itia undgmod?nnd agtemi-thnt Comment-is ?an-ixxdepandent contractor and la of tbs: EFF. to itis- mawx?dgeabk of the-pomp?ance-and Inga? ob?g?n?ons pf to if 3971, as amnndad, ma Fedora Election "cha?cf?. and ms to ?imply wirh the proyiaions a? d'w Act in nili?pectsapp?c?hla mike perfumnmca of?h'c I?pn?i?smg Stamina: W59: this Con?rm! and to coiia'uIt With 1:33-31 venue} in 1112-49th Consulfam has feg?rdihg the ny?in?im OE any- pm?sibtx 6f the Act-{0' 111a. Gbm?tw?a madam acrvieea for the-EFF. Page 1 H) S- 1342743042 3 OCE 086 Ex 35?1 B?lgl?i?ll 14:19 733836825fi TWMCE GROUP PM 82/13 ARTICLE II .. TIME OF THE ESSENCE ,5 gig?. I A. Comt?umt agreed: to pm?d?c the: set-vita: set forth in Article I during the pct?d? from-lam, 2011 Dammbot 31, 2011. B. Sivan the mum: of the swings rendc?n?, nEEnowIe?gas that 11m is of 1111: am: mica. . ARTICLE ?6 COMPENSATION . 13. WW Fa: pcxt?ommcu ofthe duties: ?aac?b?in Ar?clc I. the mum: to gay Com?mm a mummy retainer 0f $22,500 payable: on the ?rstday of each month duL-ing the: rem of this Contract. 16.me Mmbursemcnt for: ordinary expenaas auch as long 51am?. mpius, postage, etc. 11113111? ma?a paid mm sixty (60) days ofbping incurred by Consultant upon preaantatinn to of? invoices with original receipts and domenm?on of eoatsfexpww Cmaulmt?s cxpemns unda: this Contract shall be: invaiced without mark-up. Cansulunt 3km agxeo-s to obtain prior for any travel and/or new: incidental expensas. First class travel in my form is not rambutaablm and ail-all be ?dmbumd only an a or. ether discounmd rateH1. .ts. Allinvolccsand rcquzm fox or Mnbmemm us: 1m: the aaniizgf Commiunent Form number, project number. and detailed iufnmation induding, but not ?ted to, me. and ?smdo? chock, ?heck numbex, and chuck date in oxdet to xmaiva said cammisnion and 511511! b: mind to: Bachmanu for Prcsidem Aim: Nancy Watkins 61 S. Tampa, FL 33606 A. D. Any expenses, payments or amounts due under this Contract that do not meat the above cximrin may 1101: he Paid in whclo or in paitand may be mama as conuibut'ton to the 1393?, o: deducted from the. compma?on nuhexwige due Consultant, at. tho sole discretion of the BFP. ARTICLE IV INDEPENDENT A. W- The and ConsuTtMt agme that the kgal status of Consultant with mpect the in that of independent common: andnot an ompicyea. Consuhmt .ie not an ?gum or a icgal xeptcaonta?m of the and is not authodzed to make my commitmenm for or to mat an agam af?-mBFP For any purpose whamnweg. In particulu, Consultant may not enter into any legally binding ngrecrnem, mitten or am}. or take. any otbgr Ibgal nut in wt name. of the EFF. Page? of 10 . 13-1274_oo43 OCE 087 Ex 35-2 n. 5? who/2am 14:13 vosassaorts mamas: GRWP Poo: 531m B. W- Conat?tmt: ngtaos to asnume exclusion: ?ab?ity for any and a?taxos, ?abutment, levies or ?nes Mitch my bat downed it, ot- to my cmpioyco or connector of Communion a tumult of Fundmizing Setdcoa pmumt to thin Comma. C. imam It is. that the win not be msponaibio fox the pament: or: wi??tOIdng of Edam}, 5mm, ?iyxo?l Exxon; sooi?l annuity hump .- koalth inauxanca, unemployment insurance, workmm?s compensation bemoan, and other similar poxaontm coats inourxcd by Consultant in comaotion with thla Contact. ARTICLE - (30133111334111; shall indemnify and hold do: BPP. its ?startployeesl dktotoxs, oE?am, 33mm, and volunteoza hams again? anti from any and all claims, domda, liabi?tics, notion?, damages, costs, and alumnus minted thereto (imam; foes, oouat costs, and other expenses of litigation) and all damngas and liab?ities of any that o: mom: Whnmex, arising out of o: to Consultam?a pnrfoumnce or under the: mom: ofthis Conuact. ARTICLE v: comxoommuw mo RETURN OF 31w momma A. . A31 mattom bemoan the. Potato, but not ?tnita? to tho pmislom of this Contract,- EFF mailing or donor ?sts; individual contribution homing; polling data; ?mncialsapona; meat-ch; solidtoaoo mte??s ox: techniquon: and any who; mandala o: m?thodoiogiza which Consultant. or Hal: ownem, if may come in contact with and/or whioh am mm from or through tho BFP. it; omyloyoes agents, (?tho Mata?als?) m, were, and shall totmtin tho top?etm'y and con?dential ptopoxty of the and shall not he mfmad, dm?veredto any third party, Whe?ml.? at: not for compensn?on, without. the ptiou express written consent af?ne Doputy Cmpnign Mailman 3. Wm. Consultant not to communicate, dizcc?y or. with any memhu of the mots media on hchatf of, or about tho 15%, without the expmau advance ?onact1t of the Deputy C?m??gu Man?gcr or tho Communimtions Director. 0. WW. Upon that termination or aspiration of thin Contact, Canadian: agrees to return to the the Materials, and all copies thereof, and to retain no coping thomof. ARTICLE V11 OF INTEREST A. 9W. shalt list as AWent A to this Contract my other entity, in whatever: form, in which Coneu'tmt or it?s agents; or ownota has a ?nancial, propxiotary, or Lowest, and what that mtezeatis, if. anal: othox entity has or is expectcd to have. 8 ?nancial or contractual with the 339?. This ?isolomta mustinciudo any 1917mm? waived {tom motions: by Consultant 3.66 any payments to vendors by 0011:111th Bourbon, Consultant shall provide a. list: of a?po?tlcol dlonts with which Consultant works; including, not Emitod to Sadat-a1 mmpaign committeas, po??onl action cozm?tteeamoli?cai party committees. {inane} of 10 13-1274uoo44 OCE 088 EX 35?3 14:15 7esaasqzq6 TARRAMOE cam-1 mas mum and indcpandunn or: issue advocacy groups. To mourn conflicts BMW: do not 3:559, Conaultant is obligated Imam: the terms of this contact to continually upciate this diadpauxe with .61: legal counsel within one mask of changes owming- Any potential con?icts Shunt be: xcsolvad to the mama-inn 9f the Dupmy Campaign Manny: paint to payment of any Cbmpensn?o? under -.this Gunman .. B. m. Consuimm agrm not to give: any gums) having twain: (ox value) in excess. oE$50 in any calendar was: to any imam ual who Ls emplaycd by the 3919. ARTICLE WITH THIRD PARTIES A. Conat?mnt wmautu and that it in {Win with the: regulation? govcn?ng public pmmukgatcd by the: Federal Elec?on Cmmisaion under the AM and to as follow; 1. {101350th agrees not to ixsfc: otherwise represaut that it is ac?ng in any capacity a: an of the other that For {11: spcd?c set fexth in till? Gunman 2. Cumulus: agrees mat to dim?ge to any whet: party commune, candidm ox 011m: antiiy any mfonma?an naming the needs, activities, 1213115 or projects of the resuldng from Cansl?tant's rciadunshi}? with the EFF plasma: to this Comm; 3. Consultant ngrees that under no cucumstancw will it angagc in substantial discussions or . became materin?y inurutvcd with any ensndidRMParty conunitten on othex entity For pmposes 06 thus}: making public xcfercming Cmgmaawonmn Mahala Bushman remitting 5mm Consultant?s knowledge andinfonmnion concerning the activities, or 9:9}ch oi? the. :em?dzag from this-Contract; 4? Comultant 33mm: thatin the event it bmomcn awrm: that it is serving as 9. comer: vendor to a pon?uil party anmmime, candidate or other entity that sponsors ablic Mating tn Congmaawoman Mahala that 12:wa upeei?ca insuxc that infoximtim regarding tho needs. ma?a?, 92mm or projanrs of the Mom tr; Consultant ?5 xesuk of this Contract i? not um! by or communicated in any manner to ?an otherpo?tica'l patty committee, candidate other enmity. B, agregs that bxanch of this provisio? may result in Waxing; of this Complain the. sale di?cmtipn and that Consultant 3an be Habit: for any costs, Peas, attorney's fans or otbs: cxpmaca arising From Consultant?s 0511119 ptovlalon? ARTICLE IX OWERSHIP 0F WTERIM, A. WW. Mason: any exp?cit written agzaommt ta the c?n?m which has bean emcutad between Consultant mad the EFF, signed by the Deputy ?amgaigx and appended hereto, the EFF mam and resewea am rights of exclusive and Page4 of 10 13-1274_oo45 OCE 089 EX 35-4 - .- avfz?nan 1421a masasamgs GROUP PAGE 513/13 us: of any copy, 9:06qu publica?om or any facsimile thereof which may result {tam Consultant creativity, excapt for pre?exlu?ng mnm?ale purchased by Gonwlumt fo; the EFF. and the agate that the work: desc?hadin Article Will be ?madam ?Wozk f6): bite? for ?u puxpoao of the: Unimd States Copyright: law, 17 U.S.C. 101 at Jig. ?nd Hm, amrdl?gijr, the EFF is the (mm: of ail thawoxk. .Conauitmt qsgigm any and all property 1nd cxclusivc rights in work to EFF. B, W. Cuasuleant heznby warmnus that it, its agents on in: representatim, the. sol: of war}: be produced, dwd?pcd mid/o: published undo: ?ak Cancun, and that such work in a?ginal mark of Consultant. consultant further that the Woxk to be produced at pnzfummd under. thin Contract does not in?iugc upon any copyright ox uxdmk, violate any rghEof p?vacy, contain Elbelnus Mum; and that Consul?mt 9655mm ??lpwax to ohm into a C. Consultant: agzcea shat ?1123?!) down lists by Whitman 11mm the); my be known, am} mdividual conbdbudon hiatoxiea mm, are, anti shall zemain the mluslva of NEW. Consultant dunk does not and shall not acquire; any 12:095ny or ownership imam: in, m: ?ghts with respect to, my donor 35:. for my mama. Consultant further agrees that 1mm: my afita dixecmm, of??ers, mplayccs. Wnsultam, a: 9.3m? will dhclosa, mm, lame, sell, ancumb?ar, 0.: cases: 5mm joint ownml?p concerning any infom?on, updates, or anhmcemenqs) at? tha 15?? in any form, a: for: the purpose, net will they retain, or: use my of such Momn?pn in my fashion at fut any monwhmowan Consultant agrees that any other entity gaining acne? to the :10th Hatmuat exacutc E??bh Cl, Coasuitant Con?dw?n?ty Agmemxam, Regaraing List?. IL W. Consultant ngzwa ii; pay :11: BFP for. Cansuhmt: branch, at tineataucd bunch, of any gm of thin Article the sum cf 5: occurrenca as liquidated. damages, in addition to my other remedies the may 1mm. including equitable or injunctiw mallet; without sequiring th'c to show on 1mm it austaimd actual [mummy ARTICLE USE 015 NW Consult'ant shall not use the name, or any facsimile ?xemcof of the or its mommy, withcrut'rhc 939:5?: wxlum authoxizadon of the Deputy Campaign Manager. ARTICLE THE This is a Minnesom nonpto ?t cozpotatian thatis wikh rim charal Electing Commisaicm as Mahala Bachimnn?s pxincipai canapaiga, ?mince for uE tha United States. ugxm that the, disasters, of?cers, mpioyacs, and agents of the sha? pemona?y liable for: any right, liability, or ob?gation of the JEEP. Cmaulmt, like nil pmom, am ?has entities extending credit ?01 contracting wi?l, or having an}! stain; against: the EFF many 01115: look to the: funds ?nd prapexty of for payment of my debt, Paga 5 9f 10 13-1274_ooae OCE 090 Ex 35-5 .. MW @7119 2 .. i an 14 1a veaassagrqs magma GRUUP PAGE 66/19 damagca, judgment, degree, or any mommy that may otherwise. become due 0: payable: to ?lm ftom the am a TERMINATION, Notwithamding Ar?c'l: II of tbiu tithe: party may tummata this at my time for any mum on ?fteen (15) days written nu?ce ta tho other party. Such mitten notice shall be dccmad mf?slmt if in mania and d?ivqmd by certi?ed midi gem tccoipt man-acted, 01: by wan?ght 1mm noting ahai ba affective: an of the data received. In the want ?fth}: paymmt of all wmpanmtinn and mhnbuxs ome?t of all properly appmved uxpanser mama through the: ?ftaenth at): suhwquent receipt 01' such notica, no fux?m 1151qu o: my liquidated magnet for 3th temmon $311 attach to When patty," ARTICLE COMPLETE AND NOTICES This Commanmtauhmmc A and 5:1ka 1 tcpreawt the complete and and? bemnen the and Conauitant and cowletel}! :?plncaa and supcmedes nil pminue moments, whether w?ttcn at oral. M013 OR WAIVER Tha failure. omission of the to tequlte. attic: uog?ame with the: provisions <25 this Comm by Comulhmt, or-to examiso any n? its sight; 9: mm ?as in any circummnw, shall not cans?mm a waive-.2 by the 01% rights, cons?tuna a pmcedmf, or warm? iffmt the of dais Downer. No turban or pm?sions of thin (2611mm my he amendnd. waived, or modi?ed Except pursuant to 9. Written that expxeasly whom? this Contract: and {a ligand by duly autho??ed tegxescum?ves of the: and Consultant. ARTICLE XV NOTICES All ne?ces. mquests, and 011m: under $1119 Contract shall in in writing and 5111:]! be deems? to haw: ham duly given if ?elivmd personany as: if aem by regiamed m: card?ed mail, seam: recaps requested, properly nddressce? andpostagca grcpaid to the Putting nddxuasaa so: foxth in. ?lm Preface of this Agrnament my in the. cam a?nvoicos mud requam For payment ?at mimbuzecmont, to the ?ddr?ss set forth in Mk: l?aragmph C. ARTICLE XVI SI GMBILITY This Cmnuact shall not how migowl or by Comhant ?tlwut the pxiox mirror: consent of the BFP. Page 60f 10 1342743047 OCE 091 Ex 35~6 871? 19/261 1 1 18 763395325? WARRMCE GREXJP PAGE 67/16 I XVII a- 011 ORGANIZATIONS Consultant agrees that all provisions of this Co?und: win 135 binding 01:, ex 3mm to the bene?t of, any of 1m successor urgm?zadam. m: - mom 0? MW ?Ihe and Cumulus}: agree that the ms of this Contract shall be deemed ta 13:: hand: under, governed by, and mnauuecl in accordance wgth. thclaws of the State 013 Managua. ARTICLE rm: ?n FEES In the wont either putty 1mm: bring and! fax any mason under this Contact, the pxnva?iug pasty aha?. be amides} to renews: the: when paxty n11 coats uf such suit, teaaonabh attomays? fem. ARTICLE 353? READINGS Th: heading: in this Comm: am: ?01: the sole purpose of convenience of rafetmcg and mu not in any way limit: or affm: the 111an m: intanprem?on of any OE the terms proviskma of this Common ARTICLE X131 an 3EVEW1L1TY If any of the minus 01 pro?tinns of this Contract are held by a court ot'eumgamnt jurisdiction ta be: imam, void, or um: Forcanble. the 74mg 1mm and shall continur; in .6011 Iowa and effect. ARTICLEXXII - 8a FAEEIMILE This may in: executed in and an wilt b6 comidamd 9.8 pat: cf am: Canaan? binding on a?panties to this Contact This Commas: may be. executed via. facsimile, which aignatums 5113)le deemnd 123111 md binding as an original signamxe heme. Page35?7 ?It! l?t . git/1922811 Irma 7538361395?6 - TARFZAHCE GRWP PAGE 539MB IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Patient, ac??glndividuolly 0: though their duiy authorized of?ccze or tapreaanta?ves, My undaxatmd and manure thi; Contract, in duplicate. oxiginai, and agme t6 be bound by the terms and condi?om thereof: Fm: thw- 265ch {gr I?zasiden Fox @S??ggiee: I. 7 1 Depuiy ?3me gm: [05(1) Autho?zed Agent ?1 ?r :2 Date Date BIN SSN i Pugc 33 of 10 BFPHOGDGOB 13-1274_oo49 OCE 093 EX 35-8 9231912311 14:19 7638359:in . TARRANCE emu? mag 99/19 A (366M Stun-raglan, 9. political and hawks with iks y?ncipal?ince of business in ?oated at 161? (31ch North, Etia, CI) 60516 (?Consuitnnt?? a all 1131;me 0316}: en?t?idmmt?iror ?23m, in which Consultant ox-ita p?ncignlamgwl?n??mm ?ax . Elmmitd, prop?omty, a: mmgemcnt Must, and what; that mum: is, if such other emit? has or: is cxpected to him a ?nancial as: contractual with the EFF. Thia- discinmze mum inciu dc my payments teamed ?com. BFP era by Wanton mil my p?Srmants to Waders byWnam. Ta unsure non?lcts diorama: do not mica, Consulinnt' is obligated map: the mum of thi? mama to continually update chi: disclosura with the Gemxnl Canned withh om weekof manning. Any potential con?inta must bu t6 the Deputy Campaign Mamgo: oEthe 1am to any campenan?cm under this ?d?nml TD mac-r" Page 9?f 10 13?1274__0050 OCE 094 EX 35-9 mn?araau 14:19: vaa'Basswaa . 2r. 3. 5 For the EFF: - Exmbiti AGREEMENT REGARIESING LISTS - Wop? and va?d nand?nmtion, Ihe magi}?! maxi .oL-?wldd?a ii; Acimmvledgnd; A rihrgd??- -afi? V5116 musidam?nn sat forth min the cohtmuhby CW suntaglcs? and ?midegt Mai 93 A magma thareof Canhuit?mh'agw?a ta AbidA-Iiy All mans anti madman: of thl? Emmet. - 2 Cousulka?m am that All 14?? dado): {Igrs? (bmi?afm ?Liam 1235 \?iAtev?? name i?neA MA 15.6 knew and an Ihdivi?ual qonrribmioh 1115mm watts, and, acid. saw AW m. oxalugit?va of gin: BFP. Const?b?wt. mgraas that at: not; ant! 5132111 mat atquixo my 910mm ingrai?i'xi or. right: with magnet :tn the List; {or any mam, Cb?sulmnt Axpmaiy acknowledges and $3355 .thnt- tba Donor. Fiio and animal information; nmimhanacmqate manta whisk ampmvidoa to, generamc?i 117-, or. othawisu .hosoma ham to (Stimulant in- commandant: with or. incident to this Gd??actnn p?v??cged and gon?dmrinl Gonuuttant feather emcee that mam it no: my bfiw ?rms, ef?c?r?, cmyloyc'es. vmcIArb. ax agentwwi? abscissa, mt, lease, ml}, u: cute: Into 191m: emanI?p sgtumng con?w?ng my Ling), updatega), or. qf the In any form ox: Lb: any. purgoac, air will they retain. dhplicm, or $156 any o'f- such infomdon? any fasbim {dr my gut}: axe M50 mt. "Consul'tmt Agnes Aim AIL prqvisi?ns of ?1155 aim Apply it: Any ofits woman: organiz??uns. T113: Elle I of m- 0 13-1274?0051 OCE 095 Ex 35~10 Deposit Date Signor 5/16/2011 $4,675.00 1030 Strategies 5/31/2011 $3,600.00 1033 Guy Short acct US Bank 6/14/2011 $4,060.47 1034 Guy Short acct US Bank 6/29/2011 $300.00 5506 JSorenson WF account 7/18/2011 $3,500.00 1042 Guy Short acct US Bank 8/8/2011 $10,750.00 1045 Guy Short acct US Bank 8/25/2011 $125.00 5530 Sorenson WF acct 9/2/2011 $400.00 5540 Sorenson WF 9/20/2011 $615.00 5556 Sorenson WF 9/23/2011 $10,830.00 1052 Guy Short US Bank 10/28/2011 $7,500.00 1054 Guy Short US Bank 11/18/2011 $7,500.00 1090 Guy Short US Bank 12/ 19/2011 $7,500.00 1092 Guy Short US Bank Total Eeposits $59,915.47 $1,440.00 EX 36~1 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:17:48 STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 CIIY SYME . City State Bank hi . 75: BAN Date 5 ?9 3? Initials Description Customer Name W?g?j Customer Signature ELAS ilk?p, cm, 176 Closing Deposit 276 Ciosing Sav Dep 150 Opening Check Cap 154 Credit Adjustment 250 Opening Sav Dep 751 Payment to Lock Box accounr NUMBER Wilt/MR Ttan Cadu i I: I. SHIDDUDI: MESCELLANEOUS Form #185 Li C9 L50 05-16-1 1 (07-001-00220) Serial $4,675.00 uu?ztt?t itf??uu i: U. 55 :t-f it 1103:"? i' 1? 1-: 3 ?E~1E~tl 0?00100220 005 05-16-41 01 STATE BANK Senal# COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 $4,675.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 039 Ex 36-2 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:17:48 STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 a STRATEGIES mc. 161? PAHKDALE CIR. ERIE, CO 80516-2402 3:322:25 wwbank??i?fmasewmgyoum 67/0/11 . I wiflwu?h?i Six mm 5W, m/mmns mm 1030 MEMO .. 05-1641 (07001-00230) Acct# $4.6?5.00 9 0700100230 005 05-16-11 03 STATE BANK 13358138238 715-1641 05-16-11 (07-001-00230) Acct# $4,675.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 110 Amount Total: $212,155.39 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 040 EX 36-3 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:17:03 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 DEPOSIT TICKET GRASSRODTS STRATEGY, INCINDIANOLA. 1A 50125 - . 0011?: Mr. YO mm 0" ?1?0?"me ?New oem??i?; MA 0103' as AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE wnuom wm. ROYAL thou ?3th 5?55? sue mm. 1? MUN IUR 01511 01011010 (IF 10.11111me . ~000$> 151011. 1'50?! munch. a 50125 (51515614000 m-Wamkm 3 (0 00. 05-31-11 (os-oo1-01990) Acct? ?wSeriaE 1: $3000.?1?0018990 005 05?31-11 >013? .skaE BA '1 <1 --, 211-0?00102000 00?:1?11 a 9* 3110:1520: ?ea-t Eu. Lira-:5; 5 a! II a 07 05-31?11 (05001-01990) Acct- Serial $3,600.00 COPY OF ORJGINAL Item Count: 116 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF City State 041 EX 36?4 Date: 094 8-2013 Time: 10:17:04 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 a STRATEGIES mo. 3317 PARKDALE CIR. ERIE. CO 30516-2402 2:23:25 61/0'00338 WW bank. All of [5.358an youm 3724/? 1 36903 ?02) mums a 1033 Oil-dbl. 05-31-11(05-oo1-02000) Acct# $3,600.00 i 0500102000 005 05-31-11 03 STATE BANK MW53 05 01' 19101.- 5151?31-11 3" - $3,600.00 COPY OF Hem Count: 110 Amount Total: $212.156.89 COPY OF City State 042 EX 36-5 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 11:49:55 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 a STRATEGIES INC 23?2"? 10 3 4 1617 PARKDALE cm. ERIE co 305154402 WE i PAY TO THE ORDER OF fg7 23 ?m 31/4468. DOLLARS @bank. W4W . 6/ MEMO ?LgC?o?sg 05-14?11 (08-001-00300) Ac??t# $4,060.47 4 0800100300 005 06-14-11 03 A ., if}; 1:139:53?! . .- i? "038 $2444 4m I183 f?I 54?44W 05-14-11 {08001400300} Acct# $4,060.47 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 7 Amount Totai: $19,162.14 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 046 EX 36-6 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:05:17 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 1104 SALEM AVE 515-250?3455 of a a to 01020 [18 KENT AND JEANNINE SOHENSON momma, fA 5012541033 0; Hug?11130111 I. mm?: mi: 1. . 5506 ;h 30221100 353 0052030990 3-23 Q: I 1 .39 Data realm Eta-.- 0 .- . u- .mrm,.wa.m? "if: mums. Lamb: M??llh Dollars U?iures EMW 1 I v" rib. - A . 14 Hil?d?d maul ?6 . 0? 06-2941 (16-001?00?30) $300.00 $3 a? {a 92 1600100730 005 00-29-11 03 3001K a: :3 1m )3 0041?11 06-29-11 (16001-00730) Acct# $300.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Amount Total: 510,354.92 COPY OF ORIGINAL Hem Count: 9 City State 047 EX 36?7 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:06:47 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 STRATEGIES mo. 23?2?? 10 4 2 1617 PARKDALE CIR. so MW mg/n 2! 1 2:02;? I $18552;ch ?33m M044 5106, Tim/W m. Ebank. Niofugservingyoum MEMO M, 1/ 07-1841 (14001-00320) Acct lg; .. - $3500.00 5 $31? c; DEE - g) '1 1400400320005 07-18-11 03 STATE BANK 11:53 BF-lEi-il I 07?18?11 (14-001?00329) Acct# $3,500.00 COPY OF OREGINAL Item Count: 5 Amount Total: $18,646.48 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 050 Ex 36-8 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:08:05 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 a STRATEGIES INC. 23'2"? 10 4 5 1617 PABKDALE Gm. ERIE. 00 005102402 WE g? I . I . 21112115 6142ng are: @bank. Allofmservingyow MEMO 1w 08-08-11 (12001-00310) Acct 11 $10,750.00 00 . ?1 . . atm?s?,? ~1200100310 005 08-08-1:13111111111311: 1:11-13:91: r10 5 3-K 'i 08-08-11 (12001-00310) Acct $10,750.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Hem Count: 10 Amount Total: 537.423.86 COPY OF City State 053 Ex 36-9 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:09:13 STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 wI-i?n-Nh ?wan-unwav- r? 5" i: KENT AND JEANNJNE SORENSDN 55 A50125 0633 515.259.3455 Egg-4X15 I Dale at: I) I rem if}. 3h} to bu older or Q: if ?with: a In Men :13 AanC . 0?0 05.52,, )AMhd/md ?Lu ?9th $1126 Dailara E3 mniwi OD Mime: im? .: wnu 5 strugomuA puma .3: Par '7 Pam up 1'1 m-wcm. 5m m; 08~25~11 (08-001-00120) Acct $125.00 {.13 25-: 0800100120 005 08-25 11 03 STATE mg1353315131535 Ska?"?x; 75' E3 03-2541 (ca?00109120) Acct . 9i $125.90 COPY OF Item Count: 10 Amount Total: $3313.77 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 054 EX 36?10 Date: 09-18~2013 Time: 12:10:56 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 SOHENSDN mo ANOLA IA 50125-0633 010250?3455 [cg-Qp'h. 20? Dana Fachu 5540- $333? kw Pug In the Baler uf A Pdgfesa In Mean :13 00 . 0-0 . kl.) 5mm?? WELLS Weusfagomm FARGO ?31mm In: . I. m} .p I Cu?? coma Rnnirl ?an-{am luv! 090241 (07-001-00240) $400.00 H: 5.. $3 0700100240 005 09-02- 11 03 STATE BANK 33:35ht.) $3 Fin09?02?11 (07430000240) Acct# $400.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL item Count: 8 Amount Total: $13,368.57 COPY OF OREGINAL City State 057 EX 36-11 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:13:39 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 AND NI SORENS 110455050 ME ON 5555 5-3 33221730353 IN 501250533 .51 -250 3455 eeszsaga?wj lg 2Q 0m Iechu Pay 10 she Elder Omen ?e 00!!an {if} 32333? i "Am O?lnres army WELLIS ka?gn?mm a gummy. . #1 a? ?La?a?ia?y?-h: Swag: run-saws?: air-1:8 $15".anan In: WW3 09-20-11 (07~001-00380) Acct# $615.00 on PH 0700100380 005 09~20 11 03 STA 3AM v.2- :0 07931 003 0.131. 03 ii 5 09-20-11 (07-001-00380} Acct $515.00 COPY OF item Count: 0 Amount Toial: 518.508.00 COPY OF ORIGENAL City State 058 EX 36~12 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:14:35 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 8: STRATEGIES INC. 23?2?1020 1617 PAHKDALE CIR. ERIE, CO 80513-2402 DATE 6?qu 3500 . PAY TO THE OFIDEFI 0F 119} ?00470109475qu 557 @bank MW MEMO 1052 I 33 MEWW bunch-nu My!? 00?23?11 (00001-00550) Acct $10,030.00 3? 0800100550 005 00?23-11 03 >073911oe107391106l1000} L000 10-23-11 (cs-00100440) Acct i: -. $7,500.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL item Count: 6 Amount Total: $14,536.23 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 062 Ex 36-14 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 12:16:53 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 a STRATEGIES 1.0 9 1 1617 PAEKDALE 010. i? 1 50:30.01 00510-2402 -. ME 1 j: '6 I 1/ 0023:? gnaw? 3W0P1 . $015 ?2sz M1 =3 DOLLARS ram-wit? MEMO Ebank. MW EQW i 1" (Lt-x AP 11?21?11 (1 1001-00170) Acct 7- $7,500.1100100170 005 11-21-11 03 STATE RAMS 110012031130 11~21~11 [4?3 3 if COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 11 Amount Total: $5514.50 COPY OF City State 065 EX 36-15 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:16:44 STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 i DEPOSIT TICKET cm? GRASSROOTS STRATEGY, INCINDIANOLA, IA 50125 BEL c2.0? .. DEPOSITS aw 1* NOT 0 AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL row. "cu 01m? to!) SUB TOTAL mm??lme ma um uLcuvw nr him?mun? . All: MENU, rmm-rmm 751,6 ??0va 0' hi do? mm? unstm ngga??g 1510 N. a - i- 1515;515:0000 8131le [260 a I. BE) 12-19-11 (2100101010) Acct Serial#? $7,500.00 Bl ll 91 531. VI. 0 I It [0016010 005 12?19-41 BAVK ?:53 533'] Br?: a T111 2 5901 01'. r" kcgount {rim {10305.1}: magmas 4.211} 3x33 H0 .LEINOU. SIHJ. 3H1 NO I (I {1.21. Fm?? 7' i . 12-1941 (2100101010) Acct S?ri?l $7,500.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL item Count: 110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORFGINAL City State 067 Ex 36?16 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:16:45 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 STRATEGIES me. 23?2?? 10 92 12112131211562?? 02 2_ . I 61/? 2113315 41115sz Shim-m5 1 $1 7 5 a 9.1., mmw?Jl aw ?24" commas ?1 Dag-?E: Ebank. Allofwsewing youm MEMO NP 12-19-11 (21001?01020) Acci#. .--.- $7500.00 2100101020005 12?19-11 03 STATE BANK 4f I .. 211351?18313 {mm-ii 12-1941 (21100101020) Acct 3 . 3 .e $7500.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: :10 Amount Total: $212.155.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 068 EX 36-17 Check or transaction Signor Notes/memo line Withdrawal Date on 11.22:: my 7 mum. t. rm 17.0. Vii: Murmur-.1. 5/20/2011 $1,500.00 m? Kent Sorenson No 010% (temp check) signer Kent Sorenson 5/23/2011 $1,300.00 Kent Sorenson No cm: (temp check) signer Kent Sorenson 6/1/2011 $3,046.16 Kent Sorenson no memo 6/16/2011 $2,400.00 Kent Sorenson no memo 6/23/2011 $734.00 2011 Sorenson memo: Kent Sorenson SSN (illegible) 6/28/2011 $100.00 ATM 7/19/2011 $2,000.00 2014 JSorenson no memo 7/29/2011 $500.00 2015 Sorenson no memo 8/9/2011 $1,213.70 2017 JSorenson no memo 8/11/2011 $1,300.00 2013 iSorenson no memo 8/12/2011 $2,500.00 2020 ISorenson no memo 8/17/2011 2019 I Sorenson memo: Airline tickets 8/18/2011 $2,500.00 2021 150renson no memo 9/1/2011 $373.51 2023 JSorenson memo: Ending in 1875 9/21/2011 $102.00 ATM 10/3/2011 $3,500.00 2025 Sorenson no memo 10/11/2011 $2,000.00 wd withdrawal made in a branch, no document copy 11/1/2011 $2,000.00 2101 Sorenson no memo 11/4/2011 $286.99 2102 JSorenson no memo 11/7/2011 $4,000.00 2104 JSorenson no memo 11/16/2011 $500.00 2106 JSmenson no memo 11/21/ 2011 $500.11/21/2011 $500.00 ATM 2 of 2 on 11/21 11/22/2011 $2,560.00 2107 Sorenson no memo 11/28/2011 $500.00 ATM 11/29/2011 $3,000.00 2111 JSorenson no memo 11/30/2011 $46.06 2108 Sorenson no memo 12/19/2011 $5,000.00 2113 Sorenson no memo 12/19/2011 $500.00 2114 Sorenson no memo 12/22/2011 $2,200.00 2115 JSorensan no memo Tote! $29,700.00 $1,000.00 $706.56 $4,259.86 $734.00 $10,262.00 Total Withdrawals $46,662.42 Ex 37-1 0 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 FREE 05/13/2011 Beginning Balance .00 2 Deposits/Other Credits 8,275.00 15 Checks/Other Debits - 3,854.78 05/31/2011 Ending Balance 19 Days in Statement Period 4,420.22 Deposits/Other Credits 05/16/2011 Opening Deposit 4,675.00 05/31/2011 Deposit 3,600.00 Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Chack Date Amount Check Date Amount 05/20 1,500.00 2001 05/31 55.68 05/23 1,300.00 nah-HM: 05/20/2011 9.00 05/25/2011 450.49 05/26/2011 35.26 A . 05/27/2011 3.24 05/27/2011 275.00 05/31/2011 3.26 05/31/2011 22.22 05/31/2011 26.46 05/31/2011 2 41.02 05/31/2011 I 46.54 05/31/2011 I 58.29 05/31/2011 3 2002 28.32 FRCHASB Sorenson 521 EX 37?2 Statement Date Account Name 5500? GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 05/31/11 3 imam-mt my? . ii? gmmlommnaav. 3050' (2mm sunny-9:- l??rmm?'?vm- I ll 504?? . .IA - .5911~129wa 19:. a? Ham-and $59; Mn; 09935 ?if: *4 :45: ?95 ?39,2? g! 3 no - 05/31 3600.00 {15120 1500.00 05/23 1300.00 Sorenson 523 Ex 37-?3 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY mo City State Bank? - .. 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 Pg 1 of 3 BUSINESS 1 FREE 06/01/2011 Beginning Balanca 4,620.22 2 Deposits/Other Credits 4,360.47 39 Checks/Other Debits v8,277.14 06/30/2011 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 503.55 Deposits/Other Credits 06/13/2011 ATM Deposit 4,060.47 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 06/28/2011 ATM Degosit 300.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date amount Check Date Amount 2004 06/01 20.00 2009 06/23 66.00 2005 06/01 3,046.16 2010 06/21 200900 2006 06/06 51.02 2011 06/23 734.00 2007 06/07 60.28 2051* 06/27 50.00 2008 06/16 2,400.00 ?nk-3 06/01/2011 100.00 06/02/2011 200.00 06/02/2011 84.11 06/03/2011 - 55.13 06/06/2011 20.17 06/06/2011 5?.3e 06/06/2011 125.97 06/07/2011 8.00 06/07/2011 55.18 06/08/2011 . 7.00 06/08/2011 I 52.87 06/13/2011 1 4.23 06/13/2011 6.97 Sorenson 524 BX 374 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 06/28[2011 ATMyi?igltac-ir?wal STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 10.11 56.92 59.19 53.91 73.23 9.74 100.00 27.06 58.16 62.13 34.58 53.28 57.19 24.49 29.71 61.97 100.00? Total For I I This Period 1 I I I Total Overdraft Fees I .00 I Total Year?to?Date .00 I Total Return Item Fees .00 .00 Daily Ending Balance 06/01 1,254.06 06/03 914.82 06/02 969.95 06/06 659.28 Sorenson 525 EX 37?5 I Account Name Statement Date Page 5500 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 06/30/11 4 ?ea: 2m 29? my i e25; :mwlaga nun- $13132 06/01 2605 3016.16 - 5. Ill-.1u-PI" - emmwn 961?. my . ms. nu Imam}! MM 112%qu Jm?kmm?J?un ?m a E- m. a; alums 06/15 1060 ZAOOJO my #125124 49.9mm a 7:1'3' . rum- I-?In. . 1? ummnonlmm HG. um . air 2m IHMHSIEH Bull-Gum .b may} ?r?n I m? {09033755393} 06123 2011 131.00 {u Sorenson 527 EX 37-6 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 City State Bank BUSINESS 1 FREE 07/01/2011 Beginning Balance 503.55 2 Deposits/Other Credits 3,817.99 14 Checks/Other Debits 3,612.66 07/31/2011 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Beriod 708.88 Deposits/Other Credits 07/15/2011 ATM Degosit 3,500.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 07/26/2011 Credit Adjustment 317.99 BEST BUY 00007963 WEST DES MOIN IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date ?Amount 2014 07/19 2,000.00 2015 07/29 500.00 Drhp?r? hcahii'c: 07/05/2011 2.39 07/05/2011 277.89 07/11/2011 56.89 07/13/2011 61.13 07/18/2011 59.22 07/18/2011 mt 100.00 07/21/2011 OINES IA 55.00 07/22/2011 14.49 07/22/2011 355.08 07/25/2011 11.00 IA 07/25/2011 59.52 07/29/2011 I DLA IA 60.05 Sorenson 528 EX 37-7 Account Name Statement Data Page 5500 GRASSROOTS SEERATEGY INC 07f31/11 3 mum? nan-a ?In u-u-v-v .. -- ahms MW 07119 201? 2000.00 m?dam L1 -. ?92m; MAXIWI nmuu?igi 07/29 203,5 500.00 535% La Lu mun he ?an Sorenson 530 Ex 37-8 STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 FREE 08/01/2011 Beginning Balance 708.88 3 Deposits/Other Credits 10,917.44 26 Checks/Other Debits 11,582.05 08/31/2011 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 44.27 Deposits/Other Credits 08/08/2011 ATM Deposit 10,750.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 08/15/2011 1 42.44 OLA IA 08/25/2011 ATM Dep051t 125.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2012 08/01 266 00 2019 08/17 2,148.87 2016* 08/08 50.00 2020 08/12 2,500.00 2017 08/09 1,213 70 2021 08/18 2,500.00 2018 08/11 1,300.00 2022 08/29 38.75 08/01/2011 55.23 08/03/2011 10.00 08/04/2011 MOIN IA 58.25 08/04/2011 100.00 08/05/2011 39.74 08/10/2011 0 55.90 IA 08/11/2011 . 2.82 08/11/2011 STON IA 54.60 08/11/2011 At t: 155.00 08/12/2011 D: 58.64 08/15/2011 5.65 08/15/2011 PC 40.97 Sorenson 531 Ex 37-9 Account Name 5500' GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC - . a?un-n- oil run.? arr: 2m um 09/11 2018 1300.00 duukaor'?mn 01?. In." . . ?w??sm I ma'?kaz?nmuwr?s?w? ?23 a 2- 0:521. own 2021 2500.00 Statement Date Page 3 08/31/11 I Mam mmuma? gm Dull-i u: . . Gammon cams 201? 1213.70 3TH ag?mnquufm?g 2500. in u?nu-n kno? ma an: 6 z? anew 3020 2500.00 Sorenson 533 Ex 37?10 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 FREE City State Bank 09/01/2011 Beginning Balance 44.27 3 Deposits/Other Credits 11,845.00 16 Checks/Other Debits 1,853.32 09/30/2011 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 10,035.95 Deposits/Other Credits 09/01/2011 ATM Deposit 400.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 09/19/2011 ATM Deposit 615.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 09/22/2011 ATM Deposit 10,830.00 CETY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2023 09/01 373.51 2024 09/23 602.55 09/06/2011 12.32 09/08/2011 10.00 IA 09/19/2011 1.06 IL 09/22/2011 3.13 09/26/2011 50.00 09/27/2011 21.17 09/27/2011 53.00 09/27/2011 Arrm??i??ar?wal 102.25.22 37.83 2.96 56.75 Sorenson 534 EX 37?11 Account 5500 Name ERAS SROOTS STRATEGY INC Statement Date 09/30/11 Page rmu?ur . UH: I-h? UQIOI 2013 373.5L 3mm?o?i?ucfm in: Ada. mm . 5635.53] ?ma?gv . Sorenson 536 Ex 37?12 0 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 Pg 1 of 2 BUSINESS 1 FREE 10/01/2011 Beginning Balance 10,035.95 2 Deposits/Other Credits 7,849.79 26 Checks/Other Debits 7,324.22 10/31/2011 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 10,561.52 Deposits/Other Credits 10/05/2011 Credit Adjustment 349.79 IA 10/27/2011 ATM Deposit 7,500.00 CITY STATE BANK ENDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence ?1111-- Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2025 10/03 3,500.00 Other Debits 10/03/2011 54.24 10/03/2011 98.00 10/03/2011 190.04 - 10/03/2011 349.79 10/04/2011 52.16 10/05/2011 24-22 10/06/2011 20.71 10/06/2011 118.71 10/11/2011 15.80 10/11/2011 34.76 10/11/2011 40.60 10/11/2011 51.44 10/11/2011 61.81 10/11/2011 2,000.00 10/12/2011 52.92 Sorenson 537 EX 37-13 3.0/03 1625 3500.00 Account Name Statement Date Page 5500 STRATEGY INC 3 2025 mun-MWs 35mm gm? Sorenson 539 Ex 37-14 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 City State Bank BUSINESS 1 FREE 11/01/2011 Beginning Balance 10,561.52 1 Deposits/Other Credits 7,500.00 29 Checks/Other Debits 17,405.70 11/30/2011 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 655.82 Deposits/Other Credits 11/21/2011 ATM Deposit 7,500.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANDLA INDIANOLA IA n. Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2101 11/01 2,000.00 2106 11/16 500.00 2102 11/04 286.99 2107 11/22 2,560.00 2103 11/07 539.79 2108 11/30 46.06 2104 11/07 4,000 00 2111* 11/29 3,000.00 2105 11/15 1,895 14 ?nk4+n 11/01/2011 54.09 11/03/2011 48.42' 11/08/2011 46.63 11/14/2011 46.16 11/14/2011 54.21 11/15/2011 44-55 11/15/2011 53.57 11/17/2011 105.99 11/18/2011 3 8.48 11/18/2011 33.02 11/18/2011 1 42.38 11/21/2011 I 4.45 11/21/2011 i 6.14 11/21/2011 46.97 Sorenson 540 EX 37-15 STRATEGY INC City State Bank. Pg 2 of 2 11/21/2011 ATM Withdrawal 800.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 11/21/2011 ATM Withdrawal 500.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 11/22/2011 2.41 11/23/2011 . 48.26 1 11/23/2011 431.99 11/28/2011 ATM Withdrawal 500.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA I Total For I Total I I 1 This Period I Year~to?Date I I . I Total Overdraft Fees Total Return Item Fees I 00 I 00 I Daily Ending Balance 11/01 8,507.43 11/15 1,491.97 11/22 4,682.13 11/03 8,459.01 11/16 991.9? 11/23 4,201.88 11/04 8,172.02 11/17 885.98 11/28 3,701.88 11/07 3,632.23 11/18 802.10 11/29 701.88 11/08 3,585.60 11/21 7,244.54 11/30 6S5.82 11/14 3,485.23 Sorenson 541 EX 37~16 Statement Data Page 3 Account Name 5500 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 11/30/11 . . . .. mm mama. - with? mums. . 319: .4, 92,0? 4, as: s? WEE: . u? I ma 11/01 2101 2000.00 11/0?: 2102 206.95 "1 5.5-: .. 2m l?t'ug'?mc?mm'mv'm my swuum ans-5%; mam.? m-MM?d sigma911W mun? EL CS 1-.- . gaunt a 2 1.1101 not 10:30.00 11/16 2106 500.09 . . .. . -. aa- ammoorumuuimt as; 3m ammsmuumxc. 1m mama?. mum ??anm ?um ?mm. ""103114- {ma- 3- . ?ama '52- ghlierhL I Elma g? g. at: .333;- 235:: MW WW WM: 0110? .. . .. an: 2101 11130 men as,? 11/29 2111 3000.00 Sorenson 542 Ex 37-17 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 Box 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 FREE 12/01/2011 Beginning Balance 655.82 1 Deposits/Other Credits 7,500.00 11 Checks/Other Debits - 8,080.02 12/31/2011 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 75.80 Deposits/Other Credits 12/19/2011 Deposit 7,500.00 Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2109 12/02 12.00 2114 12/19 500.00 2112* 12/19 101.70 2115 12/22 2,200.00 2113 12/19 5,000.00 Other Debits 12/15/2011 ATM Withdrawal 100.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 12/27/201 53.11 12/28/201' 6.35 12/28/201 12,16 12/29/201 46.24 12/29/201 48.46 i I Total I I I Year~to?Date i i Total Overdraft Fees I .00 I 25.00 I I Total Return Item Fees 1 00 I 00 I Daily Ending Balance 12/01 655.82 12/19 2,442.12 12/28 170.50 12/02 643.82 12/22 242.12 12/29 . 75.30 12/15 543.82 12/27 189.01 Sorenson 543 Ex 37-18 1211? 1550.120 Statement Data Page Account Name 5500 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 12/31/11 750 '3 - mama . 3' ?Spa-EgaAAmA-v? m?gJ - . ill ?masamnun-m- t-r?hn c- :Luh' 33;; 12,19 n. . . v?rruh?r MI 11.50%. to 1215 . a 112-1932- 222-. . nu:? '40- a-?id 111: 5000.00 f?g??if?w? macaw a: MK 52- a a I 12(19 500.00 "'"wnr "tm 5 1:15: $319,111 2200.00 12f22 2315 Sorenson 544 EX 37-19 Deposit Date ck Notes 1/23/2012 1105:: Northwest Bank 2/9/2012 $33,000.00 Wire Cash wire to City State Bank acct ICT id 003916369353 4/3/2012 $160.00 Cash From City State Bank statement - "cash, no enveIOpe copy? 4/9/2012 $16,000.00 Wire Cash wire to City State Bank acct iCTid 003916369353 5/4/2012 $8,000.00 Wire Cash wire to City State Bank acct ICT id 003916369353 6/12/2012 $8,000.00 Wire Cash wire to City State Bank acct lCi? id 003916369353 7/2/2012 $200.00 ATM Acct #4022 from ATM deposit ticket 7/20/2012 $600.00 ATM Acct #4022 from ATM deposit ticket 7/24/2012 $300.00 ATM Acct #4022 from ATM deposit ticket 7/27/2012 $8,000.00 Wire Cash wire to City State Bank acct 003916369353 9/4/2012 $1,100.00 Cash GSI deposit ticket; deposit made at indianola branch 9/17/2012 $100.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket 9/28/2012 $65.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Sorenson 10/10/2012 $10.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Jeannine Sorenson Grassroots 10/13/2012 $200.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Jeannine Sorenson 10/26/2012 $100.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Jeannine Sorenson ATM deposit $300 check #1429 Midwest Freedom US Bank acct cash 11/2/2012 $630.00 1479 $630 11/ 13/ 2012 $250.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Jeannine Sorensor: 11/20/2012 $60.00 Cash Acct from deposit ticket; Jeannine Sorenson Total Deposits $73,000.00 $3,775.00 Ex 38-1 Date: 094 8-2013 Time: 12:19:40 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 11055? NORTHWEST BANK awwm ProKIeen Total Building Maintenance 2316Aifc??v?m ?16000 724053.27? 1 12012012 3 3 PAYTOTHE - ORDER OF Grassroois Strategles 800.00 i. y. no Elght Hundred and 001100? DOLLARS Grassmots Siralegles . MEMO I mmomeomawuas 01-23-12 (12001-00330) Acct Serial? $800.00 1200100330 005 01-23-12 03 STATE BANK in120210-1330 11-23?12 A AcctQ Serial. $800.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL 3050530: 10' Amount Total: $23,602.58 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 071 Ex 38?2 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:18:49 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 DEPOSITED WITH DESCRIPTION DOLLARS CENTS City State Ba Form #300 CASH 907w DaleC)? q- :Icri?l'fncl 37%" 07"ng Inc DEPOSITS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR HDRAWAL SIGN HERE FOR LESS CASH RECEIVED LESS CASH cmcusw om (on was" mum m: momma RECEIVED arm? Wramr cowmauu cm on Am ACCOUNT NUMBER 33 ?00.00 I s- 02~09-12 (12-002-00090) Acct? Serial# .0 0 $33,000.00 1200200090 011 02-09-12 STATE BANK LII-liar 1' Acct? Serial# $33,000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count:110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 074 Ex 38?3 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:18:49 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 City State, Bank GENERAL DEBIT Date - InIIlaIs 3 ACCOUNT NAME It?dc??m/ .1 EFF DATE 2 5? 8497:4333. 33,10. I a a ACCOUNT NUMBER AMOUNT 3300@. 02-09-12(12-002-00100) Antitgv Serial# $33,000.00 1200200100 011 02-09-12 07' STATE BANK If ?/4117" 1/ Acct#? Seria1# $33,000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count1110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 075 EX 38-4 FedPayments ManagerSM Funds velivered to FPH: 02/09/2012 13:12:06 Tesc/Prod: Prod IMRD: 20130309 006353 02091312 DEAD: 20120209 001601 02091312 BASIC INFORMATION Sen?er ABA {3100}: 026009593 BK AEER NYC Receive: {3400): 073911061 CITY STRTE BANK Amount: {2000): 33,000.00 ?1 3 I) 1000 - TrausEer of Funds ?ff Type/Subtype Code (1510): Business Function {3600}: Sender Reference {3323}: Reference for Beneficiary (4320): Originator (5000] 1D Cede: Identifier: Hume: Address: Originator PI {5100} ID Code: Identifier: BENEFICIARY INFORMATION Bane?iciary [0200) ID Code: Identifier: Name: Address: OZIDQIZOIZ 10:23:42 - Customer Trans?er Plus 2012020900178517 01120209002615NN EDA Account Number ICT. INCORP. 0315 HAMILTON ST MD 20781~l938 SWIFT Bank Identifier Code BDFAUSSN ODA Account Number GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC. ST. ENDIRNOLA IAUS Page 0 of 1 City State 076 Ex 38~5 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:18:14 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 53? sure ?Emmi? QB DESCRIPTION DOLLARS CENTS . City State Ban pm. #300 CAS 1? BA Date 4/ . S'l?rq?a ,an .. DEPOSITS MAY NOT BE FOR i IATE WIITHDHAWAL SIGN HERE Foa LESS CASH asceweo ?scm'm mu 05mm War to WFanwa-vs annu mug-am cans on my Ahmw couEmnuAc-?mczm. ACCOUNT NUMBER TOTAL DEPOSIT 5 1. 04-0942 (204301 ?00030) Acct# Serial 91316100000 2000100030 011 04439-12 01 STATE BANK 2000 100030 0-1 {19.13 04-09-12 (20001-00030) Acct Seriai $16,000.00 COPY OF OREGENAL Item Count: 110 Amount Total: 521215539 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 080 EX 38-6 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:18:14 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 City/S?ate Bank GENERAL LEDGEH DEBIT Ram #1100 i Data w/ inilia?s ACCOUNT NAME lre of?m/ wen/?e, EFF 3% 3 Mt rp? Gmg?rm?fz A 1 5 accoum- NUMBER msoum Mpao. 1. 04-09-12 (20?001-00040) Acct# Serial# $16,000.00 2000100040 011 04-0942 07 STATE BANK 2000 ?300:0?; 0:105:42 $16,000.00 04~09~12 (20-001-00040) COPY OF ORIGINAL Acct at- Seria! Item Count: 110 Amount Totai: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 081 EX 38-7 FedPayments Manager Funds nelivered to FPM: l5:25:20 TesL/Drod: 20L20609 8637HU3R 007l23 04091525 CHAD: 20120409 0022Q0 0d091525 Prod BASIC Sender ABA (3100): 025009593 BR AMER HYC Recaiver {3&001: o7393i061 CTTY STATE BANK Amount {2000): 18,000.00 Type/Subtype Code 11519): 1000 Transfer of Funds Business Function [3600): - Customer Transfer Plus Sander Reference {3320): 20:3040960163283 Re?erence Ear Ban??iciary 01120409607810NN ORIGINRTOR INFORMATION Originator [5000) ID Code: onn AccounL Number Ideatitler: . Name: IECORP. Address: $318 HAMILTON ST HYATTSVILLE MU QDVBi-lgl? Originator Fl (51001 ID Code: ., - SWIFT Bank ldenLifier Co?e Identi?iexz BOFAUSSN ENFORNRTIDR Beneficiary (#200) 10 Code: a - EDA Accounz Number Identifier: Name: STHATEGY INC a a 15:32:03 x3530 APR - 9 2012.71 Page 1 of 1 City State 082 EX 38-8 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:19:19 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 51w sums . ?5mm? DESCRIPTION DOLLARS cams Clty State 8 Penn #300 CHE CASH . EN K. Wire ?Crowd . uxc?zmxn $C7ifn??arld waft S+m+gj1h0 . - MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR IM MED TE WITHDRAWEL SIGN HERE FOR LESS CASH RECEIVED 35 CASH mars xmamm Imus am: rm 05mm 50mm ra ms OF Itasca-mam cmmamu coaroa nwaem: ACCOUNT NUMBER TOTAL 0310517 9? ?g 05-04-12(09-002-01730) Acct? Serial# $8,000.00 0900201730 011 95-04-12 01 STATE BANK I 1- a" It Ur?Ude}! .i'J LMJJAI I 05-04-12 (09-002-01730) Acot. Serial $8,000,00 COPY OF Item Count: 110 AmountTotaE: $212.155.09 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 085 EX 38-9 Date: 09~18~201 3 Time: 10:19:19 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 City State Ban Data 2" Initials ACCOUNT NAME cic?m/ ?as? we? DESCRIPTION I WWI WW ACCOUNT NUMBER GENERAL LEDGER DEBIT Form MOO EFF DATE MAO op?aa Accwm? Serial# $8.000.00 0900201740 011 05-0442 07 STATE BANK 05-04-12(09-002-o1740) Mom.? Serial# COPY OF ORIGINAL item Count: 110 Amount Total: $212.156.89 $8,000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 086 Ex 38-10 FedPayments lk?anagrarSM -- Funds nelivered to 993: 05/0412012 14:02:18 Prod THAD: 20120504 BBETHUIR 607640 35041402 CHAS: 20130504 amcsupez 002153 05041402 sander ABA (3300}: Receiver ABA [3400): Amount [2000}: Type!3ubtype Co?a {1510): Business Function {36001: Sender Reference [3320}: Reference for Bene?iciary INFORMATION Originator {5000} I0 Code: Identifier: Name: Address: Griginator {5130) rm Code: . . Ldenti?ier: BENEFICIRRY INFORMATION Beneficiary {#200} ID Code: l?entifiex: Name: Address: 14:21:11 6333530 026009593 8K AMER NYC 073911061 CITY STATE BANK 3.000.00 1000 - Transfer of Funds CTP - Customer Tranafer Plus 2Dl3056400202035 01120564004178NN DDA Account Number 301?, . 9? HYATTSVILEE MD 20781-1938 8 - SHIFT ?ank Ideuzifier Code BOFAUSSH DDA Account Humber 0T5 STRATEGY ENE. INDIANOLA MAY - 4 2012 Page 1 of 1 City State 087 EX 38?11 Date: 69-18-2013 Time: 10:18:32 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 I DEPOSITEO WITH DESCRIPTION DQLLAHS GENTS City State Bank Form 41300 CASH 8000.00 Date a LhQO/?ag. . 3 061/2250 roofs 6330+ng c. ?Maud/e - DEPOSITS MAY NOT BE AVAILASLE FOR IMMEDIA WITHORAWAL SIGN HERE FOR CASH RECEIVED CA . Less CASH .. CHICKS "El I: ran 0965!? 5mm RECEIVEB . OF CG.WEWAL DOILEGW ACCOUNT NUMBER TOTAL DEPOSIT 5" C) .0 0 06?12-12 (14002?01720) Acct #m Serial $8,000.00 1400201720 011 06-12-12 01 STATE BANK PH - F: .I 5400.?20% I MA .0 0m 0000:? 11' 01000, 05} 06-12-12 (14002-01720) Acct ?3 Serial $8.000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 090 133138-12 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:18:33 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 City State Bank GENERAL [3.1230150 DEBIT 01m 00 a Date ?/fo'k/f Iranians CA - 2 ACCOUNT NAME EFF DATE DESGREPTION 3 ACCOUNT NUMBER AMOUNT 8? 000 .0 l" 06-12-12 {14-002-01730) Acctatn? Seria! $8.000.00 1400201730 011 06-12-12 07 STATE BANK 010020 i? :10 00- i 2-- i2 11, 06-12-12 (14002411730) Mama? - Serial $8,000.00 COPY OF Item Count: 110 Amount Total: 5212.156.39 COPY OF City State 091 FedPayments fx/lar'lager5M -- Funds 0611212013 15:97:50 Prad 20120612 007138 06121507 20120612 002:5? 06121507 Delivered to FEM: IHAD: CHAD: BASIC INFORMATZON Sender ABA {3i00}: Receiver ASA (3400): amount {2000): TypaiSubtypa Code (1510}: Business Function (3660): Sander Reference {3326}: Reference Beneficiary (d320): ORIGINATOE INFORMATION Originator {5000} ID Co?e: Identifier: Name: address: Originator PI (5105} In Code: identifier: BEHEFICIARE INFORMATION aungficiary ID Code: Identifier: lame: A?dresa: 05!18/2012 11:60:55 026009593 BK AMER N?sc 073911051 CITY STATE 3.000.09 1000 Transfer of Funds Cu?tomer Transfer Plus 2012051200203355 - EDA Account Number ICT, IRCURP. 4316 HAMILTON ST MD 20?81*3938 Bank Identifier Cod? HOFAUSBN - DOA Account Number GRASSROGTS STRATEGY 13C INDIAHOLA Page 1 of 1 City State 092 Ex 38-14 ?.5555 1 Endorse or sign all checks. 2. Ba not deposit mains. 3. Seal envelupe bofura insertion. 162/82 5% 2186 (NI ?033 mammal 3 3 ?mr 0F MWE EH18 wag; Funds from deposits may not ha available for immdiaua Hausa mime yourmwm?un's n?esgmmi?g lunds avalhb?iw {or details. City State 095 Ex 38-15 5115mm: I . Deposit Envelope muss mm Name L3 Account# .23? .. 7 ?nanciyl Limit the Enualapa (mutants to mum limitation 19mm use separate emubpa for each scram! Currency 0700 - Chucks TOTAL mammal are suhiscuo pm? and ven??satian. City State 096 EX 38?16 PLEASE NOTE 1 Endorse or sign ail checks. 2. Do not defosit coins. 3. Seal enve one before Insertion. $3 5533.539 {3335 six-933mg; 11:3?: 21' 5 JG AVAILABILIW 0F DEPOSITS funds from deposits may not he m?ahl?a fur igmadiqm wf?wdruwd. Plum} Wows nd?a?'?bveminu funds availuhi?ty fordataiIs. amt STATE BANK JUL 2 3 ENE I TERM. (ammo City State 097 EX 38?17 . Deposit Envelope I - swszA-ij? r? PLEASEPQEI TE 3 1 currency 1 0 Name 0 Annount# - 7, Checks Emmi? I 3 contents to institutian I'm? the a up TOTAL 1m .. Basso usa separaza unwopn intend: acceml. Ml uanmc?w; nm su?ock?to pmof and vai?aatm City State 098 Ex 38-18 660 91918 5113 :7 PLEEKSE ROTE 1 Endorse or sign ail shacks. 2. Do no! deposit coins. 3. Seal envelope baton: insa?ion. va 4 -. - 039ml? 29:4,:5: 522-9- W831 .2102- 3 gm \g {gm HEM 313$,er ?vim Autumn's? 6F 3396:5313 funds deposits may not be ava?ahm for lmme?ate {mills availabilii? fur MERE. EX 38-19 SHAZAM: Deposit EnvelOpe PLEASE PRINT Brass r05}: Name Aucnum# Lni?'i': Limit tho Enunlope cantents to Institutian Pima use scpaam am'npo fol each 30.1mm. . mum-1: Dunencv 300 checks TOTAL All in nuction: are and veri?calim. City State 100 EX 38-20 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:19:06 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 . 020031190 WITH DESCHIPTION DOLLARS CENTS City State Bank Farm #300 CASH wont Dale 7/03 3 016.0370 . For ngJI'oo? 57%;ng Inc, . DEPOSITS MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR IMM I WITHDRAWAL 3:00 HERE FOR LESS CASH RECEIVED GA LESS 0:50 CHECKS MD 0mm ME ?cm wwrrumzsr Io P30105005 NECEWED . 0r MWWMI ACCOUNT NUMBER TOTAL DEPOSIT 8; 0 C) ,0 (3 . 07-27-12 (13002?00050) Accrual? Serial at $8,000.00 1300200050 011 07-27-12 01 STATE BANK 00'000?3 4190530010 10:10:05 3300308850 {gm 1 gm} I0 0233 07-27-12 (13002?00050) Acct a? Serial $0,000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Couni: 110 Amount Total: $212,156.89 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 101 EX 38~21 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:19:06 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 .43 City State Bank GENERAL 3.539150 DEBIT mm 1 2 Date 7/37/43 lnHlals ad. ACCOUNT NAME ?in? - EFF DATE '5 0550010100 5 .. 4 3 5! ACCOUNT NUMBER AMOUNT 6? 00 c3 ?0 0 07-2742 (13002-00060) $8,000.00 1300200060 011 07?2742 07 STATE BANK 07-27-12 (13-002-00060) Acct it- Seriai $3,000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: :10 Amount Total: 5.212.155.39 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 102 Ex 38-22 FedPayments Manager5M - Funds Prod Delivere? t0 07/27/2012 1313054?: 2012072? 012851 20120727 002221 0'12'11330 8:15 1C ON Sender nun [3100}: Rncelvcr ABA {3400}: AmounL {2000): Type/Subtype Code ?1510}: Business Function 13600}: Sender Reference [3320}: Reference Ear Beneficiary [4320}: Originncar [$000) ID Code: Identifier: Name: Address: Originator PI {5100) In 0062: 4* Identifier: BENEFI (711112? I ?eneficiary {4200} I Code: Identifier: Name: Address: 091'101?2013 15: 30 23 026009593 BK AMER NYC 073911063 CITY gamma 9,000.00 1090 of Funds CTP - Customer Transfer Plus 20120'12'f002:19362 01130v27003v39nn DDA Recount Rumba: INCOHP. 4316 S?l? [11:15 Mi) 20781 - 1 933 a I - Bank Idanni?inr Code - EDA Account Number INC . Page 1 of 1 City State 103 Ex 38?23 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:17:21 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 P. 0. BOX 633 DEPOSIT TICKET GRASSROOTS STRATEGY, INC. INDIANOLA. IA 50125 DAEEQE 63% DEPOSIT nvuor IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWAL INS answer-o- mama-tum (51 m1!? '3 rm: HUN CASH {If REQUIRLUI ill-?t 5mm? mum- Indundgusous In (subsist!) BANK SUB TOTAL LESS CASH 02051on Mom-w 1. ED Anemin Serial# $1,100.@450013400 005 090442 BANK I 11:30 00 r- - 5 Tlf? Seq"; 21 ?ccnu?t ?32Mew? Serial $1,100.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL Item Count: 110 Amount Totai: $212,156.59 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 107 EX 38?24 Date: 09-18-2013 Time: 10:17:21 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 2 City State Bank TELLER NUMBER CASH IN INDIANOLA 2 From Gust Name 09/94/2812 11:30 00 Brii 5 2 8qu 21 Description Account Cash In [00, 00 53 1,100.00 09?04?12 (20001-00410) Acct 10"? Serial $1,100.00 2090100410 905 09-04-12 08 STATE BANK 25.130189 HE 09-04-12 (20001-00410) Anew," Serial $1000.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL item Count: 110 Amount Totai: 5212,1500; COPY OF City State 108 Ex 38?25 MOVIE 1 Endurse or sign an checks. 2. Do not deposit coins. 3.83m envelope baron. insertion. 3' ems (3&ng 53:? 1 TATE BANK 3:63.38 54:52:42 any-3 3gp 1 20%2 TERM. SEQ. 0007 0F DEPOSITS Funds hum doposits may not ha available for immadiam Hausa Mam summing funds availabi?ly fu: dam?s? City State 109 Ex 38?26 SHAZAM: PLEASE PRINT Name 0 Financial Institution Ream use separalo enwlapc foreach mount. Deposit Envelope Account 9% Limit the Enuelupe cantants to sun/m1: currency IO 0 Checks TOTAL 0 (3 a NE Immac?uns am [1031 and vmi?ca?m City State 110 EX 38-27 ENERSE Endorse or sign an checks. 2. Do not deposit coins! 3; Sealenvelopa before insartian? [gem STATE BANK 9:3 '36 521:?: 23:l9:d3 517m 0? '31 2312 TERM. #61 ma sea. 0? EEPQSIW ?nds-hm deposits may not ha available for lmmadim \?v'i?ldrawal. Please mfurtn mlasguvemina City State 111 Ex 38-28 PLEASEPHIHT .7 - . Currency Name Ascoum# . - wgsu-H- Checks ?mm? Limit the Envaiops contents to Maxim TOTAL Institution Ham w: memo anw?cpo fur each mam! All unmn?m am whim Lo and vat?r?catfm City State 112 EX 38-29 PLEASE 1 Endorse or sign all shacks. 2. Do not derosit coins. 3. Seal anve ape before insertion. QM i?5fcm 31mg?: 8th SIMEUA a; 7Q~g nev?a? 11.9 1.. 15?? TERM. ff?) 1 jg?" . .5 ?w 359. 065/ 0F DEPOSITS Funds from dapaszts may not be availabfo to: lmu?a?z Please tafarm yourins?ur?nn's mias gaveminu funds availability fardm?s. City State 114 Ex 38?30 gm?w?? PLEAsepan magma} ?kl Big Accnunt Financial lns?lutian Limit the invalopo contents to Phrase separalo cn?m?epa for each nunum - I . Deposit Envelope \o-m 7 Currency Io Checks TOTAL transa minus am subj?cl?to weal and mi?ca?on. City State 115 EX 38-31 PLEASE I Endorse ursign all chucks. 2. Do no: deposit coins. 3. Seal enveiope bafnm Insartiun. Ar: ?3 a 40 s?s} 5..) 99? al?k IN i .45: q' I m?TERM. 93995535 8E0. *qu Binds {mm dapus?s may riot he avalhbia for imma?iate wimdmwal. Phase min: to yourins?w?on?s rules gave minu funds mimhility for deta?s. rawmm: City State 116 EX 38-32 SHAZAM: . - Deposit Envelope SI mum: muss Gummy 0 Name LE2 Mam; Sargm}4 Account# .7 .7 . - Checks Financial it the Enveln 9 contents to Institution 1:11 5! TOTAL Hausa use mama am each semi. All Hummus are whim la ptuof and ve?fka?an. City State 117 Ex 38?33 PLEASE 1 Endorse or sign all chaclgs. 2. Do net dapnsit cairn;z 3. Seal envelope before insertion. (WNW mm utr? .. Mawii,, AVAILABILITY OF Funds from 69pm: may he _mjip_h!e (or Immediate wi?dmwal. rules govuntng funds m?abiEity for details. 2 9 mg TERM. 350. 0 bong City State 118 Ex 38-34 \o-mo- \1 I Deposit Envelope PLEASE PRINT . . Currency MI) Name (14 . r? . 1 Checks ?nancial L'm?t a vala tents 10W institution I on Tom?- Hesse mu sapmam manna fnroach mount. Account M1mnsacu'un5 an: auhiect?to pmufamd wn?m?m. City State 119 Ex 38?35 PLEASE N013 1 Endorse 9r sign ail checks. 2. Do not deposit coins. 3. Snal anualopa haters insertion. - mw {152:1}? \st .. ,y 1: REM 35a. 250%) .. {i Annamaluw OF nawosws Funds from ?apos?b?s my ?int- he Ivdk?bl? fur imma?im Pfcm?za ratert'ayn?r City State 121 Ex 38-36 Date: 09?1 8-2013 Time: 13:29:32 CITY STATE BANK (Research) Page: 1 PO BOX 7811 DES MOINES IA 503233811 DATE . MIDWEST magnum ENTERPRISES LLC. 3354THE 03050;? ?5,111 1?41?" J-Q DOLLAHS ?rm @bank. AII may serving you. A MEMO $300.0.0 E?i 93.5.: :0 g; In 2400300209'e005 11-05-12 03 STATE 2 . If: :33 ?3 35Eiam a 5 92 3 11?35-12? if$300.00 COPY OF ORIGINAL uem Count: 14 AmounITotaI: $47.498.59 COPY OF ORIGINAL City State 122 Ex 38-37 SI mum: - Deposit Envelope I I BANK Sllr?L?u?H wcbg? SD NOV 1 3 2012 3% 493' TERM. mo sea. mags; Currency [.250 WNW Account# 5 Checks ?mm WW Institution Lumt the Enuolnpa contents to TOTAL 2% ?easa use samm mama for each an: sublect?m wool and mi?cmin City State 123 EX 38-38 \3 73k PLEASE NOTE 1 Endorse or sign all checks. 2. Do not deposit coins. 3. Sea! envelope bafare AVAILABILITY Funds 7mm deposits may not be aw?abla fur immadiala Hausa mfartnyourins?hx?mfs mles goveming funds availability for dawns. City State 124 EX 38?39 PLEASE MOVE 1 Endorse or sign all checks. 2. Do not doposit coins. 3. Seal envelope before insar?on. STATE BANK SEMZAM ?sts-3.693 ?1321 ?mum: w?zma?il ?riazS-a fume NW 21 2017 #617933 SEQ. AVAILSBILIW 0F BEPOSWS Fun?s Wampum may "net be mkabia fur Immsdiuta Piazza mfartn Vaurins?uz?nn's atlas quvamfng m: wn?ah??yfardam?s. City State 125 Ex 38?40 ?~30 \a I . I DepositEnvelope .smzAM: Pimsigauir Currency .. Name Accountat . - A Chucks ham: 9: m: I [13:53? limit the Envalope contents to TOTAL Pic-ass usemmram Gamma for aachaccaml. All transactions are whjeci to plan} and va?f?mu?m City State 126 EX 38-41 Withdrawai Date 7 mm: Check or transaction Signor typr: you Not es/me Kl}. 1/27/2012 116 Sorenson no memo 2/13/2012 $4,700.00 2119 Sorenson no memo 2/ 14/ 2012 2118 Sorenson 2/15/2012 $5,000.00 2120 Sorenson no memo 2/21/2012 $10,000.00 2121 Sorenson no memo 2/23/2012 $5,000.00 2117 Sorenson no memo 3/6/2012 $7,500.00 2123 Kent Sorenson no memo 4/4/2012 $72.95 2124 Sorenson no memo 4/4/2012 $100.00 2125 Sorenscm J-2212 4/10/2012 $15,000.00 2126 Sorenson DO memo 4/16/2012 $150.00 ATM 5/9/2012 $100.00 2052 Kent Sorenson 5/22/2012 $165.00 2128 Sorenson Kent Sorenson J-2212 5/29/2012 $94.42 2129 Sorenson no memo 6/8/2012 $2,000.00 2131 Sorenson no memo 6/15/2012 $6,000.00 2056 Sorenson no memo 6/ 18/2 012 $330.00 2055 Sorenson Kent Sorenson 7/12/2012 $1,072.56 2059 Sorenson no memo 8/2/2012 $200.00 2056 Sorenson Kent Sorenson 8/9/2012 $1,000.00 2058 Sorenson Kent Sorenson 9/41/2012 $2,000.00 2075 no memo 9/ 13/ 2012 $225.00 2074 Sorenson 48516 (illegible) 11/7/2012 $930.00 2080 Sorenson I10 memo Total $57,200.00 $550.00 $3,433.41 $150.00 $795.00 $225.00 Total Withdrawals $62,358.41 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 Box 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 Pg 1 of 2 The City State Bank motto is: THE CITY STATE BANK SPIRIT DRIVES US TO PROVIDE SERVICE AND SOLUTIONS EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS. In honor of this, you will notice that the account option previously known as Free Checking is now known as Spirit Checking. The terms and conditions of your account have not changed. BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 01/01/2012 Beginning Balance 75.80 1 Deposits/Other Credits 800.00 9 Checks/Other Debits 846.11 01/31/2012 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 29.69 Deposits/Other Credits 01/23/2012 ATM Deposit 800.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount -Check Date Amount Other Debits 01/03/2012 10.00 01/19/2012 . 9.70 01/24/2012 4.75 01/24/2012 69.34 01/25/2012 1.27 01/25/2012 148.23 01/26/2012 49.00 01/30/2012 3.82 Sorenson 171 Ex 39-2 Account Name 5500. GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC Statement Date 01/31/12 Page ?aammuammnm mi? :11{550.3,} qu? "??1221umul?i?h Isa-W naugai 01/27 2:15 550.00 Sorenson 173 Ex 39?3 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 9 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 The City State Bank motto is: THE CITY STATE BANK SPIRIT DRIVES US TO PROVIDE SERVICE AND SOLUTIONS EXCEEDING CUSTOMER EXPECTATIONS. In honor of this, you will notice that the account option previously known as Free Checking is now known as Spirit Checking. The terms and conditions of your account have not changed. BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 02/01/2012 Beginning Balance 29.69 1 Deposits/Other Credits 33,000.00 11 Checks/Other Debits 25,406.99 02/29/2012 Ending Balance 29 Days in Statement Period 7,622.70 Deposits/Other Credits 02/09/2012 Deposit 33,000.00 Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2117 02/23 5,000.00 2120 02/15 . 5,000.00 2118 02/14 168.48 2121 02/21 10,000.00 2119 02/13 4,700.00 Other 02/09/2012 2.79 02/13/2012 20.99 02/13/2012 295.36 02/14/2012 54.13 02/16/2012 57.58 02/16/2012 107.66 Soronson 174 Ex 39-4 Statement Da ta Page Account Name 5500 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 02/29/12 3 Mid-J dir?amnfwamagg? ?9 . mrJ'W? ha. 9. a 7:330. - me?mi?v??' - ff; {:35 ?3 G13 Jil?i?.w . WW . 5" tr- 3109?" n. %b1mm-_I -. W5 mam-aback: .. inn --. ?new 1. ..- .. .. . 02/09 33000 .00 92123 2117 5000.00 02/14 21m 163.40 . . 3.. ha} . Win? .?nru?uu n?rr . . amuoou man m??f I mm?. gram" - "a ma. [11-le ?QA?X??mfl. -s .1 uva ?m mini. 55%? 33% 5: to] Mammal?! 77?1 ?Elm human! mafm as: 33:4 55-5:- algmw d, @3451,wa . %A?m.msm . . 4" d?ma can: I 03(13 211,5 4799.09 cans 2120 5000.00 02f21 2121 mnemao Sorenson 176 EX 39-6 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 03/01/2012 Beginning Balance 7,622.70 0 Deposits/Other Credits .00 3 Checks/Other Debits 7,577.36 03/31/2012 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 45.34 Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2123 03/06 7,500.00 Other Debits 03105/2012 63.58 03/06/2012 13.78 I Total For I Total I I I This Period 1 . Year~to~Date I I Total Overdraft Fees Total Return Item Fees I .00 I .00 I Daily Ending Balance 03/01 7,622.70 03/05 7,559.12 03/06 45.34 Sorenson 177 EX 39?6 Account Name Statement Date Page 55001- GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 03/31/12 2 6?11! m?xnn?m: 514:. . - 3351mm03/06 2123 754mm Sorenson 178 EX 39-7 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank. 0 Box 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 04/01/2012 Beginning Balance 45.34 3 Deposits/Other Credits 16,234.18 15 Checks/Other Debits - 16,257.33 04/30/2012 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 22.19 Deposits/Other Credits 04/03/2012 ATM Deposit 160.00 CITY STATE BANK NORWALK IA 04/09/2012 Deposit 16,000.00 04/16/2012 Credit Adjustment 74.18 3 IA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2124 04/04 72.95 2126 04/10 15,000.00 2125 04/04 100.00 Other Debits 04/03/2012 10.00 04/13/2012 28.41 04/13/2012 62.66 04/16/2012 25.33 04/16/2012 . 44.98 v, guns.? - J41 04/16/2012 ATM Withdrawal . 150 .00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 04/16/2012 I 319.98 04/17/2012 I 105.62 AR 04/17/2012 113.15 04/18/2012 81.65 04/23/2012 56.89 04/24/2012 85.71 Sorenson 179 Ex 39-8 Account Name Statement Data 9age 5500. GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 04 /30/ 12 3 ?5 ?Mina-p3? um um simm?m. .. a. Jam by lbwam 1 an 1/4-41- 43"? on: . unU?JLuj mem? vu- . l?ago.?H?" gum-wand 15: .w 0212!. nuns 16000.00 94101 21% 72.umuwu .- ?lm. 5 04/19 2126 15000.00 ?mm 0213: Sorenson 181 Ex 39.9 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA EA 50125 City State Bank of 2 Pg BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 05/01/2012 Beginning Balance 22.19 1 Deposits/Other Credits 8,000.00 25 Checks/Other Debits 2,116.04 05/31/2012 Ending Balance 31 Days in Statement Period 5,906.15 Deposits/Other Credits 05/04/2012 Deposit 8,000.00 Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2052 05/18 100 00 2127* 05/30 170.00 2053 05/23 66 00 2128 05/22 165.00 2054 05/17 64 7d 2129 05/29 94.42 Other Debits 05/07/2012 48.97 05/07/2012 59.01 05/08/2012 70.01 05/11/2012 170.59 05/14/2012 91.46 05/16/2012 IA 20.23 05/17/2012 ILO IA 60.64 05/17/2012 235.96 05/18/2012 29.86 05/18/2012 296.81 05/21/2012 1.27 05/21/2012 35.86 05/21/2012 I 73:61 05/21/2012 1 78.50 CA 05/22/2012 1 13.25 Sorenson 182 EX 39-10 Account Name Statement Data Page 5500' GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 05/31/12 3 . . . ?1 paw. awn- um "15 . 52:: a .. 6? - m" ?5-11-12. I .331; ?fty- ?n VGA, .5556 I ?melm . awe-snow: 15? 02053. . 05/04 8000.00 r2511: 2052 3.00.00 ?ms?'f?fm?ahm 21 1' MM 3 195.33.. a Wmeg .3 . M?mtgcumm nuan . 95122 2120 165.00 mum" ivzaxz-avhk. .. - rug; 1129 mm. ?1.51% rzrw? sfMiZ i??h mun . I 05/29 2129 ?.42 Sorenson 184 Ex 39-11 ?dv GRASSROOTS STRATEGY mc City State Ban}; 9 0 Box 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 06/01/2012 Beginning Balance 5,906.15 2 Deposits/Other Credits 8,174.87 25 Checks/Other Debits - 11,687.99 06/30/2012 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 2,393.03 Deposits/Other Credits 06/12/2012 Deposit 8,000.00 06/15/2012 i :3 IA . 174.87 Checks llstea in numerical order; inalca?es gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2055 06/18 330.00 2136* 06/13 370.00 2056 06/15 6,000.00 2138* 06/26 507.50 2131* 06/08 2,000.00 2142* 06/29 422.00 2132 06/13 483.50 2143 06/29 90.00 Other Debits 06/01/2012 INES IA 179.42 06/04/2012 74.24 06/05/2012 6.99 06/07/2012 59.14 06/07/2012 . 299.48 06/11/2012 i 1.27 06/11/2012 240.96 :30 06/13/2012 31.79 06/13/2012 A 78.47 06/13/2012 146.28 06/14/2012 23.63 06/14/2012 54.60 06/15/2012 6.98 CA 06/21/2012 At 235.96 30 .. Sorenson 185 EX 39?12 Page Account Name Statement Date 5500. GRASSROOTS STRATEGY mc 06/ 30/ 12 3 ?rd-Jaw. mama-raw . ., u-u-l? . om . mun-m "3.3574. neg?fm??mw . uh?. 3099?90 rmnam izrr?gmg- - ?hm?1' . ?5115311- 1 5:34 . dam-19.: ?at?MW? 9L Th1? ?hank:- IM 1.7-: ?'L'a'uulu?' WW3 - 3:31: I p5 143cm 3 Joaapo . $.15th mam-acum- 1st ?655 5! ans: mam-m 1e .-.- .. .ur 06112 60110.00 05/18 2055 330.00 05(15 2055 6030.69 ail-2.1% .. 6M . mg??mm I cum Ws?mm I: 52133 "your: warm 7? war-1n r' "m 06/0? 2131 2000.Sorenson 187 Ex 39-13 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 Deposits/Other Credits BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 07/01/2012 Beginning Balance 4 Deposits/Other Credits 22 Checks/Other Debits 07/31/2012 Ending Balance 07/20/2012 ATM Deposit CZTY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 07/20/2012 ATM Deposit CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA 07/24/2012 ATM Deposit CITY STATE BANK INDIAEOLA INDIANOLA IA 07/27/2012 Deposit Checks listed in numerical order; Check Date Amount 2057 07/02 92.00 2059* 07/12 1,072.56 2060 07/18 125.00 2061 07/18 167.00 2062 07/23 817.00 2137* 07/05 169.60 2139* 07/02 66.00 Other Debits 07/02/2012. 07/17/2012l 07/27/2012! 07/30/2012! 07/31/2012 1 07/31/2012 I 07/31/2012 07/31/2012 I City State Bank Check 31 Days in Statement Period Date 2,393.03 9,100.00 4,721.54 6,771.49 200.00 600.00 300.00 8,000.00 Amount 07/05 07/13 07/13 07/20 07/27 07/30 indicates gap in sequence \w .b 2.71 0.00 0.00 9.72 Sorenscm 188 Ex 39?14 Account 5500 Name GRASSROOTS STRAWEGY INC Statement Date 07/31/12 Page c-yh?g??s?uk mikefoo-ape unto-wan: 07 I 3?90 . 00 I . Lu mugumu MAM hulls. yam?n 07112 . 1m mm? m. 2059 1012.56 ll\4 Sorenson 190 EX 39-15 "1r6 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 08/01/2012 Beginning Balance 0 Deposits/Other Credits 08/31/2012 Ending Balance 18 Checks/Other Debits 31 Days in Statement Period City State Bank Pg 1 of 1 6,771.49 .00 - 4,202.75 2,568.74 Checks listed in numerical order; Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2058 08/02 2434.76 2068 03/09 1,000.00 2063* 08/06 167.46 2069 08/13 66.00 2064 08/01 145.50 2070 08/13 200.00 2065 08/02 52.00 2072* 08/13 704.50 2066 08/02 200.00 2073 08/27 435.00 2067 08/03 181.29 08/02/2012 6.00 A 08/02/2012 A 59.21 08/03/2012 150.00 1 I IL 08/07/2012 147.00 08/20/2012 236.17 08/23/2012 158.99 08/31/2012 48.87 1 Total For Total I i This Pexiod Year?to?Date i i I Total Overdraft Fees i .00 .00 1 i 1 Total Return Item Fees 1 .00 .00 Daily Ending Balance 08/01 6,625.99 08/07 5,418.27 08/23 3,052.61 08/02 6,064.02 08/09 4,418.27 08/27 2,617.61 08/03 5,732.73 08/13 3,447.77 08/31 2,568.74 08/06 5,565.27 08/20 3,211.60 indicates gap in sequence Sorenson 191 EX 39?16 r'Nri Account: Name Statement Date 5500:- GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC 08/31/12 at Wang 1] m9 Quay.__: dang} I 7-H gnaw. Wm i 013/02 211? 293.00 1 mamon?miuciml- aw" in}: 'm'o'mu?mu 3- Hm.- M'um. 00 ?Inch. 551 gummf?mwa ET: 4 ?mm. MA _azo:a . onjos 2060 1000430 0' Sorenson 192 Ex 39-17 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRIT 09/01/2012 Beginning Balance 2,568.74 3 Deposits/Other Credits 1,265.00 11 Checks/Other Debits - 3,828.96 09/30/2012 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 4.78 - Deposits/Other Credits 09/04/2012 Deposit 1,100.00 09/17/2012 ATM Deposit 100.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANQLA IA 09/28/2012 ATM Deposit 65.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA IA . Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2074 09/13 225.00 2077 09/20 66.00 2075 09/04 2,000.00 2140* 09/04 242.61 2076 09/12 182.18 2141 09/10 770.00 (Tl-ha?? [?Inh'i ?g 09/04/2012 52_74. 09/04/2012 108.60 09/06/2012 131.83 09/14/2012 25.00 09/21/2012 25.00 I Total For I Total I I I This Period I Year~to~Date I 1 Total Overdraft Fees Total Return Item Fees 00 I 00 Daily Ending Balance 09/01 2,568.74 09/10 362.96 09/14 69.22? 09/04 1,264.79 09/12 180.78 09/17 30.78 09/06 1,132.96 09/13 44.22? 09/20 35.22? Sorenson 193 EX 39-18 F-i Account Name: Statement Date Page 5500 STRATEGY INC 09/30/{Hummus vow-mum ii mmusm Mm I Wm I mag . 3.25:: ?g 5 3aims 1" =?unm??r1mthukmt - 091?64 1100.00 09/13 2014 225.00 2075 2800.00 WW 0 I Sorenson 195 EX 39?19 0 GRASSROOTS STRATEGY INC City State Bank 0 BOX 633 INDIANOLA IA 50125 BUSINESS 1 SPIRET 11/01/2012 Beginning Balance 12.53 3 Deposits/Other Credits 1,240.00 3 Checks/Other Debits - 1,248.50 11/30/2012 Ending Balance 30 Days in Statement Period 4.03 Deposits/Other Credits 11/02/2012 ATM Deposit 930.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA 1A 11/13/2012 ATM Deposit 250.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA EA 11/21/2012 ATM Deposit 60.00 CITY STATE BANK INDIANOLA INDIANOLA EA Checks listed in numerical order; indicates gap in sequence Check Date Amount Check Date Amount 2080 11/07 930.00 2083 11/23 66.00 2082* 11/13 252.50 1 1 Total For Total i. I This Period 1 Year?to?Date I I Total Overdraft Fees .00 I 50.00 I Total Return Item Fees -00 I .00 I Daily Ending Balance 11/01 12.53 11/07 12.53 11/21 70.03 11/02 942.53 11/13 10.03 11/23 4.03 NOTICE: By federal law, as of 1/1/2013, funds in a noninterestwbearing transaction account (including an no longer receive unlimited deposit insurance coverage, but will be FDIC?insured to the legal maximum of $250,000 for each ownership category. For more information, visit Sorenson 198 EX 39-20 Account 550C Name GRASSRODTS STRAEEGY INC Statement Date 11/30/12 Page 2 11107 2000 930.00 mummy-hunch a: ma II m?c"l ?544$ Sorenson 199 EX 39-21 BFP and MichelePAC 2011 Disbursements to Strategies From MfchelePAC and BFP FEC Filings Disbursement Date - Purpose Image Number from FEC siteTwo Year Summary 2012 Other Federal Operating Image Number - from FEC site Two Year Summary 2012 Operating Expenditures* 1/28/2011 $5,235.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531193 2/2/2011 $2,975.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 1295 1531240 2/3/2011 $3,135.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 1295 1531234 2/3/2011 $3,750.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531235 2/3/2011 $7,800.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 1295 1531242 2/17/2011 $14,085.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531237 2/17/2011 $4,500.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951531241 2/22/2011 $7,800.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531236 4/7/2011 $1,627.00 FUNDRAISI NG: FUNDRAISI NG CONSULTING 12951532470 4/11/2011 $9,000.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISI NG CONSULTING 12951532471 4/11/2011 $3,000.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISI NG CONSULTING 12951532472 4/19/2011 $1,500.00 FUNDRAISING: EU NDRAISING CONSULTING 12951532469 5/6/2011 $9,175.00 FUNDRAISENG: FU NDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539253 5/18/2011 $4,325.00 FUNDRAISENG: FU NDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539256 5/25/2011 59,000.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539259 5/31/2011 $1,500.00 FUNDRAISENG: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539257 6/20/2011 $5,750.00 FUNDRAISENG: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539354 7/11/2011 $2,500.00 FUNDRAISENG CONSULTING 12971131246 7/29/2011 $33,750.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12954264191 8/3/2011 $5,000.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539756 9/1/2011 $5,000.00 FUNDRAISENG: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539834 9/12/2011 $25,830.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12954264191 10/11/2011 $22,500.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12970230506 10/ 12/2011 $5,000.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539856 11/1/2011 $5,000.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12971139426 11/9/2011 $22,500.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12970230506 11/30/2011 $5,000.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12971139431 12/6/2011 $20,000.00 FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951540322 Total by Payee $104,580.00 $141,757.00 Total Disbursements from BFP and MPAC to Strategies $246,337.00 *These statistics are taken from FEC reports filed by Bachmann for President (FEC candidate number (200497511) and MichelePAC (FEC committee number C00486738). Receipts for individual disbursements can by found at and then searching name of a committee or a candidate. The resuIting report for a selected 2? year period contains a section for disbursements and operating expenditures. Following the link to operating expenditures wiil continue to a report with payee names; clicking on a payee name will produce an FEC Form 3 Scheduie Itemized Disbursement image. Corresponding image numbers are available in a downloadable, searchable version of each operating expenditure report. exniarr MichelePAC Disbursements Relative to Iowa Before 06/13/2011 From MicheiePAC FEC Filings image Number - from FEC siteTwo Year Summary? 2012 Other Federal Operating Expenditures Fri Sep 27 16:57:41 GMT 2013 Copyright 2012, Federal Election Commission. Purpose C00486738 ceivi - Strategies-3:; Belle Plaine, Des Maine's, Wesley grips Disbursement Date Erie,C0': MN IA- -. AltOoi?ia?HA. 1/28/2011 $5,235.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531193 2/2/2011 $2,975.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEM ENT 12951531240 2/3/2011 $3,185.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 1295 3.531234 2/3/ 2011 $3,750.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531235 2/ 3 2011 $7,800.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531242 2/17/2011 $4,500.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 1295153 1237 2/17/2011 $14,085.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531241 2/22/2011 $7,800.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951531236 4/5/2011 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951532474 4/7/2011 $1,627.00 FUNDRAISING 12951532470 4/8/2011 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951532475 4/11/2011 $3,000.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951532471 4/11/2011 $9,000.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISING 12951532472 4/19/2013. $1,500.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951532469 5/2/2011 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539251 5/6/2011 $9,175.00 FUN DRAISI NG: FUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539253 5/6/2011 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539253 5/ 16/2011 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539254 5/18/2011 $4,325.00 FUND RAISING: FUND RAISING CONSULTING 12951539256 5/25/2011 $9,000.00 FUNDRAISING: EUNDRAISING CONSULTING 12951539259 5/31/2011 $1,500.00 FUNDRAISING: FUNDRASSING CONSULTING 12951539257 6/1/2011 $2,123.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539350 6/1/2011 $858.00 EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENT 12951539367 6/1/2011 $2,250.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539363 6/2/2011 $3,437.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTING 12951539357 6/2/2011 $3,675.00 MANAGEMENT CONSULTENG 12951539369 Total by Payee $88,507.00 $16,762.00 $3,905.00 $4,560.00 Total Disbursements $113,734.00 *These statistics are taken from FEC reports filed by MichelePAC (FEC committee number C00486738). Receipts for individual disbursements can by found at and then searching name of a committee or a candidate. The resulting report for a selected 2?year period contains a section for disbursements and operating expenditures. Following the link to operating expenditures wiIE continue to a report with payee names; clicking on a payee name will produce an FEC Form 3 Schedule Itemized Disbursement image. Corresponding image numbers are available in a downloadable, searchable version of each operating expenditure report. 3 606 King St. . Designer Goldsmiths Inc Leesmgg' wg'ma 20175 203? Harrison St SE 15-3154 A If Leesburg, VA 20175 ?954 ?-00 a Eu? am 5 1.0000 ADI: 5 5 Designer Goidsmiths Han'ison St SE 2 7 6 Designer Goldsmiths lncl203-A Harrison St SE 2 7 6 ?12 44444 U.S. Income Tax Return for an Corporation one No. 1545?0130 Form 11 208 hr Do not file this form unless the corporation has filed or is 201 1 Departmemnbe mam? attaching Form 2553 to elect to be an corporation. tniemol?evenuc Service See separate instructions. For oatendar year 2011 or tax year beginning . 2011, ending 20 A A election effective date Use Name Number. street. roornisuile no. Cityltowri, state. a code Employer tdentif'camtio no. 01/01/2010 GBASSROOTS SOLUTION Business activity code Date incorporated 3" 1104 SALEM AVE 01/01/2010 INDIANOLA IA 5 2 5 Total assets (see instructions) 0 corporation beginning with this tax year? Yes No If "Yes.? attach Form 2553 if not already filed Check if: (1) Final return Name change (3) Address change (4) Amended return (5) 3 election termination arrevocaiion 1 Enter the number of share 0 were shareholders during any part or the tax year . . 1 ?a_ution. Include oniy trade bust om nd eXpenses on lines 13 through 21. See the instructions [or more information. 1 a Merchant card and third-party enis (see instructions) 1a 3 Gross receipts or sales not re on line is (see instructionsTotal.Addlinesiaand1 .. 1c 45,000. a: Returns and allowances plus any 0th enls (see instructions) 1d 5 a . 45,000. 2 Cost of goods sold (attach Form Gross pro?t.Subtractiinerromline 1e 45,000. 4 Net gain (loss) from Form 479?, Part II, line 1 Form 4797) .1 4 5 Other income (loss) (see instructions-alts A. state .45,000. 131? 7 Compensation of officers 5 8 Salaries and wages (toss employment creditsRepairs and maintenance 9 10 Bad debts 10 11 Rents 11 12 Taxes and licenses 12 13 Interest . . 13 14 Depreciation not claimed on Form 1125-15. or elsewhere on return 4562} . 14 15 Depletion {Do not deduct oil and gas depiction.) . 15 .93 15 Advertising . 16 1? Pension. pro?t-sharing, etc. plans 17 :3 18 Employee bene?t programs . 18 3 19 19 19,538. 8 20 Total deductions. Add lines 7 through Ordinary business income (toss). Subtract line 20 from line 22a Excess net passive income or LIFO recapture tax {see instructions) 22a 4 . 22b Add ilnes 22a and 22b (see instructions for additional taxes) 233 2011 estimated tax payments and 2010 overpayment credited to 2011 23a in Tax deposited with Form 7004 23b ?g Credit for federal tax paid on fuels (attach Form 4136) 23:: :2 Add tines 23a through 23c :53 24 Estimated tax pen-ity (see instructions). Check if Form 2220 is attached 25 Amount owed. if tine 23d is smaller than the total of lines 22c and 24. enter amount owed 25 26 Overpayment. lf tine 23d is larger than the total of lines 22c and 24, enter amount overpaid 26 2? Enter amount of line 26 Credited to 2012 estimated tax I Refunded 3" 27 Under pcnaitlss of periuy. I declare that have examincd this return, including accornpany?ng scheduler: and sintemenis. and lo the best oimy knowledge and belief. Sig it is true. correct. and complete. Dedarailon o! propcmr (other than taxpayer) is based on ail information of whim preparer has any mowledgc. Here i PRES I DENT mg?gm?i" ?minim? Signature of of?cer Date Title Yes [1 No preparers name Preparers signature Date coast Paid PONY MAURO BA TONY MAURO EA 09/12/2012 maimed 901201008 Preparer?s Firrn's name TAX DOCTOR INC Finn's EINP Use Oniy Firm's address 2613. INGERSOLL AVE Phone no. DES MOINES IA 50312- BOA For Paperwork Reduotion Act Notice. see separate instructions. 03112051 Form 11203 (2011) Soronson 363 EX 43-1 Form 1.1203(2011) GRASSROOTS SOLUTION I I Other information 1 Checkaccounting method: a Cash bu Accrual Other (specify) tr 2 See the instructions and enterthe: at 3113111655 activity CONSULTING Product or sen/ice PROFESSIONAL MST 3 At the end of the tax year, did the corporation own, directiy or lndirectiy, 50% or more of the voting stock of a domestic corporation? (For rules of attribution. see section It"Yes. attach a statement showing name and employer identification number (EJN), percentage owned and if 100% owned. was a quaii?ed subohapter subsidiary election made on ad to tile Form 8913. Materiamdrisor Disdasrxe Statemenl to provide information on any reportable li?a?siotmn? corporation issued publicly otfered debt instruments with original Issue discount I- poration may have to tile Form 8281, information Return for Pubticly Offered Original tersue Discount 4 Has this corp rm ori 5 Check this box lfcheclred. thoI 6 lithe corporation: to) corporation before it retreated to be an corporation crthe corporation acquired an asset with a to the basis of the asset (or the basis of any other prepertyi' tn the hands ota corporationand of the not recognized built? in gain from prior years, enter the net unrealized built-in gain . . in from prior years {see Instructions) K: 'profits of the corporation at the end of the tax year. 5 reduced by not recognized butt . 7? Enterthe accumulated earnin . less than $250. 000? it ?Yes," the can not required to complete Schedules Land During the tax year. was a qualri' ed chapter subsidiary etection terminated or revoked? If "Yes see instructions 10a Out the corporation make any pay me Ijvould require it to die Form(s) 1099 {see instructions)? If "Yes." did the corporation me or will it tile Forms 1099? Shareholders' Pro Rata jg items Total amount 1 Ordinary business income (loss) (peg-4 line 351?; 25 it 62 I 2 Net rental real estate income (loss) (attach Form 8 3 a Other gross rental income (toss) A Expenses from other rental activities {attach stated?" Other net rental income (toss). Subtract line 3b from line 0 4 interest Income . i 5 Dividends a Ordinary dlwdends .I. .. Quaiit?ied dividends 8 6 Royalties .E 7 Netshort?term capitalgain (loss) (attach Schedule (Form 11 .I. 8 a Net long~term capital gain (loss) (attach Schedule (Form 11208)) . Coiiectibtes gain (toss) ?7 Unrecaptured section 1250 gain (attach statement} 9 Net section 1231 gain (toss) (attach Form 479?) 10 Other Income {toss} (see instructions) Type Form 11208 (2011) BCA usmosz Sorcnson 364 EX 43?2 Form11208(2011) GRASSROOTS SOLUTION Page 3 Reduction in taxes available for credit (attach statementShareholders' Pro Reta Share items (continued) Total amount 11 Section 179 deduction (attach Form 4562) .3. 12;! Contributions 128 lnvestmentinlerestexpense 12b 3 0 Section 59(e)(2) expenditures (1) Type)- (2) Amount} 12c(2) Other deductions (see instructions) Type 12d 13a Low-Income housing credit (section 4263(5)) 133 Lowvrn st?- credit (other) 13b 0, .Quali?ed re expenditures (rental real estate) (attach Form 3466) 13c rt Other rent aleslate credits (see instructions) Type 13d (3 Other re ?le; redits (s 13a Alcohol and cellulos uel fuets oredIt (attach Form 6478) - 13f 9 Other credits (so 14a Name of court . Gross Income from all sour Gross income sourced at Foreign . . Passive category . 14d 2 General category 143 Other(attach statement). 1 a I: Other Deductions and apportioned at corporate - i Passive category I General category . Other (attach statement) Other information I Total foreign taxes (check one): ll- Paid A Other foreign tax information (attach statement) 15a Post-1985 depreciation adjustment . EE 1: Adjusted gain or loss . . 1513 ii; I: Depletion (other than oil and gas) . . 15c =33, (3 Oil. gas. and geothermal properties - gross income . 15d g3 Oil, gas. and geothermal properties - deductions . . . . . . . .. . .t . . .. 150 omerAMT items (attach statement) 18a Tax-exempt interest income Nondeduotibte expenses 16c fig Distributions (attach statement if required) (see instructions) 6d '6 Repayment of toans from shareholders 17a investment income .. . to Investment expenses ,t 2 ?g Dividend distributions paid from accumulated earnings and pro?ts Other items and amounts (attach statement) . i at: 8E 18 lnoomolioss reconciliation. Combine the amount on lines 1 through 10 in the far right column. g3 From the resutt. subtract the Sle of the amounts on lines 11 through 12d and 18 25 62 . Form11203(2011) BCA usnzosa Sorenson 365 Ex 43-3 it GRASSROOTS SOLUTION Balance Sheets Books Assets 1 Cash . . 2a Trade notes and accounts receivable Less allowance for bad debts Inventories U. 8 government obligations Form 11208 End of tax Other current ass I Loans to shareh ctr-?moron a 3 tn 9 Other investments 10a Buildings and other assets in Less accumulated . .. . . 1 1a Depletabie assets Less accumulated depletion . . . . '12 Land (net ofany 13a intangible assets {amortizabie onty) . . Less accumulated amortization 14 Other assets (attach statement) 15 Total assets . Liabltities and Shareholders' Equity 18 Accounts payable 1? Mortgages, notes, bands payable in toss than 1 year 18 Other current liabilities (attach statement) . . 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I have seieoted a personal identi?cation (Pint) as my signature for the corporation's electronic Income tax return and. if applicable. the corporation' a consent to electronic funds Of?cer's PIN: check one box oniy to enter signature do not enter all zeros authorize TAX DOCTOR INC ERG firm name on the corporation's 2011 electronically ?led income tax return. As an officer of the corporation, I will enter my PIN as my signature Dari: a ration's 201i eiectronicaily tiled income tax return. O?icer?s signature Ir Date 09/2/2012 Title PRESIDENT WCerti?oation and Authentication A 319988207 1 ERO's Enter your six-digit foilowed by your five-digit self-selected PIN. not enter at! zeros i certify that the above numeric entry is my PEN. which is my signature on the 2011 electronically ?led above. 1 con?rm that i am submitting this return in accordance with the requirements oiPub. 3112. Pub. 4163. Modernized e-Fiie Information for Authorized IRS e-?le Providers for Business Returns. signature Date h- ERO Must Retain This Form - See instructions Do Not Submit This Form to the IRS Uniess Requested To Do So For Paperwork Reductlon Act Notice, see instructions. Form 8879-8 (2011) BCA U8887951 Sorcnson 372 Ex 43?10 Iowa state Sen. Sorenson is ?rst elected of?cial to endorse Bachmann for president I MinnPost Iowa state Sen. Sorenson is first elected official to endorse Bachmann for president By Derek Wallbank 03/11/11 NASHUA, Hours before Michele Bachmann crossed the border into New Hampshire for her ?rst trip here as a presidential aspirant, her nascent campaign picked up its ?rst endorsement from an elected of?cial and an Iowan no less. Iowa state Sen. Kent Sorenson, a Tea Party-af?liated rising star in very conservative circles there, backed Bachmann today, telling CNN's Peter Hamby that he'll be with her if she decides to run. Already, Bachmann ?s few months of spadeworlc have paid dividends in Iowa. Republican state Sen. Kent Sorenson, a leading Tea Party ?gure in the state, told CNN he plans to support Bachmann if she runs. "There is a void out there that needs to be ?lled, Sorenson said. hope she decides to run. She is somebody that has the credentials to ?re up the grassroots. She would be someone who could unite di?ferent factions of the party. She is a strong ?scal and social conservative. Sorenson was one of three names consistently mentioned to me when I was in Iowa in January as someone who could be an early endorser. The other two: State Rep. Kim Pearson said then she planned on waiting to commit, while Bachmann?s biggest ally in Congress, Steve King, has said he's of?cially undecided for now. Bachmann has said she plans to decide whether or not to run for president by "early summer.? .. 9/3 0/2013 Rep. Michele Bachmann makes presidential run of?cial CNN Political Ticker CNN.com Blogs Rep. Michele Bachmann makes presidential run of?cial (CNN) Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann said Monday at the CNN debate that she had ?led paperwork to enter the presidential race and said she plans to make a formal announcement of her candidacy "soon." Bachmann is the only participant at Monday's debate who has not formally declared her candidacy. The three?tenn congresswoman is a darling of the tea party movement and a founding member of the 50-member House Tea Patty Caucus. She ?irted with a bid for the White House for much of the Spring and now plans to make an of?cial announcement in her home state of Iowa this month. Bachmann and her husband, Marcus, are born-again Christians, and it was God, she says, who encouraged her to run for higher office. She has since become a champion of conservative values, particularly the vision that government should be limited to only what is in the Constitution. Filed under: 2012 - Michele Bachmann 1/0 6/ .. 9/3 0/2013 Michele Bachmann: Remarks Announcing Candidacy for President in Waterloo, Iowa Bocu ment Archive - Public Papers of the Presidents - State of the Union Addresses 8r Messages - Inaugural Addresses - Weekly Addresses - Fireside Chats ?the neeriean?reeisiesaeg emcee: MICHELEBACHMANN Pimia'mrinl Gma?idme: Remarks Announcing Candidacy for President in ?Tater-loo, Iowa June 27. 2011 It's great to be in Iowa and even better to be in Waterloo where I was born. It's ?tting to be here at the Snowden House, the . News Conferences place that once served as the home of the Watertoo Women's Ciub. I stand here today in front of many friends-and family to . COLLECTION: . Executive Orders formally announce my candidacy for President of the United States. I do so because I am grateful for the blessings God and this . . prodamauong country have given to me, and not because of the position of the of?ce, but because I am determined that every American C??z P5130 jg - Signing Statements deserves these blessings and that together we can once again strengthen America and restore the promise of the future. I want a Press Brie?ngs to bring a voice, your voice, to the White House, just as I have brought your voice to the halls of congress to secure the promise 2012 Statements of of the future for our generation and generations to come. 1 r. Administration Policy - Economic Report of the President - Debates . Convention Speeches . Party Platforms . 2012 Eiection Documents . 2008 Efection Documents . 2004 Eiection Documents - 1960 Election Documents . 2009 Transition . 2001 Transition Data Archive I often say that everything I needed to know I learned in Iowa. It was at Hawthorne and Valiey Park Elementary Schools and my home, both a short distance from here, where those Iowan roots were ?rmly pianted. It's those roots and my faith in God that guide me today. I'm a descendant of generations Iowans. I know what it means to be from Iowa -- what we value and what's important. Those are the values that helped make Iowa the breadbasket of the wortd and those are the values, the best of alt of us that we must recapture to secure the promise of the future. Michele Bachmann for President Waterloo was different five decades ago when I grew up here. That elementary school building was a lot younger and for that matter so was I. Five decades ago when I went there to school the balls were teeming with young children who, like me, had dreams of their future. A future with promise and parents who wanted it to be ?lled with more opportunities than they had. Five decades ago America had less debt, in fact our national debt was less than 300 billion dollars. A gallon of gasoline was 31 Data Index . . . . . . . . Unitedistates Med i 3 Archive cents, and owning a home was part of hiring the American dream. Today our debt 15 over 14 tnlhon dollars, a gallon of gas rs I owe Audio/Video Index still outrageously high, millions of homes are in foreclosure, and those dreams are distant for many Americans. Font Size- Elections . . . Election Index Times have changed here in Waterloo, but the peopie still have the same spirit we Iowans have come to exemplify. We work its aria, Florida 2000 hard, we live within our means and we expect to pass on a better life to our children. But our government keeps getting bigger Lin its making it tougher for us to pass on that life, causing our jobs to go overseas and spending more of the money we make, while Presidential Libraries we keep less of it. Rem? Typo View Public Papers by . . Share M021 th 3 rid Year Don mistake my happy memories of up in Waterloo as pining for the past. I recognize it impassable to turn the clock ii} back and go back to a different day. Instead, I want this moment to serve as a reminder about the best of who we are as a nation, what our values are, and what went in to making America great to capture its best for the promise of the future. I want The American Presiden Pro'ect my candidacy for the presidency to stand for the moment when "we the people" reclaimed our independence from a government that has gotten too big, spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberty. Ll documents from the Of?ce of the Press Secretary INCLUDE eiection campaign documents View . Search the Entire Document Archive Enter keyword: Americans have always confronted chailenges. Ours is a history marked by struggles as well as prosperity. My early days were dif?cult as they were for many Americans, especially during the time when my mother struggied to raise us after divorce. But we made our own way. We depended on our neighbors and ourselves and not our government for help. We trusted in God and our neighbors and not in Government. Americans stilt have that same spirit. But government keeps trying to erase it because government thinks it knows better that government can create jobs, and make a better life for ail of us, even make us heaithier! But that's NOT the case. We have to recapture our founders' vision of a constitutionally conservative government if we are to secure the promise of the future. items: The American Pi'eSId-sncy Project I'm also here because Waterloo laid the foundation for my own roots in politics. I never thought that I would end up in pubiic life. I grew up here in Iowa. My grandparents are buried here. I remember how sad I was leaving Iowa to go to Minnesota in the sixth grade, because this part of Iowa was all I knew I remember telling my parents that we couldn't move to Minnesota becauseI hadn't even been to Des Moiues to see the state capitol. COR 0 NOT Promote Your Page Too Limit by Year I grew up a democrat. My ?rst involvement in politics was working for Jimmy Carter's election in 1976. But when I saw the From: 1 789 direction President Carter took our country; how his big spending iiberal majority grew government, weakened our standing in the world, and how they To 201 3 decreased our liberties, I became a Republican. I remember standing in the kitchen of my grandma's house on Lafayette Street in Waterloo listening to my dad, a Democrat debating the merits of the Great Society with my grandmother, a Republican. I remember her prophetic admonition to my father that the Great Society wouldn?t work because it wouidn?t be my father's generation who paid for it, but rather my brother, David and me. And now that prediction has come true and neither my democrat father nor my republican grandmother would have condoned this spending and debt. Limit results per page UDE documents I hadn't pianned on getting into politics. 1 Ioved the law and went to law school. I went on to William and Mary to become a tax lawyer. Together with my from the Of?ce Of the Press husband we started a successful small business. Secretary '46 When I saw the problems with our local school district and how academic excellence was being eroded by federal government interference with the iocal schools, I decided to do more than just complain about it. One of those Iowa values instilted in me was to aiways ieave whatever you were involved with better than when you found it, so I decided to seek public of?ce to make our local school district better. i didn't seek public of?ce for fortune or power, but simply to make life better in our community and education better for our children. And now I seek the presidency not for vanity, but because America is at a crucial moment and I believe that we must make a bold choice if we are to secure the promise of the future. We cannot continue to kick the can of our problems down the road, because they are problems of today and not tomorrow. 9/30/2013 Michele Bachmann: Remarks Announcing Candidacy for President in Waterloo, Iowa You can search the Public Papers in two ways: 1. Search by Keyword and Year You can search by keyword and choose the range of years within your search by ?lling out the boxes under Search the Public Papers. 2. View by Month andlor Year Select the month and/or year you would like information about and press View Public Papers. Then choose a Public Paper and the page will load for you. Search Engine provided by the Harry S. Tmman Library. Our thanks to Jim Born/fol: and Dr. Raise Che Kassim at Project Mariellestop for critical assistance in the implementation of the search function. and to Scott Relay at the Tmman Library for facilitating this collaboration. We cannot continue to rack up debt on the backs of future generations. We can't afford an unconstitutional health plan that costs too much and is worth so little. And we can?t afford four more years of failed leadership at home and abroad. We can't afford four more years of millions of Americans out of work or in jobs that pay too little to support their families. We can't afford four more years of a housing crisis that is devaluing our homes and making home ownership impossible for many Americans. We can't afford four more years of a foreign policy that leads from behind and doesn't stand up for our friends and stand up to our enemies. We can't afford four more years of Barack Obama. a As a constitutional conservative, I believe in the Founding Father's vision of a limited government that trusts in and preserves the unlimited potential of the American people. I don't believe that the solutions to our problems come from Washington: more than ever, Washington 18 the problem, and the real solutions will come from our businesses, our communities, our schools and the most basic and powerful unit of all-our families. We've started another campaign season, almost when it seemed like the last one just ended. Through all of the rancor of the campaign, let us always remember that there is much more that unites us than divides us. Our problems don't have an identity of party, they are problems created byboth parties. Americans agree that our country is in peril today and we must act with urgency to save it. And Americans aren't interested in affiliation; they are interested in solutions, and leadership that will tell the truth. And the truth is that Americans ARE the solution and not the government! This election is about big issues, not petty ones. When all is said and done, we cannot be about big government as usuai. Then America will lose. In Washington I am bringing a voice to the halls of congress that has been missing for a long time. It is the voice of the people I love and learned from growing up in Waterloo. It is the voice of reasonable, fair-minded people who love this country, who are patriotic, and who see the United States as the indispensable nation of the world. My voice is part of a movement to take back our country, and now] want to take that voice to the White House. It is the voice of constitutional conservatives who want our government to do its job and not ours and who want our government to live within its means and not our children's and grandchildren?s. I am here in Waterloo, Iowa to announce today: We can win in 2012 and we will. Our voice has been growing louder and stronger. And it is made up of Americans from all walks of life like a three-legged stool. It's the peace through strength Republicans, and I'm one of them, it?s ?scal conservatives, and I'm one of them, and it's social conservatives, and I'm one of them. It's the Tea Party movement and I'm one of them. The liberals, and to be clear I'm NOT one of them, want you to think the Tea Party is the Right Wing of the Republican Party. But it's not. It's made up of disaffected Democrats, independents, people who've never been political a day in their life, libertarians, Republicans. We're people who simply want America back on the right track again. We?re practical people who want the country to work again. This is a powerful coalition the left fears, and they should because, Make no mistake about it, President Obama is a one-term president! In February 2009 President Obama was very con?dent that his economic policies would turn the country around within a year. He said, year from now, I think people are going to see that we're starting to make some progress. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's going to be a one-term proposition." Well Mr. President, your policies haven't worked. Spending our way out of this recession hasn't worked. And so Mr. President We Take You at Your Word! Waterloo holds a special place for me, but also holds a special place for our country. You sent and still do send your sons and daughters off to ?ght for America and to protect the freedoms that allow us to gather here today. I honor my dad who served in the United States Air Force. I honor my step dad who served in the United States Army. And I honor my stepbrother who retired full United States Navy. We will never forget those sacri?ces; it is part of our past we must remember to secure the promise of the future. It is those values that make our country unique and make us the most powerful force for good on this planet. I believe the United States of America is THE indispensible nation. It is that spirit that separates us from those who would give their own life for others from those who sacri?ce others, like terrorists who use little children as human shields. Perhaps the valor of our American ?ghting heroes was never captured better than in the sacri?ce made by the Sullivan brothers from right here in Waterloo. The Sullivan family was much like other families in America during the depression. They were fortunate to get by. Most of the family worked here in Waterloo at the local meat packing plant. When a close friend of the family died at Pearl Harbor, the five Sullivan brothers enlisted in the Navy, but under the condition that they be allowed to serve together. One of the brothers wrote, "We will make a team together that can?t be beat." Born and raised here in Waterloo, the five Sullivan brothers had always stuck together. However, one fateful morning after a long night of intense battle, a Japanese torpedo struck the USS Juneau, the ship on which they served killing most of the crew and launching the rest into the water. The oldest of the Sullivans, George, searched tirelessly for his brothers, but they were not to be found. He had survived the attack, but later perished at sea. All but 10 of the 697 brave men of the Juneau, gave their lives for their country. In spite of the intense pain of losing their ?ve sons all at once, the parents of the Sullivans became an inspiration to America speaking to millions on behalf of the war effort. To honor the Sullivans two ships were named for them. The motto of the last ship We Stick Together! Theirs was a demonstration of the Holy Scriptures that says: ?Greater love hath no man than this, but that he lay down his life for his friend." That is the kind of love we Americans have for our country. We Americans stick together. We triumph together. In the words of Daniel Webster, we are, "One cause, one country, one heart." That is the kind of commitment it will take to face the great challenges of today. The people of this great country have that level of courage and they are longing for a President who will listen to them, who will lead from the front, and not from behind. i'm Michele Bachmann and I'm running for President of the United States. Together, we can do this. Together we can reign in all the corruption and waste that has become Washington and instead leave a better America for future generations. Together we can make a team that can't be beat! Together we can secure the promise of the future. Together we can and together we will! God bless you and God bless the United States of America! 9/3 0/2013 Michele Bachmann: Press Release - State Senator Kent Sorenson to Serve as Bachmann?s Page 1 of 1 The American Presidencv Protect John T. Woolley Gerhard Peters - Santa Barbara, California return to original document Michele Bachmann Press Release - State Senator Kent Sorenson to Serve as Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chairman June 28, 2011 lnclianola, lowa lowa State Senator Kent Sorenson has of?cially accepted the role of Chairman of Republican presidential candidate Michete Bachmann's campaign in Iowa. "Kent is a dear friend and a strong voice for conservatives in the lowa Senate," Bachmann said. am proud to have a fellow conservative like Kent Sorenson leading the charge for our campaign effort in the Hawkeye State." Senator Sorenson is a father of six and resides with his wife Shawnee in lndianoia, lowa. Before his time as a lawmaker, Senator Sorenson was a small business owner, community leader and volunteer ?refighter. As a state senator. Sorenson has won wide acclaim from grassroots conservatives in Iowa for leading the charge on common- sense conservative legislation and family policy issues in the legislature. "Our country is on the wrong track and in desperate need of strong leaders to charter a new course to prosperity," said Sen. Sorenson. "i believe that Michele is that ieader and an unwavering conservative voice for the American people. I'm honored to serve as her iowa Chairman." Citation: Michele Bachmann: "Press Release State Senator Kent Sorenson to Serve as Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chairman". June 28, 2011. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. 1999?2011 - Gerhard Peters - The American Presidency Project 8402 9/26/2013 Michele Bachmann: Press Release - Team Bachmann Appoints Woolson State Campaign Page 1 of 2 The American Presidency Project John T. Woolley Gerhard Peters - Santa Barbara, California return to original document Michele Bachmann Press Release - Team Bachmann Appoints Woolson State Campaign Manager; Announces Iowa Campaign Staff October 27, 2011 Urbandale, Iowa - Republican presidentiai candidate Michele Bachmann?s campaign today announced the members of its Iowa staff assembled to lead the organization through the state's first?innthe?nation caucuses. Campaign of?ciais also appointed Iowa poiitical veteran Eric Wootson as State Campaign Manager. "We have a strong, experienced organization in piece that is equipped to build upon Michete Bachmann's historic victory in the Republican Party of Iowa Straw Poll this summer," said national campaign manager Keith Nahigian. "Eric is the perfect person to lead our team to victory on caucus day." The campaign is proud to announce the following staff members: - Chris Dorr? Northwest Iowa - Emma Aquino-Nemecek of Mount Vernon Northeast Iowa - Mark Doland of Oskaioosa Southeast Iowa Tony Eastman of Indianola Central and parts of southwest Iowa Barb Heki Home-school coalition director Peter Waldron Faith leader Drew Klein Faith leader The campaign has a totai 0t 10 fuIi-time professionals in place, including previously announced members: - Sen. Kent Sorenson State Chairman - Sen. Brad Zaun State Co-Chairman - Eric Woolson Newly appointed State Campaign Manager - Wes Enos Newly appointed Deputy State Campaign Manager Wooison is an Iowa political veteran who managed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 2008 Iowa caucus campaign. Doland is an ordained minister who has served as a precinct captain for Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign. He was the pastor coalition director for the 2010 Bob Vander Plaats for Governor campaign, a candidate recruiter for the Iowa Family Policy Center Action and campaign manager for former state Rep. Danny Carroll. Doland currently serves as the county co-chair for Mahaska County Repubtican Central Committee. Nemecek's extensive political activism includes her roles as an etection volunteer coordinator for the National Rifie Association, chair of the National Federation of American Repubiicans, past president of the All Nations Association, Linn County chair for the Matthew Schultz for Secretary of State campaign, and Second Congressional Director representative for 2008 presidential candidates Sam Brownback and John McCain. She also ran for state representative in 2006 and 2008. Eastman, a former youth minister who has also worked in the ?nancial services sector, was a volunteer on then-state Rep. Kent Sorensen's winning 2010 campaign for the iowa Senate. Dorr worked for the Ron Paul campaign in 2008, worked on Sorenson's 2010 campaign and served as his legislative assistant this year. Heki recently worked as a grassroots strategist on the state of iowa for Freedom, the successful campaign to remove three Iowa Supreme Court justices. A board member of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE), she was a key volunteer with the Huckabee and Vander Plaats campaigns, focused on recruiting home?school voters. She aiso is the volunteer iowa director of Waldron is an author and a frequent guest on radio and television programs. He has worked seven presidential campaigns since 1980. Klein has worked with the Iowa Faith Freedom Coalition since 2008 helping them with various statewide initiatives including caucus training and legislative efforts. In that time, he has been involved with the Christian community organizing volunteer efforts in more than 13 state legislative races across the state. Sorenson is serving in a full?time role but state Senate rules preclude lawmakers from being paid by the campaign. as 9/29/2013 Michele Bachmann: Press Release - Team Bachmann Appoints Woolson State Campaign Page 2 of 2 Citation: Micheie Bachmann: "Press Release a Team Bachmann Appoints Woolson State Campaign Manager; Announces Iowa Campaign Staff", October 27', 2011. Oniine by Gerhard Peters and John T. Wooliey, The American Presidency Project. 1999-2011 - Gerhard Peters - The American Presidency Project 9/29/2013 Fox Interview of Sorenson by Megyn Kelly December 29, 201 1 Kelly: Let me ?nish the question. You are alleging that Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is lying. That is an explicit lie. You never told her that you were offered money from the Ron Paul campaign to jump ship? Sorenson: No, I never had those conversations with Michele Bachmann. Kelly: Or anybody on her team? Sorenson: And the real, absolutely. And the real crux of the matter is it will come out in a week when the ?nancial reports come out. I mean you can look at Ron Paul?s expenditures and, and it will be very clear. Kelly: Right, but was it offered to you? Was money offered to you by anybody from the Ron Paul camp to jump ship? Sorenson: Absolutely not. Kelly: But you know, as you know accept is different than offered. And I just want to make clear you are also saying they never offered it, no one, not Ron Paul, not anybody af?liated with his campaign or supporting his campaign offered you any money to support Ron Paul? Sorenson: I was, I was, I was never offered a nickel from the Ron Paul campaign. Kelly: Or anybody associated with it? Sorenson: Never, never offered a nickel. Kelly: Ok, alright so Senator thank you very much. Again as I say, you know how to create some controversy sir, so we?ll see, we?ll see what happens over the next few days as we gear up for the Iowa caucuses. They happen this Tuesday night and we are taking your thoughts on it at Kelly@foxnews.com. Sir all the best to you. Register Exclusive: Sorenson faces new ethics complaint I The Des Moines Register Page 1 of 4 Register Exclusive: Sorenson faces new ethics complaint Written by Jennifer Jacobs . . Aug. 29, 2013 desmomesreglstercorn Embattled state Sen. Kent Sorenson will face another ethics complaint accusing him of taking pay from a presidential campaign this time from Ron Paul backers but his lawyer calls the allegations ?gibberish.? Florida Republican Peter Waldron told The Des Moines Register on Wednesday evening that he intends to file a second complaint, this one alleging Sorenson violated Iowa Senate ethics rules by conspiring with Paul?s presidential campaign ?to solicit and conceal compensation? for himself and others totaling more than $150,000. In the ethics complaint, Waldron cites documents and audio files posted online that suggest Sorenson?s wife received but never cashed a $30,000 check from Paul?s national deputy campaign manager, Dimitri Kesari. The complaint alleges the check was a payoff for Sorenson to defect from his role as Iowa chairman of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign and endorse Paul just before the 2012 Iowa GOP caucuses. ?It?s gibberish,? Sorenson?s lawyer, Theodore Sporer, told the Register Wednesday. Sporer confirmed Kesari, against Sorenson?s wishes, surreptitiously handed Sorenson's wife a check drawn on a retail business?s bank account. But the check is still in Sorenson?s possession, he said. ?It has never been cashed,? Sporer said. ?Obviously we can show it?s never been cashed. And an uncashed check is simply an autograph.? An Iowa Senate ethics rule clearly prohibits senators from accepting ?employment" from a political action committee, but it?s interpreted by some to have a loophole that allows working for a candidate. An independent investigator empowered by the bipartisan Iowa Senate Ethics Committee Is already looking into a complaint Waldron filed in January that accuses Sorenson, a Republican from Milo, of accepting pay from Bachmann backers. Sorenson told the Register Wednesday night that independent investigator Mark Weinhardt has issued a broad-reaching subpoena for his records Including paperwork connected to his work for both Paul and Bachmann. Sorenson said he has encouraged the investigation. Waldron, an evangelical Christian activist who released a book this week called ?Bachmannistan: Behind the Lines? that?s critical of Bachmann?s presidential campaign, told the Register he intends to file the new complaint Sept. 3. 5'0 08290108 9/30/2013 Register Exclusive: Sorenson faces new ethics complaint 1 The Des Moines Register I Page 2 of 4 ?Forgive me,? Waldron says in the complaint, ?but I am a layman who challenges the Iowa Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the many lies, obfuscations, and denials of the senator from Milo.? Waldron?s latest complaint doesn?t offer any fresh material; it references a three?page memo to Paul's national campaign manager and a recording of a phone conversation between Sorenson and another GOP activist posted by the conservative opinion blog ThelowaRepublicancom in early August. Sporer said no one has been able to substantiate any of the allegations against Sorenson. "It just floats that Sorenson did something wrong that people offered him money,? Sporer said. ?Nobody?s been able to put together any kind of specific misconduct. They will not find a single illegal check that exists, to my knowledge. They will never find an check from a PAC to Kent Sorenson or to any entity Kent Sorenson owns or is involved with from the Ron Paul campaign or anyone associated with Ron Paul which would be completely legal. You read the plain language of the rule, and he could work for the campaign himself personally and it wouldn?t be against the Senate rules.? Sorenson?s decision to abandon Bachmann in favor of Paul was explosive political news on the campaign trail in late December 2011. At the time, Bachmann said she suspected financial reasons. can tell you the conversation that had directly with Kent Sorenson. He told me himself that he was offered money a lot of money by the Ron Paul campaign,? Bachmann told WHO radio?s Jan Mickelson. Sorenson has repeatedly denied pocketing any cash for endorsing Paul. In a television interview with Fox News? Megyn Kelly days before the caucuses, Sorenson said: was never offered a nickel from the Ron Paul campaign.? Sporer?s confirmation that Paul?s deputy national campaign manager gave Sorenson?s wife a check contradicts that. Sorenson told the Register that he was nervous during the national TV interview and misspoke. Election law experts said the alleged payments to Sorenson from Bachmann may not violate federal campaign laws, but that the Paul accusations raise multiple red flags even if the check wasn?t cashed. A payment in connection with any service to the Paul campaign would likely qualify as an in-kind contribution to the campaign, which would have to be reported on disclosure reports. The $30,000 sum, moreover, would violate federal campaign finance limits of $2,500. And, further, a check from a retail business could violate prohibitions on corporate donations to political campaigns. ?The Ron Paul situation has the potential for a lot of bad things that would violate the (Federal Election Campaign Act),? said Jason Torchinsky, a Washington?based campaign finance attorney who served as a lawyer on George W. Bush?s 2004 presidential campaign. 08290108 I 9/3 0/2013 Register Exclusive: Sorenson faces new ethics complaint I The Des Moines Register 1 Page 3 of 4 The violations could stand even if Sorenson never cashed the check, added Paul S. Ryan, senior counsel at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center. ?If it turns out that a transaction was illegal it would not and for policy reasons it should not make a difference that the recipient has not yet cashed the check,? Ryan said. Kesari did not respond to the Register?s repeated calls for comment. Sorenson?s controversial leap on Dec. 28, 2011, was a surprise even to some lowa insiders in the Paul campaign. Earlier in the day, Sorenson appeared at a Bachmann event on his home turf in lndianola but said very little because, Sorenson said, he had just had dental work done. Hours later, he was on stage at a Paul rally endorsing the Texas congressman. Paul?s lowa campaign chairman, Drew Ivers, told the Register he was unaware Sorenson might join the campaign until literally moments before he took the stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Likewise for David Fischer, the campaign?s lowa vice chairman. ?That was the first that we knew anything of Kent doing anything for Ron Paul," Fischer said. ?it was a shock to us.? in the Oct. 29, 2011, memo published by ThelowaRepublican.com, Aaron Dorr, an lowa gun rights advocate, writes to John Tate, Paul?s campaign manager, to describe what Sorenson would need before he switched allegiances from Bachmann to Paul. it says Sorenson would need $8,000 a month through fall 2012; $5,000 a month for Sorenson?s Senate clerk, Chris Dorr; and $100,000 for a political action committee account, the Iowa Conservatives Fund, that would be controlled by Sorenson and the Dorrs. The Iowa Conservatives Fund received no donations throughout 2012, records show. It reported zero balances in January, May, July and October 2012, and again in January and July of 2013. The organization?s treasurer is Wes Enos, 3 political operative who also worked on the Bachmann campaign, but was fired after defending Sorenson following his defection. Meanwhile, lowa politics watchers have worried that the pay-to-play allegations against Sorenson could sully the reputation of the state?s firstwin-the-nation presidential caucuses. Most lowa Republicans, including lowa Gov. Terry Branstad, have reserved expressing judgment about the allegations until after the investigation wraps up. But others have spoken out against Sorenson. The president of the national anti-abortion group Operation Rescue on Aug. 13 called for Sorenson to resign from the lowa Senate. This past weekend, a fellow Republican state senator who worked for Bachmann, Brad Zaun of Urbandale, also said he thinks Sorenson should step down, and state Rep. Clel Baudler, R-Greenfield, called Sorenson ?a cancer within our party.? Three other Republicans state Sens. Mark Chelgren of Ottumwa and Jack Whitver of Ankeny, and Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz in recent weeks have said if the allegations are true, Sorenson should resign. 3 08290108 9/3 0/2013 Register Exclusive: Sorenson faces new ethics complaint I The Des Moines Register Page 4 of 4 Liberal activists have skewered Sorenson, saying his behavior contradicts his persona as a man of strong morals and values. Rachel Maddow on Aug. 7 ran a graphic on her television program that referred to Iowa as with a photo of Sorenson. As for the Senate investigation, the special investigator has no deadline to wrap up his work, Secretary of the Senate Mike Marshall told the Register. ?However, if a hearing is held it will need to be completed by the end of October,? Marshall said. 3 08290108 9/3 0/2013 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican ima- lea; :M?;aasag EXplorlng A Run for US Senate Home Election Central News Center? Commentary? TIR 2012 Caucus Poll Recent Comments About Contact? Iowa News The Payoff - Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul News Center August 6th, 2013 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul More articles by Craig Robinson 10/ 1/20 1 3 EX 5 1?1 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul I The Iowa Republican Written by: Craig Robinson Tags: Bachmann, Homepage Spotlight, Iowa, Iowa Caucus, Iowa Senate, Kent Sorenson, Michele Bachmann, Paui, Pay?to-Play, Ron Paul, scandal, Senate Ethics Committee, Sorensoo Documents obtained by TheiowaRepublican.com suggest that State Senator Kent Sorenson sought and likely received ?nancial compensation from Ron Paul?s 2012 presidential campaign before he ditched Michele Bachmann just days before the Iowa caucuses. Sorenson is currently under investigation for violating an Iowa Senate ethics rule that forbids Iowa state senators from being compensated by a presidential campaign. The dealings between Sorenson and the Bachmann campaign also have prompted a series of federal investigations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Electiou Commission, and the Of?ce of Congressional Ethics. To date, only Sorenson?s dealings with the Bachmann campaign have been made public. New information has been provided to ThelowaRepublican.com that details the courting of Sorenson by the Paul campaign, which began in October 2011, long before his public endorsement of Congressman Ron Paul on December 28, 2011. The documents also show that Sorenson was negotiating with Ron Paul?s national campaign chairman, jesse Benton, who is now running Mitch McConnell?s 2014 re?election campaign in Kentucky, and John Tate, Paul?s 2012 campaign manager. Also involved in the elaborate scheme to persuade Sorenson to defect from Bachmann to Paul is Aaron Dorr, the Executive Director of Iowa Gun Owners Association. Dorr served as an early negotiator between Sorenson and the Paul campaign. It was Dorr who drafted a memo outlining Sorenson?s ?nancial demands to get him to jump ship from the Bachmann campaign. This memo not only discloses the financial compensation Sorenson sought to obtain, but also details his ?nancial agreement with Bachmann. Dorr?s October 29, 2011, memo also outlined other bene?ts the Paul campaign would receive by meeting Sorenson?s ?nancial demands. One of those bene?ts was the acquisition of a list of identi?ed voters to Michele Bachmann. Dorr also admits that he and Sorenson are in possession of the list of the ?main Iowa home?school group? in the state. 10/1/2013 Ex 5 1-2 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul I The Iowa Republican The theft of the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators (NICHE) list spawned a controversy of its own in December of 2011 when the Bachmann campaign sent multiple emails to the list without the group?s knowledge. The Bachmann campaign assured the group that the emails were inadvertent, but we now see that the NICHE list wasn?t just used to promote Bachmann?s candidacy, but was acquired by Sorenson through Chris Dorr for his own personal use and profit. What follows is a timeline of events, excerpts from Dorr?s October 2011 memo, copies of emails between top Paul campaign aides and Dorr, which also included Sorenson, and a full copy of the memo itself. TheIowaRepublican.com has also put together a profile of all the individuals involved, documenting each person?s role, position, and where they are today if known. The Sorenson Circle Kent Sorenson - Iowa State Senator, Campaign Chairman for Bachmann for President, eventual Ron Paul endorser Role: A in FEC and Iowa Sonata ethic: inocrt?gation, ho woo included in email conoercaz?ion regarding hi: propoced compcnidtz'on packagc to he to the Paul campaign Chris Dorr Bachmann for President Field Staff, legislative clerk for State Senator Kent Sorenson, brother of Aaron Dorr, and son of Paul Dorr. Role: Chris" Dorr nm? a lacy Soroncon accomplice and was included in email conoermz?ionc regarding the Sorcncon package to he presented to tho Pool campaign Dorr also provided on o??idnolt to the Iowa Sonora Ethic: Committee .mpporz?z'ng Scranton? denial cy? any wrongdoing, and admitting that he made or copy of the homichoolm? lictfrom a Boo/1722mm cfa?ric computer. Aaron Dorr Executive Director of Iowa Gun Owners Association, founder of Iowa Pro-Life Action Role: Chief negotiator between Sorcncon and Pan! campaign. Paul Dorr Iowa advisor, Rori Paul for President 2008, longtime political consultant. Role: Paul Dorr woo included in email conversation regarding the Sorcnron componmtion package to be promoted to the Pan! campaign representatives. Dennis Fusaro Former Executive Director, Iowans for Right to Work Committee; Former Executive Director, National Right to Work Committee; National Field Director, Ron Paul for President 2008. Through his involvement with Right to Work, Fusaro had a close relationship with Sorenson, radio host Steve Deace, and the Dorrs. Role: Forum it the role ronrcc of tho in?matz'on that war provided to for this a?iclo. Wes Enos Current Deputy Chief of Staff, Iowa Senate Minority Leader Bill Dix; Current State Central Committee Member, Republican Party of Iowa; Political Director, Michele Bachmann for President 2012. Role: Enos if the for the Iowa Conservative: Fund PAC, a crate PAC that who created to wccioc a ?100,000 the Pool campaign in exchange for Sorcncon?c endowment. The PAC war created in the fall of 201 1, which coincide; m?fh the timing of the Dorr memo. However, it never received my ?nancial contributions. Enos nlro provided an o?dnoit to the Iowa Senate Ethicc Committee supporting Sorcni?on?o denial cy? any wrongdoing. Kevin Wolfswinkel Farmers for Ron Paul National Advisory Board Member, Ron Paul for President 2012; longtime Ron Paul donor; Coordinator for Iowa?s 5th Congressional District, Ron Paul for President 2008. Role: Wol?rwinhcl i: the Chairperson ?r the Iowa Conccmotiocc Fond PAC, a crate PAC that war mated to a 5100, 000 paymentfrorn the Pan! campaign in exchange ?ar Scranton ?c Paul Campaign Of?cials s~revealed~on~s orensons?deal?with?ron-paul/ 10/1/2013 EX 5 1-3 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul I The Iowa Republican Jesse Benton - Campaign Manager, Mitch McConnell for US Senate 2014; Campaign Chairman, Ron Paul for President 2012; Campaign Manager, Rand Paul for US. Senate 2010; Senior Vice President, Campaign for Liberty; Campaign Manager, Ron Paul for President 2008; Advisor, Liberty PAC (Paul?s ieadership PAC). Benton is also married to Congressman Paul?s granddaughter Valori Pyeatt. Opensecretsorg, a nonpartisan guide to money?s in?uence on US. elections, has reported that Benton has been ?paid about $1.1 million by the various Paul entities aithough more than $450,000 of it was described as reimbursement for expenses he incurred, most of them unidenti?ed.? Role: Berton war the chief oegotiator?r the Pool campaigo it! dealing: with Aaroo Dom who was Soremort?r conduit to the Paul campaign. Boater: initiated contact with .S'oreoccm through Aaron Dan in November (#2011. John Tate Campaign Manager, Ron Paul for President 2012; President, Campaign for Liberty; National Political Director, Ron Paul for President 2008; Vice President of Membership, Leadership Institute; Vice President, National Right to Work Committee; Candidate for Congress in 1996. Role: Toto war inducted in mail cottoemztiom regarding the Sorcmon compe?mtior: package P?ie?t?d hy Dorr to the Paul campaign. Tate?: email addrocr begin: with ?#202. The Dorr memo war addressed to Tate. Dimitri Kesari Deputy Campaign Manager, Ron Paui for President 2012; Director of Government Affairs, National Right to Work Committee. Role: Korm'i had dinner with foreman and his wife at their home it: mid to into November of 2011. He allegediy protested .S'oreororz or hit Wife :1 check for $30,000, which one of the?: accepted. Iedd Coburn National Communications Director, Ron Paul for President 2012; consultant, Campaign for Liberty; consultant, Young Americans for Liberty; consultant, National Association for Gun Rights. Coburn is currently an instructor for Appiied Conservative Leadership, or FACL. Rois: Cohan: received the memo from Aaron Dorr that included the?oomiol domomir Sarcoma rcqm'red to leave the Bochmaoo oampazgo aodjoio the Pool campaign Drew Ivers iowa Campaign chairman, R011 Paul {Or President 2012; Current Finance Chairman, Repubiican Party of Iowa; Former State Central Committee Member, Republican Party of Iowa; Campaign Advisor, Ron Paul for President 2008. Role: The Dorr memo included an entire section of thi?gr that Ivan would have to agree to in order for Sorrow}: to maize the switch from Bochmom: to Poul. Key components of the Dorr memo. 1. Sorenson?s Asking Price Financial Requirements: - Sorenson wanted $8,000 a month through the fail of 2012. Chris Dorr, Sorenson?s clerk and rightuhand man, wanted $5,000 a month through Aprii of 2012. - Sorenson demanded that $100,000 be placed in an Iowa PAC that wouid be controlled by Sorenson and staffed by the Dorrs. Kevin Wolfswinkel, a Paul supporter, was the chairman, and \Wes Enos was the treasurer. In total, the asking price for Sorenson?s defection was $208,000. That?s $88,000 for Sorenson, $20,000 for Chris Barr, and $100,000 for the newly created state PAC. John Hohn Tate, Ron Paul?s 2012 campaign manager], ://theiowarepublican.comf201 1 0/1/2013 Ex 5 1-4 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican KS [Kent Sorenson] is considering the offer that was ?rst brought to his attention by a national campaign staffer. As KS censiders this[,] he needs to look at what he needs to replace should he leave the MB Michele Bachmann] campaign. The following ?nancial requirements are things he?d be giving up and would need to have matched if he leaves MB. Salarv Reguirements and other ?nancial requirements: KS needs to match his current salary of $8,000 a month. This has been promised to him, even after MB drops out of the race, for the majority of 2012. As a result, KS would need to be on payroli into the Fall of 2012. CD [Chris Dorr] works for and with KS and would leave the MB with him. He would have to have his salary matched ($5,000 through April of 2012, when he was currently scheduled to quit the MB campaign. We have established the Iowa Conservatives Fund PAC as an entity that KS will be using to recruit and elected [sic] good candidates to the Iowa General Assembly. (C4 will follow after next legislative session.) It?s leadership PAC. He would need a donation of $100,000 into this PAC prior to this action. 2. Original Timetable for Sorenson Defection to Paul Campaign -- Mid November Timinoz There is a Senate leadership vote scheduled for November 10. KS is weighing a run for leader and as such can?t drop out of the MB campaign or endorse RP prior to November 11 as there are votes that he would lose as a result. )edd Uecld Coburn National Communications Director, Ron Paui for President 2012] and I were hashing out the time angie and we (the Iowa group) like the idea that Jedd was kicking around of having a week or ten day period between KS leaving MB and endorsing RP. (On a personal note, I think that this needs to happen as KS doesn?t want to publicly embarrass MB and this would help mitigate that.) Sorenson did not seek a leadership position in the Republican Senate caucus, but he was active in the leadership election. On November 14th, just three days after the Republican leadership election in the Iowa Senate, Jesse BentOn, the Paul campaign?s highest ranking staff member, emailed Aaron Dorr to inquire about Sorenson?s defection. Hi Aaron, Hope you are well. 10/1/2013 Ex 51?5 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul I The Iowa Republican And, I hope the senate leadership meetings went well for Sen. Sorrenson [sic]. With those meeting[s] in the rear?view mirror, I though [sic] now might be a good time to revisit Kent and your brother ioining our team. The window is sill open, but it will close in the next few days. We are building for a top ?nish in the caucus and we?[d] love to get them on board to help push us over the top. 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Lists: 1 0/ 1/2013 EX 51-6 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican Certain [Nondisclosure agreements] have been entered into with certain parties. That said, a list of MB identi?ed voters is easily and legally accessible. This list is part of the compensation that KS and CD are receiving for their work for MB. This list will not be available to RPZOIZ. However, if the campaign wants to send mail to these people to announce RP endomement we will be willing to have a 3rd party mail shop in Des Moines handle that. This shop, by the way, handled all of the RP2008 mail and is very professional. Final approval on this letter will rest with KS. Later in the memo, in the section that stipulates what else the Paul campaign will receive if they agree to Sorenson?s compensation package, Dorr mentions to the Paul campaign that they have in their possession and are willing to let the campaign use the Network Of Iowa Christian Home Educators (N ICHE), albeit not by name. 3. Homemschool connections. Of course you?ve got your own ?Homeschoolers for program, but we are in possession o[f] the list of the main iowa home?school group?s list [sic] here in Iowa allowing for targeted home?school mail. 4. Sorenson?s Demands of Drew Ivers Another interesting portion of the Dorr memo involves Paul?s Iowa Campaign Chairman, Drew lvers, who apparently had said something that angered the Dorrs. An entire section of the memo enumerated a list of things that Ivers must say and do for the deal with Sorenson to be consummated. Drew Ivers: 1. Drew will have to give a glowing acceptance of RP endorsement. While we reaJiZe that he can?t directly apologize for maligning Kent and the Dorrs for the last 6 months in this statement, he can certainly go out of his way to make it clear how much he values KS etc etc etc. 2. Drew will also have to come through on the promised apology letter to the board of Iowa Gun Owners for his public statements attacking IGO and its staff. This should be simple since it?s basically been promised to IGO via Benton and was already drafted by Coburn. This will be ?led away and not used publicly. However the members of IGO who are dual members of CFL [Campaign for Liberty] or supporters of RP2012 who?ve contacted us after becoming angry over Drew?s unfortunate comments will be made aware of the resolution of this issue. 10/1/2013 Ex 5 -7 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican Ivers seems to have capitulated to the demands made of him in the Dorr memo. He introduced Sorenson at the Ron Paul event in which Sorenson announced that he was leaving the Bachmann campaign and joining the Paul campaign. 5. Sorenson?s Other Demands, Social Issue Concerns, and Santorum Momentum There were a number of other conditioris that Sorenson wanted the Paul campaign to agree to before supporting the Paul campaign. For example, the people who would be receiving money under the Sorenson agreement wanted the money to be paid in advance. Sorenson also wanted to be able to publically differ with Paul on key social issues like gay marriage and abortion. It is clear from the memo that Dorr? and the others involved in Sorenson?s political activities viewed Rick Santorum as a problem for the Paul campaign as Santorum began to build momentum, despite the fact that the Des Moines Register poll that was released at the same time showed Santomm with just five percent of the caucus vote. Misc: 1. The money for salary and the PAC needs to be paid in advance. To be blunt, there is an issue of trust involved, likely on both sides, and as a result KS etc needs to have the financial side met in adVance. 2. KS agrees to not endorse or support o[r] help any other candidate in the 2012 cycle. Honestly, there is no one eise he?d even consider given the field. 3. At the same time, KS has to have the ability to mildly disagree in his emphasis with social positions on life and marriage. While aggressively praising RP for his willingness to defund Planned Parenthood and the homosexual machines, KS will be able to differ, in emphasis, from RP on the social issues mentioned. This is the tough part. Most all of W?estern IA region is disgusted with perceived stances on these issues. Little towns like Orange City, Le Mars, and Sioux Center, IA, where the paper just endorsed Santorum, believe the hype regarding stance on drugs and homosexuality. They actually said in the paper this week that RP will be worse than Obama on these issues. A blanket endorsement by KS would be a negative, this gives him the room he needs to both praise RP and protect himself. This also is the kind of voting block that would most be moved by a KS endorsement. Reasonable minds can differ, but Santorum is gaining rapid steam in Western Iowa in a perceived vacuum of candidates who support social conservatism. involvement would enable RP to have a real shot in that part of the state. 6. The Sorenson Sales Pitch The last section of the Don: memo is the sales pitch to the Paul campaign. Besides talking about how Sorenson?s defection from the Bachmann campaign could help Paul in northwest Iowa with pro-life and pro-Second Amendment caucus voters, it also spells out how Sorenson, the Dorrs, and the political entities under their control would help elect more ?like?minded individuals? to the Iowa legislature, as well as build a ?major state based movement that will involve far more people into a future Rand Paul presidential run.? 1 0/1/20 13 Ex 5 1-8 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican What would receive: (in no particular order) 1. KS endorsement of RP. The voice he commands in Iowa is no secret to any of you, so I?ll not belabor that point. But I will mentiOn that as he?s been the letter signer for Iowa Gun Owners for three years and the letter signer for Iowa Pro?Life Action since it was formed this year, hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail have gone out with his name on it building his political impact up. Through the work of these organizations and all of the votes he?s forced on these issues[,] he has become thee [sic] voice for Iowans who are passionate on guns and life. 2. KS would naturally speak at RP events in Iowa and be visible with him. His exact role beyond that is something that we?d need to work out. Please let us know what you are envisioning. 3. Horne?school connections. Of course you?ve {got} your own ?Homeschoolers for program[,] but we are in possession [of] the list of the main Iowa home?school group?s list [sic] here in Iowa allowing for targeted home?school mail. 4. Long term benefit. The Iowa Conservatives Fund PAC is brand new. It is Chaired by a long time Ron Paul donor and 5th Congressional coordinator, Kevin Wolfswinkel. (Kevin is not the current coordinator, mostly due to the way he?s been treated by Drew livers.) The day to day operations are going to be administered by the Dorr brothers, [who are] both ?graduates? of numerous Rothfeid schools, have worked for the National RTW [Right to Work] and have a proven track record at [sic] developing and running state wide grassroots political organiZations. KS is going to be the chief fundraiser, letter signer, bill sponsor and ?gurehead. ICFPAC was created for the purpoSe of electing like-minded individuals into the Iowa legislature. Its short- term focus is to ?nd, train and elect primary candidates against who have broken their written word on provlife and pro-gun surveys and who live in the most vulnerable districts. We already have some excellent candidates who have agreed to primary incumbents. ICFPAC is committed to a long?term agenda. The money that RP2012 provides to this PAC will be used as seed money for building a longuterm, self?sustainable political organization that will ?ght for our mutual goals and which will dramatically change the political climate in Iowa to a more favorable one a couple of years from now. In case y0u don?t know, Glen Massie and Kim Pearson are not seeking re?election and so we?ll need to elect more Paul supporting legislators that would be useful assuming (which could certainly be a mistake) a Rand Paul run in the future. In a nutshell, this PAC will boost the KS name about as big as it is today. Between this PAC, Iowa Gun Owners, and Iowa Pro?Life Action we will continue to build a major state based movement that will involve far more people into a future Rand Paul presidential run. Or, in other words, we will continue to do what the state CFL chapter refused to do for the last four years. That?s not said to make a statement or further a personality based tit?for?tat, it?s a simple fact. We are con?dent that as we continue to do what we are doing on the grassroots level that KS will benefit, RP will bene?t, and RPZOIG (if such a thing occurs) will greatly bene?t. 1 0/1/2013 Ex 51?9 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican Danni: Puma Aug 3 {2 my; agn} 'r I. All Scr: frat-n my B?g? lama-m?. man: age fibm: 'lm'ru Gar. 0mm" (inf-c law-32: 9am: (taint-NEE 20:1. 320 PMS To: c-m?nr?iz-E . 5 am Sutures ?cc-:5 24:12:.- ?Pm: Dari tdm??i: n'naam ?ril Dm? \Jx'?gm?i 5a., .11 .rmzv m5 mam rr Inca.- . ?9le Subject: Chrlu and Rani: 1 need 10 hear from 300135 ff?x??g (1'91 There are the {?lm-mg changes; We've adiusled ihe opening sentence in pml?nl Kent. big 1i me We've 513 u?ale? lhat Kent can mildly disagree in his emphasis an RP's mews an mamage and lire,1o prolect him We've s?pululad 11ml Lime loner that 9935 out MB names in Iowa has ?nal aggro-ml only Konl, to protacl him Chris I changed yaur monm loo Aamn Dar: Exocu?va Director Iowa Gun Owners mg i? ?Japan; darn). Jfall ri'l Proposal :2 g, 0mm: Fusua - "1w? Au; 3 ,3 age: LY: Earnsa?wI-?fanma R14 imam.- :11 ml: mum in: bales-n [pm-q mm Bat?31x: haw same gum an Few-tau: mew ?Hr llama Dim-i -.- waft, 3.1K- Sat 25 30" m" c: 111* hS RP2012 Prapnx-al. adf u?ixcv? mu. L?sr-ca' Jenni K5 is musidcr?ng the offer that was first brough: In his attention by a naiimlal campaign sm??er. As KS considers. this he needs to look at what he wnuld need to replace shnuld he leave the MB campaign. The following ?nancial requirements are things he?d be giving up and would need to have matched if he leaves MB. Salary Requirunculs and otllerjinancial requirements: KS needs to match his current salary of $8,000 a month. This has been promised to him. even after MB drops out of the race: for the majority 012012. AS a result+ KS would need to be on paw-111 into the Fall of 2012. I I ?pl I .l lit? 10/1/2013 Ex 5 1-10 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul I The Iowa Republican U) worrts tor and mm no one leave me me; campzugn mm turn. me woutu nave to have his salary matched ($3,000 through April of 2012. when he was currently scheduled to quit the MB campaign. He would need to remain in Iowa. He would perhaps be able to handle some minor travel out of state. but not much. 1 We have established the Iowa Conservatives Fund PAC as an entity that KS will be using to recruit and elect good candidates to the Iowa General Assembly- :01 will follow after next legislative session.) It?s leadership PAC. He would need a donation of into this PAC prior to this notion. Timing: There is a Senate leadership vote scheduled for November 10. KS is weighing a run For leader and as such can?t drop out of the MB campaign or endorse RP prior to November it as there are votes that he. would lose as a result. ledd and were hashing out the tune angle and we {the 1mm group) like the idea that ledd was kicking around ot?having a week or ten day period between KS leaving MB and endorsing RP- (Du a personal note. 1 think that this needs to happen as KS doesn?t want to publicly embarrass MB and this would help mitigate that.) Lists: Certain have been entered into with certeln parties. That said. a list of MB identi?ed voters 1's eusily and legally accessible This list is part of the compensation that KS and are retell-lug {or their work for MB This list will not he arattuble to However, it"the campaign wants to send mail to these people to announce K35 RP endorsement We will be willing to have a 3rd party rnail shop in Des Moines handle that. This shop. by the way. handled all ot?tlte mail and is very professional. Ftnul approval of this letter trill rent with 1x3 Drew hers: 1. Drew will have to give a glowing acceptance of RP endorsement. While we realize that he can't directly apologize for rnuligning; KS and the Dorrtt lorthe last 6 months in this statement. he can certainly go out ol?ltis may to make it clear how much he values KS. etc. 2. Drew will also have to come through on the promised apology letter to the board of Iowa Gun Owners for his public statements attacking ISO and its staff. This should be simple since it's basi tally been promised to via Benton and was already drafted by Coburn. This will be filed away and not used publicly. However the members of 160 who are dual members of CPL or supporters of 51132012 who?ve contacted us after becoming over Drew?s unfortunate comments will be made aware of the resolution 10/1/2013 Ex 51,11 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican oi?this issue. it?lisc: l. The money for salarj,r and the PAC needs to be paid in advance. To be blunt. there is an issue of trust involved. likely on both sides. and as a result KS. ete. needs to have the financial side met in advance. 2. KS agrees to not endorse. support or help any other candidate in the 2912 cycle. Honestly. there is no one else he'd even consider. given the ?eld. 3. At the same time. KS has to have the to mildly disagree in his emphasis with social positions on and nmrriage- \?i?hile aggressively praising for his willingness to leitted Parenthood and the homosexual machines. KS wiil be able to differ. in emphasis- from RP on the sociai issues mentioned. This is the tough pan. Most all of Western IA region is disgusted with perceived stances on these issues. Little towns iike Orange City. Mars. and Sioux Center. m. where the paper just endorsed Sasttorum, believe the hype regarding RP's stance on drugs and homosexuality is true. They actually said in the paper this week that will be worse than Obama on these issues as wet} as on foreign policy. This gives K3 the room he eetis to both aggressively praise i and protect himself. This also is the kind oi voting that would most likei) be unwed 2! KS endorsement. Reasonable minds can differ, but Santomm is gaining rapid Steam in Western Iowa in a perceived vacuum ot?ettoditiates who support sociai conser 'atism KS: involvement wouid enable RP to have a real shot in that part oi?the state. What would receive: tin no order} i- KS endorsement of RP. ?fhe voice he commands in Iowa is no secret to any of you so not belabor that point. But i trill mention that as he?s been the ietter signer for lotto Gun Owners for three years and the letter signer for imra Pro?Life Action since it ?as this Your. hundreds of of pieces have gone out with his name on it building his political impact up, Through the work oi'these organizations and ttii oi?tite votes he?s thread on these issues he has become thee voice for lowans who are passionate on guns and ii ie. 3. KS would naturally speak at RP events in 1mm and be visible with him. His exact role beyond that is something that we?d need to work out. Please let us know what you are envisioning. 3- Home~sehooi connections. Oi?eourse you've got your own ?Homeschoolers for program but we are in possession of the list of the main iota-a home~school group here in Iowa for targeted home-school omit. 1 0/ 1/The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican 4. Long term bene?t. The lone Consewatlves Fund PAC '15 brand new- It is chaired by a longtime Ron Paul donor and 5th Congressional coordinator, Kevin Wolfswinkel. (Kevin is not the current coordinator. mostly due to the way he?s been treated or was not treated by Drew hers.) The PACE tinge to day operations are going to be administered by the Dorr brothers, both ?graduates" of numerous Rothfeld schools, have worked for the National and have a proven track record at developing and running state wide grassroots political organizations- KS is going to be the chief fundraiser. letter signer. bill sponsor and ?guteltend. ICFPAC Was created for the ptat?gmso of electing like-minded individuals into the 1mm legislature. [ts short?term focus is to ?nd. train and elect primer}r candidates against who have broken their twitter] word on pro-life and pro-gun surveys and who live in the most vulnerable districts. We already have some excellent candidates who have agreed to incumbents. 1C is committed to longitenn agenda. The mono; that RPEOIZ provides to this. PAC will he used as seed money for building a long?term. self-sustainable political organization that will fight for our mutual goals and which will dramatically change the political climate in Iowa to a more favorable one :1 couple of years from now. In case you don't knrm. Glen Masxle 11ml Kim Pearson are not seekiog renelect ion and so we?ll need to elect more Paul supporting legislators that would he useful. oncoming twh?teh could certainly be a mistake) a Rand Paul run in the future. in It nutshell. this will boost the KS name about 5.x as big as it is today. Between this l?Af?. lotto Gun Owners, and Iowa f?ro?IJlo Action we will continue to build it inttjor state based movetztent that will involve for steam people mto :1 future Rood Poul presidential too. Or. in other words. we will continue to do what the state CPL chapter refused to do for the. last four years, That's. not sand to mike 21 bl?lmlli?l'll or further it personality based tilufor~tutl it?s. :1 simple fact. We at": coalition: that its we continue to do what we are doing on the grassroots level that KS will bene?t, RP will bene?t. and RPEU to til'suelt a thing occurs) will greatly bene?t. For months, TheIowaRepublican.com has had on and off conversations with the source of this material, but only recently has this source provided actual emails between all the parties involved. Not only has Dennis Fusaro provided ThelowaRepublican.com with the Don: memo and emails that he was included in, but he has also provides us with email conversations between himself and Jesse Benton, using the same email address that Benton used to reestablish communications with Aaron Don in mid-November of 2011. July 21, 2013 Email from Fusaro to Benton ://theiowarepublican. com/201 1 0/1/2013 Ex 5 - 3 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican Fusaro sent Benton an email with the subject line, ?You were at 9:44 p.m. The body of the email simply stated, ?In the Sorenson deal.? Benton responded within 20 minutes writing, ?You are an insane and delusional person, Dennis. I hope you get help. I?ll pray for you.? Twelve days later, Fusaro responded to Benton with a snarky email that also included a plea for Benton to come clean and own responsibility for his actions. Fusaro also indicated that he had shared the information evidencing the Paul campaign paying for Sorenson?s endorsement to a member of the media. Jesse, The subject line of my original email to you in this exchange was ?You were As a second response to your insult of me, let me quote you with your typos, you lying fraud: I though now might be a good time to revisit Kent and your brother joining our team.? Communication of Nov. 14, 2011 to one if the negotiators. (Check your records, or ask the NSA.) I have strong evidence of the illegal $30k payment provided to bene?t Kent Sorenson by your deputy campaign manager as an inducement for him to switch from MB to RP. Or it was simply the ?nal act to seal the deal right before the Iowa caucuses? If you can Show me how the offer of money to bene?t Kent was not done illegally, I would like to know. (Does Mitch McConnell know abOut any of this this? Or Ron Paul?) As you told me in our phone conversation earlier this year, you bear responsibility for the campaigns [sic] actions in this matter. You need to come clean, ?x it and own the consequences, whatever they may be. It?s jerks like you who make the system corrupt, demoralize the grassroots and enable the very enemies of your grandfather?in-law. If you claim you didn?t know what your deputy campaign manager was doing to seduce Kent Sorenson, you should have known. Feel free to forward this to John Tate and Dimitri Kesari. I?m sure you?ll be burning up the text, email or cell phones tonight. It?s not embargoed Sincerely, Dennis Fusaro RS. Stiff letter to follow. Re: You 'were m. . Bunnie Fusem gar. arm?- r'ox; (3 2,23: *s i - new}. use: the nu" e: tree! - were! one? to you ow: met-anus ms were unsaved ?i an. a notch; nx?zmt? 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Cb: Ree Paul?! as you let: me try them: rave-sate: tame.- the met. yet. tea: rsnreibiily w: terns-em when: r: the msucr Vat! new: is sent- L'Er-tr- in: I: and we: the (woww?cw. weave-"1w Easy 17% In: Hm you me were the system care-an Lu!? {imitate are: (dnf-?h?t- the tre?ara :55 yea: Carr: get. mm Lnn?m am: you awn,? :31?ng range: was sting Ic accuse Kurt: Seer-ssh. 7:0 sewer-me lire-w, For-J [am [a nan-am {a Tmo nrs'. Cumin Keefe-i I?m ems you? hating up l-?a b317, M215 use {times Instr}? lie no: (:11?an Deva: 81:15:": Hitler is 11:151." arm: ire-a my new?: 5-- ed at. 3313. 7. 153 91.! sure Eel-ice ?xat?iw?tc-l?gsf? as an mare are tense?u? res-scr- [Ecrne ?we s't??J as! Pete ctr; we: -, Earths-u 3.1333 2 or- in! 313's 9:4 PM Darn: Foam. westerns-33m: ?we ?1 If?: Samuel- and 33: Sun: by? my ?The?: ThelowaRepublican.com reached out to Sen. Sorenson for comment on this story. Sorenson stated that entire story was fabricated by Fusaro. He also flat out denied that he or his wife recaived a $30,000 check from Dimitri Kesari in advance of joining the Paul campaign in December of 2011. TheIowaRepublican.com also sought comment from Iesse Benton, John Tate, and Dimitri Kesari. At the time of publication, none of them have responded to out tequeSt. TheiowaRepuhlicancom is not the onl)r entity that was provided the information released in this article. Fusaro also released the same information to a nationally syndicated radio host who is close to Sorenson, but that individual chose not to break the story. Exciusive** **Must Credit the TheIowaRepublican.com** Photo by Dave Davidson, Prezographvcom About the Author Craig Robinson Craig Robinson serves as the founder and Editorvin-Chief of TheIowaRepuhlican.corn. Prior to founding Iowa's largest conservative news site, Robinson served as the Political Director of the Republican Party of Iowa during the 2008 Iowa Caucuses. In that capacity, Robinson planned and organized the largest political event in 2007, the Iowa Straw Poll, in Ames, Iowa. Robinson also organiZed the 2008 Republican caucuses in Iowa, and was later dispatched to Nevada to help with the caucuses there. Robinson cut his teeth in Iowa politics during the 2000 caucus campaign of 1 0/ 1/201 3 The Payoff Details Revealed on Sorenson?s Deal with Ron Paul The Iowa Republican businessman Steve Forbes and has been involved with most maior campaigns in the state since then. His extensive politicai background and rolodex give him a unique perspective from which to monitor the political pulse of Iowa. EX 51?16 FMS: Propagai Rm Danni: Fusam ma- v: . $??mnn Framzam?f? {lee mi: about harm} wing 'm'lh pub?: it. 5 him Show gamma.) mm; 313:, net-2?9. 21511 at ages? Swim}; mm To: ?t gig-3c! m, Sm: all-33$. 53-3 1" 163 Win? lh:An51-17 Page I of 1 John, K5 is considering the offer that was ?rSt brought to his attention by a national campaign staffer. As KS considers this he needs to look at what he would need to replace should he leave the MB campaign. The following ?nancial requirements are things he?d be giving up and would need to have matched if he leaves MB. Salarv Requirements and other ?nancial ?reguircmenls: KS needs: to match his current salary of 38,000 a month. This has been prowised to lain; even a?er MB drops out of the race, for the majority (?2012. As a result, KS would need to be on payroll into the. Fall 01?2012. CD works for and with KS and would leave the MB campaign with him. He would have to have his salary matched ($5,000 through April of 2012. when he. was currently scheduled to quit the MB campaign. He would need to remain in Iowa. He would perhaps be able to handle some minor travel out ofstate, but not much; We have. established the. lowa Consen'ruives Fund PAC as an entity that KS will be using to recruit and elect good candidates to the Iowa General Assembly- (C4 will follow after next legislmive It?s [endorship PAC. He would need a donation of $100,000 into this PAC: prior to this action. mm There is a Senate leadership vote scheduled for November 10 K3 is weighing a run for leader and as such can?t drop out of the MB campaign or endorse RP prior to November 1} as there are votes that he would lose as a result. Jedd and I were hashing out the time angle and we (the Town group} like the idea that was. kicking around of having a week or ten day period between KS leaving MB and endorsing RP. {On a personal note, I think that this needs to happen as KS doesn?t want to publicly embarrass MB and this would help mitigate thaL) Lists: Cortain have been entered into with certain parties. That said, a list of MB identi?ed voters is easily and lagally accessible. This list is part of the compensation that KS and CD are receiving for their work for MB. This list will not he amilnble to RP2012- However, if the campaign wants to send mail to these people to announce K33 RP endorsement we. will be willing to have a 3rd party mail shop in Des Moines handle that This shop, by the way, handled all of the RPZOGS mail and is very professional. Final approval of this letter will rest with KS. Drew Ivers: - - 1 I Inn-1 A Inn NH. -. EX51-18 Page 1 of 1 1. Drew will have to give a glowing acceptance of KS's RP endursement. While we realize that he can?t directly apologize for maligning KS and the Dons for the last 6 months in this statement, he can certainly go eat of his way to make it clear how much he values KS, etc. 2. Drewr will also have to come through on the promised apology letter to the board of Iowa Gun Owners for his public statements attacking 160 and its staff. This should be simple since it?s basically been promised to via Benton was already draiied by Coburn. This will be ?led away and not used publicly. However the members of 160 who are dual members of EFL or supporters of RPZOI 2 who?ve contacted us after becoming angry over Drew?s unfortunate comments will he made aware of the resolution of this issue. a 1313: l. The money for salary and the. PAC needs to be paid in advance. To be blunt, there is an issue of involved, likely on both sides. and as a result KS. etc. needs to have the ?nancial side met in advance. 3. KS agrees to not endorse, sopport or help any other candidate in the 2012 cycle. Honestly, there is no one else he?d even consider, given the ?eld. 3. At the same time. KS has to have the ability to mildly disagree in his emphasis with social positions on life and marriage- While aggressively praising RP for his willingness to dcfund Planned Parenthood and the homosexual machines, KS will be able to differ. in emphasis, from RP on the social issues mentioned. This is the tough part. Most. all of Western region is disgusted with perceived stances on these issues. Little towns like Orange City, Le Mars, and Sioux Center. IA. where the papcrjust endorsed Santorum, believe the hype regarding RP's stance on drugs and homosexuality is true. They actually said in the paper this week that will be worse than Obama on these issues as well as on tbreign policy. his gives KS the room he needs to both aggressively praise RP and protect himself. This also is the kind of voting block that would most likely be moved by a KS endorsement. Reasonable minds can differ, but Santorum is gaining rapid steam in Western Iowa in a perceived vacuum of candidates who support social conservatism involvement would enable RP to have a real shot in that part of the state. What. RPZOIZ would receive: in no particular order) 1. KS endorsement of RP. The voice he commands in Iowa is no secret to any of you so I?ll not belabor that point. But! will mention that as he?s been the letter signer for Iowa Gun Owners for three years and the letter signer for lawn Pro?Life Action since it: was formed this year, hundreds of thousands oi?pieces of mail have gone outwith his name on it building his political impact up. Through the work of these organizations and all of the votes he?s forced on these issues he has become thee vo ice for lo wane who are passionate on guns and life. EX51-19 Page 1 of 1 2. KS would naturally speak at RP events in Iowa and be visible with him. His exact role beyond that is something that we?d need to work out. Please let us know what you are envisioning. 3. Horne-school connections. Of course you?ve got your own ?Homeschoolers for program but we are in possession of the list of the main Iowa home-school group herein Iowa allowing for targeted home?school mail. 4. Long term bene?t. The Iowa Conservatives Fund PAC is brand new. it is chaired by a long time Ron Paul donor and 5th Congressional coordinator, Kevin Wolfswinkel. (Kevin is not the current coordinator, due to the way he?s been treated or was not treated by Drew Item.) The day to day operations are going to be administered by the Dorr bro titers, both "graduates? of numerous Rothfeld schools; have worked for the National RTW and have a proven track record at developing and running state wide grassroots political organizations. KS is going to be the chief fundraiser. letter signer, bill sponsor and ?gurehead. ICFPAC was created for the purpose of electing like-minded individuals into the Iowa legislature. Its short-term focus is to Find, train and elect primary,r candidates against lilNO?s who have broken their written werd on pro-life and pro?gun surveys and who live in the most vulnerable districts. already have some excellent candidates who have agreed to primary incumbents. ICFPAC is committed to a long-term agenda. The mo ney that RPZOIE provides to this PAC will be used as seed money for building a longdemn political organization that will fight for our mutual goals and which will dramatically change the political climate in Iowa to a more ?worable one a coople of years fro In now. in case you don?t know: Glen Massie arid Kim Pearson are not seeking re?election and so we?ll need to elect more Paul supporting legislators that would be useful. assuming {which could certainly be a mistake) a Rand Paul run in the future. In a nutshell, this PAC will boost the KS name about 53: as big as it is: today. Between this PAC, 10sz Gun Owners. and Iowa Pro-Life Action we will continue to build a major state based that will involve Far more people into a future Rand Paul presidential mn. Or. in other words. we will continue to do what the state CPL chapter refused to do for the last four years. That?s not said to make a statement or ?rm-her a personality based tit?for~tat, it?s a simple fact. We are confident that as we continue to do what We are doing on the grassroots level that KS will bene?t, RP will benefit, and 12.132016 (if such a thing occurs) will greatly bene?t. 1 1- I . EX 51-20 Homeschool Organizations and Support Groups: Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators Homeschaaleup-S?r Submit an Organizations by Area: . Foreign 0 Argentina 0 Australia 0 Canada 0 Chile 0 Dominican Republic England UK Germany Japan New Zealand South Africa Spain - Swim . United States - Spedal Mien Founda?ons 0 Sports Extracu rricuiars - Alabama . 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