Almost exactly four years ago, Sue Lowden’s U.S. Senate campaign was struggling for money. She was still well ahead of her primary opponents, Sharron Angle and Danny Tarkanian, in her own polling. But she was getting pounded on the “Chickens for Checkups” issue by Patriot Majority, a front group for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Pollster Todd Vitale was urging a TV ad response, and campaign manager Uithoven agreed. …
Vitale would later offer to cut his polling rates, even as Lowden’s numbers began to go south and he began to worry about getting paid. And it turns out he was right to worry, as he has alleged in court that Lowden still owes him $77,000, part of $600,000-plus is unpaid obligations she has reported to the FEC yet again this week.
In a court filing two weeks ago to buttress his claim, Vitale submitted 150 pages of documents that seem like potential harbingers of the current GOP primary for lieutenant governor and tear back the curtain for a rare, granular peek inside a campaign, and a disintegrating one at that. CONT.
Jon Ralston, Ralston Reports