Because Judd and Haas failed to act, I'm filing state election complaints against Nolte (yet again), Clark, and Sessions

It's criminal to fail to account for your campaign texts - whether they're illegal texts or not. Terry Clark did not account for his; and he appears to implicate Jill Sessions and Rick Nolte as well.

On July 8, 2022, Terry Clark — failed CCDF candidate for the Polk County School Board — told his supporters, in writing, that the convicted criminal, church-swindling, 6-PPP loan collecting campaign manager he shared with fellow CCDF candidate Jill Sessions “has already had 20 thousand plus texts sent out all over the county.” Here’s the email.

When Terry said his “amazing campaign manager” sent out 20,000 texts and 1000s of robocalls “all over the county,” he actually said: I, Terry Clark, sent out 20,000 texts and 10,000 robocalls all over the county.

Yet, Terry did not account for those 20,000 texts or 1000s of robocalls in his campaign expenditures. That is a first degree misdemeanor, unless he amends his reports to get legal. The relevant statute is 106.07. It requires reporting of all campaign expenditures, to include:

Nothing, anywhere, in Terry Clark’s reporting says anything about 20,000 texts or 1000s of robocalls. If you do not report such things, the candidate and treasurer commit a first degree misdemeanor, according to this part of the statute right here:

In 2014, former State Attorney Jerry Hill forced judge candidate Christine Thornhill off the ballot and into a plea deal over a first degree campaign finance misdemeanor. Rather than follow that path, Brian Haas has dinner with Jill Sessions and Rick Nolte and their gross, criminal-celebrating backers.

Where are your texts, Terry?

Let’s recap what we know:

• It’s a campaign crime to send out anonymous, unlabeled campaign material, including texts.

• It’s a campaign crime to send out legally labeled texts — but not report them on your official expenditures.

• Someone, in June, sent criminal, anonymous texts that libeled School Board Member Lisa Miller and her husband. Miller was running against Jill Sessions and Dell Quary in the primary.

• Terry Clark, in July, bragged about the “20,000 texts” his campaign had already “sent out.” But he never accounted for them in campaign expenditure reporting.

• And he certainly seems to say Dunn’s texts were used for Sessions and Nolte.

So which candidates committed which crimes? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And where are Terry’s texts?

No matter who did what, “texts” are not just a figment of Terry Clark’s addled imagination. We know that inherently illegal, unlabeled texts were used to libel Lisa Miller and her husband.

But I don’t know if those criminal texts are Terry Clark’s/James Dunn’s texts. That’s why I’m filing a complaint to hold Terry Clark accountable for whatever texts he did send with Dunn and then failed to record.

“Jill Sessions and Rick Nolte are also using [the criminal James Dunn]”

I will also be filing an elections complaints against Jill Sessions, who paid $7,500 to the criminal Dunn to run her campaign — and yet again — School Board member-elect Rick Nolte.

Why?

Because in that same email, Terry Clark appears to directly implicate Jill Sessions and Rick Nolte in the unaccounted for texts and robocalls. And neither Sessions nor Nolte accounts for texts or robocalls in their campaign spending.

In Nolte’s case, Clark’s assertion is complicated by the fact that Nolte publicly denies paying for or using the criminal Dunn — and did not note any spending with him.

But the timeline I put together detailing Rick Nolte’s full timeline of shadiness, which helped launch the two other complaints I filed against him, bears strongly on this question of whether Nolte “used” Dunn. You should read it.

Is Terry Clark lying about Sessions and Nolte? Is Nolte lying about Dunn? These cranks lie whenever their mouths move; so it’s all certainly possible. I am not a human polygraph; and I don’t have the power to put somebody under oath.

If State Attorney Haas won’t do it; I’ll call on the state to sort it out under oath — or ignore it, which it probably will.

This will be my third separate formal complaint against Nolte. Just for posterity, prior to this utterly criminal election cycle, I had never filed an elections complaint against anyone. I don’t cherrypick campaigns looking for clerical errors with which to harass decent people.

Polk Sheriff Grady Judd and State Attorney Brian Haas should have dealt with all of this long ago. The texts made big news in June.

Judd and Haas have this Terry Clark email, as I understand it.

But county-level law enforcement has completely abandoned good Polk political citizens like the Millers and the rest of us so they can fluff these fascist, book-banning, thug-life living cranks.

If Grady and Haas won’t police the community, somebody has to try. But it’s getting awfully tiring, expensive, and annoying.