Lobbyist busted for offering cash to boost JD Vance rally numbers: 'I will give you $100'

Lobbyist busted for offering cash to boost JD Vance rally numbers: 'I will give you $100'

Vice President JD Vance spoke at a “packed rally” last Tuesday in Des Moines, Iowa, touting the Trump administration accomplishments on the economy — but according to the Iowa Starting Line, some of those attendees may very well have been paid to be there.“I wanted to invite you to join me in seeing...

Iowa Lobbyist Offered $100 Cash To Attend Vance Rally

The Iowa Starting Line reports: An Iowa lobbyist was caught offering $100 cash payments—plus referral bonuses—to pack JD Vance’s Des Moines rally this week. Just hours before Vice President JD Vance took the stage in Des Moines, an ethanol lobbyist with deep connections in the Reynolds administration offered money to contacts willing to attend the rally. “Gentlemen, Jake Swanson here,” he wrote in a text message. “I wanted to invite you to join …