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</div><div>Donald Trump’s team has been in talks with Rick Reed, a veteran

Republican operative known for his bare-knuckle TV ad campaigns,

according to two sources familiar with the discussions.

Reed, a mainstay of GOP politics, has served as a strategist for a

number of conservative causes. During the 2004 presidential race, he was

a chief architect of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth effort to take

down John Kerry. He has previously worked for a number of congressional

Republicans, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and former

Virginia Sen. George Allen. He also spent years as a top operative for

the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

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It was not clear, the sources said, whether Reed had formally signed on with the Trump campaign.

Neither Reed nor spokespersons for Trump responded to multiple

requests for comment in recent days, and neither side would confirm or

deny that talks had taken place.

Despite his personal wealth, Trump, who remains the front-runner in

the Republican presidential primary contest, has yet to commit to

spending a substantial amount of money on TV ads to boost his candidacy.

The real estate mogul, however, recently invested $300,000 in a slate

of radio commercials airing in early primary states. ==
2010 SNYDER

NSING, Mich. — A group started by the man whose firm helped produce

the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads that harmed Democrat John Kerry's

2004 presidential bid is now running TV ads against Michigan

gubernatorial candidate Mike Cox.

The Foundation for a Secure and Prosperous America already has run

radio ads against the Republican attorney general trying to tie him to a

rumored-but-never-proven party at the Manoogian Mansion, Kwame

Kilpatrick's official residence while he was Detroit mayor.

Now it's doing the same in 30- and 60-second TV ads on Fox News that

group founder Rick Reed said will run in most of Michigan over the next

three weeks.

Reed wouldn't say how much his group is spending to air the TV ads,

but Cox campaign spokesman Nick DeLeeuw said it's only $21,000. The

longer ad will air in Traverse City and Grand Rapids, while the shorter

one will air in Detroit and Lansing, Reed said.

DeLeeuw said Wednesday that the ads aren't truthful and bring up

nothing new about the alleged party. After finishing an investigation,

Cox said in 2003 that the alleged party had "the earmarks of an urban

legend." He now says he doesn't think the party occurred, but adds it

wasn't his job to find out, only to determine if criminal activity took

place.

"It's a question if there's evidence that you can take to trial," DeLeeuw said.

Reed is a Virginia-based media strategist who worked for Arizona Sen.

John McCain's 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns before founding the

group running the anti-Cox ads.

The Cox campaign points to ties between Reed and former McCain senior

strategist John Weaver [ntbcw rev? league of so?] as an indication that GOP rival Rick Snyder is

behind the ads. Weaver is working for Snyder's campaign, which launched

its eighth ad Wednesday promoting the Ann Arbor businessman as a "job

creator."

"These are lies by a shadowy organization tied to Rick Snyder," DeLeeuw said of the anti-Cox ads.

Snyder campaign spokesman Jake Suski called the allegation "100 percent false."

"Cox's campaign is the only one who has run negative ads and

coordinated with shadow organizations to attack other candidates," Suski

said. "Trying to drag an ethical candidate like Rick or his campaign

into their political swamp is a desperate and shameful tactic."

Reed said his group has no ties to any candidate or campaign in the

Michigan governor's race. He denied either TV ad was inaccurate.

The negative ads and political infighting show just how unsettled the

five-way Republican race for governor remains as it heads into the

final weeks before the Aug. 3 primary. Both Cox and U.S. Rep. Pete

Hoekstra have been the target of third-party attack ads that have been

largely discredited by campaign watchdogs but still could sway some

voters.

The anti-Hoekstra ads are being run by a Virginia-based free-market

group, Americans for Job Security. The ads accuse the fiscally

conservative congressman of wanting to raise taxes but base that largely

on past comments taken out of context.

Cox also has run two ads against Hoekstra pointing out that he voted

for a federal bailout of the financial industry and a higher limit on

the federal debt. The nonpartisan Michigan Campaign Finance Network has

said the Cox and AJS ads appeared to be timed to run concurrently.

The new ads being run against Cox hint at a potential cover-up based

on comments from a police dispatcher, but much of the dispatcher's court

testimony was thrown out by a judge as hearsay, and the dispatcher

didn't come forward until more than seven years after the party

allegedly occurred in October 2002.

Cox began running two TV ads last week to counter the foundation's

ads. They feature two former Detroit police officers who say he's being

"falsely attacked" by "political thugs."

The attorney general was interviewed for hours about his probe into

the party in both December and January by lawyers in a civil case

brought by the family of Tamara Greene, a stripper who allegedly danced

at the rumored party and later was shot to death. The transcript remains

sealed.
http://www.mlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/swift_boat_producer_has_role_i.html

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<h2>Wisconsin Billionaires Richard Uihlein and Terry Kohler</h2>

Various right-wing billionaires are also readying to unload on Feingold.

Richard Uihlein, who owns a shipping supply company in Wisconsin, is almost single-handedly bankrolling two other Super PACs, <a href="http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=C00571588&tabIndex=3" target="blank">Restoration PAC</a> and <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/uihleins-spend-big-to-help-ron-johnson-defend-senate-seat-from-russ-feingold-b99589973z1-330585321.html" target="blank">Americas PAC</a>. Terry Kohler, the Wisconsin toilet magnate, contributed $50,000 to Restoration PAC.

In July 2015, well over a year before the election, Restoration PAC reportedly ran <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/money-pouring-into-Senate-race-322638532.html" target="blank">$500,000 worth of</a> TV ads in Green Bay, Madison and Milwaukee praising Johnson for his opposition to President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/restorationpac/videos/1500334006924270/?fallback=1">The ad,</a> made by infamous "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" producer Rick Reed, <a href="http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2015/jul/24/restoration-pac/barack-obama-met-iran-president-says-pac-backing-w/" target="blank">was given</a> a "Pants on Fire" rating from Politifact. A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=d_KBC_IskNY" target="blank">separate ad attacks</a> Feingold for hypothetically "rubber stamping" the deal. In January 2016, <a href="http://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/459/201604149012337459/201604149012337459.pdf" target="blank">Americas PAC</a> reported spending $60,000 on radio opposing Feingold.

Terry Kohler has also established a committee called the <a href="http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?candidateCommitteeId=C00581934&tabIndex=1" target="_blank">Reform America Fund</a>

that may be preparing to enter the race. The committee was recently

registered by Lorri Pickens, but Scott Walker's campaign guru R.J.

Johnson has long had ties to Kohler and could be involved in any

expenditures on the billionaire's behalf.
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