Jonathan Paton hired perennialloser, Nathan Sproul, in the last few weeks of his campaign and guess what?

Nathan Sproul of Lincoln Strategies was brought in to siphon off a bunch of cash and deliver no results. When the consultant becomes the story the campaign is in trouble. Google Nathan Sproul and you’ll see some of his handy work.

What’ sad is Sproul has no investment in the candidates, no care in the outcome of the race or discernible political philosophy. I guess he’s perfect for politics.  When will the money backers who continue to spend for dismal results ever learn?

I’m sure we’ll see him in southern Arizona again soon, unfortunately.

From The Huffington Post:

John McCain’s campaign has directed $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states.

According to campaign finance records, a joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June for purposes of “registering voters.” The managing partner of that firmis Nathan Sproul, a renowned GOP operative who has been investigated on multiple occasions for suppressing Democratic voter turnout, throwing away registration forms and even spearheading efforts to get Ralph Nader on ballots to hinder the Democratic ticket.

In a letterto the Justice Department last October, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers said that that Sproul’s alleged activities “clearly suppress votes and violate the law.”

That Sproul would come under the employment umbrella of the McCain campaign — the Republican National Committee has also separately paid Lincoln Strategy at least $37,000 for voter registration efforts this cycle — is not terribly surprising. Sproul, who has donated nearly $30,000 to McCain’s campaign, has been in the good graces of GOP officials for the past decade despite charges of ethical and potentially legal wrongdoing.

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Indeed, Sproul’s history is filled with allegations of political misdeeds. During the 2004 election, Sproul & Associates (the former name of Lincoln Strategy) was accused of attempting to destroy forms collected by Democratic voters in Nevada. That same year in Oregon, Sproul & Associates allegedly instructed canvassers to only accept Republican registration forms in addition to destroying those turned in by Democrats.