Connection research · Research date 2026-09-15
Official Idaho Sunshine records confirm Sunnybrook payments by multiple Main Street-aligned candidates
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED candidate→vendor payments; V4IV→Sunnybrook $35K remains strong secondary aggregation until its underlying row is reproduced. Shared vendor does not prove client coordination.
This is a dated research record. Its qualifications and open questions are part of the account. Association alone does not establish wrongdoing or control.
Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine search results independently confirm Sunnybrook Strategies payments by multiple Idaho candidates in the broader Main Street-aligned orbit. Indexed Sunshine results show Gregory Lanting paying Sunnybrook Strategies $700 in the 2023-24 cycle; Stephanie Mickelsen paying Sunnybrook Strategies $1,300 in the 2024 primary cycle; Joshua Wheeler paying Sunnybrook Strategies Management $650 in the 2022 cycle; and Jack Nelsen making Sunnybrook Strategies operations payments including $2,000 and $1,500 in the 2022 cycle. Separately, current 2024 Transparency USA aggregation reports Veterans for Idaho Voters—an Idahoans for Open Primaries coalition member alongside Reclaim and MWEG—paid Sunnybrook Strategies LLC $35,000. This hardens the vendor crossline between the Open Primaries veterans organization and candidates in the same broad political orbit as Dixon/Main Street, while preserving the critical limitation that shared vendor use does not establish coordination, common strategy or common control among clients.
Source references
- Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine — Gregory Lanting / Sunnybrook indexed transaction — Lanting campaign / Sunnybrook expenditure
- Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine — Stephanie Mickelsen / Sunnybrook indexed transaction — Mickelsen campaign / Sunnybrook expenditure
- Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine — Joshua Wheeler / Sunnybrook indexed transaction — Wheeler campaign / Sunnybrook expenditure
- Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine — Jack Nelsen / Sunnybrook indexed transactions — Nelsen campaign / Sunnybrook expenditures
- Transparency USA — Veterans for Idaho Voters 2024 — 2024 expenditure summary