Jack Nelsen

5 published research records · Latest research 2026-09-17

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Sunnybrook’s disclosed campaign clients included Stephanie Mickelsen, Rodney Furniss, Jack Nelsen, Gregory Lanting, Chenele Dixon, Treg Bernt, Julie Yamamoto, Mark Sauter and Jim Woodward; Hometown Heroes later reported independent expenditures supporting those candidates.

From Hometown Heroes spent $66,874.40 supporting eight former Sunnybrook campaign clients (2026-09-17). Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED transaction overlap from Idaho Sunshine; Herway’s control/founder roles first-party verified. Candidate-PAC coordination or quid pro quo not established. New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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The disclosed clients include Brad Little, Chenele Dixon, Jim Woodward, Julie Yamamoto, Jeff Agenbroad, Jack Nelsen, Stephanie Mickelsen, Gregory Lanting, Mark Sauter, Treg Bernt, Lori Bishop, Rodney Furniss, Joshua Wheeler, Jerald Raymond, Van Burtenshaw, Michael Pohanka and others, plus North Idaho Republicans PAC, Citizens for CdA Public Schools, and Citizens to Elect Qualified & Experienced Candidates.
Lara Herway’s Sunnybrook Strategies had a broad paid Idaho campaign footprint before Hometown Heroes · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED payments and archive aggregate from Idaho Sunshine; founder/governance roles verified by first-party biography and current Sunshine profile. No campaign-to-PAC coordination established.

The resolution expressly said those lawmakers had voted in conflict with the then-current Republican platform; it named Richard Cheatum, Chenele Dixon, Rod Furniss, Dan Garner, Greg Lanting, Lori McCann, Stephanie Mickelsen, Jack Nelsen, James Petzke and others.
Defend & Protect and Dairy PAC supported multiple 2026 candidates previously singled out by Idaho GOP for platform-conflict vote · 2026-09-16
Recorded status: VERIFIED CANDIDATE-SET OVERLAP: official 2023 Idaho GOP resolution plus 2026 DPI spending and IDI-PAC endorsement records. Reason for later support and any coordinated strategy remain unproved.

Jack Nelsen hosted a July 26 appreciation BBQ honoring Senators Hartgen and Geoff Schroeder and Representatives Matthew Bundy, Chenele Dixon and Greg Lanting as strong supporters of the dairy industry.
Dixon’s later Unity Alliance/dairy proximity is preceded by documented dairy-industry political support · 2026-09-15
Recorded status: Verified from Idaho Dairymen’s Association publications and current Unity Alliance records; quid-pro-quo or control not established.

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.
Official Idaho Sunshine records confirm Sunnybrook payments by multiple Main Street-aligned candidates · 2026-09-15
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.

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Chenele Dixon · 4 shared records
Stephanie Mickelsen · 4 shared records
Gregory Lanting · 3 shared records
Brad Little · 2 shared records
Greg Lanting · 2 shared records
Jim Woodward · 2 shared records
Joshua Wheeler · 2 shared records
Julie Yamamoto · 2 shared records
Lara Herway · 2 shared records
Mark Sauter · 2 shared records
Rodney Furniss · 2 shared records
Treg Bernt · 2 shared records
Ben Fuhriman · 1 shared record
Bob Naerebout · 1 shared record
Dan Garner

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Connection research · 2026-09-17Hometown Heroes spent $66,874.40 supporting eight former Sunnybrook campaign clients

Recorded status: PRIMARY VERIFIED transaction overlap from Idaho Sunshine; Herway’s control/founder roles first-party verified. Candidate-PAC coordination or quid pro quo not established.

A transaction-by-transaction comparison of Idaho Sunshine’s Sunnybrook Strategies vendor archive with Hometown Heroes’ complete independent-expenditure table identifies eight candidate overlaps. Sunnybrook’s disclosed campaign clients included Stephanie Mickelsen, Rodney Furniss, Jack Nelsen, Gregory Lanting, Chenele Dixon, Treg Bernt, Julie Yamamoto, Mark Sauter and Jim Woodward; Hometown Heroes later reported independent expenditures supporting those candidates. Hometown’s overlapping expenditures total $66,874.40: $27,344.35 in 2024 support for Mickelsen, Furniss, Nelsen, Lanting, Dixon, Bernt, Yamamoto and Sauter, plus $39,530.05 in 2026 support for Mickelsen, Furniss, Sauter and Woodward. Idaho Sunshine identifies Lara Herway as Hometown Heroes’ chairperson and treasurer; Risch Pisca identifies Herway as Sunnybrook Strategies’ founder. Supported conclusion: the PAC Herway formally controls directed a substantial share of its candidate advertising toward politicians who had previously paid Herway’s consulting firm, establishing a verified consultant-client-to-PAC-beneficiary continuity. Evidence firewall: the Sunnybrook payments and Hometown independent expenditures occurred in different cycles and establish overlapping relationships, not unlawful candidate-PAC coordination, candidate direction of Hometown spending, or quid pro quo. Vendor-name variants in the archive remain normalized only at the search-result level, although  independently attributes Sunnybrook to Herway.

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