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TransparencyUSA's Hometown Heroes committee page lists Redbird Strategies as the committee's top payee at $17,700.

From Hometown Heroes directly paid Redbird Strategies $17,700 (2026-09-17). Recorded status: Verified vendor relationship; operational inference only; no earmarking or ownership finding New published findings are added here as sourced excerpts.

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TransparencyUSA's Idaho payee aggregate of $597,302 for Redbird Strategies is $30,000 below the current Idaho Sunshine total of $627,302.
Current Idaho Redbird total is $627,302, not $597,302 · 2026-09-17
Recorded status: Verified reconciliation of official total against stale third-party aggregate

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Cade Cothren · 1 shared record

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Defend and Protect Idaho · 3 shared records
Hometown Heroes · 1 shared record

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Redbird Strategies · 3 shared records
Redbird Strategies LLC · 1 shared record

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Connection research · 2026-09-17Hometown Heroes directly paid Redbird Strategies $17,700

Recorded status: Verified vendor relationship; operational inference only; no earmarking or ownership finding

TransparencyUSA's Hometown Heroes committee page lists Redbird Strategies as the committee's top payee at $17,700. This adds a direct vendor relationship between Redbird Strategies and Hometown Heroes, separate from Defend and Protect Idaho's $208,725 in May 2026 Redbird independent expenditures. Because Hometown Heroes also transferred $65,000 to Defend and Protect Idaho on the same two dates as Defend's May 13 and May 15 Redbird spending, Redbird appears on both sides of the Hometown/Defend operational network: directly as Hometown's vendor and indirectly as Defend's principal ad vendor. This does not establish earmarking or common ownership.

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TransparencyUSA — Hometown Heroes, Idaho Committee — Top Payees
Idaho Sunshine — Browse Expenditure Data — Defend and Protect Idaho; Redbird Strategies; May 13 and May 15, 2026

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Research finding · 2026-09-17Current Idaho Redbird total is $627,302, not $597,302

Recorded status: Verified reconciliation of official total against stale third-party aggregate

TransparencyUSA's Idaho payee aggregate of $597,302 for Redbird Strategies is $30,000 below the current Idaho Sunshine total of $627,302. The exact difference is 's July 8, 2026 $30,000 Redbird payment for management services. Therefore the TransparencyUSA figure appears to omit that later transaction and should not be used as the current statewide total.

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