Meredith Stead

1 published research record · Latest research 2026-09-17

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In 2023, Colin Nash paid The Scrap Shop $3,000 per month in multiple months; Lauren McLean paid much larger recurring management/payroll and operations amounts; Jordan Morales, Meredith Stead and James Hallyburton also paid the same firm.

From The Scrap Shop was the common campaign-management vendor for Way Back-backed Nash and McLean’s Boise slate (2026-09-17). Recorded status: PRIMARY IDAHO SUNSHINE VERIFIED common management vendor and payments; reporting corroborates McLean-aligned slate. Way Back-to-Scrap-Shop contract and unlawful coordination remain unproved. This sourced excerpt establishes the research context; it is not a completed biography or identity determination.

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People

Colin Nash · 1 shared record
James Hallyburton · 1 shared record
Jason Risch · 1 shared record
Jeremy Pisca · 1 shared record
Jim Risch · 1 shared record
Jordan Morales · 1 shared record
Lauren McLean · 1 shared record
Melanie Folwell · 1 shared record
Zach Reider · 1 shared record

PACs

Way Back PAC · 1 shared record

Organizations

Conservation Voters for Idaho Action Fund · 1 shared record
Idaho Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee · 1 shared record
Idaho State Democratic Party · 1 shared record
Risch Pisca · 1 shared record
The Scrap Shop LLC · 1 shared record

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Connection research · 2026-09-17The Scrap Shop was the common campaign-management vendor for Way Back-backed Nash and McLean’s Boise slate

Recorded status: PRIMARY IDAHO SUNSHINE VERIFIED common management vendor and payments; reporting corroborates McLean-aligned slate. Way Back-to-Scrap-Shop contract and unlawful coordination remain unproved.

Idaho Secretary of State Sunshine records identify The Scrap Shop LLC as a substantial Idaho political-management node. The vendor profile reports 18 candidates and four PACs paid the firm $227,204. In 2023, Colin Nash paid The Scrap Shop $3,000 per month in multiple months; Lauren McLean paid much larger recurring management/payroll and operations amounts; Jordan Morales, Meredith Stead and James Hallyburton also paid the same firm. The historic client list includes the Idaho State Democratic Party, Idaho Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, Conservation Voters for Idaho Action Fund, Lauren Necochea, Melissa Wintrow, Ilana Rubel, Ali Rabe, Janie Ward-Engelking and other Democratic candidates. Independent reporting describes The Scrap Shop as the campaign-management firm shared by McLean and her aligned Boise council candidates and identifies Melanie Folwell and Zach Reider as its partners. This supplies the previously missing local operational layer:  contributed directly to Nash in both 2023 and 2025 and to Hallyburton in 2025, while those candidates had an established relationship with the same management shop that ran McLean and a broader Democratic/CVI client network. Nash’s 2023 ledger also records a separate $250 contribution from . That contribution is attributable to  alone; it does not establish participation by , Senator , or the  law firm. No evidence presently shows  worked for Way Back, Western Futures, , ,  or , and the shared-candidate/vendor pattern by itself is not proof of unlawful coordination.

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