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Swing Vote Strategist LLC-What the Report Found

Background On 07/11/2024, the Executive Committee voted to form a Joint Fundraising Committee (“JFC”) with TK), the Presidential campaign for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. A Joint Fundraising Committee, known as the Kennedy Victory Fund (“KVF”), was formed and filed a Statement of Organization with the Federal Elections Commission on 07/19/24. A number of state affiliates and PACs also joined the KVF.

On 12/05/2024, Jake Porter posted on X, “I wonder who operates the “Swing Vote Strategist LLC” that received $12,000 from the Libertarian Party’s Kennedy Victory Fund for “fundraising consulting.” A review of KVF’s FEC filings revealed that Swing Vote Strategist (“SVS”) was one of the expenses paid by the KVF before distributing funds to the participants.

Board Action and Response: LNC members began asking McArdle questions. They either received misleading responses or no response. Yeniscavich messaged McArdle on 12/10/2024 asking if Swing Vote Strategist LLC (“SVS”) is Austin’s LLC? She replied, “Probably an address error. I will look into it tomorrow. I need a day off.”

On December 28th, I released the report proving the Swing Vote Strategist LLC company was incorporated by Austin Padgett.

In addition to her failure to disclose the potential conflict of interest, McArdle took actions that obfuscated her involvement with Swing Vote Strategists. During the month Porter posted about Swing Vote Strategists, she led some board members to believe that Padgett was working for the KVF. It took over a month to determine that she was being paid for KVF work through SVS.

Invoices and Payments

Evidence confirming that it was McArdle and not Padgett doing business with the KVF as SVS was found in McArdle’s lp.org email. Several invoices for SVS were sent from McArdle’s lp.org email address to the KVF

The Kennedy campaign chose to continue the contract with Swing Vote Strategist after McArdle resigned as Chair.

Unbeknownst to the LNC, TK chose to continue the contract with SVS after McArdle resigned as LNC Chair due to an apparent misunderstanding by TK. Sanders stated that the work was not specific to McArdle’s role as LNC Chair. The SIC became aware of the continued relationship during a review of McArdle’s lp.org email. Those emails revealed that she continued to interact with the KVF, affiliates, and PAC participants in the KVF, and TK, at least through March 2025. FEC reports demonstrate that the final KVF payment to SVS was in March 2025.

In at least six such emails, all which appear to be responses, McArdle continued to represent herself as LNC Chair in her signature block after she resigned from the LNC, in emails sent on 02/10/2025, 03/04/2025, 03/05/2025, 03/25/2025, 04/07/2025, and 04/24/2025. These emails were between TK staff and the TK attorney advising on the KVF.

Rescue the West-What the Report Found

McArdle also used her position as Chair to raise money for another organization she co-founded, Rescue the West, which promoted the Presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and RFK Jr, while the Libertarian Party had its own nominee, Chase Oliver. I broke the Rescue the West story last year which later made it into a Substack post, but it never gained the traction as the two undisclosed LLCs did.

A review of available financial documents reveals that McArdle raised a total of $1,234,811 through Rescue the West, of which $458,811 was from individual donors on the Give, Send, Go fundraising platform, and $776,000 from the KVF and PACs supporting Kennedy’s platform, including AV24, MAHA Alliance, and the Make America Healthy Again PAC.

We do not know how much of the money, if any, from the Kennedy organization donations to Rescue the West made it to McArdle or Padgett personally.