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Research Beats Money in The Florida Democratic Senate Primary
In 2010, Nesbitt Research worked with Kendrick Meek to defeat billionaire Jeff Greene by 26 points, despite being outspent five to one. Nesbitt Research examined Greene’s status as one of the first people to invest in Credit Default Swaps, revealing that Greene specifically bet against mortgages in Florida and California. We examined Greene’s vast real estate empire in Southern California, uncovering court records loaded with code violations, liens and lawsuits accusing him of everything from slander to fraud. In what may have been the beginning of the end of Greene’s credibility, we delveddeep into the Russian language internet to uncover a series of pictures in which an unnamed Greene was pictured with troubled starlet Lindsay Lohan. Pictures showed Lohan on Greene’s yacht. This story quickly went to over 200,000 views as news outlets who do not cover politics picked it up, which led to more coverage of Greene’s party-fueled trips to Cuba and of his month long cruise with best-man Mike Tyson.
In 2008, Nesbitt Research worked for America’s largest labor union to help unseat two-term incumbent Republican Sen. Gordon Smith in one of that year’s most closely watched elections. Our comprehensive in-person search took us to the offices of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, where we uncovered evidence of Smith’s long record of environmental problems. We found that his company had repeated environmental sanctions and fines, one for $70,000.
We also scrutinized Smith’s voting record. In doing so, we exposed the former senator’s habit of flip-flopping on key issues and his overwhelming tendency to side with former President George W. Bush. Finally, we obtained documentation regarding Smith’s pay and perks, travel expenses and personal and campaign finances, which revealed a long history of earmarks, no bid contracts and questionable pay-to-play relationships. Armed with our exhaustive research, the labor union conducted a poll and a multi-million dollar ad campaign. Jeff Merkley won the hard-fought election with 49 percent of the vote. Smith received 46 percent.
In 2007, 2009 and 2011, Nesbitt Research provided more than 60 research reports and memos for the Virginia Democratic Party. We conducted on the ground research from Virginia Beach in the east to southwest Virginia to the urban counties of northern districts. Using legal research databases and in-person investigations, we visited jurisdictions likely to produce the [...]
In 2008, Nesbitt Research worked for a Michigan Representative in a successful bid to unseat three-term incumbent Republican Rep. Joe Knollenberg. We analyzed our client’s 16-year history as an elected official, and our in-person review of Rochester Hills City Council documents showed that our client voted to reduce spending by more than four percent. Our [...]
