Texas CD 2

I have serious concerns about the CD2 race, in particular Sima Ladjevardian, who I have brought up before.
Below are the receipts. Yes, she has given to democratic donors heavily, but I have seen some pretty shady donations, some as recent as 2015 to Republicans. Her 2015 donation was to Charles Boustany, who made the statement, in support of a fellow GOP seeking Louisiana’s senate seat “”Republicans who care about the future of our country need a Republican in the Senate who will work with Donald Trump to roll back the failed liberal policies of President Obama,” Boustany said. “I endorse John Kennedy and urge all my supporters to cast their vote for him.” In the Tribune article she plays off GOP endorsements by insinuating that it was a one time thing in deference to community elders. Except it happened a few times. People said “maybe they are friends” ok. So I backed off. However Looking more into her dealings I’m not liking what I am seeing.

While Sima touts her pro-worker credentials at CPPP, and their unionizing, looking at tweets from workers, she was part of the management group that looked to suppress unionization. Sima got the AFL-CIO endorsement, however someone that was able to raise 200k quickly, and tout her Pro-Union chops didn’t bother with a union bug on her first batch of campaign material.

She has ties to Amir Mireskandar, a former consultant for Kim Ogg. Former because he is under FBI investigation for trying to influence elected officials, like Ogg, and Ken Paxton, etc, while working for several Poker Houses seeking to expand and legitimize their businesses. He is also CEO and managing partner of Mires, Ran Clark and Associates, a consulting company that has Wayne Dolcefino listed as part of leadership in Media Consulting & Investigations. Dolcefino is a well known GOP operative.

We are eight days out from the Primary, and she still hasn’t filed her financial disclosure forms. She was supposed to do that on 2/2. So we now have no way to fully vet out a candidate that has started at least 2 businesses with a person that is under FBI investigation for trying to influence elected officials through donations.

In Comparison I have researched both Travis Olsen and Elisa Cardnell , neither of whom have significant ties to PACS or a history of donations above the mandatory reporting thresholds.

Below is a timeline of activity, and link to sources.

Timeline of activity:

2007 – Sima Ladjevardian makes max donation to Rudy Giuliani

2015 – Sima Ladjevardian makes last donation to Republican Candidate Charles Boustany.

2018 – Texas Progressive Executive Council Founded. Sima and Amir are listed as Co-Chairs in articles.

2018 – Texas For Fairness and Justice PAC founded and lists Amir Mireskandar as Treasurer. Listed as a sister pac to the TPEC

July, 2019 – Ogg dismisses poker room cases, citing conflict with consultant and fundraiser, Amir Mreskandiari. The clubs are Post Oak Poker Club and Prime Social Poker Room.

August 24^th 2019 – Kim Ogg speaks about donations from Poker Houses to Adrian Garcia and Ken Paxton

December 2019 – CPPP is accused of anti-union tactics on Twitter despite statements to the contrary.

Disappointed to learn ahead of first mtg w/ @CPPP_TX mgmt on Fri that they are contesting composition of our already small bargaining unit w/ proposal to exclude ~40% of non-supervisors who signed authorization cards w/@NonprofitUnion (disproportionately women of color) #1u
— CPPP United (@CpppUnited) December 12, 2019

December 9^th, 2019 – Sima Ladjevardian files to run in Texas 2. She immediately raises 200k and garners the support of people such as Kim Ogg, Adrian Garcia, Etc, who all benefited from TPEC and Texas for Fairness and Justice PAC.

December 20^th 2019 – Sima’s campaign files for extension for Financial Disclosure form, listing a date of February 2^nd.