The recent polling done by CrossTarget for Americans For Prosperity (AFP) has too many links to Mahoney to be taken seriously as an outside poll. And while trying to research the poll and the people connected to it, I discovered an almost incestuous collaboration of professional political consultants, and insiders to the Mahoney for congress checkbook that all circle around Americans For Job Security.
CrossTarget, the polling organization, was created by Stephen DeMaura and Patrick Hynes, both connected political insiders. DeMaura is no fan of Guinta, and Hynes works for Mahoney. So why would AFP choose CrossTarget for a poll given these obvious questions of conflict? I have no idea why, but it was a bad call by Lewandowski and it questions AFP’s neutrality on the race if there even is one.
As for Hynes and DeMaura, they have connections to a more complex relationship with current and former members of AJS (maybe there’s no such thing a a former member of AJS) that conveniently lead repeatedly back to Sean Mahoney’s campaign expense report.