Tara McGowan is doing damage control with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, in the wake of scrutiny of her company's role in developing Shadow, the vote-reporting app which caused much of the Iowa vote-counting meltdown
The political strategist at the center of the Iowa caucus debacle is doing damage control with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, in the wake of scrutiny of her company's role in developing Shadow, the vote-reporting app which caused much of the vote-counting meltdown.
"It pains me immensely that we have brought any question or doubt to your minds about our ability to do this work following the error by the Shadow team and the events that unfolded in Iowa," wrote Tara McGowan, founder of the non-profit ACRONYM, which was the lead investor in the company that designed Shadow. McGowan’s letter was sent to her list of donors which includes everyone from Steven Spielberg and his wife Kate Capshaw, to Jeffrey Katzenberg and J.J.
After it was revealed that the Shadow app was largely responsible for the inconsistencies that held up the Iowa caucus results for more than a day, McGowan — a former Barack Obama campaign aide — has been getting pilloried online. Critics have accused her of just about everything — from being a Democratic establishment insider who’s trying to rig the election to operating a shadowy Koch Brothers-like organization where she stands to enrich herself. None of it holds up to much scrutiny.
In her letter, which was sent out the morning of Wednesday, McGowan lays out the logic behind the byzantine structure she used to establish an array of entities over the past few years, which include a 501c4 non-profit organization, a 527 super PAC and several for-profit corporations, including the one that developed the Shadow app.
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