Here's the Guy Behind Trump's Weird 'Mad Men' Connection

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by Dan Primack @danprimack June 21, 2016, 3:54 PM EDT in Fortune

" When Donald Trump filed his latest Federal Elections Commission report on Monday evening, there was an interesting expenditure: $35,000 for “web advertising” to Draper Sterling, a New Hampshire-based firm that seems to have cribbed its name from the television program Mad Men (in which Don Draper worked at Sterling Cooper).

When media outlets checked with New Hampshire state records, they found that Draper Sterling was located in the residential home of Jon Adkins, a longtime medical device sales executive who also co-founded a (now-defunct) “science and technical consulting firm” whose clients often included Republican politicians. One former company employee, for example, wrote on LinkedIn that his primary job was “providing professional canvassing services for Republican candidates.”

Adkins’ partner in that consulting firm was Paul Holzer, who is best known in Massachusetts political circles for his work helping to elect Gov. Charlie Baker. Adkins and Holzer currently are co-founders of a nonprofit biotech startup called XenoTherapeutics, which is focused on a new class of severe burn treatments.
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Read more: http://fortune.com/2016/06/21/trump-mad-men/

[joeybee12]

1. I think what is here, although not proven yet, is a direct coordination

with a Super-PAC...a definite no-no...I hope the media does their job and follows up on this.

[matt819]

2. Maybe it's legit

But something sounds off about this holder guy. Looking forward to more reporting on this the company called left hand.