Saul Spady, the grandson of the Dick’s Drive-In founder and an active leader in the “No Tax on Jobs” campaign, said he has an assumption about what happened. Leon Neal / Getty Images
On Sept. 28, The Stranger reported that while the campaign against Seattle’s “Amazon Tax” told regulators it spent $1,250 on Twitter ads, a weeks-long search by Twitter found no evidence those ads were actually purchased.
The “No Tax on Jobs” campaign wouldn’t comment for our Sept. 28 story. But the next day, Sept. 29, the campaign quietly revised its disclosure filings to city and state elections officials. Those revised filings indicate the reported Twitter ad purchase never happened. They also say the campaign sub-vendor that supposedly purchased those Twitter ads back in June will now be refunding the entire amount that was allegedly spent, along with about 70 percent of the money this same sub-vendor supposedly spent on Facebook ads.
