Harris’ campaign paid Authentic Campaigns, Inc almost twice the amount (on just digital advertising) in one single month that Gabbard paid to Northwest Digital the entire first half of the year. All the candidates' digital advertising costs are actually quite substantial.

The money is not the problem. The problem is that the political elite apparently know very little about the firm that Tulsi has worked with since 2012 or the self-employed man that runs it.

That’s the real issue, isn’t it? The political elite don’t know him, so they’re trying to insinuate (without evidence) that there is some kind of scam going on between Gabbard and Northwest Digital.

It gets worse though. See, it’s apparently perfectly acceptable to commit religious discrimination against people who practice or have practiced Hinduism. So the author of the smear article tries to insinuate shady business because the vendor “has ties to” the specific religious community in which Gabbard was raised.

In full disclosure, I might be biased, because I still have ties to people in the Catholic Church that I grew up in. For example, like Tulsi, I still talk to my Catholic family members even though I disavow Catholic indoctrination. I also still maintain relationships with some of the people I went to Catholic school with. While many of them aren’t still Catholic, the “ties” are still there. So, my bad on maintaining relationships with the people I grew up with, I guess. Worse still, I choose to frequently engage with my former classmates from Catholic school in business matters too.

To me, this makes perfect sense. These are the people I grew up with. These are the people I know. If I were to run for a public office, I’d surround myself with people I know and trust, people who would put 100 percent effort into my campaign. When you pay people for a service and their heart isn’t in it, you get less amazing service.

Not to speak of the relief that comes with hiring people or purchasing services from people that you know won’t stab you in the back. These days, our digital identity is among the most vulnerable aspects of our lives. Trusting the wrong person with our digital identity can result in catastrophe. For people not trying to take on the Military-Industrial Complex, your “name-brand political operatives” produce great results, but for people who are trying to take on the Military-Industrial Complex, it’s best if your vendors don’t have strong Military-Industrial Complex ties.

If you’re smart, you look to your own circle and ask people you trust for recommendations of other trustworthy people to hire. While the smear starts out by acting like Northwest Digital kind of just came out of nowhere, the contradiction in the smear is that it also explains — as noted above — Tulsi has been working with the same digital media company since 2012 and hasn’t lost an election yet. Obviously, they work well together.

Tulsi’s internet marketer isn’t the only person in the campaign with ties to Tulsi’s religious upbringing though. There are others.

Tulsi’s sister introducing her at a Manchester, NH town hall this month.

Tulsi’s Sister.

This smear attack went on to point out that Gabbard’s sister also has ties to the Hindu community Tulsi was raised in. Scandalous, right? Tulsi’s sister was raised in the same religion Tulsi was raised in, and now she promotes Tulsi’s career. Again, in full disclosure, I might be biased, because my brother went to the same Catholic school as me and also often promotes my business.

And despite the fact that I “left the church” 25 years ago, and despite the fact that for more than two decades, the Catholic Church has been absolutely reeling from sexual abuse scandals, and despite the Catholic Church’s dirty money laundering associations, absolutely no one would so much as raise an eyebrow at the fact that in very recent history, I was a maid of honor in a Catholic wedding, attended multiple Catholic funerals, and was even the signing Godmother on a Catholic baptismal document.

But wait… There’s more!

Tulsi’s husband is employed as the videographer for the campaign.

Tulsi’s husband.

This new smear campaign “spills the beans” (that the entire world already knew) that Gabbard’s campaign had the audacity to pay her husband for “media production, travel expenses and equipment rentals,” which are the things that the entire world can see him doing day in and day out. Oh and her husband has ties to the Hindu religion too.

Now’s a good time to also point out that if the campaign were to purchase the services of a professional, private videographer and video editor to do the work Abraham Williams does, the price tag would be astronomical. Williams, Gabbard’s husband, travels with Gabbard all over the country tirelessly documenting her campaigning. Let’s face it, the corporate media hasn’t been too eager to document her town hall events and public appearances, so someone has to.

All these thousands of dollars spent on making videos and promoting herself online might seem shady if Tulsi weren’t legitimately running for President, but she is.

Tulsi is running for President to the ire of the political elite who had zero problems with her family or her religion when she was vetted for and served as the vice-chair of the DNC.

The truth is, Tulsi’s carefully chosen team is clearly doing something right. See, unlike Harris who spent millions (not thousands or hundreds of thousands) on digital promotion and is declining in the polls, Gabbard is rising in the polls having just scored 3-percent in a Boston Globe -published poll released this week and 6-percent in an Emerson poll released this week.