Ex-Heritage Foundation Bean Counter to Help Local Bigot
Laurel Libby officially registered her “Lead Maine Action” PAC on Black Friday. Longtime sidekick not involved.
The soon-to-be ex-Maine lawmaker from Auburn founded yet another PAC on Nov. 28, this one supporting “candidates and causes that advance freedom in Maine.” According to the PAC registration for “Lead Maine Action,” (rhymes with “weed,” not “dead”) Laurel Libby is listed as “principal officer” with a FloridaMan serving as treasurer. The new guy, named Nick Stoltzfus, is a departure for Libby, who had been consistently partnering with Alex Titcomb on her various Christo-Fash enterprises since 2020.
As I reported here, Libby announced two weeks ago that she was abandoning her fourth bid for the State House, deciding instead to work for a dark money super PAC, helping to spend at least $4 million to get Susan Collins re-elected to the Senate. Also, as I reported here, Libby is no longer affiliated with the Dinner Table Action PAC she co-founded with Titcomb in 2021.
The absence of Titcomb from Libby’s new endeavor is notable because he’d been her number one guy up until Election Day, when the pair’s Q1 ballot initiative got it’s voter-suppressive ass kicked by Mainers, with 315,008 voters rejecting the measure, with only 175,751 in favor. In the month since the Q1 defeat, Titcomb has been pretty quiet on the socials, nursing his wounds and not commenting AT ALL on Libby’s latest moves.
There’s not a lot to be known, currently, re: Libby’s new money-handler, Stoltzfus. According to his Linked-in, he’s a CPA and the former director of accounting and the controller for the Heritage Foundation from 2013 to 2021. And, according to Stoltzfus’ corporate bio, he is “an active angel investor and focuses his financial and consulting services primarily on supporting start-up companies and faith-based organizations who are building the Kingdom of God here on Earth.”
The fella is also co-founder and co-CEO of a company called Stratofied, which claims to be “a financial tech company that is revolutionizing higher education by building the first trading and servicing platform for student loan digital assets. Using the power of blockchain technology, Stratofied’s marketplace allows student loan digital assets to be issued, bought, sold and serviced, making them tradable, accessible, and attractive to purchasers.”
I tried to figure out what this business actually did and my brain started to hurt. However, best guess is that Stratoified converts student loans to crypto “coins” which sounds like a very bad idea.
BTW, when I googled the phone number attached to “Lead Maine Action,” up came the biz page of Libby’s interior design company, which currently has a 1.5 star rating with a handful of negative reviews, apparently from people angry about her bigoted behavior and doxxing of a high school student earlier this year. I found the following review — from someone named “Monica L” — pretty amusing.
Libby and Titcomb still haven’t returned the $57,000 stolen from “patriot” investors. As I explained in this Crash Report, the pair’s various PACs and campaigns benefitted from the largesse of Brant Frost IV’s “First Liberty Building & Loan” Ponzi scheme that targeted customers who listened to the Charlie Kirk Show and other MAGA podcasts.
And last week, Libby visited UMaine Orono to address a small group of students. She was greeted, though, by a huge crowd chanting “Loser Libby” and “garble garble Go Home.”
The soon-to-be ex-state rep was on the Orono campus on behalf of the “Leadership Institute” to address eight Black Bears. (Video and photo from Libby’s socials.)
I’ll continue to watch for more filings from Libby to learn who pays her salary and funds her hate campaigns. Searches (as of press time) of the IRS database still haven’t turned up any non-profit called “Lead Maine,” a 501(c)(4) that Libby claims will be dedicated to educating Mainers about “political and government issues that impact daily life.” (And the non-profit where she’s likely to deposit the $116,746.57 currently in her 2026 abandoned campaign bank account.) Also, per the FEC database, the “Lead Maine Committee” super PAC that Libby announced as part of her fash triumvirate still doesn’t exist.
No matter. Libby is actively soliciting cash, but according to the current Lead Maine (rhymes with “mead, not red”) website, any monies received is apparently a gift to the group, not a donation to the PAC or the non-profit.
