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297:. He subsequently spent two years as an Account Manager with the Lincoln Strategies Group (a firm co-founded by Charles W. Larson Jr., the son of a political appointee by Branstad's father) and the Development Director for Iowans for Tax Relief. In 2011, he co-founded the Des Moines-based consulting firm, Matchpoint Strategies.
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