Colorado TRACER records show that SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR paid GIBSON, COREY six itemized monetary expenditures totaling $12,750.00 in 2025. Every row is categorized as Consultant & Professional Services, paid by check, and tied to Selah, Washington. TRACER also shows two small contributions from Gibson to the Bottoms governor committee totaling $11.45.
The public-record context strongly points to Corey Gibson as the Selah, Washington political actor who ran for U.S. House in Washington District 4 in 2022 and later appears through Corey Gibson Consulting, LLC in Washington PDC records for Semi Bird's 2024 governor campaign. That context supports treating Gibson as a political communications / consulting vendor. It does not, by itself, settle his exact Bottoms title or duties.
A follow-up client check found additional campaign-payment records for Brandon Wilkinson and Nevada candidates Jason Porter and Richard Frederick / Richard Frederick Auchmoody. Those records broaden Gibson's campaign-work footprint but do not change the Bottoms-specific payment claim: the Colorado evidence proves a paid campaign-vendor relationship. A later Facebook post adds direct role evidence for a Bottoms AI / technology policy committee role, but still does not explain the TRACER payment scope.
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR paid GIBSON, COREY:
| Date | Amount | Category | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-03-31 | $3,000.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2025-04-10 |
| 2025-11-04 | $3,500.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2026-01-15 |
| 2025-11-05 | $500.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2026-01-15 |
| 2025-11-12 | $500.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2026-01-15 |
| 2025-12-01 | $4,000.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2026-01-15 |
| 2025-12-08 | $1,250.00 |
Consultant & Professional Services | Filed 2026-01-15 |
All six rows are non-amended itemized monetary expenditures in the captured bulk slice. The TRACER bulk fields do not provide a service description beyond the expenditure category.
TRACER also records two itemized contributions from Gibson:
| Date | Amount | Receipt type |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-12 | $10.41 |
Check |
| 2025-07-29 | $1.04 |
Credit / Debit Card |
These contribution rows are real but low-materiality compared with the consulting payments.
OpenFEC records identify GIBSON, COREY, candidate ID H2WA14016, as a 2022 Republican challenger for U.S. House in Washington District 4. His principal committee was SEND COREY 2022, committee ID C00786541. The committee totals show $161,431.44 in receipts and $192,862.33 in disbursements for the 2022 cycle.
Washington Secretary of State results list Corey Gibson in the August 2, 2022 Congressional District 4 primary. The FEC / Washington results context and the TRACER payee city-state match support identifying the Bottoms payee as the same Selah, Washington political actor, though a Bottoms contract or invoice would be cleaner.
Campaign and candidate-profile sources add public background: the Send Corey 2022 launch release described Gibson as a Selah resident and small-business owner, and the Spokesman-Review profile described a marketing background and Nexus Creative Studios role.
Washington PDC open data gives the strongest independent consulting-role context. Misipati Semi Bird's 2024 Washington governor campaign reported six Corey Gibson Consulting, LLC expenditure / in-kind rows totaling $14,700.00.
Those rows include:
$2,200.00 in-kind National Media Outreach on 2023-07-12.$2,500.00 Management and consulting services on 2023-10-20.$2,500.00 rows in November-December 2023 described as Communications Director or Communication Director.This supports a prior campaign communications / consulting pattern. It does not prove the Colorado Bottoms services were the same kind of work, because the Colorado TRACER rows only say Consultant & Professional Services.
The later Facebook source cluster provides Bottoms-specific role evidence absent from the filing rows. The supplied Facebook post says Gibson was chairing the Human Innovation and A.I. Technology Policy Committee for Scott Bottoms and looking for Colorado community and industry input. Use this as a direct social-source role lead, while keeping the contract, payment linkage, exact title, and deliverables unresolved.
Semi Bird is the most relevant non-Bottoms client for the Christian-right network map. Public sources connect Bird to East Washington Freedom Alliance, a pastors-only EWAFA event, Family Policy Institute of Washington strategic-partner infrastructure, and Matt Shea / Patriot Radio reporting. That supports a Christian-right / Christian-nationalist-adjacent ecosystem edge around Bird's campaign environment.
This pass did not find a direct Semi Bird -> NACL source. The supported NACL bridge in the Gibson cluster remains Scott Bottoms -> NACL, through Bottoms's current Colorado state-chair listing.
OpenFEC also shows one $2,600.00 Brandon Wilkinson row to GIBSON, COREY for in-kind advertisement creation / radio ad development. Nevada public-data captures show Corey Gibson Consulting LLC payments from Jason Porter and Richard Frederick / Richard Frederick Auchmoody, plus a separate unresolved Cory Gibson Consulting spelling variant. Public searches did not surface direct NACL or Christian-nationalist organizational ties for Wilkinson, Porter, or Frederick in this pass.
The retained NACL elected-official pledge form adds a compatibility question to the Bottoms / Gibson edge. NACL's public membership materials say elected-official members must sign and return the pledge form, and the pledge includes one-man / one-woman marriage language as well as commitments tied to legislation, actions, votes, lifestyle, and choices. Because NACL publicly lists Bottoms as Colorado chair and official Colorado records identify him as a current state representative, the pledge source supports a strong inference that Bottoms's public NACL role is subject to the elected-official pledge framework. It does not prove a signed Bottoms pledge form has been recovered.
Gibson's public identity makes the edge analytically relevant. Fox News Digital supports Gibson's public identification as a gay man. The later Facebook source cluster materially strengthens the spouse layer: a user-supplied Corey Lee Gibson profile screenshot presents the profile as Male and Married to Víctor Ospina Carvajal since November 11, 2023. The live unauthenticated HTML fetches corroborate the Corey profile identity and a Corey reel mentioning Victor, but do not expose the marriage field. The supported conclusion is therefore a stronger ideological / vetting tension, not a proven NACL pledge violation.
The now-deleted GoFundMe / Jamie Kendrick / NPI trail should remain as a superseded spouse-source lead. It should not be used to downgrade the Facebook profile screenshot unless stronger contrary evidence appears.
A SignalHire profile page says Corey Gibson has been Director of Communications for Scott Bottoms for Governor from February 2025 and lists a prior communications role for Semi Bird's campaign. This matches the general timing of the Bottoms payments and the Washington PDC descriptions, but it is third-party profile data rather than a Bottoms-controlled source. The Facebook post supports a Bottoms campaign policy-committee role; it does not independently confirm the Director of Communications title.
SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR -> Corey Gibson to a high-confidence paid-vendor edge for $12,750.00 in Consultant & Professional Services, with date range 2025-03-31 to 2025-12-08.Corey Gibson -> SCOTT BOTTOMS FOR GOVERNOR as a low-materiality contributor edge totaling $11.45.Corey Gibson -> SEND COREY 2022 / Corey Gibson -> WA-04 2022 congressional candidacy as high-confidence federal-candidate context.Semi Bird 2024 campaign -> Corey Gibson Consulting, LLC as high-confidence Washington PDC contextual evidence for communications / consulting work.Semi Bird -> East Washington Freedom Alliance as a high-confidence event / organizing edge, and keep Semi Bird -> NACL absent unless a direct NACL source appears.MISSOURI FOR BRANDON WILKINSON -> Corey Gibson as a low-dollar OpenFEC advertising / radio-development edge if the graph needs broader Gibson client context.Jason Porter -> Corey Gibson Consulting LLC and Richard Frederick / Richard Frederick Auchmoody -> Corey Gibson Consulting LLC as public-data / aggregator campaign-finance leads pending official Nevada SOS verification.Corey Gibson -> Scott Bottoms Human Innovation and A.I. Technology Policy Committee chair to a direct Facebook-source role lead.Corey Gibson -> Scott Bottoms for Governor Director of Communications beyond a low-confidence lead until primary support is found.NACL elected-official membership -> signed pledge requirement as a high-confidence organizational rule edge.Scott Bottoms -> NACL elected-official pledge framework as an inferred / conditional edge, not a direct signed-form edge.Corey Gibson -> married to Víctor Ospina Carvajal as a Facebook-profile-backed spouse edge, while keeping civil-record status unresolved.GIBSON, COREY as an individual, not Corey Gibson Consulting, LLC; do not assume the payee entity structure without a contract, invoice, or amended report detail.Corey Gibson Consulting, LLC remains unresolved.Cory Gibson Consulting Nevada payee bucket should not be merged into Corey Gibson Consulting LLC totals without source-level confirmation.