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“Pompeo’s pitch to the Party was: I’m going to run this thing like a business,” Dan Rasure, who helped Pompeo in that race, told me.

Coming into the state G.O.P. convention, Pompeo believed that he “had the race sewn up,” Rasure said, but Kobach flipped a bloc of votes, and won.

Rasure stayed in touch with Pompeo, and persuaded him to become the first investor in his new alternative-energy startup, Sunflower Wind, which planned to make wind turbines.

“I would never bet against Pompeo,” Rasure told me.

Christine Rasure, of the Greater St. Louis Area Council of Boy Scouts of America, confirmed Monday that Askew was a volunteer with the organization.