OUR HISTORY

Constantin Querard has worked in Arizona politics for more than two decades.  He founded Discessio, LLC in 2005 to offer clients a full range of political, strategic, and marketing consulting services.  That same year he founded High Noon Campaign Products, LLC to provide campaign products, including direct mail, TV and radio production, and telephony products.  He founded Grassroots Partners, LLC in 2008 to provide lobbying services for those issues that were consistent with the ideals of limited government and individual liberty.  These three firms were merged in January of 2014 under the name Grassroots Partners, LLC.

MEET CQ

Constantin Querard is the founder and president of Grassroots Partners, LLC, one of Arizona’s leading campaign consulting and public affairs firms.  A frequent guest on local and national media, Constantin has won hundreds of races at various levels, with notable success at the state legislative level.  In fact, nearly 60% of the Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature are Grassroots clients.

On the for-profit side, Constantin has been active in politics for several decades, working on a variety of campaigns for pro-family candidates and causes. He has managed and worked on campaigns for candidates from the State Legislative level to the U.S. Senate, in a variety of states, including Arizona, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and California. In 2016, Ted Cruz’ Presidential campaign tapped him to run his Arizona campaign and delegate operations.

In 2013, Campaigns & Elections magazine named him one of Arizona's 5 GOP Influencers, and in 2015 he was named Best Campaign Consultant by the Arizona Capitol Times.

Constantin is a member of the Board of Directors of Balanced Budget Now (Center for State-led National Debt Solutions), which is leading the charge to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and save America from financial ruin.

Constantin also founded the Arizona Family Project, an Arizona non-profit focused on involving Arizona's families in the public policy process, and he served as the organization's Executive Director for years. He continues to share his expertise with pro-family activists by teaching various training schools and by speaking to pro-family groups across Arizona. His pro-family work history also includes serving as the Executive Director of Citizens for Arizona Policy and CAP-PAC, as well as Director of Development for Arizona Right to Life.

He has been a member of the National Association of Republican Campaign Professionals and of Mensa.

An M.B.A. recipient from Arizona's own Thunderbird School of Global Management, Constantin and his wife Lisa are blessed with two girls, Tatiana and Ekaterina, and a boy, Alexander.

You can follow him on Twitter here.

MEET CLINT

Clint Van Wuffen is a veteran of several major presidential campaigns, including Rick Santorum’s 2012 presidential primary campaign, and Ted Cruz’ 2016 presidential primary campaign. He has also worked as an advance team member for the CPAC conference where he advanced high profile leaders like Richard Grenell, Newt Gingrich, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Trey Gowdy and others.

In addition to his political skills over the last two decades, Clint also works as a consultant for a Christian University in Arizona, he is an entrepreneur who holds two utility patents, and he sits on the board of a local adoption agency.