Policy makers on both sides of the aisle in Washington are taking the threat of gang violence deadly seriously — even if Northam is late to the game.
Latino Victory Fund Unleashes Another Hate Ad
Just days after the Latino Victory Fund let loose with a hate ad that depicted Ed Gillespie running down brown children in a Confederate flag waving pickup truck, LVFPAC is once again lashing out with another effort to depict Gillespie and Trump alongside Nazi and Confederate flags.
News of this comes as embattled Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam flip-flopped on sanctuary cities, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
[I]n an interview Wednesday with the Norfolk TV station WAVY, Northam said for the first time that, under certain circumstances, he would sign a bill similar to the one he voted against this year, a vote that spawned a wave of ominous ads from the Gillespie campaign linking Northam to the Latino gang MS-13.
“If that bill comes to by desk … I sure will. I’ve always been opposed to sanctuary cities. He knows that,” Northam said of Gillespie, whose MS-13-themed ads have been blasted by critics as racially tinged.
In short, he would have signed the bill that he voted against earlier this year.
The kicker of course is that Northam’s motivations to vote the way he did have gone woefully under reported in the media. One should take Northam at his word that he opposes sanctuary cities, but his motives for voting against the measure were entirely rooted in political opportunism, as Democratic challenger Tom Perriello was breathing down his neck and would have turned it into a campaign issue within an already divided progressive base.
With Soros-backed LVF PAC refusing to back down from its rhetoric (even after the Manhattan terrorist attacks), one really has to wonder how bad Northam’s internal polling has to be at this rate.
UPDATE: Added bonus? The LVF ad omitted the Eastern Shore. You know… where Northam comes from?
Democrats seem to have a real problem with omissions and deletions these days.
GOP Pours $15mil Into Gillespie Campaign Effort
Encouraging signs for Republicans fighting for their first statewide victory since 2009.
WaPo: Racist LVF Northam Ad Backfires In Private Memo
No word on whether or not Northam will either repudiate the ad or return the $16,000 in donations his campaign received from LVF PAC.
Progressive Group Obtains Private Student Information From VCU, Radford And Virginia Tech
About 30,000 e-mail names were swiped by progressive group Next Gen, according to press reports.
Remso Republic Podcast: Matt Kibbe Discusses The Liberty Generation
Beer is freedom.
What beliefs are we instilling in our children with this ad?
What beliefs are we instilling in our children that see this ad? It’s time all Virginians rose up against these extreme fear-mongering tactics in politics.
WaPo Poll Numbers Crater For Northam As Blowback From Racist Ad Continues
This comes after VPAP reports that both Northam and Gillespie are tied for cash-on-hand in the closing week of the November campaign.
George Soros Pours Hate Into Virginia Politics
Embattled Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam is coming under heavy criticism thanks to a Soros-backed outsider group that is borrowing his imagery and labeling Republican Ed Gillespie as a racist.
The outside group — Latino Victory Fund PAC — donated $16,000 to Northam’s campaign after a fundraiser earlier this year.
The Latino Victory Fund PAC is run by a firm by the name of Perkins Cole, according to FEC sources.
If the name sounds familiar, it is because Perkins Cole has come under recent scrutiny this week for being the law firm who hired Fusion GPS to compile the Trump dossier:
Elias hired the company, Fusion GPS, to assist in the law firm’s representation of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, report the New York Times and the Washington Post, which was first with the story. The Clinton campaign and the DNC helped pay for the opposition research, the stories report.
The law firm’s involvement became public in a letter filed in court that was written by Perkins Coie managing partner Matthew Gehringer. The letter said Perkins Coie hired Fusion GPS in April 2016. Before that, Fusion GPS had been conducting research for one or more clients during the Republican primary.
Needless to say, the Latino Victory Fund PAC has some dubious ties of its own to outside money — 99% of which comes from non-Virginian sources.
Sources speaking on background with TRS are stating that Northam’s internals took a plunge for the worse over the last few weeks, signalling an intent by Northam handlers that the campaign needed to “let it all go” and throw the punches hard, high, and to the right.
Calls for Northam to refund the $16,000 have thus far gone unheeded.
UPDATE: Justin Higgins has had enough.
Muller Probe Produces Indicment Against Manafort; Nothing on Trump
There is literally nothing here.