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Northam Couldn’t Condemn LVF Ad (Because He Was Behind It)

Breaking news from FOX 5 in Washington about why embattled Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ralph Northam could not bring himself to condemn the vile Latino Victory Fund hate ads against Republican Ed Gillespie.

According to documents aggregated by Phil Kerpen and published on Medium, it appears as if Northam is not only deeply connected to LVFPAC, but co-ordinated the advertisements to the tune of over $69,000.

From the article:

“That commercial did not come from our campaign, and it’s certainly not a commercial that I would have wanted to run,” Northam said.

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Virginia campaign law is very different from federal law. In federal races, outside groups conduct independent expenditures and are strictly prohibited from coordinating with official campaigns. In Virginia, independent expenditures are allowed — but so are communications that are directly coordinated with the campaign.

This did not go unnoticed by Republicans on Twitter who were very quick to point out the discrepancy.

Everything they have done in this race including the murder-truck ad was coordinated with the Northam campaign and disclosed by the Northam campaign.

Why would a campaign allow coordinated communications to go out without reviewing their content? The only reason I can think of is to preserve willful ignorance.

An all-too-clever coincidence, given that the Northam campaign itself had been echoing some of the very same themes of the LVF ad just last week in a nasty ad depicting both Trump and Gillespie alongside the Citronella Nazis who marched in Charlottesville:

The Democratic Party of Virginia did not limit this imagery to Gillespie, either.  Republican Delegate Scott Lingamfelter (R-Prince William) found himself the target of similar LVF-themed — but mystically, never co-ordinated — ads actually claiming Lingamfelter was “running over Virginia families.”

The obverse side of the DPVA-approved advertisement even had the audacity to put Lingamfelter behind the wheel of a car in an mail slick, ill-advised since it arrived as news of the Manhattan car attack was breaking on CNN.

Compounded by Delegate Barbara Favola’s remarks calling Republicans “evil” before a throng of Northern Virginia Democrats, and it is clear that as a last-ditch campaign saving maneuver, Northam and his handlers chose to throw caution (and reason) to the wind.

Meanwhile, the McAuliffe-led Virginia Department of Elections has not issued a statement regarding whether or not it intends to follow up on what is now becoming yet another narrative-stealing scandal for an ill-led and sophomoric Northam campaign.

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.