Democracy for America has moved in to Northern Virginia and will be spotting a few house of delegate races. DFA was founded by by Howard Dean.
The group also released the results of surveys from Public Policy Polling, a firm that uses automated dialing rather than live telephone interviews, showing that many residents of the three Northern Virginia districts have negative views of the tea party movement and of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican nominee for governor.
The endorsements are part of DFA’s Purple to Blue project, which seeks to win swing legislative seats in states around the country. The group says it will target two more districts in Virginia and will “spend well over $750,000” on the five Virginia races.
One of those races will impact Prince William County as John Bell challenges Del. David Ramadan.
The Republicans who are being challenged seem up for fight and some campaign managers even tried to denigrate Howard dean which makes no sense at all. It should come as no shock that many in Northern Virginia have disdain for Ken Cuccinelli and the teaparty.
What I find quite telling is that according to the latest campaign finance disclousres, 78% of T-Mac’s donations are from out-of-state, and his largest donors are labor unions. Running for Governor in a “right to work” state, out-of-state labor union money….only have to connect a dot or two to see where this is going…
That is nothing new. The democrats have always had support of labor in state elections.
Where is a lot of The Cooch’s money coming from? 🙄
Issues are what should be driving the election cycle. Nothing more. I also don’t think DFA is targetting the gubinatorial race. I could be wrong.
@Moon-howler
Most of his money is from in-state sources. Right-to-work is a state issue.
Truthfully, who cares where the money comes from as long as it is legal. I guess if we went back through elections for the past 20 years it would be tit for tat.
Upon closer inspection, do we get that precent you threw out from % of dollar amount of % of donators, regardless of size of donation? McAuliffe has some pretty impressive donations. Bill Clinton gave him $100k. Not bad. Planned Parenthood also sent a sizable check. Hmmmmm…I wonder why?
You assume the motives of the unions. Perhaps they want to conserve what they have rather than Cuccinelli pulling a Scott Walker. They can keep on sending money from my vantage point. The unions can line Terry’s war chests and the oil and tobacco can line Cuccinelli’s. Just so McAuliffee wins and the donations are legal, I’m good with it.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/terry-mcauliffe-gets-78-of-campaign-cash-from-outside-virginia/article/2527992
The reporter isn’t even comparing the same thigns:
Probably 72% of the people or organizations contributing are from Virginia. IN terms of dollars, the money (large amounts) may have come from out of state.
Again….so what? I could care less. It doesn’t take too many Clinton contributions of $100,000 to make that happen.
I really hope Cuccinelli isn’t going to try to be more of a Virginian than McAuliffe. he is a Jersey boy. Both are transplants.
There are plenty of people in the Old Dominion who don’t think any of us including the two gubenatorial candidates are real Virginians.
@Steve
Just out of curiosity, do you feel that state races should only involve money from in-state?
I see you keep coming back to out of state money like McAuliffe is doing something illegal. To my knowledge, the geographical source of campaign money is irrelevant, whether it goes in a D pocket of a R pocket.