The Bull Elephant has just been made aware of a new SuperPAC that was formed this month, VA Vision Action PAC, that will start running ads against Eric Cantor. They state that they are “RINO hunters” who want to hold Republican politicians accountable who fail to live up to the Republican Creed.
Va Vision Action PAC has developed two ads. The first ad is called, “Florida” and talks about Eric Cantor attending the Main Street PAC fundraiser (an anti-tea party PAC) at the Ritz Carlton in Florida this weekend.
The Florida ad starts off by saying,
Four years ago, Tea Party conservatives put Republicans in charge of Congress and Eric Cantor became Majority Leader. But this weekend, Cantor is in Florida raising money to defeat Tea Party conservatives. Why?
According to the Daily Caller the Main Street PAC referenced in this ad that Eric Cantor is attending as a speaker is an,
anti-tea party PAC devoted to fighting conservatives within the GOP…The event will reportedly be attended by $5,000 donors to the PAC, which sells $5,000 tickets to its events on its website. The event will be hosted at the Ritz Carlton on Amelia Island in Nassau County, Florida.
The Republican Main Street Partnership PAC was formed in part by board member and former congressman Steve LaTourette, who has committed himself to raising money and running ads to defend centrist congressional Republican candidates from tea party primary challengers. LaTourette is the president of the Republican Main Street Partnership, a prominent advocacy group for the centrist wing of the GOP. His separate anti-tea party super PAC Defending Main Street had by February received most of its funding from labor unions.
…LaTourette said that tea partiers are happy to call him a “RINO” but that that they go “apoplectic” when the “RINO gets a gun” and “fires back. Here’s the deal: we didn’t start this fight,” LaTourette said, “but I’m going to finish it.
The second ad being run against Cantor by VA Vision PAC is called amnesty. (Cantor has recently been criticized in newspapers for his pro-amnesty position.) The attack radio ad starts off by saying,
This’ll get you angry. A group called the Main Street Partnership’s taken hundreds of thousands from left-wing labor unions and even gotten money from George Soros. Their stated goal is defeating Tea Party conservatives in primaries. So why is Eric Cantor raising money for them this weekend? Because Cantor’s part of a GOP Establishment that sees conservatives as a bigger threat than Barack Obama. How? Conservatives want to stop ObamaCare, fight spending and debt and any plans for illegal alien amnesty, and Eric Cantor’s on the other side.
Both ads conclude by encouraging voters to support Dave Brat for Congress.
The VA Vision Action PAC has made a small ad buy on WRVA radio, which is the #1 talk radio station in Cantor’s district. They are hoping that people will hear the ad and respond by donating money. They will need more donations to keep the ads on the air, since they are a newly formed organization. The VA Vision Action PAC ads encourage people to go to www.rinocantor.com to donate and learn more.
Eric Cantor is being challenged by Dave Brat in the Republican Primary on June 10th.
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[…] IN YOUR FACE: Cantor decided to then ratchet it up another level when Cantor decided to run off to Amelia Island to help a PAC that was partially funded with labor unions and Soros money. The primary objective […]
[…] IN YOUR FACE: Cantor decided to then ratchet it up another level when Cantor decided to run off to Amelia Island to help a PAC that was partially funded with labor unions and Soros money. The primary objective […]
[…] is not without outside help. A new Super PAC, VA Vision Action PAC, recently began running radio ads in the district opposing Cantor and supporting […]
[…] is not without outside help. A new Super PAC, VA Vision Action PAC, recently began running radio ads in the district opposing Cantor and supporting […]
Another PAC is the last thing we need.
Perhaps, but sometimes you have to fight firehoses of money with firehoses of money.
Jamie, who runs this PAC?
This is bad for Cantor. His 60 point victory may be cut down to 59.994 points.
Its time for all men and women of good will in Virginia’s 7th district to band together and support Dave Brat in the June 10th primary. Eric Cantor has had ample time to act and vote as a Conservative. He has not. He has voted for TARP and every crony bailout, allowing failed and irresponsible corporate executives to collect millions of dollars in bonuses, courtesy of American taxpayers. Despite high and continuing unemployment and underemployment Cantor has done everything possible to advance Amnesty to illegal aliens.
Cantor assumes he owns his office and shows nothing but contempt for his constituents. Enough is enough.
http://www.davebratforcongress.com
I have determined that as a progressive Republican, Eric Cantor is no longer truly representing me. I have determined to support Dave Brat to replace Eric Cantor, and will work very hard to see that this happens. I have further determined I cannot vote for Eric Cantor just because he says he is Republican. During the term of Ronald Reagan, I really understood what it meant to be Republican, but George Bush, when he had the majority, did not act like a republican, he was too progressive. So as I have studied and read and become educated on the various systems, it seems to me that we have 2 parties in name, and 2 parties in philosophy. There are democrats and republicans, but for the country, and for the result to the country there are progressives (liberals and socialists) and conservatives (social and fiscal). I think I will just vote conservative and see how that works out.
Cantor’s deceitful ways:
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