Eric Cantor

GOP House Leader, Eric Cantor, was facing two conservative primary challengers this June before the announcement today from Pete Greenwald that he is pulling out of the race. Pete Greenwald was the first to announce his candidacy against Eric Cantor. Greenwald served 25 years in…

Last night at the Henrico GOP Mass Meeting the conservative grassroots demonstrated that, when they work together, they can be victorious against the big money, paid staff, and consultant antics of Eric Cantor’s Young Guns PAC. The victory might be lost on some who don’t…

Check here starting at around 7:00 pm for real-time coverage of the events at the Henrico County Republican Committee Mass Meeting, where it is expected that Eric Cantor’s YG Virginia 501(c)(4) organization, with help from local allies of Rep. Cantor, will attempt to disenfranchise hundreds of fellow Republicans.

Which political figures are hurt most by slating off delegates? Obviously, the candidates those delegates support, but also the Senate candidates who need those delegates to stay active and engaged through the June convention in Roanoke.

So what exactly is “slating,” you may be asking? And why all the uproar? Backers of Rep. Eric Cantor’s favored candidates are “slating off” all the people who don’t share their views, and then some.  What does that mean? First, it happens at a local…

It is like something out of a mobster movie. Eric Cantor’s Young Guns and the GOP Establishment are systematically going around to the local GOP county units in Virginia and snuffing out the votes of the conservative grassroots.