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ehrnst

(32,640 posts) Wed Oct 31, 2018, 05:29 PM Oct 2018

Democrat says Project Veritas infiltrated her campaign in Va.'s tight 7th District

They're getting desperate...

RICHMOND — A conservative group that creates undercover “sting” videos infiltrated the campaign of Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat in a tight race with Rep. Dave Brat in Virginia’s 7th District.

The campaign said a young woman working for Project Veritas posed as a Democratic volunteer and spent every day over the past several weeks in Spanberger’s suburban Richmond campaign office, performing basic office tasks — and peppering her office mates with questions that eventually raised red flags.

Campaign staffers on Wednesday confronted her and asked her to leave, a video released by the campaign shows.
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Republican strength in the district has been waning, with victory margins shrinking. GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the 7th District by 11 percentage points in 2012. Trump won it by six points in 2016. In the 2017 governor’s race, Republican Ed Gillespie beat Democrat Ralph Northam there by less than four points.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrat-says-project-veritas-infiltrated-her-campaign-in-vas-tight-7th-district/2018/10/31/c8afad34-dd42-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

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Democrat says Project Veritas infiltrated her campaign in Va.'s tight 7th District (Original Post) ehrnst Oct 2018 OP

Yep, more dirty tricks... Wounded Bear Oct 2018 #1

Spanberger also had her UNREDACTED SF-86 security clearance form leaked. Qutzupalotl Oct 2018 #2

Republicans cannot win fairly C_U_L8R Oct 2018 #3

well, they won't do "anything" unblock Oct 2018 #4

True... they certainly won't do the right thing C_U_L8R Oct 2018 #5

Hence.. TwistOneUp Oct 2018 #6

Project Veritas can go eat a bag of rancid dog shit. Initech Oct 2018 #7

I see the deep undercover tactics of Veritas has once again uncovered public positions. Gore1FL Oct 2018 #8

These guys have blood on their hands sakabatou Oct 2018 #9

Wounded Bear

(58,704 posts)

1. Yep, more dirty tricks...

Reply to ehrnst (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 05:30 PM

Oct 2018

Qutzupalotl

(14,322 posts)

2. Spanberger also had her UNREDACTED SF-86 security clearance form leaked.

Reply to ehrnst (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 05:33 PM

Oct 2018

Paul Ryan and the aptly-named Brat were happy to spread it around.

Good on Abigail for rooting out this rat. The right really has no scruples.

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)

3. Republicans cannot win fairly

Reply to ehrnst (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 05:39 PM

Oct 2018

And worse, they don't believe they can win fairly. They're desperate and will do anything, not matter how dishonest or illegal. They're the very definition of loser.

unblock

(52,316 posts)

4. well, they won't do "anything"

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 05:52 PM

Oct 2018

for example, they absolutely refuse to change their policies to make them more helpful to the vast majority of americans.

they have principles, you see....

C_U_L8R

(45,020 posts)

5. True... they certainly won't do the right thing

Reply to unblock (Reply #4)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 06:11 PM

Oct 2018

TwistOneUp

(1,020 posts)

6. Hence..

Reply to C_U_L8R (Reply #3)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 06:18 PM

Oct 2018

Russia
Assange and Wikileaks
NRA
Falwell, Dobson et al

These are the peeps / firms supporting the rethugs and their completely corrupt regime. They helped him get elected because they want a white christian USA, and all minorities / LGBT gone. They know they are in the minority and can't win by themselves, so they BS their supporters and try to executive privilege their "platform" (spell that d.o.g.m.a.) into law. So far, one - ONE - bicameral passage of a law has occurred, with the rest of their laws passed by executive fiat.