The following comes from an August 5 story on LifeSiteNews.com.
Ken Cuccinelli, the unabashedly conservative Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, has been targeted for defeat by Tom Steyer, a California-based billionaire and environmentalist activist. Steyer has announced his political organization will finance ad campaigns, get-out-the-vote efforts, and new media ventures designed to take Cuccinelli down in the most watched off-year election in the nation.
Victoria Cobb, president of the Virginia-based The Family Foundation, told LifeSiteNews.com in February that with Virginia in the spotlight, Cuccinelli will need his grassroots supporters to dig deep to have any chance of winning against McAuliffe’s well-oiled, well-fueled political machine.
That out-of-state pressure “should serve as a reminder of just how important this year’s elections in Virginia are going to be. Because only Virginia has a potentially competitive statewide race, national interest groups are going to spend millions of dollars to influence the outcome,” said Cobb.
Steyer told POLITICO he will air environmentalist television ads accusing Cuccinelli of going on an anti-science “witch hunt” during his investigation into possibly fraudulent state grant requests for climate change research at the University of Virginia.
In 2010, Cuccinelli requested grant application documents from researcher Michael Mann after Mann set an e-mail to colleagues describing a statistical “trick” he performed to manipulate the data. Mann was later found not to have intentionally falsified data, but many skeptics still criticize his methodology as flawed.
After the television ad buy, Steyer will work with President Obama’s media strategist and polling firm to develop a get-out-the-vote program. The billionaire has already met with Grassroots Solutions and Winning Connections, two liberal get-out-the-vote companies.
Steyer said, “We’d like to win” in order to create “a mandate“ for “the right things.”
….Steyer’s publicity and organizational offensive will pour fresh out-of-state cash into a campaign that has already amassed plenty of it. Cuccinelli’s rival, former Clinton fundraiser and Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, has access to many of the deepest pockets on the political Left .
But even without McAuliffe’s long political reach, this is a race that likely would have attracted significant national involvement. In an off year when high profile political races are few and far between, Washington insiders see an opportunity in Virginia – which, like the nation, is fairly evenly split between red and blue – to send a message to the rest of the country.
Given Cuccinelli’s strong pro-life credentials – he voted to overturn then-Democratic Governor Mark Warner’s veto of the partial birth abortion ban, drafted the state’s parental consent law, led efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, and insisted the state’s abortion facilities meet the same health standards as other surgical centers – pro-abortion leaders have taken a particular interest in the race.
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards has said Cuccinelli’s defeat is a top priority for the abortion giant, which teamed up with McAuliffe to launch a website, “Keep Ken Out,” devoted to attacking the Republican candidate for his pro-life views.
“Access to safe and legal abortion, and even contraception, would be at risk in a Cuccinelli Administration,” the website claims. “The future of Virginia women’s health hangs in the balance, that’s why we’re going to make sure voters know exactly how out-of-touch he is, and why we need to keep Ken out of the governor’s office.”
Last summer, CoochWatch.com stated it would post Cuccinelli’s upcoming public appearances, so pro-abortion protesters could follow him.
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It’s an effort to globalize Virginia, a state which has so far reflected the normal values of the traditional United States. This idiot rich dude is not even a Virginian. Hopefully they tar and feather him and ship him out on a rail to New York or even back to California where he came from.
Terry McAuliffe is the devil. His campaign, with supporters like Tom Steyer, stand primarily to assist Planned Parenthood, which has a firm lock on the soul of his pal, Hillary Clinton. The abortion industry is enormous and wants to grow. Ken Cuccinelli is a good man, principled, moral, and willing to fight against evil. And what is it about CA that it sends it carpet-bagging demons like Steyer to beautiful Virginia. This Nation is at a crossroad now. America needs elected leaders like Ken Cuccinelli, not liberal lapdog people like Terry McAuliffe. If Catholics, and Christians, vote their faith, Cuccinelli will win, but it is increasingly looking less likely with big money coming into the Old Dominion. Dear Readers, think of balancing this lopsided race for money — send a check to Ken’s election effort. (No, moi has no ties, directly, or indirectly, to the election.)
Are you saying that Hillary Clinton’s soul was aborted long ago?
The only way the USA is ever going to turn around long enough to make a difference depends on the bishops. But this won’t evidently happen now that the Pope has given the “gay ok” thumbs up, and poo pooud the criticism of his appointee to run the Vatican bank investigation as only a gay man can do.
Steyer is visible proof that having pots of money can’t fix stupid. Between him and Bill Gates, their willful strongarm tactics of imposing their errant and incredibly ignorant, pop views on the world is getting out of hand. God deliver us from do-do gooders who have no idea what good truly is. How dare they! They’re simply economic thugs who use money like Stalin used the gulags.
Those who compare this scam with the ‘Attack of the Paulbots’ during the 2012 campaign should remember that the Tiny Space Alien inside the brain cavity of RonPaul-Perot Did Have a Big Money $ugar Daddy here on earth…
Albeit – Not one from the Home Galaxy of the Paulbots, but rather a Homo-Anal Coprphile from Gernamy interfering in American politics via Sodom by the Sea.
MIllions of $ in Attack Ads, probably funding much of the Paulbot Attacks durng the Campaign – from a guy who has “Never Met the Candidate”
But who Proudly Promotes his own Homo-Anal Coprophile ‘Sodom by the Sea Lifestyle’ – by Attackng Rick Santorum.
And the Lamesteam Media has kept him Hidden!!!
I suppose that the demands of ‘Responsible Journalism – to Treat the ‘Vanilla’ (Suburban taxpaying Voters) like Mushrooms (kept in dark & fertilized with media)…
– would pretty much Require the bought and paid for ‘free press’ (like the Sngleton – MediaNews – BANG Empire orofice) to Censor the Story – outside of ‘tolerant’ markets, like the Aids capital of amerika Frisco for example.
Still – while PACs are not supposed to ‘Co-Ordinate’ with the candidate, a Rich Homo-Anal Coprophile going so far as to Donate Millions in Attack $ against Santorum –
– Without ever once meeting Ron Paul-Perot…
Shows tremendous faith – in the ability of ‘our’ Bought and Paid for ‘free press’ to Censor his role in the Paulbot rampage against the Politically Un-Good…
S.F. billionaire quietly funds Ron Paul super PAC (SFGate 2/26/12)
Unless I am mistaken, watch this effort backfire badly on Steyer. As a former Virginian, most people of this state don’t like Steyer-types pulling their strings.
Steve,
We PRAY you are right!
God bless, yours in Their Hearts,
Kenneth M. Fisher