Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Please define "special interest"

Emmett Hanger's new radio ad is getting some attention - but not the good kind.

SWAC Girl and Republitarian are bemused by Hanger's assertion that Scott Sayre is being financed by "special interests." So, yours truly did some research on Sayre's contributors. I found that Sayre has received $21,039 from corporations and PACs. Everything else came from individuals.

By contrast, Hanger has $25,000 from one political action committee: the Leadership for VA PAC, which as I noted earlier is a PAC specifically created to support tax-hiking Republicans across the Commonwealth.

In other words, Hanger has received more money from a pro-tax-increase PAC than Sayre has raised from all corporate and PAC entities combined.

Who's the "special interest" candidate again?

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