Kilgore is sending out an illegal mailer while republicans are in faux outrage over Kaine's speeding ticket for the same thing. Once again Kilgore is the bad guy here, dont let Kaine lose his momentum.
See below..
http://www.wvec.com/...
As Republican lawyers urged state election officials Friday to punish Democrat Tim Kaine for a gubernatorial campaign mailing that impersonated official GOP fliers, voters received brochures from Republican Jerry Kilgore replete with an official Democratic donkey logo.
"Democrat and progressive voters" received Kilgore's disguised fliers even as a Republican Governors Association lawyer, on Kilgore's behalf, persuaded the State Board of Elections to fine Kaine $100 for the same "dishonest and deceptive campaign tactics."
Besides the GOP elephant logo, the cover of Kaine's mailing last month bore the words "For Virginia Republicans." Inside, it repeated a conservative, anti-tax Virginia Club for Growth's attack on Kilgore for failing to sign its no-tax-increase pledge or back its tax-slashing agenda.
Kilgore's last-minute mailing is equally deceptive. On the outside face page is the red-and-blue Democratic donkey emblem.
Inside, however, is a comparison of Kaine to independent candidate Russ Potts. Potts is rated as preferable to liberals or progressives on support for gun control, gay marriage and the right of same-sex couples to adopt.
Kilgore's most conspicuous turnabout, however, is that his mailing describes Kaine as hostile to "protecting undocumented workers" even as Kilgore television ads portray Kaine as coddling illegal immigrants who are "jeopardizing jobs and security."
"Taxpayer benefits for illegal immigrants?" Kilgore's television ad concludes, "What part of illegal does Tim Kaine not understand?"
On both mailings, the true origin is discernible only from a line of small, thin type printed diagonally alongside a photo. They look like photo credits.
In Kaine's case, the SBE ruled Friday that such small type did not meet the requirements that candidates clearly and conspicuously identify their campaign materials under Virginia's "Stand By Your Ad" law -- legislation Kilgore claims credit for passing.
Kilgore spokesman Tim Murtaugh defended the mailing as "a legitimate service to the voters to help Tim Kaine spread his message across Virginia."
Virginia Democratic Party spokesman Mark Bergman said the party was filing an emergency complaint with the SBE Friday night.
Potts was furious over Kilgore's mailer.
"This is a new low and ... I think it indicates the trademark of the Jerry Kilgore campaign: the end justifies the means, do anything to win," Potts said.
"I never authorized anything like this," he said. "I expect a personal apology from Jerry Kilgore."
The Kilgore flier along with the SBE's decision to fine Kaine was the latest twist in a bitter, often misleading race by both candidates that has left many Virginia voters characterize as repugnant.
"Hypocrisy is the lifeblood of politics," said Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
"Both Kaine and Kilgore are generally nice people -- some of my favorites -- but they have let these consultants and staffers run one of the nastiest, most petty races I have seen in 40 years of covering state elections," Sabato said.