John Foust
Virginia's 10th is one of the few Democratic chances to go on offense in the House this year, but the DCCC is
moving money away from that race to defend first-term Rep. Ami Bera in California:
The sum of the DCCC’s cancellation in Virginia’s 10th District was $2.8 million, according to the source. Democrats were on the offensive in the open-seat race to replace retiring Rep. Frank R. Wolf, R-Va.
Across the country, three GOP outside groups have inundated California’s 7th District in recent days with more than $1 million in ad buys each: American Crossroads, and sister organizations Congressional Leadership Fund and American Action Network.
In response, the DCCC has authorized at least $2 million in spending in the Sacramento-based district, the party source said.
The race between
Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat John Foust and noxious Republican Barbara Comstock is tight, but it's an expensive media market and Foust needs help raising his name recognition and getting the word out about just how awful Comstock is. As a reminder:
Comstock was the lead thug on the RNC's 2000 hit squad, a group of born liars engaged in manic projection who somehow succeeded in portraying Al Gore as the dishonest one. The Atlantic's Joshua Green called her one of the "the leading lights in the low-lit world of opposition research," a creature "held in about the same regard as spammers and ivory smugglers."
Both at the RNC and later at the Bush Justice Department, Comstock played mentor to the junior members of Karl Rove's smear squad, Tim Griffin (whom Bush appointed U.S. attorney in Arkansas via the PATRIOT Act, bypassing Congress) and Monica Goodling (who set off a firestorm for her role in firing nine U.S. attorneys for purely political reasons—one of which was to open up a slot for Griffin). Comstock's made it her life's business, in other words, not just to mingle with the scum of the earth but to help them flourish in her toxic petri dish.
She went on to support forced ultrasounds as a Virginia state legislator and has suggested
tracking immigrants like FedEx packages. In other words, Barbara Comstock is the worst of the George W. Bush establishment wrapped up in a hideous package with the overtly vicious extremism of today's House Republicans.
Please chip in $3 to elect John Foust and keep Barbara Comstock out of Congress.
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If you want Democrats to go on offense this November, this race is one of the best chances to do so, but we need to step up now that the DCCC has cut its advertising.