27th Update
The saga in the Mark Tate campaign finance disclosures has hit the Northern Virginia Daily today. Most all the info is pretty repetitive from whats been in the blogs; but two major statements in the article are of interest:
"This type of error calls into question all record keeping," Radtke, VCAP's political director, wrote on the blog. "Tate has either misrepresented the amount received or the number of donors is falsely reported. In either case, he has not properly disclosed donor information"...
But records maintained by the Virginia State Board of Elections don't bear out that complaint. Tate didn't file the form, but wasn't required to, according to other documents filed by the campaign, because there were no donors to identify for the six-month period in question.
Holtzman Vogel said no one from her campaign is involved with the attack on Tate in any way. "That's just ridiculous," she said. Tate's campaign finance problems have been public knowledge for some time, but "you don't hear me talking about it, ever"...
However, the VCAP post is identical to opposition research given to reporters by Holtzman Vogel supporters in recent months.
This could be a key element in this situation if in fact this information does not lead to any charges to be filed. Now Jill is on record saying she was not behind this, but this newspaper is already disputing her statement.
In light of this situation; I have heard a few Holtzman-Vogel endorsers may now withdraw their endorsements (although I have not confirmed any yet).
This story is far from over folks.
"This type of error calls into question all record keeping," Radtke, VCAP's political director, wrote on the blog. "Tate has either misrepresented the amount received or the number of donors is falsely reported. In either case, he has not properly disclosed donor information"...
But records maintained by the Virginia State Board of Elections don't bear out that complaint. Tate didn't file the form, but wasn't required to, according to other documents filed by the campaign, because there were no donors to identify for the six-month period in question.
Holtzman Vogel said no one from her campaign is involved with the attack on Tate in any way. "That's just ridiculous," she said. Tate's campaign finance problems have been public knowledge for some time, but "you don't hear me talking about it, ever"...
However, the VCAP post is identical to opposition research given to reporters by Holtzman Vogel supporters in recent months.
This could be a key element in this situation if in fact this information does not lead to any charges to be filed. Now Jill is on record saying she was not behind this, but this newspaper is already disputing her statement.
In light of this situation; I have heard a few Holtzman-Vogel endorsers may now withdraw their endorsements (although I have not confirmed any yet).
This story is far from over folks.
posted by GOPHokie @ 8:02 PM
2 Comments:
At 5/04/2007 10:55 PM,
Anonymous said…
I cannot for the life of me see why the Holtzman-VCAP team would do this. For all intents and purposes up to this point they have run a flawless campaign and this stuff really did not seem necessary for them to win. This could potentially be one of the worst mistakes I have even seen in a campaign. For Holtzman to say she did not know about this, come on now she is on the VCAP board and they are essentially sharing staff.
Why Can't BOTH sides run on the issues instead of having such ugliness. This is getting ridicuous folks!!!!
At 5/05/2007 12:07 PM,
Anonymous said…
agreed. VCAP (with Jill at the helm) is supposed to be standing up for us TRUE conservatives. The group started out with a good objective when McDonnell and Bolling got it going years ago, but I'm afraid of what it is becoming. My fear, as an activist, is that VCAP will wind up getting nothing accomplished because no one will ever take it seriously. Moreover, Jill is one of the VCAP decision makers. I've known her for years and I know she has better judgement that this! Tate's not a bad guy and Jill's not a bad girl. Stick to the issues. Jill needs to distance herself from VCAP immediately. It might not be a bad idea for her to call for a shakeup at VCAP as well. If she is not making the decisions, who is?
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