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Virginia: Left-wing Group Employs Dirty Tricks to Suppress Pro-Gun Vote

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Virginia: Left-wing Group Employs Dirty Tricks to Suppress Pro-Gun Vote

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffes supporters are getting increasingly desperate. A group backing McAuliffe is posing as conservatives and running ads attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin from the right. Named Accountability Virginia PAC, the outfit was described by news outlet Axios as a Democratic strategist-led effort to drive a wedge between the Republican candidate for Virginia governor and his core voters.”

The content of the Accountability Virginia PACs ads show that they are targeting gun owners in their voter suppression campaign. The disingenuous ads are designed to portray Youngkin as anti-gun to pro-gun voters in the hopes that these voters will sit this election out. Some of the misleading messages even mimic NRAs well-known orange election postcards in order to give the false impression that NRA opposes Youngkins candidacy.

Here are the facts:

NRA-PVF has not endorsed a candidate in the Virginia governors race.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is an anti-gun extremist.

McAuliffe is seeking to attack gun owners and the Second Amendment by enacting a multitude of radical and unconstitutional gun control measures.

McAuliffe supports:

  • Banning commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, like America’s most popular rifle - the AR-15.
  • Banning commonly-owned firearm magazines capable of accepting more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
  • Registering gun owners as part of a “permit to purchase” scheme.
  • Waiting periods for firearm purchases.

For more on McAuliffes plans for Virginia gun owners, click here.

Dirty Tricks

Axioss research into Accountability Virginia PAC revealed the following information on the shadowy outfit.

  • Accountability Virginia's online donation page is hosted by the Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue. Its bank account is at Amalgamated Bank, a financial institution popular with Democratic political groups.
  • The PAC was incorporated in Virginia by compliance consultants at the MBA Consulting Group, which works uniformly with Democrats.
  • Its ads on Snapchat were purchased by Gambit Strategies, a firm founded this year by the Biden presidential campaign's digital director and the former head of Democratic super PAC Priorities USA.

Disappointingly, one of the commonwealths largest interests is implicated in this voter suppression campaign. According to subsequent Axios reporting, Virginia electric utility Dominion Energy lavishly funded the phony outfit to the tune of $200,000. It should be noted that Dominion Energy enjoys a monopoly in much of the commonwealth. Therefore, many Virginians were effectively forced to pay for this underhanded misinformation campaign.

Following public outcry, on October 18, Dominion Energy CEO Robert Blue emailed employees to tell them that the company had erred in donating to the voter suppression outfit. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dominion Energy has asked the deceitful group to return its $200,000.

Sadly, this isnt the first time gun owners have been targeted by a left-wing misinformation campaign. In the 2020 election Montana gun owners were the focus of a California-funded fake hunting group and misleading mailers concerning a pro-gun state referendum.

Its easy to understand why dishonest political actors would target gun owners. Firearm owners are a proven political force that has the power to sway elections. Well-informed gun rights supporters should work to ensure that their family, friends, neighbors, and other like-minded individuals know the truth about these ugly voter suppression tactics prior to election day.

To find out more about what you can do to protect gun rights in Virginia, please visit: https://www.nraila.org/grassroots/.

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