The DCPost is reporting that the Democratic Party of Virginia has bit hit by a fine form the FEC for its murky financial disclosures dating back to 2006! First off, seriously? You can't get this right? Its lazy at best, and slim shady at worst. The FEC made 31 different request for info.
What makes this amazing is that the executive director of the DPV during much of this mess is Levar Stoney, and now he's running Creigh Deeds's campaign. Is this condoned by Deeds? Clearly hiring one of the chief obstructionists in this mess indicates that to me that he does. Its bad enough Deeds was a guy who tried to change lobbyists rules for lawyers as a senator that he had already broken to justify it, now his campaign is run by a guy who obstructed FEC investigations into campaign finance disclosures of the state party.
And they are attacking Bob McDonnell for his fundraising? Come on . . .
I believe Levar is Deeds' political director, not his campaign manager. And from some cursory Googling, it doesn't look like he was running the DPVA in 2006.
Also, I haven't seen any attacks from the state party on McDonnell's fundraising.
But hey, other than that, very accurate post.
Posted by: | July 01, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Yeah, but the FEC has been trying to get information SINCE 2006, and Stoney was one of the ones stonewalling them. Cranwell is in on this too.
Posted by: Chris | July 01, 2009 at 05:49 AM
It's one thing to make errors with FEC forms, but when it does happen, you should very quickly fix them.
Levar "The Wisconsin Slasher" Stoney has trouble with this kind of fixing.
Posted by: Freddie | July 01, 2009 at 10:39 AM
Why is it I can't seem to walk around NoVA without bumping into Deeds, but McDonnell is strangely absent.
This is a race that will come down to who is working harder. They are both decent guys. I see Deeds working it.
Posted by: Where's Bob | July 06, 2009 at 03:34 PM