In a desperate move to turn around five straight polls showing Republican challenger Scott Rigell in the lead, Glenn Nye this week moved to take the offensive. On Monday, in a clear collaboration with Blue Virginia and the DPVA, Glenn Nye lowered his standing by pointing out an offensive blog post, only to be trumped in the news cycle by Scott Rigell’s swift response. On Tuesday, another email surfaces from the same blog and is quickly batted away by the Rigell campaign. In response to Glenn Nye’s playing of the race card, WAVY TV featured a story with local NAACP Chairwoman Georgia Allen, who revealed the hostility and lack of support her members have for the incumbent. (ironically enough, this story was actually filmed the same day as the racist email release)
“Glenn has, as far as the community is concerned, made a number of mistakes”
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Allen doesn’t see it that way, and it should give pause to Nye politically. “Right now, based on what I’m hearing from my people over and over again: One, he can not put signs in their yards. Two, he has not supported the President…it is very troubling,” said Allen.
The NAACP is working hard to elect two African-American candidates to Virginia Beach City Council, including Republican Tanya Bullock.
Okay, so the NAACP (and the AFL-CIO) have rejected your candidacy. Not to worry, because the VFW has Glenn Nye’s back, so he reminded everyone today via twitter:
I’m incredibly proud that the VFW has decided I’m the best candidate for Veterans in the 2nd District!
Uh-oh. Seems someone on Glenn Nye’s staff hasn’t heard about the VFW dissolving their PAC for their mystifying and anti-veteran endorsements. On Monday, the VFW moved to dissolve their PAC for failing to rescind their errant endorsements; Thursday Glenn Nye trumpets that same PAC’s endorsement.
“It is now evident to most of the VFW leadership, both National and especially the departments, that the VFW has been subjected to extreme negative publicity throughout the nation, and the recent endorsement decisions have, in fact, harmed the VFW’s reputation and future ability to fulfill our mission”
Scott Rigell’s campaign noticed the error and quickly issued a press release calling for the public reversal from the Nye campaign. While we’re sure such a thing won’t happen, it sure is great when staff doesn’t pay attention to anything regarding their endorsements.
So as Friday approaches, Glenn Nye has played the race card and lost the support of the NAACP and then trumpeted an erroneous endorsement that the parent organization has demanded be rescinded and moved to dissolve the errant group.
Meanwhile Scott Rigell pumps out positive ads, holds another open to the public town hall in Virginia Beach and continues to lead in the polls. With the window on effective negative opportunities effectively closed with six business days to go until the election, the chances of a game changer at this point are almost non-existent.
Ironically enough, the week Glenn Nye decided to go on the offensive looks to be the week Scott Rigell solidified his imminent victory on November 2nd.
Talk about backfiring.
