The Cuccinelli campaign makes a rather interesting announcement:
The Cuccinelli For Governor Campaign today announced that Virginia entrepreneur Pete Snyder will serve as Co-Chairman of its Finance Committee. In his new volunteer role, Snyder will help lead the campaign’s fundraising efforts, both in the Commonwealth and nationally.
“Pete Snyder is a true entrepreneur, great grassroots campaigner and one of the best fundraisers in our party. It’s rare in this business to find people who are real team players and that’s one of many reasons I am proud to have Pete join our campaign,” said Ken Cuccinelli. “I’m grateful for Pete’s continuous effort to advance our party and our Commonwealth.”
“There is only one candidate in the race for governor with a clear plan and the right experience to strengthen and grow Virginia’s economy and that is Ken Cuccinelli,” said Snyder, the CEO of Virginia-based Disruptor Capital. “I’m honored Ken asked me to pitch in on this critical effort. The single most important thing Virginians can do to ensure that we grow our economy and remain a right-to-work state is to elect Ken Cuccinelli as our next governor.”
This is a good get for Cuccinelli. I know from talking with both men over the last year that their relationship has grown closer, and as Snyder proved during his run for the GOP’s lieutenant governor nomination, he knows a thing or two about raising money from national sources.
Cuccinelli needs all the fundraising help he can get. In Terry McAuliffe, Cuccinelli is running against one of the best Democratic fundraisers of his generation. And while both the Cuccinelli and McAuliffe campaigns owe a great deal of their most recently reported cash hauls to national sources (the Republican and Democratic Governor Associations, respectively) Cuccinelli, in particular, will have to diversify his fundraising base in order to keep pace with McAuliffe.
Snyder is just the man to do it. Good for Cuccinelli.
And good for Pete, too. He’s keeping himself firmly on the political scene. Could there be another run in his future?
