Over the past couple weeks, there has some preliminary skirmishing between State Sen. Ken Cuccinelli and former U.S. Attorney John Brownlee as they vie for the Republican Nomination for Virginia Attorney General.
It began when Cuccinelli announced that he out-raised Brownlee last quarter, to which Brownlee responded that he really out-raised Cuccinelli because Cuccinelli transferred money to his AG campaign from his state Senate campaign.
The back-and-forth continued after last week’s podcast when Shaun Kenney accused Brownlee of being “not as strong” on pro-life issues as Cuccinelli, to which Brownlee argued that Cuccinelli’s siding with Gov. Tim Kaine on not extending the death penalty to accessories (the so-called “triggerman rule”) constituted Cuccinelli not totally protecting “innocent” life.
Cuccinelli called that assertion “silly.”
Now, Jason Kenney cites that Brownlee’s primary donor, Ted Weschler ($25K), a stockbroker from Charlottesville, has also donated $20K to Gov. Tim Kaine, $20K to Mark Warner’s “One Virginia PAC” and, $20K to Kaine’s “Moving Virginia Forward” PAC.
While Weschler has also donated to Republicans, he has also given significant money to Democrats.
Jason writes:
Brownlee has shown his concern for questions of his conservative credentials….Given his lack of a legislative record, there are going to be many more questions and people are going to look at things like donors for answers.
This is not a very good answer to Conservatives.
