The Daily Progress reports today on RPV chairman candidate Pat Mullins role in ads released a few years back that attempted to defame [1] Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA07).
Mullins was one of a handful of Republicans in early 2000 who formed the Faith and Family Alliance, a 527 political group that mailed out an anti-Cantor attack ad four days before Cantor faced Sen. Stephen H. Martin in a GOP primary to replace retiring congressman Thomas J. Bliley.
The ad attacked Cantor and his family over a business partnership’s late payment of Henrico taxes alongside the allegation: “Millionaire lawyer Eric Cantor says he wants to cut your taxes … but he didn’t pay his own. He got caught. He got fined. And he finally was forced to pay $31,527.17 in back taxes,” according to a June 18, 2000, article in The Daily Progress.