Money watch: Citizens for the Commonwealth

2007 General Assemby races, Local, Politics, Virginia 1 Minute

Yesterday, I saw this little blurb on vpap about a newly registered PAC, Citizens for the Commonwealth. I took notice and checked out the donors: all Republican contributors, based on their prior donations. $275,000 – that amount of money could make a significant difference in just about any race.

Today, I saw this post about the first beneficiary of the new PAC: Republican incumbent Senator Jay O’Brien, who received a $60,000 donation in his efforts against Democratic challenger George Barker. That prompted me to take a look at the SBE website, where I see that another $100K has been donated to this PAC. Locating their payouts is a little more difficult in that you have to wade though the large, pre-election reports here.

Nevertheless, I’m keeping my eye on this – and so should everyone else. We all know how significant a role large contributions at this stage in the game can play. There’s no way to stop the contributions, but we can certainly shine light on them.

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21 thoughts on “Money watch: Citizens for the Commonwealth”

  2. Nope. Did either of you bother to see how much money the Governor’s PAC had on hand at the end of the last reporting period? Over $1 million. So it is no secret what’s going on with the Governor’s PAC. On the other hand, this new PAC is a relative big secret. You don’t see the Washington Post writing about the Governor’s PAC.

    Here’s some info on the problems Bob McDonnell got into in 2005.

  3. I still don’t get it. How is Citizens for the Commonwealth doing anything in any way similar to what McDonnell was doing in 2005?

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