Dems Invest More Than $1.6 Million on Perriello
Politico writes:
No one can say they didn’t try to save Tom Perriello.
In the last days of the 2010 campaign, the first-term Virginia congressman’s reelection bid has become a rallying point for Democrats nationwide, as party leaders and left-leaning interest groups scramble to ensure that at least one vulnerable liberal lawmaker is left standing after Nov. 2.
President Barack Obama is headed Friday to Charlottesville, the populous college town at the heart of Perriello’s district, to drum up support for him. Obama praised Perriello during a mid-October rally in Washington, calling him a “great guy” who has taken risky votes and “just done what’s right.” The president talked about him again on “The Daily Show” Wednesday night.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has kept investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in the district, while cutting loose other at-risk members across the country.
More important, liberal independent groups have deployed an incredible sum — about $1.6 million over a 10-day period ending midday Thursday — to prop up Perriello and attack his Republican opponent, state Sen. Robert Hurt. At least a half-dozen pro-Democratic groups have spent six-figure sums over that period, and four — the League of Conservation Voters, the Sierra Club, the National Education Association and the America’s Families First Action Fund — have each put in more than a quarter-million dollars.
