How can anyone vote for this liar? He makes a push for amnesty. Applauds the president at a speech where the jokeinthewhitehouse is clearly commenting on the need to find a path towards citizenship for all these criminal invaders and he meets with people who clearly hold the interest of illegals above America's, yet he is now running on a platform where he claims he is against amnesty. Unbelievable. And yet, he might succeed in getting reelected.
The campaign manager for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor isn’t backing down from their new campaign-trail flyer lauding Cantor for fighting against President Barack Obama’s amnesty bill.
“He stopped the bill when it came out of the Senate,” Ray Allen, Cantor’s campaign manager, told The Daily Caller.
The defender-against-amnesty claim appeared in flyers sent to GOP primary voters near Richmond, Va., two weeks before the vote on June 10. “Conservative Republican Eric Cantor is stopping the Obama [and Sen. Harry] Reid plan to give illegal aliens amnesty,” says one of the flyers.
But his critics, including primary challenger and economist Dave Brat, are hitting back: Cantor’s claim has prompted hoots of contempt, some anger and some Bronx cheers from the many activists who have fought the massive push by progressives, media outlets and business groups to double the current inflow of 2 million immigrants and guest workers each year.
“7th district votes are not going to fall for these outright lies that Brat is selling,” Allen said.
But the flyers “suggest that Eric Cantor is scared,” said Zachary Werrell, Brat’s campaign manager.
Cantor said “immigration reform” was a top priority for 2013, said Werrell, but now “he’s realizing that voters in his district are overwhelmingly against it, and all of a sudden, he’s saying he’s against amnesty.”
“Is there any limit to the degree of lying that may be deemed off limits during the campaign?” said an article by Daniel Horowitz, policy director for The Madison Project.
“It is perfidious that these people use their money collected from pro-amnesty special interests to paint themselves as anti-amnesty so they can win re-election and pass amnesty,” said Horowitz, in an article headlined “Establishment Campaign Strategy: Shameless, Cowardly, and Perfidious.”
Brat is using the controversy to boost his upstart campaign, which threaten to embarrass or even defeat Cantor.
Either result would likely deter other GOP politicians from secretly backing any future immigration increases.
Brat has scheduled a press conference in central Richmond on Wednesday to slam Cantor. The event likely will get extra coverage, because Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez is holding a rally at the same place to pressure Cantor into passing an amnesty for 12 million or more illegals now living in the United States. Roughly 12 million Americans turn 18 during the course of three years.
Last July, Cantor joined Gutiérrez on a three-day tour intended to promote passage of a major immigration increase.Read more:
http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/28/cantor-claims-to-be-anti-amnesty-champion/#ixzz336eJPEhw
