Cantor Mislabels Opponent

factcheck.org ^ | 5/5/14

[cotton1706]

An ad from House Republican Leader Eric Cantor falsely implies his Republican challenger advised Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine on taxes.

Cantor brands tea party-backed Dave Brat a “liberal college professor” because he served on the Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists “while Kaine tried to raise our taxes.” But the board provided professional economic forecasts, not advice on tax policy.

Brat, a lifelong Republican who chairs the department of economics and business at Randolph-Macon College, is far behind in the fundraising battle for the Republican primary in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District. Records show Brat has raised just under $90,000. As of the end of March, Cantor had more than $2 million cash on hand. But Cantor is taking Brat’s challenge seriously enough to air this attack ad.

Here’s the text of the ad, called “Advisor”:

Narrator: College professor David Brat is running against our conservative congressman Eric Cantor. But Brat worked on Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine’s Council of Economic Advisors while Kaine tried to raise our taxes by over $1 billion on cars, insurance and income. Now, liberal David Brat is running for Congress as a Republican. Liberal college professor? Tim Kaine adviser? Republican? Come on professor, you’ve got to be kidding.

The ad takes two independently accurate claims — that Brat served on Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine’s Advisory Board of Economists and that Kaine proposed to raise taxes — but links them in a misleading way to conclude that Brat is a “liberal.” The Governor’s Advisory Board of Economists, now called the Joint Advisory Board of Economists (JABE), is a group made up of professional economists charged with providing national and state economic forecasts. It does not advise on policy decisions about taxes.

[Vigilanteman]

Eric Cantor had so much potential before he hopped aboard the amnesty bandwagon.

[House Atreides]

Eric Cantor had so much potential before he hopped aboard the amnesty bandwagon.
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The only potential he had was to become a progressive fifth columnist willing to sell out the American citizenry-—he has fulfilled his potential and then some.

[Night Hides Not]

[Zuse]

Actually, quite frankly...

[Night Hides Not]

Your tagline gives you away! lol

[Ohioan]

Eric Cantor had so much potential before he hopped aboard the amnesty bandwagon.

Yes, but since he has been called out on that, and the failure to hold Obama's feet to the fire over Federal funding, he seems to be coming more & more a Congressman who puts his career ahead of any moral or other rational consideration. Let us hope that the people of Virginia see through this latest escapade down the path to perdition.

William Flax