New Ads Focus on Mark Obenshain's Extremism

While I despise most everything about him, I will concede that GOP attorney general candidate Mark Obenshain has run a slick, although thoroughly dishonest campaign.  He has done everything possible to try to fool voters into thinking he's moderate on issues rather than the Ken Cuccinelli clone that he is in reality.  Thankfully, a new ad is set to run that will help inform voters that Obenshain does not work to "protect" Virginians as he claims and instead has backed policies and bills that aid violent criminals, especially those seeking easy access to guns.  Here are highlights from a piece at Politico:

New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s super PAC is launching a $1 million ad blitz in the final week of the Virginia Attorney General’s race, focusing on Republican nominee Mark Obenshain’s record on guns in a saturation-level television buy.

The spending comes on top of nearly $2 million that Bloomberg has laid down in the Washington television market in negative spots against Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli . . .

And it creates a dynamic of Bloomberg directly going up against the National Rifle Association, which launched spots attacking the New York mayor shortly after his Independence USA PAC started reserving air time for the anti-Cuccinelli spots last week.

The Bloomberg spot broadly paints Obenshain as a hard-right candidate, using his support six years ago as a state senator for a so-called “personhood” amendment and pivoting to a vote against background checks at gun shows.

“Here are few things Mark Obenshain tried to outlaw,” the narrator of the ad says. “Birth control pills. Women choosing to have an abortion, even in the case of rape or incest.”

The ad goes on: “But when it comes to actual criminals, Obenshain voted to let convicted felons avoid background checks at gun shows, and voted to repeal the one gun a month law, meaning criminals could buy guns in bulk. Instead of dictating to women, Virginia needs an Attorney General who cracks down on real criminals.”

“Virginia has now become a major battleground with the NRA in the fight over sensible gun safety legislation,” said Independence USA PAC spokesman Stu Loeser.  The NRA is reportedly spending about $500,000 to air an ad against Herring in Virginia.

Obenshain, despite his grossly dishonest campaign, is a far right radical.  His votes on a personhood bill, his bill to criminalize women who have miscarriages and his record on guns all paint a stark picture of the real Mark Obenshain.