Deeds Camp: Last Minute Robertson Donations Show McDonnell’s ‘True Agenda’

VA-GOV Candidates Creigh Deeds (D) and Bob McDonnell (R)
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Creigh Deeds’ campaign flags a Washington Post story showing his rival Bob McDonnell (R-VA) took in $40,000 from Pat Robertson, his son and daughter-in-law at the last minute.

The story shows the campaign took in $25,000 from Robertson, who McDonnell has said he has only spoken to a few times this year.

Deeds (D-VA) has made an issue of McDonnell’s ties to the religious right and suggested in a statement that the Republican is trying to hide an “out-of-the-mainstream social agenda.”

Spokesman Jared Leopold emailed reporters:

“Bob McDonnell’s true agenda has been revealed. Pat Robertson’s chosen candidate has come back home. If Virginians want a governor beholden to Pat Robertson, Bob McDonnell is their man. But if they want a jobs governor, the choice is clearly Creigh Deeds.”

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