Va. Democrats buy billboards attacking GOP Senate hopeful Gillespie for Enron lobbying

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It didn’t take long for the Virginia Senate race to get heated.

Roughly 24 hours after Ed Gillespie launched his bid for the Republican nomination to face Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the Virginia Democratic Party pounced, buying a handful of billboards around the commonwealth to attack Gillespie for his past work lobbying for the failed energy giant Enron.

“Do you really want Enron’s lobbyist to be your Senator?” asks one billboard. Another says: “He got $700,000 to lobby for Enron. 20,000 workers got a pink slip.” All three billboards — going up in Hampton Roads, Roanoke and Richmond — dub him “Enron Ed” and direct Virginians to a new anti-Gillespie Web site.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/va-democrats-buy-billboards-attacking-gop-senate-hopeful-gillespie-for-enron-lobbying/2014/01/17/3daf7186-7fa7-11e3-93c1-0e888170b723_story.html

[underpants]

1. Enron still stings ... I hope

Good for them

[Dawson Leery]

2. The sad part for the Rethugs is that Eddie is their strongest candidate.

Warner has a floor of 55%.