Cantor's "campaign office" isn't in his congressional district

[ProSense]

Cantor's "campaign office" isn't in his congressional district

by Jed Lewison

You know the implausible story Eric Cantor told yesterday about how his campaign office had been the target of a shooting incident? (His exact words were: "Just recently I have been directly threatened. A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week.")

Well, even if it weren't for the fact that Richmond police are saying the bullet was fired randomly, there would be reason to be skeptical of Cantor's claim. It turns out that it is nearly impossible to imagine that anyone ever could have figured out that the building in question housed his campaign office...because the building isn't even in Eric Cantor's congressional district, and it's not his campaign headquarters.

Instead, the building (located here) is actually in Virginia's 3rd congressional district (map here). Cantor represents the 7th.

Probably because the building isn't in Cantor's CD, it doesn't have any actual campaign posters or other markings to indicate that Cantor has an office inside it. Moreover, the building's address is not listed on his campaign website, so even if the bullet hadn't been fired randomly, it's virtually impossible to imagine how somebody could possibly have decided to target this location.

The final question is this: even if the bullet hadn't been fired randomly, even if somehow somebody figured out that Cantor had a campaign office inside this building which is not in Cantor's congressional district and is not listed on Cantor's website, then why in the world would someone who had gone through all those hoops end up firing the bullet into the wrong office? Remember, even though he has an office in the building, his office itself was not struck.

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[polichick]

1. This guy is huge on projection - pointing fingers at Dems for "politicizing"...

...when that's exactly what he was doing - but the idea of projection is completely lost on Republicans.

[Historic NY]

2. Eric Cantor........."YOU LIE" `du lign

[flpoljunkie]

3. Cantor's story worked with the media--so far. No one's reporting it was a random shot today.

We are not surprised by that, are we?

[Jennicut]

5. Nope. The media is usually complicit with Rethugs.

[goclark]

6. Nope ~ other than Rachel and Keith and a few others

that fill in for them -- the M$S is in " Fair? and Balanced? Mode

I forgot to praise the excellent work of the person on MSNBC that interviewed the little boy that witnessed the Signing Ceremony.
He was magnificent in that interview and I like his solid approach to the News.

King,Todd,Candy and the rest of their family members are all Plants.

Have you noticed the way they tell you about an upcoming segment that will be Unfair in tone?

...."Next up we will show you the footage of the "F" word that was made by Vice President Biden"

That replay should hold a record with the lady in the red dress.

then

" Republicans are having bottles thrown at them, phone calls to their offices ~ much more when we come back.... "

[LiberalFighter]

4. I guess he didn't want to spend any money in his own district.