Paul Manafort and Ed Gillespie were next door neighbors for 15 years

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi. I’m the lawyer. Gave to Ed because I worked with him during the Bush Administration years and think he’d be a good and reasonable leader as Governor. Have never asked a client who I should support, nor have I ever asked a candidate who I should represent. In the last race my spouse and I supported a Democrat, Justin Fairfax, in the AG primary race because he used to work at my firm. I tend to support Republicans, she tends to support Democrats. Sometimes a donation is just a donation. Love dcurbanmom, not thrilled to get tarred or to have Ed tarred because I represent clients as a lawyer that want my help.

What's yer name?

[Anonymous]

Reg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hillary voter here:

They're both active Republicans in the upper echelons of their party. Of course they knew each other and worked together at times.

How does this disqualify Gillespie?

Asked as someone pulling the lever for Northam next week. I don't want Gillespie to be governor for a whole host of policy reasons, but I don't think he's got some connection to the Trump collusion with Russia mess.

Is Gillespie going to denounce the guilt by association used against Dems? Against HRC in particular? He who seeks equity must do equity. If Ed is such a nice guy, who dislikes guilt by association, why is he using opposition to local autonomy on policing to smear people as "MS 13 supporters"?? Compared to what I see on his ads, connecting him to Manafort seems quite mild.

Has he expressed his support of the Mueller investigation? Has he warned Trump he would denounce him if Mueller is fired? Has he made clear to Virginia Republicans that this is not fake news, but an important issue for all Americans?

[Anonymous]

FWIW, Mount Vernon Circle in has a lot of homes. It is a long street with a bunch of courts/pipestems with 4-5 houses off the main road.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, Mount Vernon Circle in has a lot of homes. It is a long street with a bunch of courts/pipestems with 4-5 houses off the main road.

They lived .1 miles from each other - a 2 minute walk door to door. 60 second jog.

[Anonymous]

They were both lobbyists for Big Tobacco back in the 90's too.

Search their names here: https://www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/

What does this prove? Nothing except that they are both soulless scum willing to take a paycheck from an industry that lied about what they knew about cancer for decades, manipulated nicotine levels to keep people addicted, and used cartoons to market their product specifically to children.

Both Manafort and Gillespie knew all of that, and said, "Yes please, show me the money".

That's your friggin swamp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This seems like a stretch.

And, desperation on the part of OP. Nice try, OP.
Hope Gillespie wins.

+1
I lived next door to Anthony Weiner at one time. I guess that means I also send selfies of my genitals to underage girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Their ties are deep, and were next door neighbors living on Mount Vernon Circle in Alexandria, from 2000 to 2015.

In addition:
- Gillespie and Manafort have likely known each other since at least 1996, when Manafort managed the Republican National Convention (see Manafort in this video from 7/31/96) while Gillespie was RNC Communications Director.
- Manafort and Gillespie were each quoted in a 7/24/96 Washington Post article discussing TV programming for the 1996 Republican National Convention.
- A top Gillespie donor, Reginald Brown, was Paul Manafort’s attorney this year, from March 24 through August 10, as Manafort was being investigated.

Not an indication of direct criminal ties, but where there's smoke, you know the drill...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/10/30/1711008/-Virginia-s-Ed-Gillespie-GOP-linked-to-Paul-Manafort

Oh, OP. What a sad, sad effort. And the Daily Kos, no less.