Virginia is holding a primary election tomorrow. Among the races are the Commonwealth's Attorney seat for Arlington County and the neighboring City of Falls Church and the seat for Fairfax County. These are the local prosecutor's offices. Nicholas Benton reports for the Falls Church News-Press:
Campaign contribution data for the last two months made public by the Virginia Board of Elections this Monday has shown an eye-popping $583,237 has donated by a nebulous "dark money" Washington, D.C.-based source to a challenger in the June 11 primary in the race for Arlington-Falls Church Commonwealth's Attorney.
According to the Washington Post, the money comes from billionaire George Soros, who has also lobbed another whopping $392,000 into Fairfax County in an effort to unseat the incumbent commonwealth attorney there.
* * *The contributions officially come from a Washington, D.C.-based entity called the "Justice and Public Safety Political Action Committee," as current dark money rules do not require the disclosure of actual human contributors behind any nondescript PAC name.The big money puts challenger Dehghani-Tafti way ahead of incumbent Stamos in funding to date, $744,000 to $546,000, with escalating TV, mailer and other campaign advertising focusing on which candidate is more fair-minded, progressive and qualified for the job.
The challenger is a public defender with zero prosecution experience.
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