Shady MAGA PAC back at it again, with another race-baiting referendum mailer

A PAC funded by the Koch Brothers and run by a MAGA who lost his bid for re-election to the House of Delegates last year is behind a mailer that outright lies about where Barack Obama stands on the April 21 redistricting referendum.

The mailer features a screenshot of Obama taken from a TV spot for Virginians for Fair Elections, a pro-redistricting group, in which the former president said, in full:

“Republicans want to steal enough seats in Congress to rig the next election and wield unchecked power for two more years. But you can stop them, by voting yes by April 21. Help put our elections back on a level playing field, and let voters decide, not politicians.”

The mailer takes just the final five words from that full quote – “let the voters decide, not politicians” – and features them prominently, across the top of the oversized postcard, with three messages below:

• “Protect minority representation. Vote no on gerrymandering.”
• “Vote no today! Now!”
• “Return your mail ballot or vote early in person.”

That last line there, that’s a nice touch: nobody would suspect that a MAGA group would tell somebody to return a mail ballot or vote early, unless that somebody was Donald Trump, and they wanted to make sure he got his vote in early in his local Palm Beach race.

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The MAGAs lost that one, because, karma.

The required “Paid for” line on the mailers takes us to something called Justice for Democracy PAC, a one-man group headed up by AC Cordoza, who lost his bid for re-election in November to Democrat Virgil Thornton by a healthy eight points.

Cordoza served two terms in the House of Delegates, and was the only Black member of the House GOP caucus before his blowout loss.

The address on the mailers for Justice for Democracy PAC is the same address as the one attached to something called Democracy and Justice PAC, which was behind another race-baiting mailer that we wrote about earlier this month.

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Both PACs list a MAGA operative named Christopher Woodfin, a lawyer in Williamsburg who heads up an outfit that calls itself the Campaign Compliance Center, as their treasurer.

This Woodfin guy isn’t a connected guy – from a few minutes on the Google machine, it appears that he works with small-fry House of Delegates and local city council and boards of supervisor candidates.

So, a nobody political operative, and a literal loser of a candidate, are behind these things.

The money funding them comes from American Future Fund, which made a $425,000 cash donation to Justice for Democracy PAC on March 10, according to a report on file with the Virginia Department of Elections.

America Future Fund is the one backed by the Koch Brothers, who have given that PAC $14 million over the years.