GOP House candidate raises bulk of money for anti-Arab campaign ads from Don Blankenship and Massey

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That's Maynard on the left, vacationing on the French Riviera with Don. Massey was appealing a verdict to his court at the time. This photo got Maynard voted off the court in 2008.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Campaign contributors tied to Massey Energy have helped Republican congressional candidate Elliott "Spike" Maynard outraise Democratic incumbent Rep. Nick Rahall by 10-to-1 this month, according to federal campaign filings.

Roughly half the $250,000 collected by Maynard during the first 13 days of October came from sources related to the Virginia-based coal operator. Those include officials with the company, its subsidiaries and vendors as well as their family members.

Rahall attracted just $22,500 during the filing period, and more than half of that came from political action committees. He's since reported raising another $40,000 since Oct. 13.

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Maynard has been using Don's cash to run a blitz of racist, anti-Arab ads and discredited claims against his opponent, Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall - a 34-year House veteran.

In a new ad, Maynard makes claims that Rahall, a West Virginian of Lebanese descent, "has taken campaign cash from a group with terror ties." This allegation is based on a report from February that points out that the Congressman has received donations from the National Association of Arab-Americans PAC, the National Muslims for a Better America PAC and the the Arab American Leadership PAC between 2000 and 2008. The report alleges that the latter committee is directly tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on Islamic-American Relations (CAIR), which it says supports groups such as al Qaeda.

But there are a few problems with the brutally negative ad. It's worth noting, for instance, that most of the report's information appears to come from a book called "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America," a controversial and notedly anti-CAIR book published by Joseph Farah, founder of ultra-conservative website WorldNetDaily.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/21/spike-maynard-arab-ad-rahall_n_771134.html

Here's the Congressman's site, if you want to help the good guys out in W.Va.:
http://nickrahall.com/

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for you daytimes folks to see. this was posted late at night