{"id":1525455,"date":"2022-06-22T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525455"},"modified":"2022-06-22T05:05:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T09:05:23","slug":"new-schumer-attack-ad-trots-out-liberal-activist-as-former-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-schumer-attack-ad-trots-out-liberal-activist-as-former-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"New Schumer Attack Ad Trots Out Liberal Activist as \u2018Former Republican\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-schumer-attack-ad-trots-out-liberal-activist-as-former-republican%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525455&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Spot fails to mention star witness&#8217;s work for radical group that wants to defund police, teach CRT<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tYouTube\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 June 22, 2022 4:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A new Chuck Schumer ad uses a &#8220;former Republican&#8221; to attack Nevada&#8217;s Republican U.S. Senate nominee Adam Laxalt. Unmentioned is the star witness&#8217;s work for a far-left group that supports Laxalt&#8217;s opponent and wants to defund police.<\/p>\n<p>In the ad, Schumer&#8217;s Senate Majority PAC features testimony from &#8220;Patty,&#8221; a &#8220;business owner&#8221; and &#8220;former Republican&#8221; who slams Laxalt as &#8220;wrong for Nevada.&#8221; The ad does not reveal that &#8220;Patty&#8221; is former Nevada state senator Patricia Farley, who began caucusing with Democrats more than five years ago in 2016. Two years later, Farley joined Battle Born Progress, a liberal nonprofit that works closely with Laxalt&#8217;s opponent, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D.). The group under Farley has taken a number of radical liberal positions on hot-button issues\u2014a far cry from Schumer&#8217;s portrayal of Farley as a disillusioned conservative entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2020, for example, Battle Born Progress <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1281355205368479745\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a>\u00a0to end the &#8220;school-to-prison pipeline&#8221; and &#8220;save money&#8221; by &#8220;defunding school police.&#8221; One year later, group executive director Annette Magnus said Nevada &#8220;should be teaching&#8221; critical race theory in its public schools because &#8220;young people need to know this information.&#8221; Battle Born Progress also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1413299069892534273\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opposes voter ID requirements<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BattleBornProg\/status\/1441456232959660035?s=20&#038;t=efoMtwSmms9MvwoYLV2eqg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supports late-term abortion<\/a>. Cortez Masto <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/incredible-advocates-nevada-dem-praises-group-that-called-to-defund-police-teach-crt\/\">said<\/a>\u00a0in November that she was &#8220;so glad&#8221; to speak at the group&#8217;s annual fundraising event.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer&#8217;s willingness to omit Farley&#8217;s status as a liberal activist\u2014and his decision to criticize Laxalt using a &#8220;Republican&#8221; figure\u2014suggests the Democratic leader is concerned by Cortez Masto&#8217;s reelection chances. President Joe Biden won Nevada by 3 points in 2020, but his political standing has since deteriorated in the Silver State as Democrats navigate record-high inflation, gas prices, and illegal immigrant encounters. Fifty-six percent of Nevada voters disapprove of Biden, compared with 32 percent who approve, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/civiqs.com\/results\/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&#038;annotations=true&#038;zoomIn=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civiqs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Majority PAC spokeswoman Veronica Yoo told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> the ad identifies Farley &#8220;as a local business owner and former Republican because those are the facts.&#8221; Yoo did not answer questions about Farley&#8217;s work with Battle Born Progress.<\/p>\n<p>Farley in 2014 ran for state Senate as a Republican, receiving 57 percent of the vote. Two years later, she announced she would change her party affiliation to nonpartisan and caucus with Democrats, a decision she said stemmed from her disappointment with &#8220;party politics.&#8221; Farley&#8217;s subsequent political contributions and employment history, however, tell a different story.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2018, just months after declining to run for reelection, Farley made her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=Patricia+Farley&#038;contributor_state=NV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first federal political contribution<\/a>\u2014to failed Democratic congressional candidate Pat Spearman. Three months later, Farley donated to Nevada Democratic senator Jacky Rosen.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2018\u2014one month before leaving the state Senate\u2014Farley <a href=\"https:\/\/thenevadaindependent.com\/article\/pac-launches-6-figure-attack-against-roberson-chaired-by-former-republican-state-senator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined<\/a> Battle Born Progress as the president of its state PAC, Nevada Values. The group quickly launched a six-figure ad attacking Republican state Senate leader Michael Roberson. Roughly one year later, in December 2019, Farley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meganmesserly\/status\/1207704495636897792?s=20&#038;t=iclqMse04AzVVWQc8DV1oA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Pete Buttigieg for president, saying the former South Bend, Ind., mayor &#8220;is offering bold solutions to our nation&#8217;s biggest problems.&#8221; She went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=Patricia+Farley&#038;contributor_state=NV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contribute <\/a>$1,500 to Buttigieg&#8217;s PAC, and has not contributed to a Republican at the federal level.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Farley told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> she is a &#8220;current independent&#8221; who is &#8220;not interested in pushing partisan political agendas&#8221; and &#8220;only care[s] about giving Nevadans the facts they need to make an informed decision.&#8221; While Farley also claims in the ad that she &#8220;used to work with Adam Laxalt in the state government,&#8221; she later told the <em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> that she had &#8220;few personal interactions&#8221; with the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Farley still serves as president of Nevada Values as of February 2022, the PAC&#8217;s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvsos.gov\/elections\/2396.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign finance disclosure<\/a> states. Nevada Values is registered as a Battle Born Progress affiliate and uses the same mailing address, email address, and phone number as the liberal nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Both Laxalt and Cortez Masto cruised to victory in Nevada&#8217;s June 14 primary elections, and the pair will now face off in November. Cortez Masto holds a strong financial advantage\u2014she has $9 million on hand to Laxalt&#8217;s roughly $2.1 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Spot fails to mention star witness&#8217;s work for radical group that wants to defund police, teach CRT  YouTube  Collin Anderson \u2022 June 22, 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}