{"id":950763,"date":"2021-11-01T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950763"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:59:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:59:21","slug":"gop-senator-probes-virginia-utilitys-shady-push-to-boost-mcauliffe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-probes-virginia-utilitys-shady-push-to-boost-mcauliffe\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator Probes Virginia Utility\u2019s Shady Push To Boost McAuliffe"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fgop-senator-probes-virginia-utilitys-shady-push-to-boost-mcauliffe%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=950763&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 readability=\"28.631578947368\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/\">Elections<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dominion Energy funded mailer aimed at suppressing GOP votes<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"540\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-17-at-12.21.51-PM-540x355-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-17-at-12.21.51-PM-540x355.png 540w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-17-at-12.21.51-PM-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-17-at-12.21.51-PM-e1550424155692.png 485w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tMcAuliffe \/ YouTube\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\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 November 1, 2021 5:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"65.638585209003\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A Republican senator is probing Virginia\u2019s public utility Dominion Energy for more information on its massive spending aimed at suppressing the vote for Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), in a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Dominion-Energy-Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to Dominion chief executive officer Robert Blue, asked the company to disclose whether Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe was aware of the $250,000 it spent on his behalf, and whether anything was promised in return for the spending blitz. The cash from Dominion, which is the only option for most Virginia residents, was used on an ad campaign to convince likely Republican voters to stay home because Youngkin wasn&#8217;t strong enough on the Second Amendment, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/virginia-energy-giant-quietly-boosts-mcauliffe-5b3e59d3-30c4-403c-afce-3c2d3b904768.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from <em>Axios<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Cotton called it &#8220;likely the first time a public utility has spent ratepayers&#8217; money to suppress voting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dominion apologized after the spending effort was revealed by <em>Axios<\/em> and said it asked Accountability Virginia PAC, the liberal group that sent the mailers for Dominion, for a refund.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The public utility has received harsh criticism from Virginians for its monopoly over energy in the commonwealth. McAuliffe, in fact, has disavowed the energy giant and said his campaign won&#8217;t accept its donations. Dominion&#8217;s political team worked around the ban by funding Accountability Virginia PAC&#8217;s voter suppression project instead.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Dominion did not send a response to Cotton&#8217;s questions, the senator&#8217;s office told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections Dominion Energy funded mailer aimed at suppressing GOP votes  McAuliffe \/ YouTube  Matthew Foldi \u2022 November 1, 2021 5:45 pm A Republican &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"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-950763","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\/950763","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\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950763\/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=950763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}