McAuliffe mailer triggers angry response from Moran...

Brian Moran's campaign is taking serious offense to a new mailer backing Terry McAuliffe, blasting the longtime fundraising giant for a "false negative attack." 

In the mailer, McAuliffe's team stacks up their candidate against the other three men running for the governor's mansion. The mail piece looks at McAuliffe, Moran, Sen. Creigh Deeds and Republican Bob McDonnell - comparing their "records" on payday lending, campaign finance and lobbying.

As any campaign mailer should - the piece made McAuliffe look pretty good on paper - playing in the partisan grey areas and linking Moran, Deeds and McDonnell to tainted money - while making McAuliffe the squeaky clean choir boy of the group.  

But Moran's folks are ticked off and they're taking it to McAuliffe who has repeatedly pledged not to attack other Democrats on the campaign trail. Here's a statement from Moran's campaign manager Andrew Roos.

“Brian Moran will take no lectures on ethics from the booking agent of the Lincoln bedroom and the architect of the Business Leadership Forum. The last place we would go for a public service lesson is a Wall Street insider. For decades, Mr. McAuliffe traded access for money, ensuring that big companies – not people – were in control, all the while pocketing millions through his proximity to power.  This mailer is all the more ironic given Mr. McAuliffe’s repeated pledge to run a positive campaign. Virginians need a Governor who they can trust."

Wow.

If you want to get a look at the McAuliffe mailer that has Moran so worked up click here.

McAuliffe's flier is one of those where it is technically true - but the information leaves a lot to be desired.

For instance McAuliffe says he won't take any money from Dominion or its political action committee, but he has held a fundraiser at the home of Dominion's retired president and chief executive officer and he has also taken money from other prominent Dominion executives. 

The Washington Post fact checkers have tried to iron out some of these ruffles.

Click here to scroll through a WashPo fact check of McAuliffe, Moran, Deeds and McDonnell

The article hits on the payday lending issue and Dominion. 

Needless to say it looks like the campaign is getting a little bit more aggressive as the sands of the hourglass run out. 

UPDATE: Deeds' campaign is weighing in to here's a statement from Brooke Borkenhagen: 

 "Just last week Creigh was endorsed by The Washington Post over his two opponents from Northern Virginia.  ABC 7 said that the most recent polling shows that, "McAuliffe and Moran are flat and Creigh is up."  Creigh has all of the momentum in this race and Terry is clearly running scared.  That's why Terry is trying to hustle Virginia voters with this deceptive mail piece."

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