Opinion/Commentary: The Brazile Effect In Virginia

There is a dirty smear campaign of a popular Independent candidate going on in Charlottesville’s City Council Election that smacks of the allegations made by Donna Brazile in her recently published book about the Democratic Party and the Sanders campaign. You would think that Charlottesville had undergone enough ugliness in the White Supremacist attacks of August 12 but it seems like the racism extends to a local election in which an a popular progressive African-American independent candidate is under attack by the white establishment for merely demanding accountability.

On November 3rd the Democratic Candidates for Charlottesville City Council held a press conference with many of the local Democratic Party elite in attendance.

http://www.nbc29.com/story/36759525/democratic-candidates-for-charlottesville-city-council-discuss-plans-for-the-city

At that press Conference Democratic City Council candidate Laufer stated:

"I think the most important thing that heather and I are expressing toda…