Category: AR PAC

A Republican political action committee is looking to attack Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, a long-time Clinton supporter, for his private emails.

America Rising PAC executive editor Colin Reed filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request on Thursday with Virginia officials, calling on McAuliffe to hand over “copies of all communications pertaining to government business sent to or from the personal email accounts of Gov. McAuliffe.”

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been dogged with criticism about her use of a private email server while serving at the State Department.

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America Rising spokeswoman Amelia Chassé said that McAuliffe should be more transparent about his own email use.

“As their long-time money man, the Clintons taught Governor McAuliffe everything he knows about politics,” Chassé said. “So it is worth examining whether he has imitated the controversial email practices of his mentor, Secretary Clinton.”

This article was excerpted from The Hill. Click here to read the article online.

America Rising PAC is demanding that the former career diplomat tapped by Secretary of State John Kerry to serve as “transparency coordinator” at the government agency resign after revelations that she donated the maximum amount to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.

Kerry announced Tuesday that Janice Jacobs, who most recently worked as Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs before retiring last year, would serve as State’s transparency “czar” and help improve its document preservation and response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

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Shortly after Kerry’s announcement, the Washington Free Beacon reported that Jacobs had donated $2,700–the maximum amount–to Clinton’s presidential campaign in June, according to Federal Election Commission records.

America Rising PAC executive director Colin Reed on Thursday called for Jacobs’ resignation, citing a clear “conflict of interest.”

“It’s clear from her donations to Secretary Clinton that the new State Department czar has a conflict of interest in the ongoing email scandal and needs to step aside,” Reed said in a statement. “Clinton’s private email server has led to potential breaches of our national security and the stifling of government transparency practices.”

“The American people deserve leadership completely removed of partisan politics. The only way for this to happen is for Ambassador Jacobs to resign and be replaced by a truly neutral arbiter who can resolve the email issue as quickly and fairly as possible,” Reed added.

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This article was excerpted from The Washington Free Beacon. Click here to read the full article online.