Gop Group Now Spending More $6.4 Million To Boost Morrisey

By Andrew Brown Patrick Morrisey, West Virginia's attorney general, has now benefited from more than $6.4 million in outside spending by the Republican Attorney Generals Association in his attempt to keep his office. The national group, which is funded by corporate interests and operated by Morrisey's former campaign manager, has thrown in an additional $1 million in the past five days to help the Republican incumbent protect his seat from Democratic challenger Doug Reynolds. Reynolds, a state delegate, businessman and millionaire from Huntington, has countered the wave of spending by RAGA in recent months by dumping around $3 million of his own money into his run for office, according to state campaign finance reports. But as the campaign to become West Virginia's attorney general has slogged on, with a constant stream of political attack ads, public records suggest that RAGA is beginning to outpace Reynolds' self-funded campaign. Documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission shows Reynolds' campaign has purchased several hundred thousand dollars worth of political advertisements in recent days, during the same time that RAGA was reporting its $1 million in spending with the West Virginia Secretary of State. With millions of dollars in last-minute spending going on, the race could become the state's most expensive political contest this year.