THE CANDIDATES FOR HOUSE OF DELEGATES DISTRICT 40

The charge of bigotry has crept into one of the House of Delegates campaigns. Dan Helmer for VA (danhelmer.com) has accused Harold Pyon for Virginia | HD-40 of sending out a mailer that he calls grossly antisemitic .

• Virginia Delegate Dan Helmer says Harold Pyon flier antisemitic | wusa9.com
• Opinion | Antisemitic mailer in Virginia legislative race follows a recent GOP pattern – The Washington Post
• Black Virginia Lawmakers Decry Flyers Showing them as Puppets – WBOC TV

Consider what the editors The Washington Post observed.

We have no reason to assume Mr. Pyon, a retired federal worker and former Army medic, is himself an antisemite. But there is no doubt that his noxious mailer is an affront to decency. It also fits a recent pattern among Virginia Republican candidates in this fall’s…