Terry McAuliffe told supporters in a video message today that he will formally announce his candidacy for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination on Wednesday.
McAuliffe, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a close friend of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, has lived in McLean for 16 years but has never run for office in Virginia.
He plans to travel the state during a weeklong campaign kickoff tour, starting Wednesday morning in Hampton Roads. He is scheduled to stop in Richmond for a town hall meeting at the Science Museum of Virginia at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday.
McAuliffe's video message posted on his Web site and emailed to supporters mentioned McDonnell, calling him "a good man" but faulting him for "seven years of opposing the progress of the Warner and Kaine administrations." The message did not mention McAuliffe's Democratic rivals.
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