McAuliffe, in race for governor, promises business plan for Virginia
Published: January 7, 2009
-- And then there were three.
Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, today formally entered the Democratic campaign for governor, joining former Del. Brian Moran and state Sen. Creigh Deeds of Bath County in pursuit of a nomination that will be settled in an open-to-all primary on June 9.
McAuliffe is talking up his credentials as a successful investor and business owner. In Richmond at this hour, at a town-hall-style session at the Science Museum of Virginia, McAuliffe promised that as governor he would craft a "business plan" for Virginia.
McAuliffe's candidacy has been an open secret for months, and today's announcement -- in a statewide swing -- is the final step in a lengthy political strip tease.
McAuliffe started the day in Norfolk. In his Richmond appearance McAuliffe said he will not criticize his Democratic rivals: instead, he said, he will attack the all-but-official Republican nominee, Attorney General Bob McDonnell.
McAuliffe said McDonnell had opposed then-Gov. Mark R. Warner on a popular tax-fattened plan to boost spending for schools, police and human services.
He also faulted McDonnell for opposing Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on new funds for transportation.
McAuliffe is hoping to capitalize on his status as a newcomer to Virginia politics.
In his remarks, he promised to shake up Richmond, adding that the capital does not have a monopoly on all ideas.
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Reader Reactions
Question: Which party has been in power in the USA for the last 8 years?
Answer, the GOP
Question: How did the USA get into such a mess financially
Answer: GOP de-regulation of many industries, the financial industry in this case. (read that no boundaries, yippee, I can screw who I want to screw and nobody can do anything about it)
Question: Why is food, clothing and shelter so expensive that Americans can’t afford them?
Answer: Unregulated industry practices
Question: Then, who got this country into a position where the “cost of living is higher than we ever imagined it would be” (sic)
Answer: The GOP
Question: Then how is it that liberals are to blame?
Answer: Duh,Duh,Duh, . . . .
celtwom: If I am to avoid being provincial and parochial only by seeing my state turned into a Bizarro-World version of Michigan, Minnesota, Arkansas or New York count me out. I am always amused at how a person becomes an ignorant rube whenever they have the bad taste to challenge those who really, really know everything.
You’re right, Randy. Virginia is no longer a southern state. It’s become infested with northeastern liberal disease and it’s eventually gonna cost us all higher bills, higher cost of living and higher taxes than we ever dreamed of paying.
Unless the plan involves less government and less meddling in business, it won’t work.
Besides, with Terry McAuliffe’s record as a Clinton apologist, why should we believe anything he says he’s going to do? It stands to reason that anything he proposes should be given exception scrutiny to find out what he’s hidden in the small print to give out to his cronies and tuck away for himself.
I am not a native Virginian, but, I can understand why they don’t like outsiders, particularly from the north - setting aside the results of the war between the states and reconstruction, the migration of people from the north east corridor into Virginia is turning the state into an ideological cesspool of liberalism who think government has to meddle in everything.
You’re right. It is possible to live in Virginia for 100 years and still be a “Newcomer”. Being born here doesn’t guarantee complete or even insightful understanding of what Virginia is all about. In fact, it contributes to parochial, provincial thought that merely serves to keep things “the way they’ve always been”. It’s a classic argument Virginians use to put down someone they don’t agree with, “you weren’t born here, what do you know?“
Come on, you can do better than that, can’t you?
Key here: NEWCOMER!
He doesn’t understand the nuances between balancing the haughty NoVa populace, while balancing the needs of SouthWestern VA.
He may have lived in NoVa for 16 years, but I’m pretty sure he’s not that affilated with the rest of the state.
Creigh Deeds is a better example of a statesman than a politician. McAufliffe doesn’t impress me as being that “open” to the rest of the citizens of the Commonwealth.
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