Terry McAuliffe? What an embarrassment if He were to be Virginia’s Governor

[JoeB131]

in the employee manual where i work...clearly states....no talking to the media...period....i am sure her does too

Exactly.

 

[Jroc]

Kind of scary when rich guys turn on you nutters, eh?

Terry McAuliffe’s MyCar Isn’t Even a “Real Car”

Government funding and favors


Apparently the “private money” was pure politicking. The Macker’s MyCar—a “neighborhood electric vehicle” with a 25-mile range and a top speed of 35 mph that Car and Driver reported: “isn’t a real car”—may have private funding that’s scandalously acquired, but it also depends on millions in government assistance, tax exceptions, and rebates. The Washington Post says McAuliffe’s GreenTech Automotive “fits into a pattern of investments in which McAuliffe has used government programs, political connections and access to wealthy investors of both parties in pursuit of big profits for himself.

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http://www.tngovwatch.org/terry-mcauliffes-mycar-isnt-even-a-real-car-car-and-driver/

 

[mamooth]

It's not just the executive that Republicans lose in Virginia. They probably lose the Virginia senate as well.

The Virginia senate is currently split 20-20, with the Republican Lt. Gov being the tiebreaker vote. The Democrats are easily winning the Lt. Gov race, because the Republicans nominated a crazy person, E.W. Jackson. The Democrat is up by double digits in that race. So, the Democrat wins ... but he's a state senator, meaning he has to quit that position, creating an open seat, meaning a special election. That election determines control of the Virginia senate. Democrats are favored in that district, but it's not a lock.

Virginia House, Democrats will make gains, but not come anywhere close to getting control.

 

[Jroc]

It's not just the executive that Republicans lose in Virginia. They probably lose the Virginia senate as well.

The Virginia senate is currently split 20-20, with the Republican Lt. Gov being the tiebreaker vote. The Democrats are easily winning the Lt. Gov race, because the Republicans nominated a crazy person, E.W. Jackson. The Democrat is up by double digits in that race. So, the Democrat wins ... but he's a state senator, meaning he has to quit that position, creating an open seat, meaning a special election. That election determines control of the Virginia senate. Democrats are favored in that district, but it's not a lock.

Virginia House, Democrats will make gains, but not come anywhere close to getting control.

Are all the Dems a piece of shit scum like McAullife?

The politically well-connected McAuliffe – a former Democratic National Committee chairman described this month by the Washington Post as someone who “made a fortune in an array of businesses, often by using his political contacts” – apparently purchased GreenTech Automotive in 2009 from the Chinese government, which seems like a match made in heaven given that the Chinese “capitalist” model is based heavily on political favoritism.

McAuliffe quietly resigned as chairman of the company in December — so quietly the public only learned about it on April 5 —but was still championing his role with the company as recently as this month, when one of its funding sources turned into a campaign disaster. That financing mechanism is the EB-5 program, whereby foreigners are offered green cards in exchange for investments in U.S. companies.

In short, McAuliffe, who helped Bill Clinton raise campaign cash by selling $100,000 sleepovers at the White House, was building a car company based on $500,000 “investments” from foreigners seeking to live in the United States. “GTA counts among its allies Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodham, who shares an office with GTA and is CEO of Gulf Coast Funds Management, an EB-5 center that raises visa-investor money for GTA

Terry McAuliffe's crony capitalism mess | Human Events

 

[S.J.]

Are all the Dems a piece of shit scum like McAullife?

Pretty much, yes.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Really? and you know that right? there's so many uniformed voters out there. Some may know some of this stuff, most don't know what a true piece of trash McAuliffe is.

You, Jroc, are among the most uninformed voting tools out there, son.

McA is poor, but Cuccinelli is poorest, is what you are being told by the voters.

McAuliffe is scum, Cuccinelli is a good man. Still waiting for something of substance from you fakley...I'm assuming it'll be a long wait

All of the substance any reasonable person has been provided, but you simply ignore it.

Doesn't matter none. Cuccinelli is a loser.

 

[Jroc]

You, Jroc, are among the most uninformed voting tools out there, son.

McA is poor, but Cuccinelli is poorest, is what you are being told by the voters.

McAuliffe is scum, Cuccinelli is a good man. Still waiting for something of substance from you fakley...I'm assuming it'll be a long wait

All of the substance any reasonable person has been provided, but you simply ignore it.

Doesn't matter none. Cuccinelli is a loser.

We know where your heart ls fake... Congratulations you support the scum

 

[JakeStarkey]

We all know I support sane Republicans and Jroc doesn't.

 

[ScienceRocks]

SO, Matt, why the change of heart?

What happened to old, Far Right Wing Matt who used pictures of Hitler as an Avi?

I don't want to see America default and fail. I wish to see it remain a first world country that leads the world.

The republicans no longer are sane.

Lastly, I was pulling peoples legs a little with the Hitler thing. Very serious and still serious about the black on white thing as it isn't right.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Only 8 more days until I can vote against that lunatic Cuccinelli

 

[Jroc]

We all know I support sane Republicans and Jroc doesn't.

You support the scum that is Terry McAuliffe

 

[JakeStarkey]

I support a sane Republican Party and principles, which Jroc does not. He is a TeaP and a neo-con.

 

[freedombecki]

In the late 1990s, some of McAuliffe's business ventures came under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which filed suit against two labor-union officials, both of them with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pension fund, for entering into questionable business arrangements with McAuliffe. Both officials later agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for their actions, and the union itself had to reimburse its pension fund by nearly $5 million.

In one deal, McAuliffe and the fund officials created a partnership to buy a large block of commercial real estate in Florida. McAuliffe put up $100 for the purchase, while the pension fund put up $39 million. Yet McAuliffe got a 50-percent interest in the deal; he eventually walked away with $2.45 million from his original $100 investment. In another instance, the pension fund loaned McAuliffe more than $6 million for a real-estate development, only to find that McAuliffe was unable to make payments for nearly five years. In the end, the pension fund lost some of its money, McAuliffe moved on to his next deal, and fund officials found themselves facing the Labor Department's questions.

A SWEET, SWEET DEAL
The lawsuit that details McAuliffe's dealings with the electrical workers' pension fund is Herman v. Moore, filed in May 1999. The title refers to Jack Moore, a friend of McAuliffe's who ran the pension fund (Herman was Alexis Herman, the Secretary of Labor when the suit was filed). McAuliffe and Moore met when they were both supporters of Democratic Rep. Richard Gephardt's 1988 presidential campaign. At the time, Moore was a long-time electrical workers' union official who had virtually unchallenged authority to choose where to invest the pension fund's $6 billion store of capital.

According to Herman v. Moore, on November 19, 1990, the fund entered into a partnership with a firm called American Capitol Management Company, which was owned by McAuliffe and his wife, Dorothy. The purpose of the partnership, according to the suit, was "to acquire, hold, improve, lease, operate, and sell a shopping center and various apartment complexes located in central Florida."

The suit continues:

In 1991, the limited partnership acquired the Woodlands Square Shopping center and five apartment complexes through $39 million in capital contributions from the fund. American Capitol Management Company made one capital contribution of $100....At the outset, each partner held a 50-percent interest in the limited partnership. If the limited partnership's properties sold at a profit, American Capitol Management Company and the fund would share in the gains according to their percentage partnership interests.

The next year, according to the suit, McAuliffe proposed another venture for the partnership: the purchase of a parcel of land near the apartment complexes which could be divided up into more than 500 single-family lots. Instead of another lopsided buying arrangement, the fund came up with the idea of lending McAuliffe up to $10 million to buy the property, which was known as Country Run. As collateral, McAuliffe put up the Country Run land itself, plus his 50-percent interest in the apartment/shopping center venture.

But not long after the Country Run loan was finalized, McAuliffe got out of the apartment/shopping-center deal. According to the lawsuit, in June 1992 the pension fund paid McAuliffe $450,000 for a portion of his 50-percent share. Then, in August 1993, the fund paid McAuliffe $2,000,000 for most of the rest of his share — for a total return of $2.45 million on that original $100 stake. It was an unusually generous deal for the fund's officers to give McAuliffe — especially since it meant that McAuliffe no longer had the property which he had put up as collateral for the Country Run loan.

In the years that followed, the Country Run project went nowhere; according to the lawsuit, by the end of 1996, lot sales to homebuilders were less than half the number that had been predicted. The pension fund's loan to McAuliffe, according to the suit, "was in default continuously from December 1992 until October 1997." In 1997, McAuliffe found another partner and bought out the loan. In the end, Labor Department investigators found, the pension fund got a relatively meager return on its money — significantly less than it would have earned in a more conservative investment.

"The fund lost money as a result of the [Country Run] loan in 1992 and the purchases of additional partnership interests from American Capitol Management Company [the buyout of McAuliffe] in 1992 and 1993," says the lawsuit. "In addition, if the fund had not made these investments, it would have had the money it invested in Country Run and the additional partnership purchases available to invest in prudent investments that would have earned a greater return."

Byron York on Terry McAuliffe & Business Past on National Review Online

So much white collar crime to line pockets with, so little time.

 

[Jroc]

I support a sane Republican Party and principles, which Jroc does not. He is a TeaP and a neo-con.

unlike you I supported a person who wasn't my first choice because Obama needed to be defeated you support liberal and liberal policies and you support Terry McAuliffe

 

[National Socialist]

Anyone got up to date poll numbers? I don't really care who wins it isn't my state but always interested.

 

[mamooth]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1e2fb0-3c43-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html

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According to a new Washington Post/Abt SRBI poll, McAuliffe tops Cuccinelli 51 percent to 39 percent among likely voters in the Nov. 5 election. McAuliffe led by eight percentage points in a poll taken last month. Libertarian Robert Sarvis, who has capitalized on voter unrest with the two major-party candidates, is at 8 percent, according to the new poll.

The margin between the two major-party candidates is driven by a huge gender gap. Among men, the two candidates are running even, with Cuccinelli at 45 percent and McAuliffe at 44 percent. But among women, Cuccinelli trails by 24 points — 58 percent to 34 percent.
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The Post/Abt SRBI poll was conducted by telephone Oct. 24-27 among a random sample of 762 likely voters in the Virginia gubernatorial election, including users of both land-line and cellular phones. The margin of sampling error for results among likely voters is 4.5 percentage points.
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[National Socialist]

Holy Crap! Libertardian is doing well I see...

 

[emilynghiem]

I support a sane Republican Party and principles, which Jroc does not. He is a TeaP and a neo-con.

Dear JakeStark and Jroc:

I would like to see ALL candidates for office stand for and pay for what they believe to be working models and reforms, PROVE THEM FIRST, and use those models to prove their leadership, like a living resume of work experience. These should be constitutional, cost-effective, ethical and sustainable models so people can study and replicate them and the solutions SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.

We all know Ron Paul had very good points, and also a weak spot where he did not offer a solution to the foreign policy he was so opposed to. Why not take the BEST of all candidates and develop AT LEAST THAT PART to prove it works better. Why only focus on the WORST to cut someone down for political points, where we cut off solutions with one fell stroke.

That's why we are left with nothing but garbage.

Even Obama's good points about microlending, helping vets, and African American education to cut poverty and crime went down the drain to push garbage in the media.

Here are some model solutions I would love to DELEGATE to candidates from all parties or with business or other experience to PROVE their leadership to run for office.
Why not invest political campaign funding DIRECTLY into working models to ADVERTISE leaders?

http://www.earnedamnesty.corg

http://www.houstonprogressive.org

Freedmen's Town Historic Churches and Vet Housing

I only found ONE candidate for Democrat office willing to consider this, but he realized he was up against the party lines that play the political games of big money and media.

Can we get a group of these "little" independent starters together, and set up a group model and fundraising for them to work in cross-party teams to solve problems with solutions that aren't politically divisive? We need to start promoting Candidates who can work ACROSS party lines with Dems, GOP, Libertarians, Greens etc. Not fund or vote people in based on who can "BASH" the other team the best in 30 seconds or less.

Are you with me?
Why can't we create jobs for ALL THE CANDIDATES to work on issues that show their BEST skills and solutions (while correcting whatever their problems or weaknesses are).

Don't we need ALL people contributing to solve the nation's problems?
Why not create JOBS and business internships for ALL these people who want to LEAD?

 

[Jroc]

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, has officially joined President Obama's war on coal.

On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that McAuliffe said for the first time "that he supports EPA rules on coal-fired plants."

During a tour of MicroTech, a Northern Virginia company, a reporter asked McAuliffe if he supported the new EPA coal industry guidelines, which were released two weeks ago, "as they are written right now.” The guidelines will, in effect, prohibit the construction of any new coal fired power plants and force many currently operating coal fired power plants to shut down

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McAuliffe Officially Joins Obama's War on Coal

 

[JoeB131]

Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, has officially joined President Obama's war on coal.

On Tuesday the Washington Post reported that McAuliffe said for the first time "that he supports EPA rules on coal-fired plants."

During a tour of MicroTech, a Northern Virginia company, a reporter asked McAuliffe if he supported the new EPA coal industry guidelines, which were released two weeks ago, "as they are written right now.” The guidelines will, in effect, prohibit the construction of any new coal fired power plants and force many currently operating coal fired power plants to shut down

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McAuliffe Officially Joins Obama's War on Coal

And this is bad, why? Gosh darn, he's against the cutting edge energy technology of the 18th century!!!!

Coal is dirty, dangerous to mine, and we have better forms of energy.