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Gubernatorial Candidate McAuliffe to Visit Leesburg

Campaign stop with local businesses and the mayor set for Tuesday afternoon.

 

Democratic candidate for Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe, the McLean-based businessman perhaps best known for his work for former President Bill Clinton, will be in Leesburg Tuesday to meet with Mayor Kristen Umstattd and town business owners.

McAuliffe is on a small-business tour as his campaign swings into full gear. The Democrat faces Republican Ken Cuccinelli, who is also from Northern Virginia, and Independent Tareq D. Salahi, who made headlines crashing a White House party with his ex-wife, who is now married to Journey guitarist Neal Schon. Bill Bolling dropped his bid for the Republican nomination, but could jump back in an Independent candidate. Bolling has raised more money ($2.75 million), according to the Virginia Public Access Project, than Cuccinelli ($2 million). Both Bolling and Cuccinelli trail McAuliffe ($8.9 million), while Sahali has raised less than $100,000.

McAuliffe’s stop begins at 1:15 p.m. at the Leesburg Town Hall.

Related Topics: Campaign, Terry McAuliffe, and Virginia Governor's Race

Jonathan Erickson

9:24 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Holy Moly, 4 times as much money. It is how to buy a govenorship not a race. I guess those fund raisers in New York with slick Willie really paid off for Terry. How about those jobs he created for Mississippi with the car plant. Lets not forget Global crossing that he invested 100,000 dollars in and got 18 million back before it went bankrupt. Talk about a vulture, yippee ki ya

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Ellie Lockwood

6:39 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Democrat Terry McAuliffe has been visiting businesses around the state in an attempt to burnish his credentials as a businessman. It was Leesburg's turn today.

He is a businessman, but he is a Mississippi businessman who happens to live in Virginia. Questions as to how he established his company elsewhere have been problematic. McAuliffe at first asserted Virginia wasn't interested. In reality, although the project was presented to the VIrginia Economic Development Partnership in 2009, Green Tech never provided a concrete business plan with financing so no formal proposal ever went to Gov. Kaine or Gov. McDonnell. As McAuliife has said "I've signed thousands of documents but never read them" which may explain the failure of his company to follow through with the VEDP.

Even though economically depressed Danville and Martinsville regions in southern Virginia are well positioned for new business the Commonwealth actually dodged a bullet by not doing business with McAuliffe. According to Watchdog.org, in order to attract the multimillion dollar incentive package from Miss., Green Tech pledged to hire "thousands of workers to assemble tens of thousands of vehicles a year at the Tunica, MS plant by the end of 2012. However, the Tunica Plant is still under construction with barely 100 employees on the payroll."

Another of Terry's famous quotes is "I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me." That's very sage advice and something voters should make note of!

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KEL

9:07 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013

Another of Terry's famous quotes is "I have big ideas. If you don't like them, don't vote for me." That's very sage advice and something voters should make note of!
Sounds like a quote from Mitt Romney. Only difference is the Mittster made sure that his biggest money winners sent jobs to China. At least Terry kept the jobs in the U.S. and hey he took the best deal. Even some republican businessmen do that.
No one ever talks about Terry's success at establishing Federal City National Bank in D.C., a very successful bank benefiting the inhabitants of the D.C. area that later merged with Richard Allen's Credit International Bank. Nor do they mention his successful turnaround of American Heritage Homes. Unlike the Mittster, Terry actually took over as chairman of AHH and created thousands of jobs in the construction business. Alas, Mitt only created jobs in China.

KEL

8:03 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013

I trust that when the author finds out that Ken Cuccinelli is making a visit to Leesburg that he will announce it likewise on the Leesburg patch so the rest of the population can tee off against him as well.

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joe brewer

8:19 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013

The Cuc seems to be trying to make things better for people while Terry seems to be making things better for Terry.
How much did Terry raise with his fundraiser with slick Willie in New York? Or how about the fundraiser in Florida. I thought it was a Virginia election. Lo and behold Terry says he is a Virginia businessman but his business is in Mississippi. He does have a home in McLean from what I understand that makes him gubernatorial material.
Don't wait for Ken to come to Loudoun County tee off like you got a pair!

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KEL

9:08 am on Saturday, March 30, 2013

it appears that KK has made his money litigating for mid-sized companies against their employees, suppliers and competitors. Bully for him. Most wouldn’t have a problem with KK’s business record; however it is the other side of the ledger that will give them pause to pull the lever in November:
1. KK supports letting bosses decide whether women get access to affordable birth control. He’s even compared his fight to deny access to the Civil Rights movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. He co-sponsored and continues to push extreme “personhood” bills that would define a fertilized egg as a legal person (he calls it a “scientific reality”).
3. He has stated many times his intent to ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest.
4. He has made it his mission to implement targeted regulation of abortion providers to eliminate access to safe and legal abortion in VA.

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joe brewer

1:18 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

Fact check your biggest money winner statement.
I'll get back to the rest of your nonsense after I wake up!

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KEL

10:19 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

It is fact checked and was covered in the same Patch debate in October 2012 leading up to the election of Obama v Mittster (which you lost by the way); you had the opportunity to read the spreadsheet then and were unable to rebut anything on it then so I am not going to go to the effort of cutting and pasting it in now); if you weren't so lazy you could go back and look it up yourself. But alas I forget the only place you look for 'information' is Fox News, the Drudge Report, or other right wing nut job publications and all you are able to do is regurgitate those talking points. All the rest to you is 'lame stream media'. Guess that puts you in good company with the likes of Palin and other intellectual morons of your tea bagger movement as to what so-called facts you will accept. Until you begin to read from sources with different POV, learn how to think for yourself and are able to come up with something original to disclose you will never persuade anyone else that doesn't already live in your bubble.

Ellie Lockwood

7:40 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

KEL said. "No one ever talks about Terry's success at establishing Federal City National Bank in D.C., a very successful bank benefiting the inhabitants of the D.C. area that later merged with Richard Allen's Credit International Bank."

Response...That is because by 1991 the bank was in trouble and was cited by federal regulator for unsafe or unsound practices....like business-related loans that helped Tony Coelho, then the House Democratic Whip, and Jim Wright, then the House Speaker. McAuliffe said at the time "I knew we were in terrible trouble, the liquidators were ready to roll." Only by merging with a bank headed by Republican, Richard V. Allen, Pres. Ronald Reagan's former national security advisor was he able to save the bank.

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Ellie Lockwood

7:40 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

KEL said "Nor do they mention his successful turnaround of American Heritage Homes. Unlike the Mittster, Terry actually took over as chairman of AHH and created thousands of jobs in the construction business."

Response... Not sure that 800 homes created "thousands of jobs", but this boast is a little harder to parse due to McAuliffe's habit of mixing Democrat fund raising with his business deals. American Heritage Homes was on the brink of failure when he took it on. But a union executive arranged more than $50M in union pension fund loans for McAuliffe's "real estate" ventures. One loan of $6M got the union guy sued by the Labor Dept. as "imprudent." According to the NYT the Heritage Homes rescued the pension fund loan that was then in default.

IMHO Terry McAuliffe has ethical lapses that keep him 2min. away from investigation, of which there have already been several. This person is not of the caliber expected for governor of Virginia.

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Ellie Lockwood

7:52 pm on Saturday, March 30, 2013

Ken Cuccinelli established a rape awareness group at UVA while he was in undergrad...not what you'd expect from a "woman hater". He is the father of five girls and uses his legal expertise to peruse and prosecute human traffickers. I also recently learned that Jesse Jackson ALSO compared slavery to abortion. Who knew! LOL
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/consistent/jackson.html

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KEL

9:51 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Elle McLockwood,

You seem to gloss over the fact that JJ does not support committing women to raising a child in the case of rape or incest; nor is he in favor of promoting delivery of a non-viable fetus or when the life of the mother is at stake as KK does. Wake up and get your facts straight.

KEL

9:46 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

KK has Insider trading and conflict of interest in dealings with Star Scientific, a Virginia company benefiting from preferential treatment by Governor Bob McDonald and KK, as disclosed 31March2013 by “The Washington Post” by Rosalind Helderman and Laura Vozzella. Seems that our boy KK has made a 6:1 ROI so far from his Star Scientific holdings, whose key product Anatabloc has been trumpeted to release any and all inflammation symptoms that anyone might have whether idiopathic, associated with Alzheimer’s, Diabetes, you name it. According to Heather Snyder, director of medical and scientific operations at the Alzheimer Association, “there is really no data to support this product at this time.” Of course when you are given freebees such as paid weddings for your daughter in the tens of thousands of dollars like Bob’s daughter Cailin was you can look the other way. KK’s dilemma is that he and his AG staff are to determine in the next couple of months whether or not Star Scientific has a case in its challenge to Virginia’s sales and use tax assessment on tobacco-curing barns it owns in Mecklenberg, VA. KK has received to date a number of gifts from Williams, CEO of Star Scientific, a $6700 box of supplement goodies, use of a lake house and boat valued at $3000, free transportation to Kentucky valued at $3200…

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joe brewer

11:09 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Meet me for lunch at O'Faolain's Monday and we can discuss how lazy I am. The nose got 3 Pinocchio's for the lies about outsourcing. Do I have to go on?

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KEL

1:33 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

JBB,

Unfortunately, if I captured all of your lies or falsehoods you've told in this forum on behalf of your beloved candidates such as the likes of KK, the Mittster and Eugene Delgaudio I wouldn't be able to fit it into the allotted space.

Ellie Lockwood

11:40 am on Sunday, March 31, 2013

@KEL. I have no idea who JJ and KK are. I didn't GIVE you any facts regarding biology so calm down with your rhetoric. You started the conversation lauding McAuliffe's business acumen. I responded with facts about his ethical lapses. I stand by those facts.

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KEL

1:48 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

I have seen no facts from you. Since you seem to not be paying attention, KK stands for Ken 'Kook'inelli or JJ for Jessie Jackson who is the person that you brought up to defend Ken's indefensible stand on women who are raped or victims of incest to be held responsible for the crime committed against them by carrying the injustice to term. This is clearly a RWNJ position completely out of touch with what the rest of society believes.

joe brewer

1:52 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

kel is short for chock full of do-do

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KEL

2:38 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

So that is all you can come up with? I would say that your mouth runneth like s**t coming from your a**.

Ellie Lockwood

2:52 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

@KEL Just for the record, the quotes I gave you came from the NYT and the WaPo. On the other hand the fact is that you obviously can't seem to make a point without attacking the person you are addressing. That does nothing to convince people you the intelligent person you seem to think you are. It's a well understood tactic of Leftists. When the day comes you'll make a great little communist, Comrade.

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KEL

2:58 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Obviously you don't read your own quoted material or other material published on this subject or you wouldn't have left out the fact that Ken Kookinelli is for letting a rape or incest victim fend for themselves in the street for an abortion after they were assaulted. This is NOT the position of Jesse Jackson but is the stated position of Ken Kookinelli. There is a difference that you continue to ignore either because you are stupid or simply intend to mislead.

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joe brewer

3:48 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Kel is a poster child for abortion, it should of happened in this case. A waste of dna and wordly resources Kel is. Keep talking out your other orifice. The best part of you was the stain on the sheets when your momma got through with her john.

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KEL

5:41 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Since JBB can't discuss the issues and where the two candidates stand on them he need not be considered part of the discussion with any longer.

Ellie Lockwood

4:03 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

KEL, shocking to you apparently but I, and many others, have no interest in the abortion conversation that you are obsessed with. I figured your love affair with leftist candidates had to do with the continuation of your free cell phone and food stamps.

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KEL

5:13 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

Response to Ellie Lockwood:

Sorry darling but you can’t have it both ways. Although you and your tea bagger brethren wish it otherwise, there are both financial and social issues that need to be brought to the attention of the non-partisan masses. They need to know that Ken doesn’t really represent their views on these issues. People need to be reminded that voting for KK is a vote for homophobia, misogyny and exclusionary hate-mongering and must be stopped.

joe brewer

6:54 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

100k in and 18 million out that's our boy Terry. Kinda makes Ken look like small potatoes and yes after Terry got his money the company went bankrupt.
I hear you like it both ways!

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KEL

9:04 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

I hear you're a poof.

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KEL

9:10 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

TM is an amateur compared to the Mittster here. We'll see if KK get's investigated in the Star Scientific fiasco.

Ellie Lockwood

7:47 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

KEL. Many of the "non-partisan masses" could not care less about this issue or simply don't agree with it. I decided not to support abortion the first moment I saw my granddaughter's ultra sound and fell instantly in love with her. Your obsession is borderline maniacal....perhaps medication is in order.

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KEL

8:45 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013

You sound like you are on medication.

joe brewer

6:52 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013

you sound like you need to be on medication.

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Ellie Lockwood

7:51 pm on Friday, April 5, 2013

Of course today, we learned that the consummate business man bailed out of Green Tech Automotive, his much vaunted Mississippi car company last year. It's not that surprising he "forgot" to mention that fact while he was pushing his superior business credentials as a road to the governorship. After he established his company in MS he "forgot" how he happened to put it there, instead of VA.

Of course, we now also know that McAuliffe and his buddy Tony Rodham, brother of Hillary, were being investigated a out their use of a Visa program to attract investors. Terry McAuliffe is a total fraud. His hubris regarding his credentials, or lack thereof, is simply stunning.

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