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Terry McAuliffe's Solyndra
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 13, 2013 | KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Posted on 04/13/2013 4:34:13 AM PDT by Makana

Turn over any green-energy rock, and wiggling underneath will be the usual creepy mix of political favoritism and taxpayer-funded handouts. Add to this the Clintons, Mississippi and a murky visa program, and you've got a particularly ripe political embarrassment for Terry McAuliffe.

Everyone remember The Macker? Best Friend of Bill. Chairman of Hillary's 2008 presidential campaign. Famed money-tree shaker. Former Democratic Party chief. Failed 2009 contender for the Virginia governorship but now back as the party's nominee for that position in this fall's election. Oh—and in Mr. McAuliffe's words—"a Virginia businessman" intent on "creating jobs."

Or at least that was the image Mr. McAuliffe sought to portray in 2009, when he became chairman of a car company called GreenTech Automotive, with plans to produce golf-cart sized electric vehicles. The former DNC chief is no stranger to moneymaking, having once used a friendly union pension fund to spin a $100 investment in a Florida land deal into $2.45 million. GreenTech, however, was designed to shed the moneyman image and to reposition Mr. McAuliffe as a (clean) job creator the way Mark Warner and Bob McDonnell used their pro-business credentials to win office in Virginia.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: greenenergy; greenjobs; mcauliffe; politics; virginia
"Follow the money"

This editorial illustrates how the Libs are using the Environment Issue to fund their politics and line their pockets with your dollars.

1 posted on 04/13/2013 4:34:13 AM PDT by Makana
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To: Makana

Unfortunately, none of this is making the Virginian-Pilot, Daily Press, or local news.


2 posted on 04/13/2013 4:40:13 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: Makana

He’s a Democrat....NOTHING will happen to him and he will be elected. Democrats have NO CLASS and NO MORALS.


3 posted on 04/13/2013 4:46:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Makana

It’s easy to see why liberals hate capitalism. When you find out what they think it is, it’s understandable they don’t trust it. Oh, they’ll participate to help themselves in crony schemes, but it sure explains their anti business bias.


4 posted on 04/13/2013 4:46:10 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (Tokyo Rove is more than a name, it's a GREAT WEBSITE)
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To: Makana

Terry is a crooked political manipulator, much like the fathead, Al Gore.

The Clintons, kissing friends of McAuliffe’s, are in another category. They have left a pile of bodies behind them that lead all the way from Little Rock to Washington, D.C. Now these two pals of Terry’s are multi-millionaires thanks to the clueless America electorate and the Republicrat Party which keeps tossing out left of center candidates for us to vote for.

Democrats are many things.

They’re crooks, baby killers, schemers, America haters, communists, socialists, wankers, homosexual and lesbians, America lasters, adulterers, pimps, druggies, alcoholics, perverts, pedophiles, draft dodgers and cowards.

Republicans are merely the stupid party.


5 posted on 04/13/2013 4:51:06 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Makana

Mr. Money Launderer.


6 posted on 04/13/2013 5:38:50 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: IbJensen
McAuliffe made millions running the US Olympic in Spain and has made a fortune ripping off tax payers! This is typical McAuliffe!
7 posted on 04/13/2013 6:07:07 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: Makana

Dem scumbag bump for later........


8 posted on 04/13/2013 7:03:55 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Makana

Feds probe company that helped get EB-5 funding for McAuliffe’s Greentech

http://blogs.nbc12.com/decisionvirginia/2013/07/feds-probe-company-that-helped-get-eb-5-funding-for-mcauliffes-greentech.html

hes at it again!


9 posted on 07/23/2013 11:39:35 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Macabre Crumpet of Caucasian Ethnicity)
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