Posted on 09/15/2013 3:19:10 PM PDT by Timber Rattler
Some senior staff members working to get Ken Cuccinelli elected governor have had their roles redefined in a move that insiders say was made to reinvigorate the Republican's campaign.
The announcement at a Monday meeting in the campaign's Springfield headquarters came as Cuccinelli tries to reframe his race with Democrat Terry McAuliffe. It was also made as anxious supporters and donors take note of recent polls showing Cuccinelli trailing.
Staff members were shown an organizational chart clarifying the duties of campaign manager Dave Rexrode, senior adviser Chris LaCivita and deputy campaign manager Meredith Wall in the run-up to the Nov. 5 election, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
(Excerpt) Read more at hamptonroads.com ...
A dead dog on the side of the road should be able to beat Terry the Terrible.
Agreed. The Cuccinelli campaign needs to be hitting the McAuliffe/gun control stuff extremely hard.
If McAuliffe wins, I will really have to wonder about the people of Virginia.
thanks Timber Rattler. From the look, he never takes a good picture. I’m sure it has nothing to do with the Demwit shills in the media.
Want Obamacare Repealed?
http://www.cuccinelli.com/
Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson tell crowd they’re running together at top of Virginia ticket
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/ken-cuccinelli-and-ew-jackson-tell-crowd-theyre-running-together-at-top-of-virginia-ticket/2013/09/15/4f256930-1e08-11e3-b7d1-7153ad47b549_story.html
Ken Cuccinelli, dogged by scandal, gives to charity
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/ken-cuccinelli-virginia-governors-race-gifts-96562.html
Attorney General Cuccinelli
http://www.oag.state.va.us/About%20The%20Attorney%20General/Bio.html
What, has Cucc hired Romney’s staff? There is no excuse for losing to this bum. Look at what the winning Colorado campaigns did. Outspent, they showed no fear, and campaigned with abandon. Bob
If Cuccinelli has a campaign staff that is advising him to “moderate”, a la the failed strategery of the scumbag GOPe, then he is dead in the water.
Please... Those simpletons helped elect and re-elect the African communist p.o.s. Ubama.
I understand, but I’d bet a lot of Virginians stayed home in 2012.
Mcauliffe is just another scum, corrupt (Global Crossing), PROVEN thief of the Elite Democrat machine, but yet he's the front-runner.
I am not overly-thrilled with Big Government Cucinelli, either, but obviously in THIS particular race, he's the lesser of two evils.
Unless State-Run-Media is eliminated, which is impossible, since the Agenda is controlled by the Machine's FCC and other regulatory bodies, taxpayers will continue to be forced to funnel money to the Machine's minions in Power, and it can't be changed. Just as NPR and PBS are run by controlling the funding, there are FEW outlets for accurate reporting without spin. That's why the closest we've got to TRUTH in reporting comes from OUTSIDE the USA.
<><> FR POSTED September 13, 2013 6:38:28 AM by markomalley
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe made a campaign promise yesterday to exempt existing abortion clinics from having to comply with state health and safety standards. Recently, a number of clinics in the state were closed after they failed to live up to state standards.
Last year, according to Women Speak Out, more than 80 violations were discovered inside Virginia abortion facilities. But that doesn't seem to stop McAuliffe from defending them. This clearly shows his concern is for the well being of the abortion industry and not women.
Here's what he said: "I can do what I talked about, issue a guidance opinion by March to keep the remaining health centers open. I can do that myself as Governor. That's why I said I'll do that by March to keep the remaining, uh, Norfolk is closed. Fairfax is closed, or closing, so there will be 18 left. Only one of those 18 actually meet the, the requirements so they'll all close if I don't do that. But I will issue what's called a guidance opinion by mid-March which will say that these regulations, I have, the General Assembly wasn't definitive with the Board of Health as to the rules, I can give a guidance opinion to the Board of Health to grandfather in those remaining clinics to keep them open. That's why this election is so important, and I will do that."
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8/2/13--WASH/TIMES---SEC investigating company co-founded by Terry McAuliffe / By David Sherfinski
The SEC is investigating the green car company founded by Va gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe over concerns that it allegedly guaranteed returns for its investors.The SEC has subpoenaed bank records of GreenTech’s funding arm, the McLean-based financing company Gulf Coast Funds Management, LLC.
Documents attached to a July 31 letter from Sen. Charles E. Grassley also raise more questions on the extent of the interaction between officials at the two companies and Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in DHS.
DHS is investigating whether Mr. Mayorkas assisted in approving an investor visa application submitted by Gulf Coast, even after the application was denied and an appeal was rejected.
Mr. Mayorkas, Obama’s pick to be the next No. 2 at DHS, testified last week that the extent of his interaction with Mr. McAuliffe was one meeting in which he heard his complaints about investor visas being held up.
Mr. Grassley said it went further than that.“Contrary to the impression left by your answer, documents indicate that both before and after that meeting, you actually engaged in nearly a dozen contacts with Gulf Coast Funds Management between 2010 and 2013, including direct communications with Gulf Coast’s attorneys,” the Iowa Republican wrote to Mr. Mayorkas. “That one meeting with Mr. McAuliffe was clearly not the extent of your interaction on that matter.”
Officials at the two companies and did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. A spokesman for the McAuliffe campaign noted that Mr. McAuliffe left GreenTech in 2012 and that he has no knowledge of any investigation. News of the SEC investigation was first reported Friday by The Wash/Post.
The documents include forwarded e-mails from Mr. McAuliffe to Douglas Smith, an official in DHS’s office of the Private Sector, that were forwarded to Mr. Mayorkas and an e-mail from Mr. Mayorkas himself saying that face-to-face meetings for particular cases are not appropriate.”As the Director of this Agency, I do not adjudicate cases and am not the proper audience for a telephone call or a meeting about a particular case,” he wrote to Gulf Coast’s general counsel earlier this year. “I will forward your e-mail to the appropriate individual in the Agency.”
USCIS handles cases involved in the EB-5 program, where foreign investors put up between $500,000 and $1 million for American companies in exchange for legal status.
Govt attorneys wrote that such a meeting would violate the Administrative Procedures Act. “I think it also raises an impartiality issue if we entertain pre-decisional meetings of this sort with particular applicants and petitioners,” USCIS’s Ethics Officer wrote. “It is not a concern to have meetings with particular industries, trade groups, bar associations, etc., on systemic issues that are not case specific, so long as we are willing to meet with all.”
Gulf Coast is run by Anthony Rodham, the brother of former Secy of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and is the finance arm of GreenTech Automotive Inc. Mr. McAuliffe founded GreenTech in 2009 and quietly stepped down as chairman in Dec — a fact only revealed in April in response to an inquiry from a Politico reporter.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/sec-investigating-company-co-founded-terry-mcaulif/
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<><> Wall to wall coverage about an $18K gift to Cuccinelli, but this corrupt scumbag carpetbagger McAuful has skimmed tens of millions of dollars from corrupt deal after corrupt deal (Global Crossing is just the start) and not a peep from the press.
the gop has to run conservative candidates distinguish themselves if they expect to win ... but that's the rub ... do they really want to or expect to win?
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Now hear this...
Two Words...
GUN CONTROL
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The MSM, agent of the Democrats, looks like it is pursuing a full court press on nothing issues to distract and to burn up resources.
On the other hand there seems to be little about McAuliffe's ties and support of the culture of death via Obamacare death panels, abortion, destruction of the institution of marriage and the family, the lending a blind eye to the killing of Christians in Egypt, Libya, and Syria, support to al Qaeda.
Why is Cuccinelli on the defensive for nothing issues, and McAuliffe on the defensive about nothing? McAuliffe is part and parcel of the most vile administration this country has ever had!
Culture of Death
Abuse of power in IRS, NSA, EPA
Gross fiscal irresponsibility
Gun control
Increases in taxes and spending
McAuliffe's shady business credentials
Irresponsible approach to Immigration reform
Propensity to continue re-use of failed policies across the board
What is going on with the Cuccinelli campaign? Democrats have done nothing good for Virginia! The low information voters need some education if that is possible.
Losing this would be freakin’ terrible. McAuliffe is one of the worst candidates for any office since Anthony Weiner. If this race goes south, the GOP is finished in Virginia.
The only good thing about the Cuccinelli campaign at this point is that he can’t try to sit on a lead as Thomas Dewey did in 1948.
Well, I had thought Cuccinelli was a true conservative, but is that incorrect?
Cuccinelli has run a weak, timid, defensive campaign.
He has avoided any hot-button issues and instead talked about education, mental health and violence against women.
And he kept working as Attorney General, so he can only campaign in the evenings and on weekends.
A crappy, awful, ineffective campaign.
Cuccinelli has a campaign? If Cuccinelli is campaigning, exactly where? This is the deadest election I have ever seen.
Suggestions for the new crew: advertising in print, radio, TV, internet, tweets; direct mail; public appearances and speeches; get supporters to write letters to the editor of local papers; use current office to get free press. Any or all of the above are traditional. The candidate with 11% turnout of his base can win this one.
Why aren’t they beating McAuliffe to death with is under the table money making scams and land deals where he bilked the unions out of millions?
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