Thursday, March 5, 2009

McAuliffe, area business leaders meet

March 5th, 2009
Roanoke Times
Mason Adams

Nearly a dozen of the Roanoke Valley's business leaders met with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday to pitch ideas to fix the state's economy.

"We've got to think outside the box," McAuliffe said as he repeated one of his campaign's main themes. "We need some big ideas."

The meeting was his eighth state "roundtable" to collect ideas that will eventually become his economic platform, to be unveiled in the next two weeks. He's previously met with regional representatives in Norfolk, Martinsville, Harrisonburg, Richmond, Charlottesville, Lebanon and Hampton.

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