The Washington Post
Thursday, May 28, 2009
By Theresa Vargas
Few eighth-graders hire attorneys, but after the class rings didn’t arrive at St. Ann’s School in Syracuse, N.Y., there was Terry McAuliffe, ringing the doorbell of one of the area’s most prominent litigators. That lawyer’s son, Duke Kinney, remembers opening the door to find his friend and class president wearing a suit, carrying a briefcase and asking, “Is Mr. Kinney home?”
“This guy thought he was messing with an eighth-grader, but he was messing with the wrong eighth-grader,” Kinney recalled recently of the salesman, who eventually delivered the rings. “The next thing you know, this eighth-grader has a letter being served to this guy from the biggest law firm in Syracuse.”
Among Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidates, McAuliffe, 52, has fallen into the easy description of carnival barker, shouting for one and all to come join the fun of creating jobs, embracing alternative energy and eliminating predatory lenders.
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