Economic Priorities Aired

February 11th, 2009
Martinsville Bulletin
Amanda Buck

Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe got an earful of ideas — from job training to infrastructure to education — Tuesday during an economic roundtable at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.

McAuliffe, who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, is one of three Democrats seeking the party’s nomination for governor this year. Tuesday’s roundtable was one of a series of similar events McAuliffe is holding around the state to seek ideas about how to improve Virginia’s economy.

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McAuliffe Announces "Economic Roundtables" to Be Held Across Virginia

For Immediate Release: February 6, 2009

McAuliffe Announces “Economic Roundtables” to Be Held Across Virginia

Ensuring input from all parts of the Commonwealth is included in his business plan for Virginia, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe announced today that he will hold a series of Economic Roundtables in every region of Virginia in the coming months. Meeting with business and community leaders, McAuliffe will discuss his vision for the future economic vitality of the Commonwealth and also hear from them about how to get our economy back on track.

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McAuliffe Announces "Economic Roundtables" to Be Held Across Virginia

For Immediate Release: February 6, 2009

McAuliffe Announces “Economic Roundtables” to Be Held Across Virginia

Ensuring input from all parts of the Commonwealth is included in his business plan for Virginia, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe announced today that he will hold a series of Economic Roundtables in every region of Virginia in the coming months. Meeting with business and community leaders, McAuliffe will discuss his vision for the future economic vitality of the Commonwealth and also hear from them about how to get our economy back on track.

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Virginia Cavalier

New Republic
by Eve Fairbanks
February 04, 2009

‘I love chicken waste!” Terry McAuliffe shouts to a crowd of several hundred elegant northern Virginians at Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory art gallery. McAuliffe—the former Democratic moneyman dubbed by Al Gore “the greatest fund-raiser in the history of the universe”—is running for governor of Virginia, and tonight is the official rollout of his primary campaign. As he rhapsodizes about Virginia’s 1,000 poultry farms, his pale eyebrows hop around furiously on his sharp, ostrich-like brow ridge. McAuliffe’s listeners—many of whom are decked out in the kind of pricey wearable art that’s offered for sale in the gallery—seem nonplussed. But McAuliffe presses on. As governor, he explains, he would transform the nearly half-a-million tons of chicken poop the state produces every year into an alternative energy source. “Ew,” murmurs one elderly man. But, if McAuliffe recognizes any shade of absurdity in all this, he never lets it show. “Fifty thousand tons of chicken waste equals forty megawatts of power, which could power forty thousand homes!”

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