McAuliffe on race: 'It's all about jobs'

April 29th, 2009
The Martinsville Bulletin
Debbie Hall

Jobs — and the candidate best qualified to create them — will drive both the Democratic primary in June and the election in November, according to Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe.

“It’s all about jobs,” McAuliffe said during a campaign stop at the Binding Time in Martinsville on Tuesday. Consistently in his campaign, “I’m focused on one thing: jobs.”

And that focus would not change if he is elected governor, he said.

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McAuliffe Campaign Releases New Ad Highlighting Big Ideas

Today, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe released a new television advertisement highlighting his ideas for investing in green energy, education, and quality health care.

"People across Virginia are asking – how do we create good paying jobs? What's the next big idea that helps middle class families?" says McAuliffe in the ad. "Here's three: Take wind energy off our cost to power homes. Invest more in Pre-K, so our children start school ready to learn. Create an emergency health insurance plan so people who've lost their jobs are covered."

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Clinton lends political clout to McAuliffe's bid for governor

The Virginian-Pilot
April 28, 2009
By Warren Fiske

RICHMOND -- Yes, he does owe Terry McAuliffe a huge political debt, former President Bill Clinton said Monday.

But that's not the sole reason he came to Richmond to endorse McAuliffe's bid for governor, Clinton added.

"Look, everyone knows he's one of my closest friends," the 42nd president said at a rally at a downtown farmer's market. "So look, I'd be here regardless. Everyone knows that.

"The press says, 'Oh well, Terry McAuliffe has raised millions of dollars for Bill Clinton. He has to show up.' And that's absolutely true," Clinton told the crowd.

"... But here's what I really want to tell you," he said. "I am here today for reasons that go way, way beyond that."

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Ex-President Clinton campaigning in Virginia for his longtime friend

April 28th, 2009
The Free-Lance Star
Chelyen Davis

Former president Bill Clinton hit the campaign trail for old friend Terry McAuliffe yesterday, telling a crowd of several hundred in Richmond that McAuliffe's business experience makes him "made for this moment."

Clinton, who made stops with McAuliffe at Richmond's Farmers Market and in Roanoke, said McAuliffe has experience creating and saving jobs, and that's what is needed in the next governor.

"It matters who the governor is," Clinton said. "He was made for this moment to be the governor in Virginia It matters if you're creative, it matters if you know how to work with people."

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Gov. candidate, Bill Clinton hit energy, jobs theme

Associated Press
April 27, 2009
Bob Lewis

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton told Democrats that if they liked the way America grew jobs under his watch, they'll love what Terry McAuliffe does as Virginia governor.
In the first of two stops Monday, longtime friends and political comrades Clinton and McAuliffe defined energy and jobs as the dominant issues in the campaign.
Clinton told about 350 people at a Richmond rally that McAuliffe was right to push offshore wind energy and technologies to turn poultry waste into power.
Later in Roanoke, he told about 250 people that the only way to put Virginians to work with a good wage over the next 10 years is to change the way the nation produces and consumes power.

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Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe make Roanoke campaign stop in race for governor

The Roanoke Times
April 27, 2009
By Michael Sluss and Mason Adams

Former president Bill Clinton and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe spoke to a crowd of about 250 in downtown Roanoke this afternoon, asking for support and touting McAuliffe's job and energy plans.

The pair spoke for a little less than 30 minutes in front of Fire Station 1 on Church Avenue Southwest. The stop was their second after a morning rally in Richmond. Clinton, who was clearly the draw for most of the Roanoke crowd, said McAuliffe would move aggressively on job creation and new energy development to put the state on the front edge of the nation's economic recovery. Clinton also said McAuliffe could keep the governor's mansion in Democratic hands in an election that will have national political implications.

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Bill Clinton campaigns in Richmond for McAuliffe

Richmond-Times Dispatch
April 27, 2009
By Jeff Schapiro

Former President Bill Clinton is campaigning across Virginia today for his political ally and top fund-raiser, Terry McAuliffe, who is standing for the Democratic nomination for governor in the June 9 primary.

Clinton joined McAuliffe for a mid-morning rally in Richmond’s Farmer’s Market, telling a crowd the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee is ideally suited to be Virginia’s next governor. McAuliffe’s campaign said about 600 signed in for the event, but Richmond police this afternoon estimated that 350 had attended.

Clinton cited McAuliffe’s success as a businessman and investor, his leadership of the DNC and his ability to work with Republicans.

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McAuliffe Praises Interior Department Announcement on Offshore Wind Energy

Today, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe released the following statement on the Department of the Interior’s action to finalize the rules for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

"I was thrilled to see President Obama and Secretary Salazar clear the way for renewable energy development along the Atlantic coast. Wind power off Virginia’s coast has the potential to power of millions of homes and generate thousands of new jobs. I look forward to working with the Obama Administration to make Virginia a leader in off-shore wind technology.”
McAuliffe has pledged to build at least one wind farm off the coast of Virginia by the end of his term as Governor.

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McAuliffe Unveils Chapter 5 of Business Plan for Virginia

Today, gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe released the fifth chapter of his Business Plan for Virginia, which highlights his plans to modernize Virginia's transportation system. Discussing the need for expanded rail, including high-speed, and modernizing the Port of Virginia, McAuliffe said improved transportation would be critical to Virginia's economic growth.

"A 21st Century transportation system is essential to growing Virginia's economy," McAuliffe said. "We cannot attract new industries and the good jobs they would create without the guarantee that business will be able to move goods and services quickly. That's why I'm proposing a different approach - one that is focused on getting cars off the roads and encouraging intermodal forms of transportation."

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Dorothy McAuliffe visits Prince William campaign office

Inside Nova
Tuesday, April 23, 2009
By Jonathan Hunley

Virginia won’t elect a governor until November, but the campaigning is going strong on the Prince William Parkway.

Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, has opened a campaign office in the Ridgewood Center, an office park that’s right next to the longtime home of the Prince William County Republican Committee on the parkway.

Being so close to the opposition, however, didn’t quell any of the enthusiasm of McAuliffe’s supporters as they welcomed the candidate’s wife to Woodbridge on Tuesday.
Fifteen loyalists came out on the rainy evening to see Dorothy McAuliffe, as she visited the campaign’s Prince William headquarters.

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