Mark Levin speaks at Ken Cuccinelli for governor rally in Virginia on September 17

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9/17/13, "Cuccinelli rallies with radio talk show host in Northern Virginia," Washington Post, Fredrick Kunkle

Mark Levin at Cuccinelli rally

"Virginia gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli II fired up a crowd of several hundred Republicans and tea party members Tuesday with rousing talk about keeping Washington at bay and fighting to maintain the commonwealth’s tradition of limited government....

Cuccinelli was joined by nationally syndicated talk show host Mark Levin at a Constitution Day rally in Sterling and spoke of his efforts to restrain government, including legal challenges to President Obama’s health-care overhaul and to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

 

“Get government out of the way, and you will watch the American economy explode,” Cuccinelli said, invoking the names of Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other Virginia-born patriots. “Those principles that they built this nation on are eternal and universal. They apply everywhere and all the time. They apply as much in 2013 as they did in 1776.”

Cuccinelli painted his Democratic opponent, Terry McAuliffe, as a creature of inside-the-Beltway politics who would exacerbate partisan tensions in Virginia. The loudest applause came when he spoke of his support of school choice. 

“A child in Virginia — a child in Petersburg — trapped in the boundaries of a failing school, can’t pursue happiness if they can’t get a decent education. And right now, their own government blocks them from alternatives that would allow them to pursue happiness,” Cuccinelli said. “We don’t promise outcomes; we promise opportunity. And this is a classic example where we can expand and make real the promise of opportunity of government policy.”...

“I’ll be damned if I’m going to watch Terry McAuliffe be governor of Virginia,” Levin said. “Now, if he wants to run for governor of Maryland, I understand it,” Levin said. “But this is Virginia, and we have to draw a line somewhere in Virginia, and we’re drawing it right here.”" (this item end of p. 2) (image above by Wash. Post Russo)

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From Daily Kos: Terry McAuliffe got rich by pulling off an Enron-type scam with a company called Global Crossing:

7/22/13, "Terry McAuliffe: everything that's wrong with America," Daily Kos, RalphDog

"Just a quick hit here; but today's New York Times Magazine has an article that caused me instant uncontrollable nausea and vomiting. The article is all about Terry McAuliffe's latest adventure starting an electric car company, and the favors he's pulling in from Bill Clinton and Haley Barbour to get it off the ground.

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No way to put lipstick on this pig: Terry McAuliffe embodies everything that's horribly wrong with American politics, business, and government in 2012.

To whit: McAuliffe was a young business hustler with a glad-handing, back-slapping, used car salesman style from the get-go. He got rich by investing $100,000 in Global Crossing, and cashing out millions. If the name Global Crossing doesn't ring a bell, here's the deal: it was a loathsome scam chartered in Bermuda that bought up a bunch of regional phone companies, forced employees to pack their retirement funds with company stock, squeezed every last nickel out of the companies, then froze employees' pension funds while the executives cashed out all their stock days ahead of the collapse. Just exactly like Enron. The CEO walked away with hundreds of millions. The employees were raped, left penniless with their pensions destroyed. That's how Terry got rich.

Now, Terry McAuliffe is running a start-up electric car company nominally based in Mississippi. But the signature product, the 'MyCar', is being manufactured in...wait for it...I'm sure you can't guess....China! Dingdingding! We have a winner: Terry is trying to get even richer by moving another American industry to China.

And to grease the skids for his excellent adventure, Terry is pulling in all his markers, everything he can glean from his famous 18,000 name Rolodex. That's why he has a beaming Bill Clinton and a grinning Haley Barbour photographed with him in the Mississippi Potemkin factory standing in for the actual Chinese manufacturer."...


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