On Tuesday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) indicated on the floor of the Senate he was “open to having a vote” on Senator David Vitter’s (R-LA) amendment to eliminate the Obamacare exemption for members of Congress, according to a
A poll released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday shows that Republican Ken Cuccinelli has narrowed the gap with Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe from seven points to three points. The poll of 1,005 likely Virginia voters conducted between September 9 and
The Terry McAuliffe campaign’s panicked and heavy handed response to the decision by the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s independent political action committee, TechPAC, to endorse Republican rival Ken Cuccinelli in the Virginia governor’s race may have done more harm to his
On Wednesday the Washington Post reported that Minyon Moore, a long time associate and ally of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe, played a key role in introducing Troy White, a political consultant, to a well known Democratic financier, Jeffrey
Fresh off Tuesday’s stunning loss in the Colorado recall election where he spent $350,000 in an unsuccessful effort to keep two pro-gun control Democrat state legislators in office, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has turned his sights on the
The surprising recent alliance between progressives and the Tea Party movement in opposition to American military action in Syria illustrates that the American political landscape in 2013 can no longer be understood through the classic lens of Democrat versus Republican
Not since retiring Republican Governor Dan Heineman narrowly defeated former Nebraska Cornhusker football coach Tom Osborne in the 2006 primary have Nebraska Republicans faced a more hotly contested battle to determine the party’s gubernatorial nominee than they are about to
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Friday that shows Democrat Terry McAuliffe leads Republican Ken Cuccinelli by seven points, 45% to 38%, in the race to become Virginia’s next governor. With the election now only two months away, Cuccinelli appears
Republican leaders in Washington, including Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), and Senators McCain (R-AZ), Graham (R-SC), and Corker (R-TN), are supporting President Obama’s call for an American attack on Syria, but Tea Party groups around
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe met recently with New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg “to get support from the billionaire politician.” The meeting, according to Politico, took place in New York City a week and a half ago. The outgoing
Robert Sarvis is a well spoken, highly educated 36 year old with little money and a thin resume of professional accomplishments. He is also the Libertarian candidate for governor of Virginia. Though he has only spent $40,000 compared to the
The Ken Cuccinelli for Governor campaign launched an emotionally moving television ad on Tuesday that highlighted a little known element of his record as Virginia’s Attorney General, the office he now holds. Titled ‘Justice,’ the one minute commercial tells the
Wendy Caswell, the recently elected president of the Louisville Tea Party, endorsed Matt Bevin, the businessman who is challenging Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the 2014 Republican primary, on Thursday. Ms. Caswell was elected as the group’s president only last
Terry McAuliffe, Democratic nominee for governor in Virginia, told a conference of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers in April 2010 that GreenTech Automotive, the company he chaired at the time, was going to build a hybrid and electric car manufacturing
Factcheck.org reported on Monday that development of GreenTech Automotive’s proposed Mongolia automobile manufacturing facility has stalled because promised funding from the Chinese government to GreenTech’s joint venture with a Chinese company has fallen through. Terry McAuliffe, Democratic nominee for governor of
On CNN’s State of the Union With Candy Crowley on Sunday, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said the Obama administration’s response to the current Egyptian crisis has destroyed American credibility in the region. “This administration,” he concluded, “did not do that
Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who served as chairman of GreenTech Automotive from 2010 to 2012, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on Friday that offered an unusual view of the fiduciary responsibilities of the chairman of a multi-million
Ana Navarro, the “Republican strategist” who personally insulted Congressman Steve King (R-IA) on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday, served as the National Hispanic Chairperson for Jon Huntsman’s failed Presidential campaign in 2011 and 2012. Unlike most Republican strategists who make a
According to the New York Times, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano “popped in” to a 2011 meeting between Terry McAuliffe, at the time chairman of GreenTech Automotive, and Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the Department of Homeland
In 2011, the Tunica County Economic Foundation purchased a 100 acre property and transferred ownership to GreenTech Automotive. At the time, Terry McAuliffe, current Virginia Democratic nominee for Governor, was chairman of the company. Lynn Arnold, President of the Tunica
Terry McAuliffe, former chairman of GreenTech Automotive, brought Stephen Yale-Loehr, one of the country’s leading legal experts on the EB-5 foreign national investment and immigration program, to a meeting with a senior Obama administration official at the White House in
Four months after Terry McAuliffe became chairman of GreenTech Automotive in March 2010, a decision by the California regional director of the Department of Homeland Security’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) found that the manner the firm was raising
Based upon published reports, GreenTech Automotive, the company the Democratic Party of Virginia’s gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe served as chairman from 2010 to 2012, received at least $37.5 million in cash investments before McAuliffe resigned as chairman in December 2012.
Last week, the Washington Post reported that the SEC was investigating Terry McAuliffe’s GreenTech automotive company over the manner in which it solicited foreign investors. The paper reported that the SEC investigation centers “on alleged claims that the company ‘guarantees returns’
Predictions that the United States is in danger of becoming a religious theocracy took an interesting turn on Monday when a supporter of the George Soros backed Evangelical Immigration Table invoked the Gospel in a Washington Post op-ed denouncing opponents of
On Sunday, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, chairman of the Republican Governors Association, called on the Democratic Party of Virginia to remove scandal plagued Terry McAuliffe as the party’s nominee for governor of Virginia. “The bottom line,” Jindal said at the
An April 2013 email from a career Department of Homeland Security official released on Friday by the office of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) stated that the Department of Homeland Security “absolutely gave special treatment” to green card visa applications filed by
A poll released on Friday by Magellan Strategies BR indicates that Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) may have trouble winning re-election in 2014. According to a summary of the poll, his “campaign has a big hill to climb.” The poll results
On Friday, a spokesman for GreenTech Automotive, the company Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe served as chairman from 2010 to 2012, confirmed to Breitbart News in an emailed statement that the company is under investigation by the Securities and
The top political columnist at a major Virginia newspaper not known to favor conservative candidates wrote on Thursday that “Fast Terry,” the new documentary film from Citizens United that portrays Clinton pal and former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe
According to Federal Election Commission records, two Tea Party political action committees have raised more money combined in 2013 than three political action committees affiliated with Karl Rove. Politico reported on Wednesday that “[t]he trio of conservative outside groups founded
“Fast Terry,” the documentary film released by Citizens United less than a week ago, appears to have the potential to change the outcome of the Virginia gubernatorial election between the film’s subject, Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe, and Republican nominee Ken
A 2009 Private Placement Memorandum designed to raise $50 million for GreenTech Automotive, the company where Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe served as chairman from March 2010 until December 2012, stated that the startup company’s electric and hybrid vehicle
A heavily promoted press call organized by the Democratic Party of Virginia on women’s issues designed to support the gubernatorial campaign of Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe lasted less than 15 minutes on Tuesday. It ended when the moderator closed the
On Monday the Virginian-Pilot published the first review of Fast Terry, the new documentary film produced by the conservative non-profit group Citizens United, and it is not good news for the film’s subject, Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for governor
Disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner’s bid to become mayor of New York City took another hit Monday when a poll released by Quinnipiac University showed that he has dropped to fourth place in the Democratic primary. In the head-to-head matchup with
Senator Lindsey Graham, who already has one announced challenger in the 2014 South Carolina Republican primary for the United States Senate in businessman Richard Cash, may soon face two more challengers. Both State Senator Lee Bright and Nancy Mace, the first
On Thursday, NOW-NYC, which describes itself as “the founding chapter of the National Organization for Women,” refused to take a stance on whether disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner should remain in the race for the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York.
On Thursday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held hearings on the confirmation of current U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas to become Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. No Republican Senators participated in the hearings. Mayorkas
Two local television stations, NBC affiliates in Richmond, Virginia and Memphis, Tennessee, are reporting the comments of a former GreenTech Automotive production line employee who says that the company’s Horn City, Mississippi manufacturing plant produced only 30 electric vehicles during
