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McAuliffe Tack: Virginia Is for Garbage Lovers

He's leading Dem race for governor with new zeal for solid waste

By Gabriel Winant,  Newser User

Posted Mar 20, 2009 10:06 AM CDT

(Newser) – For Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic party chief turned Virginia gubernatorial candidate, the way to Old Dominion’s heart runs through trash. “I love trash," he tells Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. "I love chicken litter, cow manure, garbage. This is the kind of thing that gets me excited.” Apparently, this is how a slick transplant from New York reinvents himself for Virginia.

The thing is, it's working. McAuliffe is expected to win the Democratic primary in June. The irrepressible candidate has been doing workdays in different professions, as a barber, as a firefighter, and at a landfill. “We've got to be educating students that this is a field to go into,” he says of his new zeal for solid waste. “I wouldn't call it garbage. Spice it up a bit. Look what I've done for chicken waste in this state!”

Former Democratic party chairman and gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe speaks during the Jefferson/Jackson Democratic fundraising event in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009.
Former Democratic party chairman and gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe speaks during the Jefferson/Jackson Democratic fundraising event in Richmond, Va., Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009.   (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, arrives at Clinton's home Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in Washington.
Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, arrives at Clinton's home Wednesday, May 14, 2008 in Washington.   (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A bulldozer buries trash.
A bulldozer buries trash.   (AP Photo/Britt Yap)
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I've been an African American barber. You know, about three Saturdays ago, there was a grass fire out here. You know who was on the firetruck to put it out? I was! I was a fireman that day.
- Terry McAuliffe

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Riffran
Mar 21, 2009 7:21 AM CDT
welllllllll...I might have worded a bit different...lol...but if this guy is serious about promoting doing something productive with all the many tons of waste, and can actually get it done...hell yeah....long time a coming
 

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