Terry McAuliffe
49th Chairman of the Democratic National Committee
In office 2001–2005
Preceded by	Joe Andrew & Ed Rendell
Succeeded by	Howard Dean
Personal details
Born	Terence Richard McAuliffe (1957-02-09) February 9, 1957 (age 55) Syracuse, New York
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Dorothy McAuliffe
Children	Dori, Jack, Mary, Sally, and Peter
Residence	Mclean, Virginia
Alma mater	The Catholic University of America (B.A.) Georgetown University Law School (J.D.)
Profession	Businessman Political Donor Politician

Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (pronounced /mɨˈkɔːlɨf/; born February 9, 1957) is a longtime leader and political advisor for the United States Democratic Party. He served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005. He served as Co-Chairman of President Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign and also served as chairman of the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. He unsuccessfully ran for the 2009 Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nomination.

Family and education[link]

McAuliffe grew up in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Bishop Ludden Junior/Senior High School in 1975. His father was treasurer of the local Democratic organization.^[1] He started his first business, McAuliffe Driveway Maintenance, at the age of 14. In 1979, he received a bachelors degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. After graduation, McAuliffe took a job in the 1980 presidential reelection campaign of Jimmy Carter, and at the age of 22 became the national finance director. It was during this campaign that McAuliffe wrestled an eight-foot, 260-pound alligator for a $15,000 contribution.^[2] After the campaign, McAuliffe enrolled in law school at Georgetown University Law Center. He received a Juris Doctor degree in 1984.^[3] McAuliffe then served as Chairman of the Federal City National Bank by the age of 30.

He has five children with wife Dorothy: Dori, Jack, Mary, Sally, and Peter.

Business career[link]

At the age of 14, McAuliffe started his first business.^[4] Under the name McAuliffe Driveway Maintenance he sealed local driveways and parking lots. "After graduating from Georgetown Law, McAuliffe has been forming partnerships, raising capital and investing in business ventures. He has earned millions as a banker, real estate developer, home builder, hotel owner, and internet venture capitalist."^[5] According to the Washington Post, "McAuliffe is, at his core, a salesman – and even called himself a "hustler" in his autobiography."^[5]

Federal City National Bank, 1988-91[link]

In January 1988, when he was 30 years old, McAuliffe became the youngest chairman of a bank in the history of the United States when he assumed responsibility for all aspects of Federal City's operations.^[6]

Shortly thereafter, the bank loaned $125,000 to a political action committee that supported Richard Gephardt's Presidential campaign. McAuliffe told the New York Times that he abstained from voting on the loan because he was also the Gephardt campaign's finance chairman.^[7] The bank also provided loans to former U.S. Representative Tony Coelho and the then-Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Jim Wright.^[8]

In 1991, the bank was cited by federal regulators for unsafe and unsound banking practices. Regulators forced McAuliffe and other bank directors to sign a consent agreement that required the bank to hire outside management, review delinquent loans, track bad credit, and raise additional capital.^[9] In December 1991, McAuliffe acknowledged that he "knew we were in awful trouble" and that "the liquidators were ready to roll." In what he now refers to as his "greatest business experience", McAuliffe "rallied the board members" and merged Federal City National Bank with another institution run by Republican Richard V. Allen; Credit International Bank, thereby saving the institution.^{[8][9] [10]}

American Heritage Homes[link]

McAuliffe acquired a struggling homebuilding company that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Within 5 years, McAuliffe and his team successfully built the company into one of the largest and most successful homebuilding companies. During his tenure as chairman, AHH built over 6,000 homes and created thousands of jobs in the construction business. The company was sold to KB Home in 2001.

Greentech Automotive[link]

McAuliffe is a founder and chairman of GreenTech Automotive, a leader in affordable and next generation energy efficient vehicles. The company has 5 automobiles in its product line, including 2 electric vehicles and 3 hybrids. The company presently has a 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m²) production plant under construction in Northern Mississippi.

In 2010 GreenTech Automotive acquired EU Auto MyCar, with a signing ceremony in Hong Kong.^[11]

Business experience timeline[link]

Political career[link]

From 1980 to 1981, McAuliffe served as Deputy Treasurer and Director of Finance at the Democratic National Committee. From 1982 to 1986, while attending Georgetown University Law School full time, McAuliffe served as finance director of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. During the 1988 presidential campaign, he served as finance chairman for Dick Gephardt. During the 1996 election cycle, he served as national finance chairman and then national co-chairman of the Clinton-Gore re-election committee.^[12] In 1997, he was chairman of the 53rd Presidential Inaugural Committee.^[13] In 1999, he was chairman of the White House Millennium Celebration.^[14] In 2000, McAuliffe chaired a tribute to outgoing President Bill Clinton, which set a fundraising record for a single event, raising $26.3 million.^[15] The same year, he chaired the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. In 2001, McAuliffe spoke out against the Clinton pardons, saying he considered Clinton a great friend, but the pardons were troubling and a mistake: "I've publicly said the Rich pardon was a mistake. If I were president I wouldn't have done it. All these incidents are unfortunate, frustrating and distracting, but ultimately they will run their course."^[16]

Ambassador to the Taejon Expo of South Korea[link]

McAuliffe was President Clinton’s first ambassadorial appointment, naming him in 1993 as Ambassador and Commissioner General to Taejŏn Expo '93, the International Exposition in Taejon, South Korea. He was sent to South Korea to deal with myriad of financial and technological problems with the US Pavilion left from the Bush Administration. He was credited with saving the Pavilion and for the first time in US history, US participation in a world exposition was funded solely with private funds, thus saving the taxpayers millions of dollars. ^[17]

Chairman of the Democratic National Committee[link]

In February 2001, McAuliffe was elected chairman of the DNC and served until February 2005.^[18] During that time, he raised $578 million and the Democratic Party emerged from debt for the first time in its history.^[19]

Under McAuliffe, the DNC built a new headquarters, created a computer database of more than 170 million potential voters known as "Demzilla",^[20] founded a Women’s Vote Center to educate and mobilize women voters, founded the Voting Rights Institute to protect voting rights, and founded “Something New,” an initiative to mobilize younger voters. Circumstances affecting the outcome of the 2002 Senate elections included the influence of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which heavily favored the GOP. There were also allegations of Republican election rigging, as GOP political operatives were accused of illegally jamming the phone lines of New Hampshire Democrats on election day,^[21] a race in which GOP candidate John Sununu barely edged Jeanne Shaheen by 19,000 votes.

Democrats would lose a net of 8 seats in the House in the 2002 elections, magnifying mainly the failures of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, as the DNC would spend more money on the November 2002 Congressional elections than any time in in its history, including $10 million alone on the Congressional redistricting project that would set the party up for Congressional election success not only in 2002 but for years to come.^[22]

Despite myriad forces working against the Democrats, there were small electoral victories in 2002 that would lay the groundwork for future successes the party would experience. McAuliffe surveyed the local election landscape and made sound investments in important mayoral races, winning all 8 of those which they identified as critical, including important races in large urban areas such as Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Jersey City.^[23] The Democrats also picked up both governors' seats up for election in 2001 & 11 (mostly open) governorships in 2002.

In the transition period between the 2002 elections and the 2004 Democratic convention, the DNC rebuilt operations and intra-party alliances. Donna Brazile, one of McAuliffe's early critics, summed up McAuliffe's revival: "We boxed. He has been punched, believe me. Now, Terry has put the party in a strong strategic position."^[24]

In 2003-04, the DNC hosted six presidential primary debates, more than had ever been held previously, including the first-ever bilingual presidential debate. The DNC also partnered with the Congressional Black Caucus to hold a debate in Baltimore, Maryland. Additionally, McAuliffe worked to restructure the Democratic primary schedule so that states such as South Carolina, Arizona and New Mexico would be allowed to vote earlier, in move designed to bolster ties to African-American and Hispanic communities. According to the Washington Post, the new schedule gave Senator Kerry enough time to raise more than $200 million for the general election.^[24]

In January 2005, several weeks before his term ended, McAuliffe committed and left 5 million in the bank to be spent in the Commonwealth of Virginia to assist Governor Kaine and other Democrats in their upcoming elections. This donation was the largest non-presidential disbursement in DNC history, and was part of McAuliffe's attempt to prove the Democrats' viability in southern states in the wake of the 2004 presidential election.^[25] Kaine was successful in his bid and was Governor of Virginia from 2006-2010.

DNC Highlights 2001-2005

• Founded Women's Vote Center (WVC) with the purpose of educating, engaging, and mobilizing women voters across the United States. The three tenets upon which the WVC was founded included the recruitment and training of women through the Democratic Voices program, investment in internet outreach efforts such as the e-newsletter Week In Review, and cooperative efforts with state and local parties to target outreach to women voters.

• Following the 2000 Presidential election, the Democratic Party created the Voter Rights Institute (VRI) to ensure that every vote is counted fully and fairly. In 2004 the VRI created the Election Assistance program linking an army of lawyers, organizers, and other advocates across the United States to ensure that the poor administration and illegal tactics common in the 2000 election were not repeated.

• Led by McAuliffe, the DNC launched the "Something New" program, an aggressive young voter mobilization initiative. The program registered thousands of young voters and reached 100,000 young people while raising nearly $5 million for the DNC, 90% of which coming from first-time donors. Chapters of the College Democrats of America (CDA) also rose from 300 in 2000, to 1200 in 2005 as McAuliffe often headlined college tours to engage, recruit, and train young voters and organizers.

• During McAuliffe's tenure, the Democratic recruited over 25,000 field precinct captains, conducted 530 organizing conventions across the country, knocked on 11 millions doors, and made 56 million paid phone calls through the help of 233,000 volunteers. During this time, voters said they were contacted in the mail, through the phone, and at the door more often by Democrats than by Republicans.^[26]

• In what became the platform of McAuliffe's bid for Chairman of the DNC, he completed the technological overhaul of the party to meet and even surpass the Republicans in areas of voter registration files, technological infrastructure, and internet voter outreach. By 2003 the infrastructure and technological advancements were in place not only to battle the Republicans in 2004, but also in the future.^[27] In a December issue of The American Prospect Harold Meyerson wrote, "Working largely under the radar, McAuliffe has made the DNC better prepared for a Presidential election than it may ever have been."^[28]

Post-DNC Chairmanship[link]

On January 23, 2007, his book, What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals (ISBN 978-0-312-35787-0), was released and debuted at #5 on the New York Times Bestseller list and #1 on the Washington Post's list.

As a former party chairman, McAuliffe was one of the roughly 796 superdelegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.

During the 2008 presidential election campaign cycle, he was campaign chairman for Hillary Clinton.

Terry McAuliffe appears in the 2008 award-winning documentary Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story on political strategist Lee Atwater. In the film, McAuliffe says, "When Bill Clinton got elected President, and you had wackos out there funding all these crazy projects, it all started with Lee Atwater. The first independent counsel said there was nothing there – to think they paid Ken Starr and his perverted investigations $70 million of taxpayers’ money? These folks believe you win at all cost.”

2009 Virginia gubernatorial campaign[link]

On November 10, 2008, McAuliffe filed to form an exploratory committee for Governor of Virginia in the 2009 election.^[29] He told reporters that he had planned to spend the next few months traveling to "every corner of Virginia" to measure interest in his possible run.^[29] McAuliffe told The Washington Post that he is "best suited to carry the Democratic banner because he (would) campaign as a business leader who can bring jobs to Virginia."^[29] He also cited his ability to raise money for down-ticket Democratic candidates.^[29] On January 3, 2009, McAuliffe announced in a YouTube video emailed to his supporters that he would be seeking the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Virginia.^[30]

McAuliffe's political team included several former staffers from the campaigns of Democrats Hillary Clinton, Tim Kaine, Mark Warner and Jim Webb. Among them were campaign manager Mike Henry, senior strategist Mo Elleithee, and communications director Delacey Skinner.^[31] According to The Washington Post, McAuliffe raised $7.5 million over the course of the campaign.^[32]

In the primary, McAuliffe faced two other high-profile Democrats, State Sen. Creigh Deeds, 2005 nominee for Attorney General, and Brian Moran, a former state representative and former Democratic Caucus Chairman. On June 9, 2009, Virginia Democrats selected Deeds as their gubernatorial candidate with McAuliffe finishing second.^[33] Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell was the only candidate for the Republican nomination.^[34]

McAuliffe is widely considered to be eying another run for Governor of Virginia. In November 2009, Democratic nominee Creigh Deeds lost to Republican candidate Bob McDonnell by a margin of 18 points. McDonnell received the highest percentage of the vote since 1961. In the aftermath, many in the local and national media^[who?] speculated that McAuliffe would have been in a better position to win the election, as Deeds was said to have lost on economic issues and those relating to jobs, the same platform upon which McAuliffe had hinged his campaign.^[35]

Visiting Fellow: Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government[link]

McAuliffe was a visiting Fellow to Harvard University’s John F Kennedy School of Government. In addition to several faculty and student lectures, McAuliffe hosted a study group entitled The Making of a Candidate: From Running Campaigns to Running on my Own.^[36]

Political timeline[link]

Controversies[link]

Global Crossing, 1997-99[link]

Like many in the late 1990s, McAuliffe was consistently seeking out innovative business and investment opportunities related to the internet and other areas of high technology. Among them was his investment of $100,000 in a startup company called Global Crossing. In the early 1990s, McAuliffe was approached by longtime friend Mike Steed concerning an investment opportunity in what was then known as Atlantic Crossing. The company would be among the first to lay a high-speed fiber-optic cable between the United States and Europe, anticipating the need for increasing data traffic to come in the next few years. McAuliffe himself refers to the investment as “risky,” given the lack of guarantees with technology startups. McAuliffe put up the money while the idea was still in its infancy, even before a company had been formed. The company would eventually wind up carrying half the data traffic between the United States and Europe and was widely considered a tremendous success.

When the company went public seventeen months later, the stock’s value rose quickly and McAuliffe’s initial $100,000 investment was valued at nearly $18 million. Global Crossing filed for bankruptcy in 2002 at a time when many technology startups began to fail and after McAuliffe had sold his stock. Though he had made millions from the stock, McAuliffe was never an employee of Global Crossing nor did he serve on its board of directors. Still, Republicans attempted to compare his investment in Global Crossing as equivalent to the insider trading activity that occurred at Enron.

In 2006, The Securities and Exchange Commission, after a four year investigation, ruled that no wrongdoing occurred at Global Crossing and no enforcement action was necessary.^[37]

McAuliffe played no management role in Global Crossing^[38] and had no ties to Enron. Howard Kurtz of CNN reported that McAuliffe was free of any wrongdoing, having sold his shares years before there was "any hint of trouble with the company."^[39] On July 20, 2002, Marc Racicot, the chairman of the Republican National Committee told Fox News reporter Rita Cosby, "I haven't seen anything that was done that was wrong by Terry McAuliffe."^[40] On January 29, 2000, McAuliffe discussed the issue on the Fox News television program Hannity & Colmes where he claimed that former President George H.W. Bush gave a speech in Japan praising Global Crossing in exchange for the right to purchase $80,000 of stock at a reduced price of 34 cents per share.^[38]

Book[link]

On January 23, 2007, his book, What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals (ISBN 978-0-312-35787-0) was published. It debuted at #5 on the New York Times Bestseller list and #1 on the Washington Post's list.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Terry McAuliffe official website
• Official web site for "What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators, and Other Wild Animals"
• List of contributors to gubernatorial campaign
• Terry McAuliffe discussing Lee Atwater in the film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story

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Ed Gillespie
Ed Gillespie in June 2011
Born	Edward W. Gillespie (1962-08-01) August 1, 1962 (age 49) Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Political strategist

Edward W. Gillespie is an American Republican political strategist, senior advisor to Mitt Romney 2012 and former Counselor to the President in the George W. Bush White House. Gillespie, along with Jack Quinn, former Chief of Staff to Vice President Al Gore, founded Quinn Gillespie & Associates, a bipartisan lobbying firm. Gillespie is also the founder of Ed Gillespie Strategies, a strategic consulting firm that provides high-level advice to companies and CEOs, coalitions, and trade associations.

Biography[link]

Gillespie was born August 1, 1962 in Browns Mills, New Jersey.^[1] He is a graduate of The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. While at CUA he began his career on Capitol Hill as a Senate parking lot attendant. He is married to Cathy Gillespie and has three children.^[2]

Political career[link]

He began his political career as a telephone solicitor for the Republican National Committee in 1985. He later worked for a decade as a top aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), and was a principal drafter of the GOP's 1994 "Contract With America."^[2] In 1996, he became Director of Communications and Congressional Affairs for the Republican National Committee under Haley Barbour. In 1997, Gillespie formed Policy Impact Communications, a public affairs communications firm, with Barbour.^{[citation needed]}

From 1999-2008, Gillespie served as a political strategist to several American politicians. In 1999, Gillespie worked as the Press Secretary for the Presidential campaign of John Kasich until his withdrawal from the race. In 2000, Gillespie served as senior communications advisor for the presidential campaign of George W. Bush, organizing the party convention program in Philadelphia for Bush's nomination and Bush's inauguration ceremony. He also played an aggressive role as spokesman for the Bush campaign during the vote recount in Florida.

In 2002, he was a strategist for Elizabeth Dole's 2002 Senate campaign.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, Gillespie was selected as Chairman of the RNC, serving in that role through the 2004 elections that saw President Bush win re-election and Republicans retain control of the House and Senate. His book "Winning Right" was released in the September 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Gillespie has been particularly active in his home state of Virginia. He served as Chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia from December 2006 to June 2007. He played a visible role in 2006 Virginia Senate elections as a spokesman for defeated Virginia Senator George Allen. He had been tapped by Allen as a political adviser for a possible presidential run in 2008 before that loss. In February 2009, Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell announced that Gillespie will serve as General Chairman of his campaign for Governor. Gillespie is an adviser to American Crossroads, a 527 organization that plans to help Republican Party members get elected.^[3]

Role as White House counselor[link]

In late June 2007, President Bush brought Gillespie into the White House on a full-time basis, to replace the departing Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett with the mandate to help raise Bush's flagging popularity ratings. When Karl Rove also departed in August, the Washington Post described Gillespie as stepping up to do part of Karl Rove's job in the White House.^[4] A later Post article described Gillespie's role orchestrating a PR unit dedicated to "selling the surge to American voters and the media."^[5] According to the latter article:

From the start of the Bush plan, the White House communications office had been blitzing an e-mail list of as many as 5,000 journalists, lawmakers, lobbyists, conservative bloggers, military groups and others with talking points or rebuttals of criticism...Gillespie arranged several presidential speeches to make strategic arguments, such as comparing Iraq to Vietnam or warning of Iranian interference. When critics assailed Bush for overstating ties between al-Qaeda and the group called al-Qaeda in Iraq, Gillespie organized a Bush speech to make his case. "The whole idea is to take these things on before they become conventional wisdom," said White House communications director Kevin Sullivan. "We have a very short window."

Later in 2007, the Washington Post reported that Gillespie had taken a substantial pay cut to become Bush's counselor. "A disclosure form shows he made nearly $1.3 million in salary and bonus in the previous 18 months at his consulting and public affairs firm.... His annual government salary is $168,000. The form, obtained by the Associated Press, reports that Gillespie, ... a former Capitol Hill aide who co-founded his lobbying shop in 2000 ..., has accumulated a fortune estimated to be between $7.86 million and $19.4 million."^[6]

Post White House[link]

In 2010, Gillespie was named the chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee, which helps elect state attorneys general, lieutenant governors, secretaries of state and state house and senate candidates across the country. He took the position after successfully serving as chairman of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s campaign in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Gillespie serves on the board of trustees of his alma mater, Catholic University of America.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2012, Gillespie was appointed as a senior advisor to Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Quinn & Gillespie
• Ed Gillespie Strategies
• Chris Oakes, "Selling America on Crypto," Wired, March 4, 1998.
• The United States Needs a Clear and Realistic Encryption Policy, Statement of Edward Gillespie, Executive Director, Americans for Computer Privacy, March 4, 1999.
• Jim VandeHei, "Bush Policies Ease Transition For Aides Into Lobbyist Jobs," Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2001.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20030226013426/http://www.counterpunch.org/pipermail/counterpunch-list/2001-March/007364.html
• Ryan Lizza, "The Insider," New Republic, June 19, 2001.
  http://web.archive.org/web/20021030041000/http://www.tnr.com/073001/lizza073001_print.html
• A look at the 2004 presidential field, CNN.com, January 1, 2003: Ed Gillespie joined "Crossfire" hosts James Carville and Tucker Carlson.
• Robert Novak, "Bush on the Hill," Creators Syndicate, May 24, 2003.
• "Ed Gillespie: The Embedded Lobbyist, Public Citizen, June 2003.
• Mike Allen, "Bush Picks Campaign Chief, RNC Chairman," Washington Post, June 17, 2003.
• Elisabeth Bumiller, "Fierce Defender of President to Lead Campaign for Court", New York Times, July 6, 2005.
• Thomas B. Edsall, "Lobbyist to Campaign For Bush Court Nominee: Gillespie Choice Marks Bid to Use GOP Muscle", Washington Post, July 8, 2005.
• Ed Gillespie at the Internet Movie Database
• [1] web site
• [2] website

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Ken Cuccinelli
Cuccinelli in October 2011.
Attorney General of Virginia
Incumbent
Assumed office January 16, 2010
Preceded by	Bill Mims
Member of the Virginia Senate from the 37th district
In office August 2002 – January 12, 2010
Preceded by	Warren Barry
Succeeded by	David W. Marsden
Personal details
Born	Kenneth Thomas Cuccinelli II (1968-07-30) July 30, 1968 (age 43) Edison, New Jersey
Political party	Republican Party
Spouse(s)	Alice Monteiro 'Teiro' Cuccinelli
Children	7 (five daughters and two sons)
Residence	Fairfax County, Virginia
Alma mater	University of Virginia George Mason University George Mason University School of Law
Profession	Litigation & Business Attorney
Committees	Courts of Justice Committee, Transportation Committee, Local Government Committee, Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee, and Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee.
Religion	Roman Catholic
Website	www.cuccinelli.com

Kenneth Thomas "Ken" Cuccinelli II (born July 30, 1968) is a U.S. politician and the Attorney General of Virginia.^[1] From 2002 until January 16, 2010 he was a Republican member of the Senate of Virginia, representing the 37th district in Fairfax County.^[2][3] A Republican convention selected him over two other candidates to run against Democrat Steve Shannon for Attorney General,^[4] and he won the November 2009 general election.^[5] He took office as Virginia's Attorney General in January 2010. He is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor of Virginia in 2013.^[6]