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Bob McDonnell on Principles & Values
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Indicted on corruption charges days after leaving office
The indictments of former Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, reveal new details about requests for financial help from a prominent businessman while the offering to help promote the company's new product. Some excerpts:- Apr. 2011: Maureen
asked Star Scientific's CEO Jonnie Williams to take her on a shopping trip to buy a designer dress, promising to get Williams seated next to McDonnell at an upcoming political event. Williams spent over $18,000.
- May 2: Maureen arranged a private
meeting at the governor's mansion for Williams, during which she discussed "severe financial difficulties." She asked Williams for a $50,000 loan and said she could assist Star Scientific.
- June: Receiving checks from Williams and promoting his company
- July: Free vacation and Ferrari loan; asking state officials to help company with research trials
- Aug. 2011: Rolex, free golf and a product launch
- Feb. 2012: Big loans to the McDonnells and a push for state research.
Source: Washington Post: 2014 Virginia Senate & Gubernatorial race
, Jan 21, 2014
FactCheck: No, Thomas Jefferson was a Democrat
McDonnell used a slightly doctored quote that he attributed to an early predecessor, Thomas Jefferson, the second governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. McDonnell agreed with Jefferson calling for "a wise and frugal Government which shall leave men
free to regulate their own pursuits of industry."That's a selective paraphrase of what Jefferson actually said in his first presidential inaugural address. What Jefferson really said in 1801 was: "a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men
from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement."
So Jefferson first said a wise government "shall restrain men from injuring one another," something that could today be taken as an
endorsement of government regulation. By leaving that part out, McDonnell made Jefferson--founder of what has become the modern Democratic Party--sound a good bit more like an anti-tax, anti-regulation Republican than he was in reality.
Source: FactCheck.org on 2010 State of the Union response
, Jan 27, 2010
Create a Commonwealth of Opportunity for all Virginians
Together we face challenges, and the choices we make this session will come after much reflection and debate. "With challenge comes opportunity." If that is true--we have lots of opportunity before us. I pledge to work with you to create "A
Commonwealth of Opportunity" for all Virginians.I want to see opportunity flourishing in the successful start-up of a small business in Norfolk. in the farmer able to keep working his family's land. in the first-time home buyer receiving her new keys.
Source: Virginia 2010 State of the State Address
, Jan 18, 2010
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