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By Dan Roem Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Perhaps it’s not fair to boil Terry McAuliffe’s candidacy for Virginia governor down to a single issue.
But the dominate message of McAuliffe’s relatively brief candidacy is economic revitalization through job creation.
“You want jobs, you want benefits,” McAuliffe told a small group of prospective voters at Foster’s Grille in Old Town Manassas earlier this month. “You want a good education.”
McAuliffe officially entered the governor’s race Jan. 7 and is vying for the Democratic nomination against Bath County state Sen. Creigh Deeds (D-25th) and former Alexandria Delegate Brian Moran (D-46th).
The winner of the June 9 primary will then likely face presumptive Republican nominee Attorney General Bob McDonnell (R) in the general election in November.
The Syracuse, N.Y., native has spent most of the last two decades living in McLean.
He has a background in business and Internet investments, is the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and chaired Sen. Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful run for president as a volunteer.
“I don’t believe you raise taxes in a down economy,” said McAuliffe during an interview with the Times Community Newspaper reporters last Thursday. “That leaves you with one alternative. I think we need to grow the economy. I think we need to create jobs.”
McAuliffe focuses his jobcreation stump speeches on the green-energy sector of the economy. Creating jobs in the renewable energy field would drive down the need for more coal or nuclear power plants, he said, and lessen the need for more power lines like the ones Dominion Virginia Power is hoping to build across the Piedmont
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