Terry, why in the midst of a depression is the US continuing to support combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan?

Terry, why has the US provided TWELVE TRILLION in guarantees and loans to insolvent banks, but only 787 billion for infrastructure investment?

this one comes to mind after the recent shooting at hampton university… and after the ann’y of the va tech shootings… what will you do to keep guns off campuses in va??

Terry, are certain Americans above the law, or will you support a special prosecutor to investigate torture.

There’s no possibility of “retribution,” because the President has the power to pardon and to commute sentences.

With all due respect; Why would I ask somebody a question who was sooo wrong on major things during bush’s years, and then he goes and support the same type of crap (clinton) in other words, business as usual… Sorry….NEXT!

I don’t know anything about VA. But I’ve been commuting -not by car – since I was 13 years old. To high school; to college; to grad school; to work. Something about mass transit. it’s considereda luxury. If there’s budget money left over, and of course there never is. It ought to be a necessity. So, I guess something general– what do you guys think is VA’s most pressing mass transit need and what would you do about it?

I haven’t the energy to prose a nice question — sufficed to say my main question would be: why should I vote for an out of state special-interest bankrolled ‘Democratic’ candidate, when I could just as easily vote for a ‘Republican’ one?

Political Wire: “…the Washington Examiner reports “a network of donors who aided Hillary Clinton’s unsuccessful presidential campaign is shoveling six-figure donations into Terry McAuliffe’s gubernatorial war chest, taking advantage of no-limit giving rules to pump up his bid for Virginia’s top job…”

Haim Saban’s name is in there BTW.
http://politicalwire.com/archi…..ising.html

Terry why is the Obama administration pursuing policies which leave us dependent on foreign oil and unsustainable strategies such as coal?

Terry why is Washington, D.C. impeding job growth from from small business by failing to enact single payer health care?

What’s your alternative?

There are three candidates I think.

OT with apologies. MN’s Keith Ellison and MD’s Donna Edwards were taken away from the Sudanese embassy in handcuffs for crossing a police line. Protests there re giving Darfur aid groups the boot.

And Terry, what is the process for deciding who is above the law in a nation of laws?

OK. Guys, there is an effort in some states to amend state constututions amendments to guarantee workers’ “right” to a so-called secret ballot in deciding whether to be represnted by a union. would you support such an effort in VA?

I have a question for McAuliffe.

Mr McAuliffe, you worthless piece of shit, why the fuck are you still in the political arena?

yeah. and you can combine that with my mass transit question at #6, above.

LOL.

Do all three of you support the Employee Free Choice Act?

If not, why not?

Charlottesville, VA

Seconded.

Mr McAuliffe, given the attention paid to the swine flu, why does the US still permit anti-biotics to be pumped into the fundamental protein sources, cattle and chicken?

yeah, jane. you can, like, combine that w/ my #14.

these pics put a lump in my cynical throat

from Rumproast
This is what happens when you mix Terry McAuliffe…
…and an eightball of primo Peruvian flake.

Mr. McAuliffe, why are Democrats tolerating discussions to loot Social Security and Medicare in order to bail out the super rich from their casino capitalism?

Is responsibility just for the little people?

Seconded

They show the rest of the Dems what intestinal fortitude and standing up for what’s right looks like. Too bad every Dem member of Congress wasn’t there to be arrested.

If you’ve been to jail for justice, you’re a friend of mine.

Jenson Button is on a tear.

Thank you. I had not heard about that.

U.S. Secret Service? WTF??? (I mean that lovingly, of course.)

Here’s a video and transcript of McAuliffe, Deeds, and Moran answering Andrea Mitchell’s question at the last debate, about the discriminatory marriage amendment that passed in Virginia in 2007.

So my question for Terry [Moran] McAuliffe is: Terry, when you say

I believe as it relates to gay marriage, it’s a religious issue. We ought to leave it as a religious issue.

are there any other issues you think are religious issues? Should the state stay out of them too?

Wow. That’s quite an expenditure of time and money on signs. With the money spent just on signs we might have been able to beat Bill Young last time.

Hey, Terry, did your staff clean up all those signs?

If you’ve been to jail for justice, you’re a friend of mine.

I have been zip-cuffed about a dozen times but never actually booked. some functionary always comes over to the bus or holding area and orders us all released

my snarky children – “mom, you have penal envy!”

and thanks for the heads up on Button (am saving the tivo for my pre-nap regimen :D)

Prez announced 2 NLRB picks. How much ya wanna make a million dollar bet at least one gets a hard time from some doofusd republican senator?

That counts and yer lucky. Jail food suxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.

QUESTION FOR CANDIDATES RE: STIMULUS PACKAGE AND UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

The federal stimulus package provides incentives to expand unemployment insurance. While Governor Kaine has endorsed this, the Virginia legislature has not presumably in part because of additional tax burdens for Virginians ‘down the road’. Gentlemen, what is your position on expanding unemployment insurance and how would you handle potential funding liabilities?

Who the hell is Terry Moran?

My mistake. Question is for Terry McAuliffe, obviously.

Mr. McAuliffe,

Do you or your democrat counterparts ever get tired of listening to your own bullshit?

McAuliffe,Moran, Deeds:

Should VA state employees have the right to collectively bargain? What about Meet and Confer rights, such as exist in other bastions of liberaldom like Texas and Arizona?

Wow. I’ve been to a Sunday School picnic, the California State Fair and a World Exposition, and that’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.

If marriage is really simply a religious issue, why does the state issue the marriage license? Marriage licenses should not be issued to divorced Roman Catholics if marriage is really simply a religious issue. Marriage licenses should be issued to anyone of any age who wants one, because to my knowledge no religious authority has stated what the minimum age should be.

Marriage licenses should only be issued to those persons who meet all religious criteria for marriage, if marriage is simply a religious issue.

Mr. McAuliffe, if you lose in Virginia do you plan on moving to another state and trying to buy an election there?? Did you ever spend more than a few hours in any county outside the DC or Richmond regions before deciding to run for state office? (and driving down I-81, I-66, I-64 and I-95 do not count)

Terry and then the rest of the candidates:

In the 1990s when Welfare Reform was enacted many of you were right there applauding the fact that millions of women with children were being basically pushed into forced labor while neglecting their children, and disallowed even to get their GEDs much less any other training or education. The *only* criteria for success with this was that millions of women left the program, but nobody knows where they went, how their children are doing, nor whether or not this did anything to help womern in poverty. We do know that the poverty level is on the rise, and that low wage workers suffer the most at the hands of exploitive employers.

These women and their children constantly suffer homelessness, their children are malnourished, they suffer a lack of education, they will never even be able to make a livable wage to support their children, and their children have no parental supervision. Mr McAuliffe was one of the biggest cheerleaders for punishing low income mothers for being mothers and poor at the time of the enactment of the Personal Responsibility Act asked what he had to say that his fortune was taken from the backs of low wage workers like these women and his response was “Thanks …”

What are you going to do about helping these women, most who have had to turn to welfare for a number of reasons: 70% of them fled domestic violence situations. Over 80% of these mothers were married and the fathers are not paying child support. Before Welfare Reform, over 70% of welfare recipients got an education before Welfare Reform and now few if any are even allowed to get a high school degree. They are are condemned to low wage work for life. Nursing babies are taken from their mothers at the age of three months while their mothers are forced into the workforce, what are you going to do about family leave and support for these women while they work those McJobs? In most states making a livable wage is not even a consideration, women are expected to take ANY job offered or they will be sanctioned, and yet women keep returning to welfare for obvious and good reasons: they’ve been laid off, they have serious barriers to work which authorities refuse to acknowledge such as the mother has disabilities, their kids are disabled, lack of transportation, lack of childcare and lack of any work especially in rural areas.

Women, especially low wage workers, have become the backbone of the American workforce, yet they are also expected do most of the traditional women’s unpaid work as well. Why don’t you acknowledge this unpaid work as work? Did your mother “not do anything” when she raised you? Why do you think that raising the next generation is “doing nothing” when in fact these kids will be fighting in your wars, running your country, and paying YOUR social security?

Thanks, inquiring minds would really like to know …

Cat Sullivan
POWER Board Member: http://www.oly-wa.us/power/