Thread: MAJOR VIRGINIA PAPER: 'FAST TERRY' FILM ROCKS MCAULIFFE CAMPAIGN

MAJOR VIRGINIA PAPER: 'FAST TERRY' FILM ROCKS MCAULIFFE CAMPAIGN



by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY
2 Aug 2013

The top political columnist at a major Virginia newspaper not known to favor conservative candidates wrote on Thursday that "Fast Terry," the new documentary film from Citizens United that portrays Clinton pal and former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe in a highly unfavorable light, "has come at a tough time for the Democratic nominee for governor."Julian Walker of the Virginian-Pilot did not stop there. "Despite McAuliffe campaign dismissals of Citizens United's 30-minute "Fast Terry" film as a partisan hit piece," hewrote, "its arrival amid a federal probe related to GreenTech Automotive's finances is harmful."

For the campaign of Republican McAuliffe's opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, the timing of "Fast Terry's" release last week could not have been better. Two news events brought the film's claims about McAuliffe into public focus: a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office investigation and the campaign's own announcement that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose brother Anthony Rodham plays a key role in the McAuliffe-GreenTech Autmotive story, reportedly will campaign in Virginia with McAuliffe some time during the next few months.

Walker, who has also hammered Republican governor Bob McDonnell for his acceptance of gifts from a wealthy businessman, notes that the documentary's on-camera interviews "with Mississippi residents claiming they've been jilted by [McAuliffe's] GreenTech and people from Franklin [Virginia] still waiting on a green energy project McAuliffe proposed" are "particularly damaging."

These emotional interviews, combined with McAuliffe's connection to the Clintons and Obama administration officials in the Department of Homeland Security dovetail "with Republican efforts to undermine a business resume McAuliffe touts as a key qualification to be Virginia's governor," according to Walker.

The film's claim that McAuliffe is a "showman" who leverages personal relationships with high ranking political officials for personal gain while failing to deliver on business promises to local communities could have been "ripped from the headlines" the week of its release.

One headline featured a Department of Homeland Security Inspector General's Office investigation into the dealings of US Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas' role in granting a visa to a Chinese national who is also an investor in McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive, according to press reports.

The Chinese national under investigation is an executive with Huawei Technologies, a firm with alleged links to "Chinese intelligence gathering" (charges the company denies). The executive reportedly invested in McAuliffe's GreenTech Automototive project through a controversial EB-5 foreign national investor program. Under the terms of that program, foreign nationals can qualify to receive temporary and permanent green card visas in return for investing a minimum of $500,000 in an American company.

The allegation, which Mayorkas denied recently in Senate hearings on his confirmation to become Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, is that Mayorkas overrode a decision by other officials at the Department of Homeland Security to deny the Huawei Technologies executive a temporary green card visa. The investigation, which has not stated any criminal violations occurred, is looking into whether contacts between McAuliffe and Mayorkas, which Mayorkas acknowledges took place, influenced this decision.

For Walker, the connection to Clintons in this investigation further damages McAuliffe's reputation among Virginia voters. As he notes in his article, "Northern Virginia-based Gulf Coast Funds Management LLC, is run by Hillary Clinton's brother Anthony Rodham and is a designated regional center for the EB-5 immigrant investor program."

The connection is even stronger than this, since Gulf Coasts Funds Management LLC has one exclusive client --McAuliffe's GreenTech Automotive. In addition, the two companies share office space in the same McLean, Virginia building.

The political damage of this investigation, according to Walker, could be immense. "Links to McAuliffe leave Republicans an opening to pick at his record and raise national security concerns," he notes.

The Virginian-Pilot is the largest metro daily newspaper in Virginia. Based in Norfolk, its website claims a readership of more than 300,000 throughout the entire Hampton Roads area. The paper did not endorse a candidate in the 2012 Presidential election.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...liffe-Campaign

Watch the film for information of Hillary Clinton's brother, Anthony Rodham's EB5 VISA for sale scheme.
http://fastterry.com/?page_id=500

MEET BARACK OBAMA’S GREENTECH CONNECTION


By: Tori Richards
4/24/2013 12:05 PM
Rick C. Wade is an exceptionally busy man.

The former Obama cabinet official helped run the president’s latest campaign while simultaneously serving as a Democratic Party executive and vice president of GreenTech Automotive, the “green car” company owned by Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.Besides Wade, the venture has attracted other high-profile political insiders: Bill Clinton appeared at a company launch party. Hillary Clinton’s brother Anthony Rodham runs the firm’s foreign-investor outreach. Former Republican National Committee chair and Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour used a mix of grants and tax holidays to persuade McAuliffe to build Greentech in Mississippi.

But Wade might be the insider who carries the most weight.

Following a senior adviser role in Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign, Wade was named interim director of the Department of Commerce and later became the department’s chief of staff and spokesman. While there, he helped craft Obama’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill — the one that hyped such green-energy projects as the now-bankrupt Solyndra and even sent money overseas to aid production of green ventures in foreign countries. Wade got an education in cars via the president’s Auto Recovery Task Force, a $25 billion effort to prop up the failing U.S. auto industry.

The Commerce Department job also allowed Wade to hone a skill that might explain his value to GreenTech: he became a U.S. envoy on Chinese and Asian trade.

GreenTech’s majority owners have ties to China and the company seeks to raise capital from that country. It is mired in controversy over its use of a program here called EB-5, which allows foreign nationals to obtain U.S. visas in exchange for their investment in targeted U.S. companies. Each investment must produce at least 10 jobs.

In a retraction demand and lawsuit it filed against Watchdog, GreenTech, which has refused otherwise to respond to numerous requests for comment over several months, asserts, “Phase one of construction at (the Tunica, Miss., site) is complete and the project remains on schedule to be finished as projected.”

But so far the GreenTech assembly line has not produced enough cars to fill up dealerships around the U.S. At first, GreenTech tried to set up shop in McAuliffe’s home state of Virginia. But that venture disintegrated – ironically after Gov. Tim Kaine’s office questioned the company’s use of EB-5 funds. In a report, one Kaine official said she “still can’t get my head around this being anything other than a visa-for-sale scheme with potential national security implications that we have no way to confirm or discount.”

Another said the state’s approval of the project despite apparent shortcomings could give the commonwealth “a black eye.”

McAuliffe then found a supporter in Mississippi’s Barbour.Wade came on board in 2011 while simultaneously joining Obama’s re-election campaign.

He spent the next year cultivating votes for the president in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida, states with no apparent connection to GreenTech.

At the same time, Wade founded a public relations firm, The Wade Group, which is a “global business development” company, according to LinkedIn.
A phone call and email seeking comment from Wade were not returned.
But you can hear something in Wade’s speeches while in the administration, something philosophical that also likely appealed to McAuliffe and the GreenTech executive team: faith in government regulation.

Speaking to a group of Michigan business leaders shortly after Obama’s first inauguration, Wade described the important role government would play in rebuilding the U.S. economy following the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

“We know very well that lawmakers don’t invent. But the government does create the conditions — the framework — in which businesses operate. And that matters,” he said. “This administration is trying to rebuild the physical and the regulatory infrastructure that private sector businesses need to thrive.”

Now, at GreenTech Automotive, Wade is helping build a business that depends primarily on the stimulus of Mississippi giveaways and a federal program that collects cash from desperate foreigners hoping for a green card.

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/04/2...ch-connection/

http://www.alipac.us/f12/open-border...9/#post1360094