Can McAuliffes Brash Dash For Cash Win In Va.?
If the presidential race had gone his way, Terry McAuliffe says, he might be secretary of commerce now. “Jeez, I would have loved to be vice president,” he muses. McAuliffe thinks big and acts even bigger. Okay, so he picked the wrong horse for president, sticking with Hillary Rodham Clinton and shouting it out from coast to coast on cable TV night after night, even after the race was clearly over. Stuff happens. McAuliffe marches on. He’s running for governor of Virginia now. (What? He has zero experience in state politics? This matters to you? “Honestly, nobody asks me about that,” the candidate announces. “Nobody.”) He has rented an entire floor of a McLean office building as his campaign headquarters. We walk past about 40 empty cubicles to reach the man’s corner office. Not to worry; McAuliffe intends to fill the place, just as soon as he raises a few more million from that dazzling list of boldface names in his BlackBerry. In one of the most lampooned passages from his 2007 autob
