{news} Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in '04 Race

[Tim McKee]

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From: "Skip Mendler"
To: natlcomaffairs at green.gpus.org
Subject: [usgp-dx] Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in
'04 Race
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 00:04:12 -0400


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052803823.html?hpid=topnews

Nader: McAuliffe Offered Money To Avoid Key States in '04 Race>>
Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader went public Thursday with an
allegation that Virginia gubernatorial hopeful Terry McAuliffe offered
his
campaign money to stay off the ballot in key states during the 2004
elections -- a disclosure timed to raise questions about McAuliffe's
fitness
for public office.
[...]

He said McAuliffe, who was the Democratic National Committee chairman at
the
time, had offered Nader's campaign an unspecified amount of money,
believed
to be party funds, to spend in 31 states in exchange for an agreement to
withdraw from 19 battleground states where he could potentially hurt
Democrat John Kerry.

The allegation -- which McAuliffe has not disputed -- is the latest
attempt
to suggest that the candidate's lengthy career as a confidant to
President
Bill Clinton and top party fundraiser could now be a political liability.
McAuliffe's aides countered that any effort he made to thwart Nader might
actually play well with party loyalists.

"It looks like Ralph Nader misses seeing his name in the press," said
Elisabeth Smith, McAuliffe's spokeswoman. "Terry's focused on talking
with
Virginians about jobs, not feeding Ralph Nader's ego."
[...]
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Skip Mendler
Delegate GPPA
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