The slugfest known as the Virginia governor’s race has managed to get into the holiday spirit. Not Easter. April Fools’ Day.
“Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Terry McAuliffe today announced a major commitment to bringing manufacturing jobs to Virginia,” begins a news release issued Monday from the Democrat’s rival, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R).
The release includes a link to video snippets of of McAuliffe touting plans to bring an electric car company from China to Virginia.
Then comes: “April Fools’! Terry McAuliffe chose to base his electric car company in Mississippi,” it reads. “Then he blamed the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for refusing to bid on GreenTech’s contract, a statement that was quickly proven false by Politifact. Turns out, McAuliffe never even gave VEDP the necessary information to offer GreenTech a package! The biggest joke today is Terry McAuliffe claiming to put Virginia jobs first.”
McAuliffe’s decision to put his GreenTech plant in Mississippi became an issue in the campaign in December, when he told reporters that he didn’t put the plant in Virginia because VEDP “decided they didn’t want to bid on it.”
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This article first appeared in the Washington Post on April 1, 2013.