Terry McAuliffe’s Higher-Ed Plan Bought And Paid For
The Washington Post is reporting on the latest Terry McAuliffe fundraising scheme to trade favors for campaign cash, as emails through a Freedom of Information Act request show that McAuliffe amended his higher education platform in direct response to a meeting with a donor who soon wrote another five-figure check.
As prominent University of Virginia alumni lobby candidates for Virginia governor to involve the university community in selecting members for the Board of Visitors, a leader of the movement has donated $50,000 to Terry McAuliffe’s campaign for governor. Jeffrey C. Walker, chairman of the U-Va. Council of Foundations, donated $25,000 to the Democratic candidate’s campaign in early March and then another $25,000 in late July, according to the Virginia Public Access Project, which tracks political campaign donations. …
Walker’s second donation came soon after he and key alumni spoke with McAuliffe and his policy director about issues at U-Va. — and soon after the candidate updated his higher education platform to reflect some of the alumni’s ideas, according to e-mails released by the university to The Washington Post last week following a public records request. …
Soon after that call, Walker wrote, Feinman told him that the campaign had ‘modified Terry’s higher ed policy and had posted it to their Web site.’
Among those who had lobbied McAuliffe and his policy director along with walker about his “the groups’ top priority” was Paul Tudor Jones, whose firm Tudor Investment Corp. is a former McAuliffe lobbying client.
