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Article: The Plutocrat as Populist.(Terry McAuliffe, Democratic National Committee chairman)
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- The American Prospect
- Article date:
- July 2, 2001
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Terry McAuliffe made the Democrats rich. Can he make them win?
We are so far behind," exclaims Terry McAuliffe, gazing out his window toward the Capitol. "I got a briefing last night that absolutely shocked me. I'm not going to give you the numbers. Let's just say they"--the Republicans--"have 50 times as many e-mail addresses as we have. It's unacceptable."
McAuliffe has had to use this word a lot lately. It wasn't just the carpeting at Democratic National Committee headquarters, which "smelled terrible," and which McAuliffe had fumigated even before he was elected DNC chairman last February. The whole place was decrepit. There was, for instance, the ...