During the 2013 campaign for Virginia governor, the GOP nominee, then-Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, warned that if his opponent, Democrat and Bill Clinton confidant Terry McAuliffe, were to win, “D.C.-style politics would take over in Richmond.” Well, a dozen years later, his words seem to be prophetic and ironic at the same time.
McAuliffe did become the 45th governor of Virginia, and though he faced some posturing by the GOP over his appointees to boards and commissions, that D.C.-style “if he wants it I’m against it” obstructionism was minimal even though he faced a Republican Party majority in the Virginia House and Senate.
It’s said that the man that Bill Clinton counted on to book guests into that exclusive Lincoln Bedroom Airbnb at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue knew how to “work a room,” and that might have played into it. Politics is a method that…
