Touchdown: Cam and the NFL’s Panthers upgrade their digs thanks to taxpayers

By   /  May 1, 2013  /  WatchBlog  /  No Comments

GET THAT CASH: Cam Newton and his Panthers will see millions thanks to taxpayers. (CLTBlog photo)

Cam Newton and his Carolina Panthers just scored.
Taxpayers in the city of Charlotte, N.C., will give the team, which just finished its 18th National Football League season with a 7.9 record, $87.5 million to upgrade Bank of America Stadium.
As part of the deal, approved by the city council April 22, the team must remain in [...]

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‘It is what it is:’ McAuliffe plays defense over GreenTech Automotive

By   /  May 1, 2013  /  WatchBlog  /  1 Comment

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“It is what it is.”
That’s how Virginia Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe described Monday his company’s decision to locate its manufacturing plant in northern Mississippi and not Virginia.
McAuliffe founded GreenTech Automotive, a start-up aiming to build affordable electric vehicles on American soil.
But the turf is partially what’s troubling McAuliffe. As a candidate who’s made job-creation a [...]

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What is Obamacare? Many don’t know and many hate it

By   /  April 30, 2013  /  WatchBlog  /  No Comments

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View the story “March health poll shows Obamacare’s continued unpopularity ” on Storify

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Union darling McAuliffe and his non-union car company

By   /  April 30, 2013  /  Featured, National, News  /  3 Comments

Terry McAuliffe

By Dustin Hurst | Watchdog.org

Virginia’s Democratic candidate for governor Terry McAuliffe often professes his love of organized labor.

During his last run for governor, McAuliffe, Bill and Hillary Clinton’s biggest campaign fundraiser and a former Democratic National Committee chairman, told a 2009 debate audience that he hires union workers even when he’s building businesses in non-union or “right-to-work” states.

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VA news outlet unloads on McAuliffe’s GreenTech

By   /  April 29, 2013  /  WatchBlog  /  No Comments

GO ALONG, GET ALONG: Terry McAuliffe, in one of his Green Tech Automotive electric vehicles, says he has a job for Bill Bolling.

For Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, bad press comes in threes.
A few days ago, the New York Times wrote that McAuliffe’s foray into green car manufacturing could backfire, dooming his second straight bid for governor.
Then, early Monday morning, Watchdog.org revealed that the parent company of McAuliffe’s GreenTech, Capital Wealth Holdings, is incorporated in the tax [...]

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