While I can’t be sure, if you go to his website he has events timed throughout the day all through the state. For example, it starts in Norfolk, and a few hours later starts in Richmond, before getting to Charlottesville. My guess is that he is going to be at every event.

While I’m sure 3pm is less than stellar for potential attendees, I’m not quite sure how else he would make such a plan work.

Posted by Joe on 5 January 2009 @ 11pm

My information is that it is at 3:30. At Zocalo. If you saw the news tonight, you will know that today they began tearing up the brick in the Central Place. You won’t be able to get to Zocalo, and the jackhammers and the masonry saws should make it an interesting experience.

Posted by cvllelaw on 5 January 2009 @ 11pm

I didn’t watch the news so thank you for the tip cvillelaw, I think I won’t take my walking pneumonia self into the middle of brick dust :) I was thinking of going out of curiousity.

Posted by Alison Hymes on 6 January 2009 @ 12am

Angels and ministers of grace defend us.

Posted by Will on 6 January 2009 @ 1am

I attended McAuliffe’s “I’m a candidate but not quite a candidate” get-to-know-me talk at UVa-Darden in November.

He handed out & signed copies of his autobiography, “What a Party!” Waldo, I’m glad you posted that review–that probably saved me some time over reading the book. ;-)

My impression of McAuliffe, based solely upon meeting him relatively briefly at Darden, was “slick huckster.” It’ll be interesting to see how many affectations (e.g. loves of guns and NASCAR and a mountain twang) he’ll put on over the next year….

Posted by Jeff Uphoff on 6 January 2009 @ 8am

His Hampton Roads event was at 7:45am. No idea who was there. There is nothing on the websites of the newspaper or the TV stations.

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 6 January 2009 @ 9am

One more thing: thanks for the link to the review! He handed out signed copies to the VA delegation in Denver and I haven’t had time to read the book. I ran across a lot of material when I was researching him for my post, but I missed this one.

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 6 January 2009 @ 9am

The thing is I didn’t take him seriously until Brian Moran’s crew started totally wetting themselves over this guy. Now I have to actually give him a serious look and see if maybe he’s not actually as horrible as others would have me believe.

Posted by Sam on 6 January 2009 @ 10am

Sam,

Just look at the state of the DNC apparatus when McAuliffe finally left the chairmanship. We were in a shambles. This guy ridiculed the idea of being a 50 state party. All he did was run around dropping names and hustling lobbyists and corporations for campaign cash. Everything that the Democratic Party has accomplished nationally in the last 4 years has been through the direct repudiation of everything that Terry McAuliffe did and stood for.

Howard Dean invested in actual staff and offices and a meaningful presence in all 50 states. He took the focus away from a handful of high-profile races and made the DNC about running a political party again, rather than just being a money machine. Barack Obama built on that and in his campaign he rejected money from many of the same sources that McAuliffe chased.

Everything that is good about the Democratic Party right now is the opposite of Terry McAuliffe. Now that we’ve all really accomplished something by rejecting his kind of politics, he wants to walk back in and pluck the fruit off of the tree that we watered and pruned and fertilized.

He doesn’t deserve it. We have real Virginia leaders who have been there in the trenches with us for years turning Virginia blue.

Posted by Jackson Landers on 6 January 2009 @ 11am

Of course, the reason I couldn’t find anything about the Macker’s visit to Norfolk was because it was today and not yesterday :(

Posted by Vivian J. Paige on 7 January 2009 @ 5pm