Former Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D-VA), who is once again the Democratic nominee to be governor of Virginia, has gotten fact-checked quite a bit, including by The Washington Post. What is perhaps the most memorable one came last week, to do with a September 24 ad from McAuliffe claiming that Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin “took over” predatory dental clinics. These claims also came during the second gubernatorial debate, mere days after the ad.
Fact-checker Glenn Kessler highlights the voice-over claim from the ad’s narrator that “Small Smiles, a string of dental clinics preying on unsuspecting poor families. As a Wall Street executive, Glenn Youngkin took over this chain of dental clinics, increasing corporate profits through serious abuse and the performing of unnecessary procedures on children.”
In conducting the fact-check, Kessler noted a colleague of his dug up relevant documents flashed in the campaign ad showing a 2013v Senate investigative report. “The bottom line: When the problems highlighted in the ad emerged, Carlyle was not involved in the management of this company and did not own it,” Kessler wrote.
The private equity firm buyer involved, according to Kessler, “was a Bahrain-based investment firm called Arcapita. This added a level of complexity because the financing needed to comply with sharia practices.”
Terry “whatever his name is” has demonstrated his elitist attitude toward those he represented the last time he was Governor. He continues to claim that voters should not tell the elected what to do. Is he (seriously) nuts?
Ship him off to South America.