Tea Party Appears at Obama Stump Speech for McAuliffe

About 100 Tea Partiers protested President Barack Obama in Arlington on Sunday, as he was set to give his endorsement of Virginia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe.

The Tea Partiers, who held Ken Cuccinelli signs and shouted out questions regarding Obamacare, Benghazi, the Fast and Furious scandal, and other issues, assembled peacefully across the street from Obama-supporting attendees waiting to enter Washington and Lee public school.

"I just want to be part of showing the great support for Ken Cuccinelli and the great angst at bad government by Obama, and if McAuliffe were to be elected, the coming bad government–they’re two of the same kind and cast from the same mold," said Arlene Smith, head of the Arlington County Tea Party. "They don’t tell the truth. It’s all about getting more power. It’s not good for the people. And a lot of people are just being fooled."

Local Young Republicans told Breitbart News their members were among the sign wavers and are out and about, recruiting activists to help with door knocking and phone banking.

Thank you Tea Partiers for defending the republic against these scumbag Dems.

Course, it would not be P(gag)C to mention that the Obama's "Justice Dept" (there's a belly laugh right there) is investigating McAwful.

So it does seem like Obama's politicking is a conflict of interest.....that is to say, if we peons are allowed to actually speak about the caliph without risking a public beheading.

Same w/ 2016 wanabe Hillary---endorsing McAwful while her brother is running the McAwful company under investigation.

These people have no conscience, whatsoever.

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<><> SEC investigating illegalities in company co-founded by Terry McAuliffe <><>

The SEC is investigating the green car company founded by Va gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe over concerns that it allegedly (illegally) guaranteed returns for its investors. The SEC has subpoenaed bank records of GreenTech’s funding arm, the McLean-based financing company Gulf Coast Funds Management, LLC.

Documents attached to a July 31 letter from Sen. Charles E. Grassley also raise more questions on the extent of the interaction between officials at the two companies and Alejandro Mayorkas, the director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in DHS.

DHS is investigating whether Mr. Mayorkas assisted in approving an investor visa application submitted by Gulf Coast, even after the application was denied and an appeal was rejected.

Mr. Mayorkas, Obama’s pick to be the next No. 2 at DHS, testified last week that the extent of his interaction with Mr. McAuliffe was one meeting in which he heard his complaints about investor visas being held up.

Mr. Grassley said it went further than that.“Contrary to the impression left by your answer, documents indicate that both before and after that meeting, you actually engaged in nearly a dozen contacts with Gulf Coast Funds Management between 2010 and 2013, including direct communications with Gulf Coast’s attorneys,” the Iowa Republican wrote to Mr. Mayorkas. “That one meeting with Mr. McAuliffe was clearly not the extent of your interaction on that matter.”

Officials at the two companies and did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday. A spokesman for the McAuliffe campaign noted that Mr. McAuliffe left GreenTech in 2012 and that he has no knowledge of any investigation. News of the SEC investigation was first reported Friday by The Wash/Post.

The documents include forwarded e-mails from Mr. McAuliffe to Douglas Smith, an official in DHS’s office of the Private Sector, that were forwarded to Mr. Mayorkas and an e-mail from Mr. Mayorkas himself saying that face-to-face meetings for particular cases are not appropriate.”As the Director of this Agency, I do not adjudicate cases and am not the proper audience for a telephone call or a meeting about a particular case,” he wrote to Gulf Coast’s general counsel earlier this year. “I will forward your e-mail to the appropriate individual in the Agency.”

USCIS handles cases involved in the EB-5 program, where foreign investors put up between $500,000 and $1 million for American companies in exchange for legal status.

Govt attorneys wrote that such a meeting would violate the Administrative Procedures Act. “I think it also raises an impartiality issue if we entertain pre-decisional meetings of this sort with particular applicants and petitioners,” USCIS’s Ethics Officer wrote. “It is not a concern to have meetings with particular industries, trade groups, bar associations, etc., on systemic issues that are not case specific, so long as we are willing to meet with all.”

Gulf Coast is run by Anthony Rodham, the brother of former Secy of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and is the finance arm of GreenTech Automotive Inc. Mr. McAuliffe founded GreenTech in 2009 and quietly stepped down as chairman in Dec — a fact only revealed in April in response to an inquiry from a Politico reporter.

By David Sherfinski ---- http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/2/sec-investigating-company-co-founded-terry-mcaulif/

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