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New McAuliffe ad: Cuccinelli has let down Southwest Virginia

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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s campaign is releasing a new ad featuring Shirley Keene, a landowner from Raven, Va., who is fighting against Ken Cuccinelli and out-of-state energy companies over royalties owed her for gas extracted from her property.

Recently, a federal judge said she was “shocked” by the help Attorney General Cuccinelli’s office was giving two out-of-state energy companies in their fight against Virginia landowners like Shirley Keene.  Cuccinelli even took more than $100,000 in donations to his gubernatorial campaign from the company he was helping.  The ad will begin running this week.

 

Transcript, “Trust”

Shirley Keene: I was born and raised in Southwest Virginia, very fine people, good neighbors, a good place to live a good place to raise your family.

Since the energy companies has come in, they have been making millions from the gas that is coming from our property.

They are going to extract your gas and leave you with nothing. I haven’t seen one penny 

Ken Cuccinelli’s office was giving information to the energy companies to fight us.

Then Cuccinelli got $100,000 for his Governor’s campaign.

He has made it perfectly clear he cannot be trusted. When you help an energy company against the people that have elected you to office that is wrong, you have let your people down, you have let the community down and I do not trust him. 

 




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