McAuliffe appoints campaign consultant to Alcoholic Beverage Control Board

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[Indy Texas]

Maybe Virginia has become the new Illinois and will continue to elect corrupt hacks from both parties in succession.

[Blue3]

How is this corrupt? I don't see the problem here.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Is there any proof he gave him the job solely because he donated to his campaign?  I see nothing problematic here.

[Small Business Owner of Any Repute]

oh no, politics is happening

[Ebowed]

I don't see a problem.

[TJ in Oregon]

Yeah, absent a quid pro quo this is a non-issue.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board seems like exactly the sort of body to which it should be acceptable to appoint political allies without any specific area of competence as a relatively safe reward.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board seems like exactly the sort of body to which it should be acceptable to appoint political allies without any specific area of competence as a relatively safe reward.

How so?   Does it not have any power or responsibilities?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Board seems like exactly the sort of body to which it should be acceptable to appoint political allies without any specific area of competence as a relatively safe reward.

How so?   Does it not have any power or responsibilities?

I'm admittedly not familiar with the powers of Virginia's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board but on the basis of what I know about Massachusetts's equivalent it strikes me as the sort of thing that would be pretty colorlessly bureaucratic in character and not in the sort of position that could cause anything to go too disastrously wrong. Keep in mind that I said 'acceptable', not 'ideal' or 'praiseworthy', and 'relatively safe', not 'inconsequential'.

[DINGO Joe]

Hopefully the crazed thugism of the Mcdonnell era ABC will be reigned in.

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/01/del-toscano-introduces-abc-restrictions-bill

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hopefully the crazed thugism of the Mcdonnell era ABC will be reigned in.

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2014/01/del-toscano-introduces-abc-restrictions-bill

I stand to at least some extent corrected, apparently.

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Next thing, you'll realize that a lot of ambassadors got the job because they're a major donor.