Colonel Tom Mulrine Out, McAuliffe Chooses Jill McCabe to Run in the 13th Senate District

The respected and distinguished Vietnam veteran, Army Colonel Tom Mulrine, is stepping aside to allow McAuliffe's hand picked candidate to run in the 13th Senate district against the very popular Senator Dick Black.

Colonel Mulrinehas worked hard establishing his run for Senate but the Governor has decided he wants Dr. Jill McCabe to run instead of the well known and well liked Colonel Mulrine. Colonel Mulrine had been recruited by and supported by the Loudoun County Democrat Committee. But the Governor ended that. 

A Facebook comment of well-known Loudoun Democrat John Flannery:

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It’s understandable that John Flannery would assume that Dr. McCabe is a Republican. In 2012, she voted in the Republican presidential primary, which means she either supported Ron Paul or Mitt Romney for President.  Or perhaps she just really doesn’t like Obama. Despite being rather wealthy, McCabe has never given a dime to any Democratic candidate or the Democratic party. 

Dr. McCabe is a pediatrician which might imply that she is pro-life.  She is certainly not pro-public schools.  Both of her children attend Loudoun Country Day School.  ‘Country Day School’ is always code for ‘rich, elitist, school, that you probably can’t afford.’ Loudoun Country Day School is no exception, with tuition at $24,985.  Let’s just round that up to a cool $25,000 a year.  Virginia Universities don’t charge that much!  Her children are now in high school…that’s a lot of money to spend on tuition for 12 years for two children. And yet not a dime for any Democratic candidate.

In her bio Dr.McCabe says she attended a school very much like Loudoun Country Day School:

Jill chooses to volunteer her time on the Board largely because of the great impact that attending a school very similar to LCDS (Loudoun Country Day School) had on her personal academic career. As a Pediatrician and mother, she values the importance of childhood growth and development, and is happy to be a part of a school that fosters them.

From that we can only assume that the wealthy Dr. McCabe does not think that public schools foster childhood growth and development. Interesting.

I know that Governor really wants this woman to be the Democratic candidate for Senate in the 13th Democrat but why?  She appears to be a rather elitist Republican.

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  • VoterMatt

    Flannery is right when he said the governor laid hands on her because that’s how the Democrats do it. They anoint their candidates and poor Mulrine gets kicked to the curb. Tom Mulrine had been campaigning for weeks, making the rounds as part of the Democratic slate only to have McAuliffe pull the rug out from under him. How embarrassing is that?

  • Maybe Mulrine should run as a third party just to make a point. That would help Black at any rate.

  • Pointing Out Hypocrisy

    The Democrats have some nerve saying the GOP has a closed process after this! It was a stretch to say a Firehouse Primary that had over 13,000 voters in it was a “closed process” but considering one guy can just pick who gets to run for their process just doesn’t pass the smell test!

  • Catherine Stone McNickle

    Are there any other practicing doctors in the GA?

    • Del. John O’Bannon, for one. I suspect there may be others I’m forgetting.

      • abc

        LG Northam, Del. Garrett and Del. Stolle are all doctors along with Del. O’Bannon.

  • Reinhardt Reganbacker lll

    Where one does Dominion Virginia support?

  • mezurak

    Washington Post 2/14/2014

    Barbra Jill McCabe, a top pediatric emergency physician and manager,
    helped show McAuliffe around the pediatric ER in Loudoun, where a child
    screamed behind a glass partition. Regardless of the different opinions
    on how to improve America’s health system, she said, “I think expanding
    care for the folks who need it has to be part of the solution. . . . I’m faced with patients every day who are struggling because they don’t have that access.” She said that with more patients on Medicaid, her emergency room would be less busy, which would benefit the children they treat.

    Get ready for another Medicaid fight.

    • Jeanine Martin

      Ah yes, it’s ALL about expanding Medicaid. Little else matters to the Governor.

      • mezurak

        The RPV needs to be checking to see who else is running around the state. This is looking like the beginning of an upcoming national backed strategy instead of just a Terry personal pick.

  • Glenn

    Who is Paul Rand?

    • Jeanine Martin

      Oops, thanks for pointing that out. I have fixed it.

  • Jonathan Erickson

    You do realize that our special education students cost twice as much as the average student and siphon money from the average kid. At 24k plus per special education you have 18000 kids who are special education or English as a second language which is 25% of the school population using 45% of the money. There is the rip off!

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