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Virginia gubernatorial candidate, a Turkish lobbyist, should be defeated

On August 20, the Washington Free Beacon online newspaper published an article by Chuck Ross titled: “Turkey Paid McAuliffe’s Firm to Lobby US Against Recognition of Armenian Genocide.” Terry McAuliffe is the Democratic Party candidate for governor of the State of Virginia. He

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Harut Sassounian

Harut Sassounian is the publisher of The California Courier, a weekly newspaper based in Glendale, Calif. He is the president of the Armenia Artsakh Fund, a non-profit organization that has donated to Armenia and Artsakh one billion dollars of humanitarian aid, mostly medicines, since 1989 (including its predecessor, the United Armenian Fund). He has been decorated by the presidents of Armenia and Artsakh and the heads of the Armenian Apostolic and Catholic churches. He is also the recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

2 Comments

  1. Several years ago when the Richmond ANCA asked about McAuliffe endorsing the Virginia Armenian Genocide resolution, the price was $100,000 to have McAuliffe commitment.

  2. This sort of information (about Senator Flake) should be passed along to Republicans, in Congress, as well as Democrats. With the current circumstances of political polarization, Republicans may well be glad to use this information to help Senator Flake a damaged commodity. The same thing goes for Virginia Governor McAuliffe (also a Democrat).

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