Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Terry McAuliffe, an unsuccesssful candidate for governor in 2009, is in the running again — this time, to buy a soon-to-close Southside paper factory he wants to convert to a wood-fired power plant.

McAuliffe and other investors are pitching to International Paper Co. to purchase the firm’s giant Franklin mill in Isle of Wight County, which is to be closed this year, throwing 1,100 people of work.

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