Failure - get over it | Terry McAuliffe | TEDxAttica 2019

In this entertaining talk, former Governor Terry McAuliffe talks about his first entrepreneurial endeavors as a young boy in Syracuse to his time as Governor, reforming Virginia's criminal justice system. Terry McAuliffe served as Governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018. He also served as Chair of the National Governors' Association from 2016 to 2017 and Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005. During his term as Governor, the unemployment rate in Virginia dropped from 5.4% to 3.6% and initial unemployment claims fell to a 44-year-low. By the end of his term, McAuliffe had restored voting rights for 206,000 released felons, more than any governor in U.S. history. He also issued more pardons than any Governor in Virginia history and reduced the state’s population in state-operated Juvenile Correctional Centers by nearly two-thirds. His new New York Times best-selling book, Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism, describes the tragic events at the "Unite the Right" rally that resulted in the deaths of three people in Charlottesville, Virginia, during his governorship.