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Roundup: Week of Cuccinelli "Damage Control" on Extreme Ticket and Ethics

5/24/2013
brian

This week, news coverage in Virginia and across the country was dominated by the extreme Cuccinelli/Jackson/Obenshain ticket, causing their official campaign launch to become "an exercise in damage control." Cuccinelli himself also racked up more negative headlines over his bizarre determination exempting himself from Virginia FOIA laws and his continuing conflict of interest scandal involving Star Scientific. 

Here’s a roundup of what was covered in the Virginia gubernatorial race throughout the week

Latino Leaders Condemn Republican Ticket's Dangerous Agenda

5/22/2013
Ashley

Delegate Alfonso Lopez, Walter Tejada, Chairman of the Arlington Board, and Jaime Areizaga-Soto, President of the Democratic Latino Organization of Virginia held a call Wednesday discussing how Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson, and Mark Obenshain will set the Latino community in Virginia back through their extreme anti-immigration agenda. 

 

Cuccinelli and Jackson: Divisive Rhetoric That Reflects an Extreme Agenda

5/21/2013
Ashley

Cuccinelli and Jackson: Divisive Rhetoric That Reflects an Extreme Agenda

 

 

Ken Cuccinelli Yesterday: “E.W. Jackson, who has been a powerful, powerful fighter and communicator for first principles”

Memo: Meet the GOP Extreme Team

5/19/2013
brian

 

Cuccinelli-Jackson-Obenshain Will Take VA Backward

 

Yesterday Virginians made history and nominated the most extreme statewide ticket this Commonwealth has ever seen. From banning birth control and forcing women to report miscarriages to police to comparing Planned Parenthood to the KKK, there is no arguing that Ken Cuccinelli, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain are farther outside the Virginia mainstream than any slate of candidates either party has ever nominated.

 

The Democratic Party of Virginia and concerned people from all political points of view spent the last week informing voters about Ken Cuccinelli’s dangerous and extreme “personhood” agenda to ban birth control and roll back women’s rights. As the memo below demonstrates, E.W. Jackson and Mark Obenshain are the two most perfect candidates Republicans could have nominated to walk in lockstep Cuccinelli’s dangerous crusades.

  

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