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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.

  

DPVA Chair Herring Statement on Obenshain Nomination for Republican AG

5/18/2013
Ashley

RICHMOND -- DPVA Chair Delegate Charniele Herring released the following statement on Virginia Republicans nomination of Mark Obenshain as their candidate for Attorney General after holding a convention with only 8,000 Virginians present.

Cuccinelli: Fight for Personhood Legislation Will ‘Last for all of our Lives’

5/14/2013
Ashley

 

Richmond, VA – As Ken Cuccinelli prepares to accept the nomination for Governor at the Republican Convention on Saturday, he is attempting to convince Virginians that he is no longer the extreme ideologue he’s been his entire career.

 

Countdown: Top 10 Moments Cuccinelli and Williams Might Have Discussed Million Dollar Tax Suit

5/14/2013
Ashley

As the Roanoke Times reported yesterday, Ken Cuccinelli is denying Virginians their right to know whether or not he and Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams discussed Star’s lawsuit over more than $1 million in unpaid taxes while Williams was lavishing Cuccinelli with gifts and trips.

Herring, Waddell Kick off Week of Focus on Cuccinelli’s Extreme Anti-Women’s Health Agenda

5/13/2013
brian

Bipartisan leaders highlight Cuccinelli’s efforts to ban common forms of birth control 

Today on a media conference call, Delegate and Democratic Party of Virginia Chair Charniele Herring and former Republican and Independent Delegate Katherine Waddell discussed how extreme and dangerous Ken Cuccinelli’s “personhood” agenda is to the health of Virginia women.

Will Cuccinelli Emerge from Bunker to Appear in Court Tomorrow?

5/01/2013
Myles

Richmond, VA – Aside from his “no cameras or recorders” Friday afternoon media availability last week, at which the candidate admitted to thousands of dollars in unreported Star Scientific gifts, the Cuccinelli campaign has gone to great lengths to keep their candidate from explaining his ethical lapses to Virginians.

DPVA Cares: Helping Cuccinelli Remember Star Scientific Gifts

4/29/2013
brian

Ken Cuccinelli is a busy man. Running for Governor full-time, being Attorney General part-time and injecting his personal agenda into places that have nothing to do with his job don’t leave much time in the day for anything else.

 

To hear him tell it, with a schedule that packed it shouldn’t come as a surprise that he simply forgot nearly $13,000 in gifts from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams and other interests when the time came to fill out his legally required financial disclosure statements.That’s why, as a helpful service to Ken Cuccinelli, the Democratic Party of Virginia put together a list of the moments when, were he not so distracted by the pressing demands of life as an ideological crusader, Ken Cuccinelli might have felt the memory of his Star Scientific-funded vacations trying to get into the front of his mind.