Press Releases

Cuccinelli: I fight for taxpayer money, just not from my personal financial patron

6/05/2013
Ashley

Today Ken Cuccinelli held a de facto campaign event to announce that the IRS owes Virginia $125 million from a recent Medicaid fraud settlement.

 

New Cuccinelli Conspiracy Theory: Planned Parenthood Views Sex Ed as Pathway to ‘Abortion on Demand’

5/31/2013
brian

 

It turns out Ken Cuccinelli’s suggestion that women’s health provider Planned Parenthood is a racist organization seeking to do harm to the African American community isn’t his only bizarre conspiracy theory about the organization, which provides low cost women’s health measures to thousands of Virginia women.

 

In a 2008 letter to the editor Cuccinelli alleged that Planned Parenthood, which provides many tests and treatments including birth control and cancer screenings, is “all about abortion,” and that the organization’s interest in sexual education in schools is “what a marketing executive might call a ‘loss leader,’ used to introduce their organization and all it has to offer, e.g., abortion on demand, to our children.”

DPVA Chair Delegate Herring Commends McDonnell on Restoration of Rights

5/29/2013
Ashley

 

DPVA Chair Delegate Charniele Herring released the following statement commending Governor McDonnell on the bipartisan effort to restore rights to non-violent felons:

 

Koch Brothers Set to Reward Cuccinelli for His Extreme Attacks on Planned Parenthood

5/29/2013
Ashley

As Ken Cuccinelli continues to face bipartisan condemnation for suggesting that women’s he

McEachin, Herring Highlight Cuccinelli’s Real Record on Restoration of Rights

5/28/2013
brian

 

Today Virginia Senator Donald McEachin and DPVA Chair Charniele Herring held a media conference call to discuss how Ken Cuccinelli’s recent rhetoric does not match his record of extreme and incendiary opposition to restoring nonviolent felons’ civil rights after they have paid their debt to society.

 

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.