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Can Anyone Stop Ken Cuccinelli from the Governor's Mansion? (In-depth magazine column)
Last edited Tue Apr 30, 2013, 11:13 AM - Edit history (1)
http://www.readthehook.com/109386/can-anyone-stop-ken-cuccinelli-heres-how-virginias-radical-pro-life-pro-gun-attorney-general-
Excerpts:
"Cuccinelli has already shown his mastery of tactics. One of the reasons he was able to finesse his candidacy within the Republican Party was a palace coup he helped stage in June. The central committee of the Republican Party, taken over by a band of arch-conservatives, voted 47-31 to nominate the party's gubernatorial candidate in 2013 in a closed convention rather than the open primary that was agreed upon in 2011.
...He's pushed for state Medicaid fraud investigators to carry firearms in their jobs that aren't exactly fraught with danger. Declaring "homosexuality is wrong," he's fought gay marriage and refused to support resolutions stating that gays shouldn't be discriminated against in state jobs, including those at public universities.
In a piece headlined "Virginia embodies GOP's woes," Politico recently noted the irony that Cuccinelli is such a powerhouse in an off-year election just after the GOP got an electoral drubbing, which many people blame on the party's social agenda: "What gnaws at Virginia campaign veterans is the degree to which Cuccinelli is already defined as a polarizing culture warrior at a moment when Republicans seem to be clamoring for kinder and gentler candidates."
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Much more about Cucci at
http://coochwatch.com/index.php/category/blog/
