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Advantage Cuccinelli for First Debate of VA Governor's Race

MEMORANDUM TO: Interested Parties FROM: Danny Kanner, DGA Communications Director DATE: July 16, 2013 Re: Advantage Cuccinelli for First Debate of Virginia Governor’s Race Ken Cuccinelli has had a disastrous few weeks. He’s been embroiled in a scandal involving the gifts he and Governor Bob McDonnell took from Star Scientific CEO Jonnie Williams, refused…

Virginia candidate E.W. Jackson: Yoga leads to Satan

By TAL KOPAN at Politico E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP candidate for lieutenant governor, suggested that yoga could open individuals to Satan, according to a report. Accompanying a profile of Jackson, who has been a thorn in the side of GOP gubernatorial hopeful Ken Cuccinelli, the National Review’s Betsy Woodruff on Wednesday posted excerpts of Jackson’s 2008 book, “Ten Commandments…

E.W. Jackson: No daylight with Ken Cuccinelli

By EMILY SCHULTHEIS at Politico E.W. Jackson, the GOP lieutenant governor candidate in Virginia who’s made headlines since his selection earlier this month, said in a radio interview Friday that he and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli see eye-to-eye on the issues. “Look, we are in fundamental agreement,” Jackson said, when asked on the radio station WMAL whether he…

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Virginia Gov. Candidate Cuccinelli Investigated "Sextravaganza"

By Tim Murphy (Mother Jones) Controversial Virginia Republican lieutenant governor candidate E.W. Jackson, as I reported last week, began his career as a social conservative crusader as an anti-anti-AIDS activist in Boston, where he fought against public health initiatives that promoted condom use and sterilized needles. And Jackson’s extreme views on such issues as LGBT…

Cuccinelli's Extreme Dream Team

Already running as one of the most conservative gubernatorial candidates in recent history, Ken Cuccinelli recently completed his statewide ticket with an extreme Republican Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General candidate to match Cuccinelli’s own record. The Virginia GOP ticket now consists of candidates who compared Planned Parenthood to the KKK, wants to ban common forms…

Virginia GOP launches extreme tea party ticket

By JONATHAN MARTIN RICHMOND, Va. – Rejuvenated by a Democratic scandal in Washington and a tea party conservative atop their ticket, Virginia Republicans Saturday nominated a trio of statewide candidates whose fate will be closely watched as an indicator of the health of the national GOP. Crusading state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, facing no intra-party opposition,…

The 8 craziest things about Tea Party hero Ken Cuccinelli

Dave Catanese posted a profile of Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli for the The New Republic aptly titled, “Ken Cuccinelli’s Crazy Ambition.” Here are the 8 craziest parts: 8. Right wing gadflies are already promoting Cuccinelli as the greatest thing since Pat Buchanan. “Bob Vander Plaats, an influential social conservative who heads Iowa’s Family…

Cuccinelli's Priority? Regulating What's Happening in Your Bedroom

By: Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones Last month, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond deemed a Virginia anti-sodomy law unconstitutional. The provision, part of the state’s “Crimes Against Nature” law, has been moot since the 2003 US Supreme Court decision overruled state laws barring consensual gay sex. The law prohibits consensual straight anal and oral sex as well, lest ye heteros…

Top Dem Governor: Ken Cuccinelli Makes Romney's 47 Percent Tape Look Moderate

By: Ruby Cramer, Buzzfeed The chair of the Democratic Governors Association, Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, called Virginia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate a Tea Party radical who makes “Mitt Romney and his ’47 percent’ comment look moderate.” Shumlin, whose role at the DGA has made him a player in this year’s two governor’s races in Virginia and…

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