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Jackson shocks Virginia GOP convention: wins LG nod

In an unlikely turn events, Bishop E.W. Jackson a Harvard educated honorably discharged Marine and pastor from the Hampton Roads area turned back six other candidates to become the GOP candidate for Lt. Governor.

He will run along side gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli and Attorney General nominee Mark Obenshain.

Jackson sprinted out to an early lead in the balloting after delivering an electrifying speech. But as the balloting went on, he seemed to be losing steam as Northern Virginia businessman Pete Snyder began to coalesce support from the delegates who had previously supported other candidates.

Snyder was the last man standing against Jackson going into the final ballot, but after a strange turn of events lost steam. A series of flyers were distributed throughout the building that said Snyder was endorsed by several people who he was apparently not supported by.

Jackson then marched around the Coliseum with Corey Stewart who made it into the final three, but did not make it on to the final ballot. From there Jackson overwhelmed the final vote to become the first African-American nominee by the Virginia Republican Party since they picked Maurice Dawkins in 1988. He eventually lost to Chuck Robb.

The Cuccinelli- Jackson- Obenshain ticket has the potential to be one of the most conservative in Virginia political history. While Jackson and Obenshein have their own records to present it starts at the top of the ticket. This afternoon Ken Cuccinelli did not run away from his conservative credentials but he made an effort in his speech this afternoon to step out from behind the sterotype democrats are ready to paint him with.

Here is my story for NBC12:

RICHMOND (WWBT)- Ken Cuccinelli took his critics head on, claiming those who call him extreme are ignoring a record of positive accomplishments.  This crowd of 8 thousand agreed, and he is now the party's nominee for the state's top job.

 It was just a formality, but it is now official.

"So I humbly stand before you this morning to accept your Republican nomination in the race to be the 72nd Governor of this great Commonwealth," said Cuccinelli to loud cheers. 

He is a man who built his career by fighting for conservative causes. He stood by those convictions, but today made the pivot to a candidate ready to create jobs and grow the economy.

"A stronger economy that can produce new jobs for the thousands who are currently out of work,” he said.   “And to be clear, we should be trying to create those jobs right here in Virginia. Not in Mississippi or in China."

He spent plenty of time knocking his opponent Terry McAuliffe and his business record and his career as a political operator. Outside of the Richmond coliseum, McAuliffe's defenders like Democratic Party Chair Charniele Herring said that Cuccinelli can talk jobs all he wants, but she fears it is not the kind of governor he will really be.

"Ken Cuccinelli has an extreme ideological agenda when it comes to women's reproductive health care," she said.

After his speech, Cuccinelli told me one on one that he would not pursue any new legislation as governor when it comes to abortion, but instead protect the laws the currently exist.  He said he has nothing to hide.

"They (voters) will have very clear idea of what to expect from a Cuccinelli governorship. Just like my last four races,” he said. “What you see is what you get."

And now Virginia voters will be the ones who get to take that information and make their decision.

Virginia Republicans chose to decide their nominees through this convention which drew a little more than 8 thousand voters, instead of a primary which had the potential to draw from tens of thousands. That decision is what ultimately pushed Lt. Governor Bill Bolling out of the race, and left Cuccinelli unopposed this afternoon.

NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News  

Cuccinelli says administration won't pursue abortion agenda

The 2013 campaign for governor of Virginia has been as much about the candidates defining their opponents as it has about creating an image for themselves.

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli spent much of his 2013 convention nomination speech talking about his goal of making life easier for businesses to grow and thrive. He also compared that promise to his opponent Terry McAuliffe's business record and in particular his decision to open a green car company in Mississippi.

"He dropped us like a hot brick for Mississippi moola - Mississippi tax money," Cuccinelli said of McAuliffe. "And now he can't keep his story straight about why he abandoned Virginia."

But while Cuccinelli talked jobs and the economy protestors outside the Richmond Coliseum worked to paint the GOP nominee as an extremist, hellbent and rolling back access to abortion.

“Ken Cuccinelli’s extreme Tea Party rhetoric should remind Virginians of the singular focus of his career: outlawing a woman’s right to make her own decisions,” said Democratic Party of Virginia Chair Charniele Herring.

But backstage after his acceptance speech concluded, Cuccinelli, who only briefly mentioned abortion in his speech, said his administration won't make abortion a central focus of his administration.

"I am not going to persue anything new," Cuccinelli said.  "Our focus is going to be on jobs and the economy."

I specifically asked about personhood, the controversial legislation that came close to passing the General Assembly in 2012. If it were to become law, it would designate human life as beginning at conception. Democrats have pointed to personhood as a something Cuccinelli would advance from the Governor's mansion.

Cuccinelli told me that he won't propose new laws related to abortion.

"It will be important to protect what we have," he said.

In the past two years in the General Assembly has passed several laws related to abortion. One set new stricter standards for abortion clinics, another required women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound before getting the procedure.

It is clear this won't end the debate over abortion, but it shows the position the GOP nominee hopes to stake out leading into November.

Cuccinelli defends connection to Star- Scientific

RICHMOND (WWBT)-  Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is responding to criticism tonight over his connection to the company Star Scientific. The company's CEO Jonnie Williams has given Cuccinelli tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, some of which the attorney general failed to initially report.

When Cuccinelli revealed for the second time that he forgot to report gifts from Williams, TV cameras were not allowed into the press briefing.

This week the Attorney General went on camera with NBC12 to answer the tough questions about the controversy plaguing his campaign. 

(We spoke one on one with Cuccinelli before his tax policy roll out at Sweet Frog in Carytown)

Tuesday morning Cuccinelli was in front of frozen yogurt and stuffed green frogs, pitching a tax cut plan, but the specter of the Star Scientific controversy was not far behind.

Democrats and their affiliated groups are pushing Star related stories and web videos on a daily basis.

They contend Cuccinelli has made a serious, perhaps illegal mistake, when it comes to his connection to Williams.

The Attorney General knows he did something wrong.

"This was a mistake on my part and I own that."

He claims it was a mistake not in any way designed to benefit the CEO who gave him plane rides and vacation getaways.

"He never asked me for anything,” Cuccinelli said. “The only time anything from Star ever came across the radar from the Attorney General’s office was when they sued over a tax assessment and they were immediately opposed."

That tax case connected the gifts and Cuccinelli's work as Attorney General, there is no evidence Star Scientific has benefited from Cuccinelli in any way.

But the appearance of a possible benefit has left Cuccinelli open to criticism. He argues there is nothing to hide.

"The mistakes I made. I was the one who came forward and disclosed those, other people didn't do that. My opponent didn't release his tax returns like I did,” he said.  “I am being open as I can be."

It is perhaps not enough for Democrats, but it is enough for Cuccinelli to never take another gift from Williams ever again.

"Nothing,” he said when I asked if he will take anymore gifts from Williams, “No no no."

And eventually it won't just be Cuccinelli's word we have to go on. Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael Herring- a Democrat- is conducting an independent review.

Herring said today the review is underway and will take several weeks to complete.

Our full uncut interview with Cuccinelli can be found below:

 

Here are some of the highlights:

*On why the mistake was made in the first place:

"When I realized that I'd made one mistake I went back and literally pulled calendars and other things to see because I didn't trust my memory at that point."

"This was a mistake on my part and I own that."

"I didn't have a system in place to immediately track it. It would literally get to the end of the year and we sit down and I'd say 'okay, what else is there that is not on this list already?' Obviously I remembered some and I didn't remember some others."

On potential benefits for Jonnie Williams:

"He never asked me for anything and the only time anything from Star ever came across the radar from the Attorney General's office was when they sued over a tax assessment and they were immediately opposed."

On his openness in this situation:

"The mistakes I made, I was the one who came forward and disclosed those, other people didn't do that. My opponent didn't release his tax returns like I did. I am being open as I can be."

On his decision to remain Attorney General while running for Governor:

"Everybody on earth in Virginia stays in office when they run for an office."

"I promised the people of Virginia four years as Attorney General. So did my opponent. If I were to resign what do you think they would say?"

"I'm not perfect, I keep proving that. I've disclosed a heck of a lot more than my opponent and even he hasn't called on me to resign."

On future gifts from Jonnie Williams:

"Nothing. No no no."

Cuccinelli makes tax cut pitch

It was only a matter of time, and now it is officially on paper. Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli made his tax pitch Tuesday morning and much of it is straight out of the GOP playbook. And while you have heard a lot of it before in different incarnations, there are a few wrinkles.

(Cuccinelli rolled out his tax plan at Sweet Frog in Carytown)

Above the hum of frozen yogurt machines at Sweet Frog in Carytown, Cuccinelli called for a three quarter percent cut in income taxes for almost everyone, a two percent cut in business income taxes and the slashing of some business and manufacturing taxes as well.

In all, Cuccinelli's tax cut plan would mean Virginia's government would take in roughly $1.4 billion less than it currently does. That means as Governor he would be forced to fill that gap somewhere. Virginia, unlike the federal government is constitutionally required to balance its budget.

That is where Cuccinelli's plan strays a bit from the GOP playbook and enters a bit of a murky territory.

He plans to pay for the missing $1.4 billion by using existing surplus funds, and by slashing loop holes and tax incentives designed to encourage certain businesses to come to or expand in Virginia. Cuccinelli argued that unlike many of his fellow Republicans he isn't interested in using the tax code to pick winners and losers. 

"My focus is going to be on much more across the board," he said. "A better economic environment and lower taxes for everybody rather than trying to cherry pick a few folks to come here or expand." 

Finally he plans to control the growth of government, which could mean cuts, to make sure the budget remains balanced.

What Cuccinelli hasn't outlined quite yet is specifics. He plans to form tax commissions that will help to prioritize what should stay and what should go, and which government programs should remained fully funded. 

It was that lack of specificity that opened the door for Democrats to pounce.

"Cuccinelli's proposal would lead to a budget crisis that could undermine education, force localities to dramatically raise property taxes, and threaten the Commonwealth's bond rating," said Evan Feinman, the policy director for Cuccinelli's opponent Terry McAuliffe.

Another tax issue Cuccinelli stayed away from was transportation. The Attorney General was one of Governor Bob McDonnell's biggest critics during the passage of the recent transportation funding overhaul. The plan raises taxes in a number of areas. Cuccinelli said today that he has no plan to repeal the law, but he will have something to say on transportation at a later date.

The full outline of Cuccinelli's tax plan can be found on his campaign web site.

An extended clip of Cuccinelli' remarks from today's event can be found below:

  

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Prior to this morning's event, we spoke one on one with the Attorney General and asked him some tough questions regarding the Star-Scientific controversy. A full story on the interview tonight at 11 on NBC12. The entire interview will be posted here on Decision Virginia.

McAuliffe puts Cuccinelli on the transportation spot

It will be a key rallying cry for the McAuliffe gubernatorial campaign for the next several months. It will be a cry aimed directly at Ken Cuccinelli.

I supported Bob McDonnell's transportation plan and you fought against it.

In his Richmond campaign launch Monday morning where he was introduced by Sen. Tim Kaine (D), Terry McAuliffe drove that point home and hinted that a Governor Cuccinelli could potentially undo the progress.

(McAuliffe was joined in Richmond by Kaine (left) and Richmond Mayor Dwight Jones)

He also took a bit of credit for the transportation bill's success himself.

"I was proud to make calls and do meetings to help push it over the finish line," he said "And I was frankly amazed that my opponent tried to block this important progress at each and every step."

Running on the McDonnell transportation record has plenty of benefits for McAuliffe. It is clear Virginians are happy with the concept, and continue to give McDonnell high marks for his stewardship of the state despite the difficulties he has had with Star-Scientific saga.

It also plays into important constituents McAuliffe will need to draw in order to win in November. Both Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads deal the most with Virginia's transportation difficulites and they are both regions where a McAuliffe victory will need to come from.

Cuccinelli remains vague about his plans for transportation but has consistently been critical of tax increases, a key component of McDonnell's road fix. The Republican is planning a major tax policy roll out tomorrow, which could include a fix or change to the McDonnell transportation plan.

Regardless, while McAuliffe continues to remind voters that he was for the transportation plan and Cuccinelli wasn't, Cuccinelli will take a page out of the traditional GOP playbook and accuse McAuliffe of just wanting to raise taxes.

"McAuliffe has a long record of supporting tax increases on voters in the Commonwealth, including the estate tax that even Tim Kaine opposed," said Anna Nix, a Cuccinelli Spokeswoman.

An extended clip of McAuliffe's remarks regarding transportation can be found below:

 

Judge recuses Cuccinelli from Chef case, defers decision on dismissal

NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News 

RICHMOND (WWBT)- There were wins and losses for both sides Thursday morning in Richmond Circuit Court.

Judge Margret P. Spencer ruled that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and his office did have a conflict of interest in the embezzlement case of Todd Schneider the former Executive Chef at the Virginia's Governor's Mansion.

The conflict was enough for Spencer to agree to remove the Attorney's General's office from the case.

At the same time as officially pulling Cuccinelli off the case, Spencer also decided to defer Schneider and his attorney Steve Benjamin's motion to outright dismiss the case based on the fact that Cuccinelli had waited so long to ask to be recused.

(Schneider (left) and his attorney Steve Benjamin did not comment leaving the courtroom)

Spencer told Benjamin that the new prosecutor, who she hand picked, Norfolk Commonwealth's Attorney Greg Underwood would handle the motion for dismissal at another pre-trial hearing set for May 14th.

The Attorney General's office had asked that the case be handled by Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert.

It became clear quickly in the oral arguments that Benjamin was prepared to make the politics of the Attorney General's office, the race for Governor and the McDonnell Administration a major part of the case. He outlined in great specificity the connections between McDonnell, a witness in the case Mary Shae Sutherland and Cuccinelli's campaign for Governor.

Sutherland was once the Chief of Staff to First Lady Maureen McDonnell and now works for a consulting firm that has raised money on behalf of Cuccinelli's gubernatorial bid.

Benjamin argued that Cuccinelli's office knew of this conflict more than a year before an indictment was handed down and should've asked to be recused before Schneider was formally charged.

Benjamin also launched into a lengthy explanation of the politics of this case as a conflict and brought up the name Jonnie Williams, the CEO of Star Scientific. The man who paid Schenider to cater McDonnnel's daughter's wedding and who has been a financial backer of both McDonnell and Cuccinelli.

Before he could get to far into making his political connections to the case, Patrick Dorgan, the senior Assitant Attorney General objected and which Spencer sustained before quickly made her ruling.

This latest development sets up yet another showdown in court between Schenider and prosecutors before the actual trial takes place. It is still scheduled for the summer and Spencer told Benjamin her goal was to stay on that course.

The arguments on the motion for dimissal will be heard May 14th at 1pm.

Leaving the courtroom, both attorneys and Schneider chose not to comment. Both sides have been put under a gag order in the case by the Judge.

 

Chef case and Star Scientific saga brings Executive Mansion public

It is an intersection of politics, an accused crime and a sitting governor. It is an intersection that currently meets at one Virginia's most historic buildings, the Governor's Mansion.

The embezzlement case surrounding former Executive Chef Todd Schneider is making life difficult for Bob McDonnell and Ken Cuccinelli.

NBC12's Investigative Reporter Rachel DePompa examines how the case and it's many connections are pulling back the curtain at the home of Virginia's governor. It is a world that is not much different from the many governor's who have lived their before, but one seldom seen by the average public.

Here is Rachel's report for NBC12:

NBC12.com - Richmond, VA News 

RICHMOND (WWBT)- Tomorrow a judge will hear arguments on whether state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli can remove his office from a case that's become a political scandal.

The FBI is even asking questions. And it all started with a cook in the kitchen. There hasn't even been a hearing, but the back and forth of court documents really illustrates the fishbowl that the first family lives in at the Executive Mansion. That fishbowl is opening up their private lives in a way we've never seen before.

Todd Schneider claims he's a whistle blower and the charges against him are retaliation. State Police have charged the ex-chef with four counts of embezzling property from the 200 year-old Executive Mansion. For the first time ever, we are peering inside its windows and scratching at closed doors.

In court documents lawyers are already offering up tidbits: accusing the governor's sons of taking Gatorade and protein powder from the mansion to their college dorms. Lawyers accuse one of the governor's daughters of taking booze for a private party. There are even accusations that the governor's wife gave away pots and pans.

"Nobody has really tried like the lawyers for ex-chef are going to try, to sort of pull the cover back from a lot of the things that go on at the mansion," said local attorney and political analyst Paul Goldman. He helped run Doug Wilder's historic campaign for governor. He even got married inside the executive mansion.

"I mean when the Indians bring the turkey (at Thanksgiving) nobody's asking what happened to the bones and the legs. You have a lot of power people over to the mansion. The governor is wining and dinning, cutting some political deals."

He says it goes on in every administration: the booze, food, catering and parties

"Yes it's public money and it's appropriated, but that's hallowed ground. Everybody knows that you stay out of governor's mansion," said Goldman.

Read Rachel's entire story on NBC12.com

Even though it maybe the goal of the Attorney General's office, it will be very difficult to keep the Chef case from becoming political. 

His office won't talk about the case specifically, but a spokesman told us via e-mail that the office is doing the best it can to keep the focus of the case in the courtroom.

"Like every other criminal prosecution this office handles, this case will be tried in court and not in the media," said Brian Gottstein, the Attorney General's Director of Communication.

I'll be in the courtroom tomorrow for the hearing. We will have updates here and on my twitter page.

McAuliffe won't call for Cuccinelli to resign as Attorney General

This morning we sat down for a lengthy interview with Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Virginia.  The purpose of the interview was for McAuliffe to respond to our report on his Greentech car company.

McAuliffe answered many questions on Greentech, that up until this point had gone unanswered. We will share that interview tomorrow on NBC12 and Decision Virginia following our special report on Greentech which airs tonight at 5 & 6.

(We talked one on one with McAuliffe during his visit to Paul D. Camp Community College in Franklin, VA)

The bulk of the interview dealt with Greentech and the company's future, but we did get a chance to quickly ask him about the news of the day that his Democratic allies are pushing.  Several Democratic leaders are calling for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to resign from his post.

Here is a portion of Bob Lewis' report from the Associated Press:

Virginia Democrats are renewing their demands that Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli resign after Cuccinelli belatedly disclosed about $13,000 worth of gifts he claims he forgot to note in four years' worth of economic disclosure reports.

State Sen. Don McEachin and Del. David Toscano were reacting to Cuccinelli's revelation to a handful of reporters with no broadcast press allowed late Friday afternoon that he failed to report five gifts.

Three of them were from Jonnie Williams, the CEO of the nutritional supplement maker Star Scientific. They included a $3,000 vacation stay and $1,500 Thanksgiving retreat and dinner at Williams' Smith Mountain Lake vacation home.

But McEachin and Toscano declined to urge Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe to disclose his full income tax returns as Cuccinelli did two weeks ago.

read the full story here.

But while McEachin, Toscano and others are saying that it is time for Cuccinelli's time as Attorney General to come to an end, the party's standard bearer is not ready to go quite that far.

"He's got to speak for himself," said McAuliffe. "I can tell you that running for Governor is a round the clock almost 24 hours a day seven days a week, if you do it the way I am doing it... it is hard to do anything else."

In the past McAuliffe has said that Cuccinelli should follow Virginia tradition and step down from AG while running for Governor, but today he resisted calls to call for his resignation because of new events.

I pressed him on the specifics of Star- Scientific and if that issue, as his Democratic allies contend today, was enough to call for a resignation aside from the time commitment connected to running for Governor. 

"Obviously there are a lot of questions there, but I will leave that up to the press," McAuliffe said.

The Cuccinelli campaign has consistently turned back any calls for the Attorney General to resign his post. 

"In this race for Governor, it is clear Ken Cuccinelli is the only candidate placing an emphasis on transparency," said Cuccinelli spokesperson Anna Nix. "It is time Terry McAuliffe looks in the mirror and answers questions as opposed to desperately attempting to distract voters by pointing his finger.”

An extended clip from this morning's interview can be found below:

 

AG's office spells out conflict in Executive Chef case

The Attorney General's office has responded to a motion to prevent Ken Cuccinelli's office from recusing itself from the prosecution of Todd Schneider, the one time Executive Chef accused of stealing from Virginia's Executive Mansion.

Schneider's attorney Steve Benjamin is working to block Cuccinelli from removing himself from the case without specifically listing what conflict would prevent him from effectively prosecuting the case.

The move could be an effort to further bring into light Cuccinelli's relationship with Star-Scientific CEO Jonnie R. Williams, who paid Schneider to cater Gov. Bob McDonnell's daughter's wedding.

In the three page brief filed in support of the motion, Deputy Attorney General Patrick W. Dorgan outlines several different reasons for the AG's office to hand the case off.

Among them is a never before revealed connection between First Lady Maureen McDonnell's  former Chief of Staff Mary Shea Sutherland and Cuccinelli. Sutherland has gone on to work for a fundraising and event company that Cuccinelli has worked with in his campaign for Governor.

Sutherland could be potentially called as a witness and the Attorney General's office wanted to make sure that there would be no appearance of impropriety.

The brief also goes to great lengths to point out the defense's effort to politicize the case and in particular its connection to Star- Scientific. Dorgan argues that based on what Benjamin has already asked for, it is possible that one or more members of the McDonnell administration could be called on as a witness and because the Attorney General serves as the Governor's counsel it could lead to awkward position of cross-examining a client.

The brief argues that the successful prosecution of the case could be hampered by the potential of the appearance of impropriety.

Whether or not it will be enough convince the defense counsel or the judge remains to be seen.

A hearing in front of Judge Margaret P. Spencer is set for May 2nd.

You can read the entire brief here.

Meanwhile, the Star- Scientific saga took another turn today when Cuccinelli revealed to reporters in an informal pen and pad session that he took reciept of several gifts from Williams that he once again forgot to report.

According to Chelyen Davis of the Fredricksburg Star who was there, Cuccinelli said he simply "forgot" Williams had provided him with a number of gifts and trips.

Here is a portion of Davis' report:

Cuccinelli’s relationship with Star Scientific and Williams became a controversy several weeks ago when it was reported that he held stock in the company, even as Star Scientific was suing the state of Virginia over a tax bill dispute.

Williams had given Cuccinelli gifts and travel worth about $13,000, according to Cuccinelli’s original financial disclosures.

Today Cuccinelli revealed more:

– A $628 trip from Jonnie Williams to and from New York City for a Jewish community center meeting in 2009

– A $7,751 charter flight from Alpha Natural Resources in 2010 to take Cuccinelli and his parents to a Virginia Mining Association meeting in Southwest Virginia. Cuccinelli was a speaker at that meeting, which he described as the association’s annual mine land reclamation awards.

– A 2010 Thanksgiving stay at Jonnie Williams’ Smith Mountain Lake lakehouse for Cuccinelli and his family, plus dinner that Williams had delivered. Valued at $1,500.

– In 2012, transportation to and from a rally by the Federation of American Coal, Energy and Security, valued at $795.

– In 2012, the Cuccinelli family also spent most of a week at Williams’ lake house for a summer family vacation, valued at $3,000

– In 2011, Cuccinelli revised his report to show that a $6,711 box of food supplements came from Star Scientific, not from Williams.

Cuccinelli told reporters he initiated a review of his past reports after a campaign staffer, who had formerly worked in the attorney general’s office, asked about a trip she thought he had taken that Cuccinelli thought had been reported but wasn’t.

He said it was simply an error to have left those five items off his disclosure forms, and was “unintentional on my part.”

“I declared everything I remembered when I filled out the forms,” Cuccinelli said.

See the full story here.

This again continues the story that the Republican ticket would like to give some closure to. However with several pending lawsuits in the works, the name Star-Scientific will remain in the campaign headlines for many weeks to come.

It begins..

You probably haven't quite recovered from the 2012 ad onslaught... well tough luck. The 2013 television ad war starts Monday.

It is Ken Cuccinelli, not Terry McAuliffe who is the first on the air.

The Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia goes on TV with this first ad that features his wife Terio. It will start running Monday May 29th, just as the important May television ratings period begins.

 

Here is the transcript:


I’m Teiro Cuccinelli.

My husband Ken has spent his life standing up for the vulnerable and those in need.

He’s worked the night shift at a homeless shelter, spent his college days leading efforts to prevent sexual assaults, and represented those suffering from mental illness.

As Attorney General, Ken fought to find and prosecute child predators and human traffickers.

Virginia deserves a Governor who is experienced, principled, and honest.

I think you’ll find that’s what Ken Cuccinelli is all about