DPVA Calls On McDonnell To Rein In "Extreme" Cuccinelli

Democratic Party of Virginia Executive Director David Mills writes about Ken Cuccinelli's "apparent comments in support of Virginia pursuing legal challenges to federal laws based on questioning President Obama's birth certificate."

Unlike Republican leaders, Virginians are more concerned with their jobs and their children's schools than with pursuing conspiracy theories and a narrow social agenda. But in the last month, under the leadership of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Governor Bob McDonnell, Virginia is rapidly becoming a national laughingstock.

Attorney General Cuccinelli owes Virginians an explanation for his out-of-whack priorities. While our Commonwealth struggles with a $4.2 billion dollar deficit, the Attorney General has shown that he's willing to use the resources of his taxpayer-funded office to push his own radical agenda. Virginians shouldn't be asked to foot the bill for Ken Cuccinelli's irresponsible behavior and missplaced priorities.

The Attorney General should pledge today not to spend a dime of our tax dollars pursuing ridiculous conspiracy theories about President Obama. We hope Governor McDonnell is making plans to rein in his 2009 ticketmate and protect Virginians' money from being spent on Ken Cuccinelli's extreme political agenda.

UPDATE: Politico reports that Cooch has issued a statement.

I absolutely believe that President Obama was born in the United States. I don't buy into the claims that he wasn't. On the recording, I was asked a hypothetical legal question, and I gave a hypothetical legal answer in response. As I said previously, this issue was not a part of my campaign, and it is not part of what I am doing now as attorney general.

What a bunch of bull, "hypothetical legal answer" my a**.

Those Who Fail to Learn From History...Will Keep On Losing!

More "whitewashing" from the DPVA? It sure seems that way. I'm hearing from reliable sources that Tim Kaine and Creigh Deeds will be coming to the DPVA's State Central Committee meeting on December 5 specifically in order to discourage any discussion about what happened in the recent election disaster.

If true, this is absurd, idiotic, and "cover your ass" at its worst. The fact is, State Central Committee is the governing body of a party that just suffered a huge defeat, and if they don't fully discuss what happened - and make whatever changes in personnel, structure, etc. that are required - they are doomed to keep on losing. That would be fine, except for one problem: it won't be only members of the DPVA's State Central Committee who will suffer, it will be everyone who lives in Virginia and is forced to live under right-wing ideologues like "Pat Robertson's Manchurian Candidate," Ken Kook-inelli, etc. Ugh.