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Back during the 2009 Virginia Statewide elections, a Supreme Court case, Melendez-Diez, caused drug and drunk driving cases to be tossed out by the state. Democrat Steve Shannon, running against Ken Cuccinelli for the Virginia Attorney General position called the Special Session a “stunt” and declared it a total waste of taxpayer money, as it [...]

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Steve Shannon’s unethical ethics By Mark J. Fitzgibbons Democrat Steve Shannon, who couldn’t identify the divisions within the Office of Virginia Attorney General when campaigning for that office, used a donor incident to criticize Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, and to propose an ethics panel (“Virginia’s ethical labyrinth,” The Virginia Pilot). Politicians are in hypocrisy overdrive [...]

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Saturday June 19, 2010 Roundup:

The Virginia Right! News Hound surfs the ‘net to take the pulse of the world every day. The links published below are opinions and takes on the news that we find interesting. By design, these links are mostly outside of the Mainstream Media. This feature is designed to save you the time of sifting through dozens of websites and blogs. Buckle up. It is going to be a bumpy ride.

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#1 Winner: Conservatives and Republicans.

While a number of lefties are trying to say that the Republicans won because they ran a Moderate candidate in Bob McDonnell, that’s a bit much after months of hearing how Bob McDonnell was such a right wing monster he was going to chain women to the kitchen sink. And what about Ken Cuccinelli? And the NY-23 race sent a message to the Republican Party – No more squishy liberal Republicans. They can’t be trusted.

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If you have not seen this video, you need to view it before you vote for Steve Shannon. This guy is totally clueless. Even worse, he is unable to say “I don’t know the answer”. At the end of the video, a reporter tries to get him to answer the question about the Divisions in the Attorney General’s office and his supporters and campaign workers block the video camera and attempt to hide Shannon’s clueless “deer in the headlights” evasion attempt.

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Nothing says support better than your supporters making up their own fliers to say what you should have said. Embarrassed by Deeds’ lack of any type of Transportation plan, and seeing the entire Democratic ticket becoming the laughing stock of the Commonwealth, the Fairfax Democrats have decided to make up their own message to help out humiliated Democrats trying to explain the unexplainable.

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In a blow to the Democrats running for state wide office, the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Republicans Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli. While McDonnell did a great job as AG and all three Republican candidates are strong supporters of law enforcement, Senator Ken Cuccinelli has twice distinguished his insight as spot on. [...]

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As we reported last night, Democratic candidate for Attorney General Steve Shannon took $50,000 from Robin Abbott’s Law Firm and has begun a relentless attack on Republican Delegate Phil Hamilton, Abbott’s opponent. The ethics questions in this matter are obvious.

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Has Chicago style politics come to Virginia?

Interesting thing, this disclosure requirement we have for our politicians. If you want to see who is giving money to which candidates, all you have to do is visit The Virginia Public Access Project and look around. You can often find some interesting information snuggled away among the more mundane data.

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The Latest From Virginia: Governor’s Race, No Change. Lieutenant Governor’s Race, No Change. Attorney General’s Race, No Change. In statewide elections in Virginia today, two months until votes are counted, Republicans sweep, taking the statehouse away from the Democrats and holding the Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General offices, according to SurveyUSA polling for WDBJ-TV Roanoke and WJLA-TV Washington DC.

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Ok, I know that Delegate Phil Hamilton has said he did something that, in retrospect, he should not have done. Everyone seems to have their knickers in a bind. If only he had done something minor, like driving off of a bridge and leaving a woman to drown while he wondered off in a drunken stupor. Or ran a male prostitution ring out of his home. Or failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes.

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Democratic candidate for the 73rd House District held by Republican John O’Bannon, MD sent out a flier this week to residents of the 73rd House District.

A few weeks ago, I attended a Town Hall meeting held by Shields to correct his false claims that Delegate O’Bannon was somehow responsible for the Qimonda failure and the loss of 2100 jobs. The fact is, nothing could have saved Qimonda. The owner of the company was not interested in saving it.

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Last night there was a special guest at the GOP Va Victory center on Parham Road in Richmond. State Senator and Republican Attorney General nominee Ken Cuccinelli spent some making calls and talking to voters from the Call Center.

Senator Cuccinelli spent a few minutes greeting the volunteers and discussing – well, anything you wanted to talk about. Which is normal for him. We discussed the recent Special Session and the Melendez-Diaz ruling that necessitated it. I thanked Senator Cuccinelli for recognizing the danger the ruling was putting Virginians in and not playing politics like his opponent, Steve Shannon and Governor Kaine. It is refreshing to have a politician that actually has the best interests of the Commonwealth in mind, even in the midst of a political campaign.

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If you have not heard, Attorney General candidate and State Senator Ken Cuccinelli will be at the Virginia Victory office this evening located at 2819 N Parham Rd, Suite 230, Richmond, VA 23294.

Ken has one of the strongest grassroots organizations Virginia has ever experienced. This is due to the fact that Senator Cuccinelli never fails to impress anyone he comes in contact with. His knowledge of the US Constitution and what it means is unsurpassed. It is this knowledge that his opponent fears most. His opponent is content to allow the Obama administration overstep it’s constitutional authority and run Virginia. Ken Cuccinelli knows our rights and will protect us from the unconstitutional and unprecedented power grab.

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Cuccinelli was the first statewide candidate to recognize the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court’s Melendez decision would have on prosecutions in Virginia.

In essence, the Court’s ruling made it far easier for defense attorneys to compel live testimony by forensic analysts in drug and DUI trials. Tyler Whitley reported today that in July, 2008 there were 43 subpoenas for drug examiners in the state- this year there were more than 900.
Cuccinelli understood from the get-go that this would result in an intolerable strain on the relatively small number of forensic analysts in the state and precipitate a backlog, in both court trials and in crime scene testing.

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Bad news for Creigh Deeds and company. A recent SurveyUSA poll showed a 15 point lead for Republican Bob McDonnell. Many of the liberal bloggers took issue with such a large lead, and not surprisingly, attacked the polls methods and weighting.

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This morning, Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-Fairfax) addressed the annual summer20convention of the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Services Council. Speaking to this group, Senator Cuccinelli touted his strong support of law enforcement as a member of the Senate Courts of Justice Committee, where he has served since joining the State Senate in 2002

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A new poll taken by SurveyUSA has Republican Bob McDonnell up by 15 points over Creigh Deeds. Bill Bolling and Ken Cuccinelli are also up double digits over their opponents. Here are the results:

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RICHMOND – Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Pat Mullins today praised Governor Tim Kaine’s decision to agree with Ken Cuccinelli to call the Virginia General Assembly into a special session to fix a prosecutorial morass following the U.S. Supreme Court decision Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts. The ruling has caused chaos among Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorneys regarding the difficulty in having forensic scientists who test material evidence personally testify at trial. As a result, many criminal cases are having to be dismissed or are lost at trial.

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