by MCDC | Aug 7, 2013 | Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Ken Cuccinelli, the Republican nominee for governor, has said he does not plan to return $18,000 worth of gifts he received from Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the head of the dietary supplement company Star Scientific. The gifts mostly came in the form of meals and free...
by MCDC | Aug 5, 2013 | Ethics, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Yeah, right. Ethics for thee, but not for me.. RICHMOND — Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II urged Gov. Robert F. McDonnell on Monday to call a special General Assembly session to repair “severe holes” in the state’s ethics laws. With McDonnell embroiled in a gifts...
by MCDC | Aug 5, 2013 | Health Care, Issues, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
Thursday marked one year since the Affordable Care Act’s birth control benefit went into effect, ensuring that all women have access to affordable birth control, regardless of their employer. Birth control is basic preventive care. An estimated 99 percent of women...
by MCDC | Aug 1, 2013 | Citizens United, Ethics, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
“There’s a new controversy brewing – one that could mean trouble for Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. It involves a lawsuit on behalf of landowners in Southwestern Virginia. They claim two energy companies failed to pay them royalties on methane gas wells....
by MCDC | Jul 30, 2013 | Ethics, Video, Virginia, Virginia Election 2013
“Ken Cuccinelli used taxpayer funds to investigate a U-Va. professor whose research on climate change Cuccinelli opposed. Cuccinelli, a climate change denier, forced the university to spend over half a million dollars defending itself against its own attorney general....
