1. The Session’s Surprise Issue
Was gay and lesbian rights. Who would have thought at the beginning of January that this would have been the issue dominating media coverage in the last week of the session? But the Cuccinelli Letter, McDonnell’s response and Democratic insistence that the GOP go further in prohibiting discrimination received as much [...]
Cuccinelli Not Giving In On Gay Bias Policy
McDonnell Rejects Calls for More Anti-Bias Rules
Budget Stalls Lawmakers Face Overtime
Bolling Says Senate Anti-Gun Panel Creation Broke Senate Rules
McDonnell Visits Budget Negotiators on Their Own Turf
McDonnell Turns Down Clemency Bid
Assembly Goes Slow on Tough Ethics Reform
Ethics Reform Moves to McDonnell
Marsh Stood in Way of Pro-Gun Legislation
Armstrong Upbraids Lawmakers [...]
Florida Has Edge in Fight to Host New Combat Ships
McDonnell Could Scrap Privatization Bid for Ports
McDonnell Meets with Appalachian’s Top Brass
For McDonnell, Rights Directive is a Balancing Act
McDonnell’s Directive Carries Force of Office, Not Law
McEachin Urges McDonnell to Protect Gays In Law
Delegates Credit McDonnell with Small Step on Bias
Attorneys Seek Clemency, Ask McDonnell to Step [...]
Governor Bob McDonnell, as he has numerous times before, stepped up as a leader and righted Virginia’s listing ship of state with his anti-discrimination edict yesterday. Bravo!!!
Regardless of whether the Attorney General is right or not on the law (and focusing only on authority derived from the legislature, he is probably right), it was inevitable [...]
Mims Selected for State Supreme Court
Governor Issues Directive Against Discrimination
UVA Grateful for McDonnell Move
Kaine’s Office Had Role in Quashing Findings About State Children’s Hospital
Virginia First State to Approve Bill to Bar Health Insurance Mandate
McDonnell Signs Offshore Energy Bills
Boycott Urged for Muslim Imam’s Prayer in House
State Budget Negotiators Making Progress
Senate Panel Votes to Add Non-Discrimination to [...]
Bob McDonnell’s Executive Directive this afternoon noting that ” discrimination based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation… violates the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution” is not only an effort to distance himself from the furor that has accompanied Ken Cuccinelli’s letter to state colleges and universities, but to reverse the political hemorrhaging that [...]
Marshall Asks Cuccinelli If Proposed Fees Would Violate Constitution
Bolling Enters Debate Against Fee Increases
McDonnell Pledges Not to Discriminate, Backs Cuccinelli’s Legal Reasoning on Gays
McDonnell 2007 Letter to CNU on Protections for Gays
W&M’s Reveley Letter on Cuccinelli
VCU Speakers Assail Cuccinelli
Gay Community Awaits UVA Response
McDonnell Wants VITA-NG Deal By End of Month
Senate Passes McDonnell Education Bills
Senate Delays Ethics [...]
Capital Abuzz About Armstrong’s Statewide Ambitions
Bill to Protect Gays Apparently Dead for Session
Cuccinelli’s Position Praised and Panned
Students Irate at Cuccinelli
VCU to Hold Forums On Cuccinelli Opinion
McDonnell’s School Reforms Pass Despite Spruill’s Objection
Bills to Expand Death Penalty Pass Senate Committee
House Approves Fee to Combat Internet Crime Predators
Efforts to Revive Gun Bills Fails
Tea Party Targets Budget, Democrats’ [...]
Albemarle Parents Apply Direct Pressure
Kaine Relishes Single Role as DNC Chair
House, Senate Budget Negotiators Make Little Progress
Gay Rights Group Ask McDonnell to Counter Cuccinelli
McDonnell’s Schedule Omission Draw Complaints
Gobco Turns Gob Into Cash
Lawsuits Pit Convicts Against State Parole Board
More State Job Cuts Loom
School Funding Amounts Vary in State Budget Plans
Colonial Beach School in Lowest 5%, Superintendent [...]
1. Ken Cuccinelli
Has in less than two months become the most visible Attorney General in our lifetime. During the campaign, Bob McDonnell successfully reframed conservatism as a problem-solving, job-creating, economic recovery vehicle for Virginia. Not all that sexy (Norm Leahy keeps pushing him for “bigger” ideas), but very effective politically. In the last two weeks, however, [...]