Ken Cuccinelli's (R. VA) been getting a little help from his friend:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/...
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, chair of the Republican Governors Association, told reporters Sunday morning that Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate has “disqualified himself” in light of an investigation into his former company.
Speaking to a group of reporters in Milwaukee’s Pfister Hotel, Jindal presented a 30-second television advertisement, titled “Shift,” that will go on the air in Virginia starting Monday, he said. The negative ad frames Terry McAullife, the Democrat running this year against Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, as an untrustworthy candidate embroiled in scandal.
“He’s been in politics his adult life — that’s why he just can’t tell the truth,” the narrator says in the ad. “Terry McAuliffe, you just can’t trust him.”
Jindal specifically pointed to GreenTech Automotive, the company founded by McAullife that is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission over its handling of overseas investors, according to a Washington Post report. McAulifee released a statement Saturday evening saying left the company late last year and first learned of the investigation “when the Washington Post reached out to my campaign.” - BuzzFeed, 8/4/13
Yeah, ok Bobby. You're one to talk. You proudly endorsed this guy:
Who as well all know is in some serious trouble:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Jonnie R. Williams Sr., chief executive of Star Scientific, has turned over personal financial records and sat for interviews in which he provided firsthand accounts of luxury gifts and more than $120,000 given to McDonnell (R) and his family members since 2011, [three people familiar with the probe] said.
Star has given prosecutors access to corporate records and offered information from other company officials. The three spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case is in a sensitive stage.
The cooperation is an ominous sign for McDonnell, suggesting that federal prosecutors are focused on trying to build a potential criminal case against him. - Washington Post, 8/3/13
And Cuccinelli is even trying to distance himself from McDonnell:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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 scandal over luxury items, five-figure monetary gifts and $120,000 in loans from a Virginia businessman, the Republican candidate to succeed him said Virginia cannot wait until the legislature reconvenes in January to tighten the state’s lax disclosure requirements.
“Trust is something that is easy to lose and hard to recover,” Cuccinelli said in an interview with The Washington Post. “I think the longer we let this go, the more difficult it is for Virginians to achieve the level of faith in their government that I think they’re accustomed to. And I think that’s something we can achieve if we move quickly.”
Cuccinelli’s chief deputy asked the governor to call the session in a face-to-face meeting Monday. - Washington Post, 8/5/13
Not to mention Cuccinelli's been getting some more bad press lately:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
An ex-assistant attorney general in Ken Cuccinelli II’s office is suing her former boss, claiming he fired her inappropriately after she was suspected of posting unflattering comments about him on a Washington Post blog.
In a lawsuit filed late last week in federal district court in Virginia, Samantha Vanterpool claims that Cuccinelli fired her about a month after comments appeared online that called the attorney general and Virginia gubernatorial candidate an “egomaniac” who was “NEVER in the AG’s office and solely uses the position for self promotion.” The comments — posted anonymously by the user “bzbzsammy” — came in response to a May 2012 Washington Post blog about Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling’s criticism of Cuccinelli’s planned trip to Iowa.
Richard Patrick, Vanterpool’s lawyer, said officials in the attorney general’s office told Vanterpool as they moved to fire her that they suspected she had posted the comment as “bzbzsammy.” He said they also gave her a copy of the office’s media policy, which prohibits attorney general staffers from talking to reporters without permission.
In her suit, Vanterpool argues that even if she did post the comment, that was not the same as talking with a reporter. The suit — which names Cuccinelli and his former chief deputy Charles E. James Jr. as defendants — claims she was unfairly retaliated against for exercising her free speech rights and asks that she be reinstated and awarded damages and back pay. - Washington Post, 8/5/13
Plus this guy isn't helping Cuccinelli at all:
http://burke.patch.com/...
E.W. Jackson, Virginia’s Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is drawing criticism for saying the Democratic Party is “anti-God” — and Christians should disassociate from it.
“I believe that the Democrat Party has become an anti-God party, I think it’s an anti-life party, I think it’s an anti-family party,” Jackson said last week in a radio interview, according to Salon. “And these are all things I think Christians hold to very dearly.”
Jackson, a pastor and attorney from Chesapeake, VA, has repeatedly turned heads for rhetoric that critics have called anti-gay and "hateful." - Burke Patch, 8/5/13
So going after McAuliffe is there only option now in this race. But there are those higher up the food chain who want to guarantee McAuliffe's win in November:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Former president Bill Clinton flew to Florida this spring as a favor to one of his best friends, headlining a fundraiser for Terry McAuliffe that brought in an easy $400,000 for his campaign for Virginia governor. But when the event’s host, trial lawyer John Morgan, pulled Clinton aside at his mansion that evening for a private chat, Morgan had another race in mind.
“I told him, ‘If and when Hillary decides to do it, let this be her first stop in Florida,’ ” Morgan said he told Clinton, referring to a possible 2016 presidential bid by the former secretary of state. Morgan said Clinton replied, “We appreciate it.”
Many Democrats see McAuliffe’s gubernatorial campaign as the ground floor of a would-be Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential run — with his Virginia operation serving as a farm team in a critical swing state and donors believing they can curry favor with her by helping McAuliffe.
But those taking this approach are doing so without Hillary Clinton’s direct blessing, and people close to her are trying to quash the notion, believing she could be damaged if her political strength is measured by the McAuliffe campaign. - Washington Post, 8/4/13
The election is Tuesday, November 5th. If you would like to donate or volunteer for McAuliffe's campaign, you can do so here:
http://terrymcauliffe.com/