Virginia Democrats question Cuccinelli’s motives in UVa. case
Party releases video on education issue
Edited by Chris Graham
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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has “done serious harm to the integrity of our system of higher education,” Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Richard Cranwell said Friday, with his request for information relating to research conducted by former UVa. professor Michael Mann, a noted climate researcher.
The University of Virginia filed a brief in an Albemarle County court this week asking a circuit court judge to set aside Cuccinelli’s request for information related to his investigation of whether Mann committed “fraud” in his use of grant money for research on climate change. Read more
Dem petition drive nets 10K signatures
Edited by Chris Graham
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More than 10,000 Virginians have signed a petition calling on Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to “stop wasting our tax dollars on his personal political agenda,” the Democratic Party of Virginia announced in a press release on Tuesday.
“Every minute you spend on this frivolous, politically motivated lawsuit is time spent away from battling the real legal issues we expect our Attorney General to work on,” wrote Diane Perkins of Burke, Virginia, in signing the petition. Read more
Focus | Cranwell to Dems: ‘Keep plugging’
Story by Chris Graham
The word from Dick Cranwell: “caution.”
“This time last year everybody was saying the Republicans were bordering on extinction, they’re almost irrelevant, we’re in for 15 or 20 years of Democratic rule. When people were telling me that a year ago, I was saying, Hey, not so fast, I’ve been around a long time, and political winds can shift and change, and they can change rather quickly in today’s world,” said Cranwell, the chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia, in an interview today with VirginiaPoliticsToday.com, in the aftermath of the GOP sweep of the three statewide races and the six-seat Republican pickup in the House of Delegates. Read more
Cranwell to seek a second term as state Democratic Party chair
Democratic Party of Virginia chairman Richard Cranwell plans to run for re-election to the party post this summer. “I made this decision because we are at a critical time in Virginia’s history,” Cranwell wrote in a letter Wednesday to the DPVA’s State Central Committee. “My decision is a reflection of stability within the party and confidence in our message and values rooted in the middle class.” Read more
Videocast | Bill Clinton addresses Virginia Democrats
Former President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at Saturday’s Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in Richmond. AFP editor Chris Graham was on hand for the annual Democratic Party of Virginia event and chronicles the high points of the speech on the future of the Democratic Party. Length: 23:54. Read more
Katherine Smith | Predatory dangers
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