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Virginia Democrats renew call for Cuccinelli to resign
The Washington Times ^ | 29 April 2013 | Bob Lewis

Posted on 04/30/2013 6:11:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java

RICHMOND — Virginia Democrats renewed their demands Monday that Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli resign after the Republican gubernatorial candidate belatedly disclosed about $13,000 worth of gifts on Friday that he claimed he forgot to note in four years’ worth of economic disclosure reports.

They were not as insistent, however, that their own nominee, Terry McAuliffe, match Mr. Cuccinelli’s complete income tax disclosure earlier this month with one of his own.

State Sen. A. Donald McEachin and Delegate David J. Toscano responded in a conference call to Mr. Cuccinelli’s revelation Friday afternoon that he failed to report five gifts from 2009 through last year. He spoke to a handful of mostly print journalists who had agreed not to broadcast any audio or video recordings of the conference and use them only to augment the accuracy of their own notes.

Three of them were from Jonnie Williams, the CEO of troubled nutritional supplement maker Star Scientific and a political contributor to Mr. Cuccinelli. They included a $3,000 vacation stay and $1,500 Thanksgiving retreat and dinner at Mr. Williams‘ Smith Mountain Lake vacation home.

Mr. Cuccinelli also made a nominal revision to his 2011 filing to show that $6,711 worth of nutritional supplements he received that year came from Star Scientific, not from Mr. Williams as he had previously reported.

The annual reports listing their business interests, assets, honoraria and gifts are required of elected officials each January under Virginia law. A deliberate violation is a misdemeanor, but an unintended error or omission is not an offense.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: cuccinelli; mcauliffe; va2013
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1 posted on 04/30/2013 6:11:29 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
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To: COBOL2Java

why do these jackasses continue to accept gifts? A bottle of pinot is okay but nothing more. pay your own freight. loser pols


2 posted on 04/30/2013 6:12:56 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

It’s more tangled when you are friends with the person.


3 posted on 04/30/2013 6:14:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: AppyPappy

yeah? I don’t give my friends 13K “gifts”


4 posted on 04/30/2013 6:15:36 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

Really - unless you’re a democRat, you’re not entitled as an elected politician to freesht!


5 posted on 04/30/2013 6:15:51 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: AppyPappy

Friends - even rich ones - do not typically buy such lavish gifts for one another.


6 posted on 04/30/2013 6:17:23 AM PDT by Arthurio
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To: yldstrk

If you let your friend stay at your beach house, that is $3000. If you invite him for Thanksgiving, that is $1500 (dinner and staying at the house).

It’s a little different from being gifted a Rolex.


7 posted on 04/30/2013 6:17:52 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: Arthurio

Friends don’t have to account for the comparable cost of staying at each other’s houses.

I have a friend with a place at SML. When I stay there, big deal. If I was a politician, I would have to account for the cost of staying at a comparable location and report it.


8 posted on 04/30/2013 6:19:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: AppyPappy

oh bull, I highly doubt they are talking about being invited to a house party for Thanksgiving. And as a stinking Captain in the JAG we had a “briefing” about not accepting gifts. So, the ass should know to avoid the appearance of impropriety, if he wants to go to the beach he should pay his freight, that is what I am saying.


9 posted on 04/30/2013 6:21:06 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: AppyPappy

You should pay your freight at SML whatever the dickens that is, your friend has expenses that are fixed on that vaca house.


10 posted on 04/30/2013 6:22:49 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk
So you've never gone on a trip with a friend? You've never gone hunting and stayed at their camp?

Vitamins???? You are worried about someone accepting Vitamins?

11 posted on 04/30/2013 6:23:57 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: McGavin999

hell yeah I have gone on trips with friends and we tallied up and split the expenses evenly.


12 posted on 04/30/2013 6:25:29 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: yldstrk

He was invited to Thanksgiving dinner IIRC. They have to report that. It’s not like he got a Rolex and a bag of diamonds.


13 posted on 04/30/2013 6:25:31 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: AppyPappy

just a second ago you said it was the same as being gifted a Rolex.

Look, if he is invited to someone’s house for Thanksgiving AND THAT PERSON DOESN’T BENEFIT BY GETTING A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT BLESSED BY HIM shorthly thereafter, no biggie.

sheesh, people, it’s not that hard to be honest


14 posted on 04/30/2013 6:27:48 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: COBOL2Java
Once again the cry goes out:

OUR CROOK IS NOT AS BAD AS THEIR COOK.

if the nation is to survive, we must insist upon HONOR in our leaders. At this time in our history, there is very little of that in local, county, state, or federal government. Very little.

15 posted on 04/30/2013 6:29:17 AM PDT by Tupelo (The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
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>You should pay your freight at SML whatever the dickens that is<

Smith Mountain Lake is a big, man-made lake that extends across Franklin and Bedford counties in VA. It was formed when Appalachian Power Company built a dam for power generation. It's quite popular in these parts.


16 posted on 04/30/2013 6:47:48 AM PDT by Darnright ("I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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To: Tupelo
Apparently, the RATs have once again accomplished their goal of destroying "the enemy" - not in the realm of ideas, but in gutter politics. They know that all they have to do is get the Republican to disclose something their own guy won't do - correction - won't have to do.

Did everyone miss this line in the story?

"They were not as insistent, however, that their own nominee, Terry McAuliffe, match Mr. Cuccinelli’s complete income tax disclosure earlier this month with one of his own."
The only reason they demanded Cuccinelli's tax records was so they could go dumpster diving for dirt. Voila! They found something! And now they can sit back and let all the Conservatives chew Cuccinelli’s legs off, because WE demand HONOR. We demand PURITY. And the RATs sit back and laugh at us.

Terrific.

17 posted on 04/30/2013 6:50:15 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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They were not as insistent, however, that their own nominee, Terry McAuliffe, match Mr. Cuccinelli’s complete income tax disclosure earlier this month with one of his own.



RAT hypocrisy knows no bounds.
18 posted on 04/30/2013 6:56:13 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: COBOL2Java

Same old story. Republican thinks he’s going to escape scrutiny by the dems’ oppo research machine.

I like Cuccinelli, but he’s the latest in a long line of GOPers who don’t understand the fact that the dems are far, far more effective in digging up dirt on opponents.

And I agree with the other posters here who say politicians need to cease with the gift-taking.


19 posted on 04/30/2013 7:02:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: COBOL2Java

This doesn’t look very good and could possibly sink Cuccinelli. Is it too late for Bolling to replace him?


20 posted on 04/30/2013 7:07:24 AM PDT by Longbow1969
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