For Republican Ken Cuccinelli, the stakes were high at Thursday night's final debate before the election of Virginia's next governor, and he and his opponent, Terry McAuliffe, used the televised event to aggressively point fingers at each other.
Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli, down in the polls and with a dwindling campaign fund, needs this debate to make his mark with voters. He and Democrat McAuliffe, a businessman, poked and criticized each other, using the bitter government shutdown and divisions over Obamacare as focus points.
Cuccinelli charged that a Medicaid expansion supported by McAuliffe in Virginia will trigger the kind of government incompetence that the Obama administration's federal healthcare website has clearly illustrated, Politico reported.
"Send Washington a message and say 'No' to Terry McAuliffe's expanded Obamacare by voting for me on Nov. 5," Cuccinelli said in his opening statement.
McAuliffe then reprimanded Cuccinelli because he's declined to say if he'd support the compromise that ended the 16-day government shutdown, casting the attorney general as a tea-party hardliner while portraying himself as someone who could work with both sides to reach bipartisan solutions.
"Just this week he refused to say whether he supported reopening government," McAuliffe said, The Washington Post reported.
Cuccinelli pushed back: "Terry not only supported Obamacare, he didn't think it went far enough. Can you imagine?"
The election comes down to "a simple question," McAuliffe said. "Who will work with both parties to focus on jobs and education?"
Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli, down in the polls and with a dwindling campaign fund, needs this debate to make his mark with voters. He and Democrat McAuliffe, a businessman, poked and criticized each other, using the bitter government shutdown and divisions over Obamacare as focus points.
Cuccinelli charged that a Medicaid expansion supported by McAuliffe in Virginia will trigger the kind of government incompetence that the Obama administration's federal healthcare website has clearly illustrated, Politico reported.
"Send Washington a message and say 'No' to Terry McAuliffe's expanded Obamacare by voting for me on Nov. 5," Cuccinelli said in his opening statement.
McAuliffe then reprimanded Cuccinelli because he's declined to say if he'd support the compromise that ended the 16-day government shutdown, casting the attorney general as a tea-party hardliner while portraying himself as someone who could work with both sides to reach bipartisan solutions.
"Just this week he refused to say whether he supported reopening government," McAuliffe said, The Washington Post reported.
Cuccinelli pushed back: "Terry not only supported Obamacare, he didn't think it went far enough. Can you imagine?"
The election comes down to "a simple question," McAuliffe said. "Who will work with both parties to focus on jobs and education?"
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Cuccinelli’s War
The day that President Obama’s Affordable Care Act was signed, March 23, 2010, was also the day that the first challenges to the law were filed in federal court. Back then, the notion that health care reform could be overturned seemed remote. For one thing, it would require the Supreme Court to abandon decades of precedent. But nearly as big an obstacle, it seemed, was that the filer of the first suit to move forward was Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the attorney general of Virginia, a politician whose seven-year stint in the state legislature had earned him the nicknames “Crazy Cuccinelli” and “Kook-inelli.” After becoming Virginia’s top lawyer in 2010, Cuccinelli altered the state seal to cover the exposed breast of the Roman goddess Virtus. He has also questioned whether Obama was born in the United States and suggested he might not register the youngest of his seven children for a Social Security number. (“A lot of people are considering that now, because it is being used to track you,” he told a supporter.) The Washington Post’s editorial board has twice used the word “embarrass” to describe his effect on the commonwealth.
At the outset, Cuccinelli’s health care lawsuit seemed like exactly the sort of intemperate move one would expect from an upstart Tea Party politician who is more concerned with public displays of disaffection than results. And health care reform was far from Cuccinelli’s only gripe. He has also sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its power to regulate greenhouse gases and investigated a former climate-change researcher at the University of Virginia (UVA) for fraud. Last March, he notified state-run universities that their non-discrimination policies could not extend to gay students.
One year on, however, Cuccinelli’s health care challenge no longer seems so far-fetched. Last December, Judge Henry Hudson of Virginia’s Eastern District Court sided with Cuccinelli and ruled that the individual mandate was unconstitutional. Seven weeks later, in Florida, a similar lawsuit filed by more than two dozen attorneys general and governors also successfully challenged the law. Now, even the most determined naysayers have been forced to acknowledge the case’s viability. And Ken Cuccinelli, once easily derided as a mere troublemaker, has become something of a hero to conservative opponents of health care reform.
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