Ken Cuccinelli, the attorney general of Virginia, is more dangerous than ebola virus. "The Cuckoo" is out to destroy the health of America and the rest of the globe in a crusade that encompasses the destruction of health care legislation and the issue of global warming, a planet killer, all by himself, riding his politics and delusions into national prominence and into -- you can bet on it! -- national political power + money.
Cuccinelli is the guy who set up the Virginia supreme court's decision against "Obamacare." And Cuccinnelli would like to put climate research out of business, too. Knuckle-draggers love him.
Invoking his subpoena powers, he has sought to force the University of Virginia to turn over the files of a prominent climatology professor, asserting that his research may be marred by fraud. The university is battling the move in the courts.
At the same time, Mr. Cuccinelli is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over its ruling that carbon dioxide and other global warming gases pose a threat to human health and welfare, describing the science behind the agency’s decision as “unreliable, unverifiable and doctored.”
Now his allegations of manipulated data and scientific fraud are resonating in Congress, where Republican leaders face an influx of new members, many of them Tea Partystalwarts like Mr. Cuccinelli, eager to inveigh against the body of research linking man-made emissions to warming.
“There’s a huge appetite among the rank-and-file to raise fundamental questions about the underlying science,” said Michael McKenna, a Republican strategist and energy lobbyist. ...NYT
Cuccinelli is not known for having clean hands financially.
Steve Benen summed up Cuccinelli's recent career last August.
... The list of Cuccinelli's other excesses is getting pretty long. Virginia's A.G. has, after all, been palling around with radicals, recently considered a literacy test for some Virginians wishing to vote, questioned President Obama's citizenship, rescinded legal protections for gays at Virginia universities, argued publicly that it doesn't cost the public any money when he and his office work on a frivolous lawsuit, and, of course temporarily added a modesty shield to Virginia's great seal.
And he's only been in office since January [2010].
