In the Virginia Attorney General debate, the candidates got to ask each other questions.
Cuccinelli asked a very simple question of his Democratic opponent: Name the divisions of the Commonwealth Attorney General’s office and describe what each division does.
The answer leaves lots to be desired.
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Cooch is the rising conservative star in VA nt
Rich Tandler (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 12:46PM EST (link)The tree of liberty must be refreshed with the tears of defeated politicians of BOTH parties and at ALL levels over the next few election cycles.
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Yes, but perhaps "Cooch" isn't the best nickname to stick him with. (nt)
Third Street (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 1:58PM EST (link)“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Adage...
Kate_Shanahan (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 12:56PM EST (link)a man is known by the company he keeps. If that’s Shannon’s staffer, he must be a goon.
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Who is the Camera goon ?
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 1:17PM EST (link)Is there a story about who the Camera Goon is? I watched the video a couple of times and could not make out what her shirt said…some orgnization or the other…ACORN…SEIU (not purple)
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I would think lawsuits would be in order
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 2:23PM EST (link)video equipment is not cheap, it’s well established that direct flashes like that can damage it, and that dumb b*tch was making obvious attempts to shoot flashes directly into the lens. While being recorded! What an idiot.
I think lawsuits (or criminal charges if that’s more appropriate) could be filed for harassment and attempted vandalism, including for whatever it might cost to have the camera man’s equipment tested and evaluated for damage.
And this stuff should be all over Fox News and wherever else truth is told.
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Looking on Facebook
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 2:26PM EST (link)I went through the ShannonFacebook “friends” for a while to see if I could find a mug shot, but did not get through the list. It would be interesting to find out who the Camera Goon is though.
Anyone from the area care to identify the guilty party?
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She belongs to a certain species of the genus...
speciallist (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 7:02PM EST (link)Mustela nivalis……or you could just call her Vermin
LMAO Specialist! Nice one!
nessa (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 7:19PM EST (link)humanus attero Mustela nivalis to be precise.
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I just submitted the following to Drudge re the Shannon episode
ColdWarrior (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 3:03PM EST (link)Supporter of Dem VA Attorney General candidate Steve Shannon attempts to destroy video camera of citizen journalist, by shooting flashes of light from still camera into the video camera lens, while Shannon gives disjointed non-answer to basic question asked by his opponent Ken Cuccinelli about the number and purposes of the divisions within the VA AG office — and is caught on film trying to destroy the camera!
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/10/17/ken-cuccinelli-scores-a-knock-out-blow/#comment-36536
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Perhaps with a name like "Cuccinelli" Shannon
throwback59 Saturday, October 17th at 2:23PM EST (link)thought his opponet was one of those “Dese, Dem, Dose” Joisey guys, instead of the polished, thoughtful gentlemen he is up against. As a person with a vowel at the end of my name I’m glad to see a paisan verbally “whack” this bum.
That was an entertaining question and non-response,
Achance (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 2:54PM EST (link)but I have better memory than most, spent twenty-odd years in the Alaska Department of Administration, and I’d be hard pressed to name all the divisions of Admin. I’d probably get them all, but I’d have to stop and think about it. Now since Admin is the primary infrastructure department, it undoubtedly has more divisions than an AG’s office, but it was a “gotcha” question. Unfortunately for Shannon, an experienced trial lawyer, which an AG should be, shouldn’t get flusted EVER, and he obviously was.
In Vino Veritas
Not so hard
SteveLA (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 3:00PM EST (link)Art
It’s over on the VA AG site…the answer is 6
The Office of the Attorney General is one of the largest law firms in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The Office is organized into six legal Divisions: Civil Litigation, Public Safety and Enforcement, Health, Education and Social Services, and Technology and Transportation, Commerce, Finance, Opinions, Elections and Collections, and Sexual Predators, Tobacco, Alcohol and Gaming.
Not knowing the heads of each division, maybe a pass, but not knowing the six divisions…FAIL.
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Yeah, mine had a few more.
Achance (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 3:09PM EST (link)We used to call it the Department of Stuff because the things that nobody could figure out where to put, they put in Administration. Here’s the list; I think I’d have gotten them all, at least back when I was still working there.
Department of Administration
907-465-2200
Alaska Public Broadcasting Commission
Division of Administrative Services
Enterprise Technology Services
Division of Finance
Division of General Services
Division of Motor Vehicles–On-line Services
Division of Personnel and Labor Relations
Division of Retirement and Benefits
Division of Risk Management
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
Office of Public Advocacy
Office of Administrative Hearings
Oil and Gas Conservation Commission
Public Defender Agency
Public Offices Commission – APOC
Training and Development
Violent Crimes Compensation Board
When I was there Labor Relations was a separate division and for part of the time we also had the Senior Services and Pioneer Home programs but the Murkowski Administration moved that to DHSS.
In Vino Veritas
Especially Since You're Running To Head All Of These Offices
DavidSage (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 3:42PM EST (link)I could understand a random politician not knowing the answer, but if you’re running for Attorney General, shouldn’t you at the very least know the name of the divisions you’re asking voters to put you in charge of?
I’m sure the Virginia media will bury this though.
Shannon not knowing something as basic as the
throwback59 Saturday, October 17th at 4:31PM EST (link)divisions of his office is the equivalent of a presidential candidate stating that he visited 57 states. Surely the voters would not reward such ignorance. Surely.
It would have been reasonable to not remember them all...
Jeff Walden (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 4:53PM EST (link)if he’d made an attempt at naming them and successfully hit most of them. Hit four or five and say “I might have missed some, but the full list is quite easy to find on the AG website” and at that point you’ll be given the benefit of the doubt, but if you don’t even try, you just look stupid.
It also seems to me that if you’re going to participate in a debate that allows opponents to ask debate questions, you forfeit any argument you might plausibly have had (although it seems to me you lose that entering any formal debate, really) that you don’t have to answer “stupid” questions. If you really think such, the best you can do is subsequently point it out to voters and hope they see the question the same way you do.
Cold Winter
Castor (Diary) Monday, October 19th at 10:50AM EST (link)It was so cold in Virginia last winter, that along with the other trial lawyers,Shannon had his hands in his own pockets!
Anyone want to bet if Obama knows
Tbone (Diary) Saturday, October 17th at 4:33PM EST (link)the words to our National Anthem?
Dems don’t need to anything to run for an office, after all they know whats good for us, isn’t that enough?
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
The version with 57 stars?
antisocial (Diary) Sunday, October 18th at 1:04AM EST (link)I am sure he knows that.
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