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Ken Cuccinelli scores a knock out blow

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  October 17th, 2009 at 12:35 PM  | 

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H/T to Jim Geraghty

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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  • Rich Tandler
  • Kate_Shanahan

    a man is known by the company he keeps. If that’s Shannon’s staffer, he must be a goon.

  • SteveLA

    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)

  • Third Street
  • E Pluribus Unum

    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.

  • throwback59

    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.

  • SteveLA

    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?

  • Achance

    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.

  • SteveLA

    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.

  • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

    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

    Thank you.
    ColdWarrior
    www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com

  • Achance

    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.

  • DavidSage

    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.

  • throwback59

    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.

  • Tbone

    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?

  • http://whereswalden.com/ Jeff Walden

    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.

  • $peciallist

    Mustela nivalis……or you could just call her Vermin

  • nessa

    humanus attero Mustela nivalis to be precise.

  • antisocial

    I am sure he knows that.

  • Castor

    It was so cold in Virginia last winter, that along with the other trial lawyers,Shannon had his hands in his own pockets!