Bye-Bye, Cooch - VA Women Voted To "Protect" Themselves From Ken Cuccinelli

[kpete]

But don’t let that distract from what really happened in Virginia today: An official who consistently used his elected office to promote policies that shamed, marginalized, and patronized women and other minorities was met with a “no.” This wasn’t just about money, or the shutdown, or Star Scientific, or Terry McAuliffe’s fancy Clinton-era friends. It was about voters and what they know to be true. The vote may have been close, but in the end Virginians, especially women, showed that they simply don’t believe that the commonwealth of Virginia should be in the business of discriminating against homosexuals, legislating an extreme anti-sodomy agenda, shuttering Planned Parenthood clinics, pressing an invasive trans-vaginal ultrasound law, and supporting a draconian illegal immigration law.

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Virginia women who were mostly affronted by talk of trans-vaginal ultrasounds and clinic closures and constraints on birth control, know a whole lot about what they need to be protected from and when. And today they voted to “protect” themselves from Ken Cuccinelli.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/11/05/ken_cuccinelli_loses_in_virginia_women_say_no_thanks_we_re_cool.html

[putitinD]

1. nobody wants a trans-cooch-ultrasound

[appleannie1]

2. My daughter, a nurse in Virginia, went in to work late to vote against him. She was not alone.

She said all her friends at work were outraged by what he was trying to do to their state. She lives in a
Republican neighborhood that for the first time since she lived there voted for a Democrat. The women spoke loud and clear.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. The same needs to happen here in PA

in 2014. Corbett is now #1 on the vulnerable list and despite the exhortations mumbling within the thug party here, Corbett doubled-down on his intent to run for re-election. The same one who was pushing the ALEC agenda with -

Voter ID- http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Voter-ID-.html

Trans-vaginal ultrasound - http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/16/445966/corbett-defends-ultrasound-bill/

Right to Work - http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/888652_Right-to-work-status-for-Pa-.html

And then he added on his own personal issues like -

Illegal contracting-out of state lottery - http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/harrisburg_politics/Kane-nixes-lottery-contract.html

Lining up gift horses - http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/07/29/2373831/pennsylvania-governor-gifts-corbett/

And of course the elephant in the room - Sandusky - http://www.thenation.com/blog/168560/sanduskys-crimes-and-governor-corbetts-negligence