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By David Ferguson
Thursday, September 26, 2013 9:37 EDT
In a debate Wednesday between the Democratic and Republican candidates for Virginia governor, current state Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) said that he has done more to protect women than any other state elected official. In the video embedded below, Cuccinelli told moderator Chuck Todd and the debate audience that women should be grateful for the programs he has participated in and sponsored.
According to the transcript published by the Washington Post, the controversial attorney general was parrying a question posed by his Democratic opponent, former DNC chairman Terry McAuliffe.
McAuliffe accused Cuccinelli of running the AGs office on an ideological agenda, accusing him of being anti-woman and anti-LGBT, saying, Whether it be womens health centers, where he bullied the Board of Health to shut them down. He sponsored personhood legislation that would outlaw most forms of contraception, would make the pill illegal.
He continued, Hes referred to gay Virginians as self-destructive and soulless human beings. He was one of only three attorney generals when the Violence Against Women Act was being reauthorized in the United States Congress. 47 attorney generals signed a letter, violence against women, not controversial. He is one of three who refused to sign it. It has been a pattern.
Cuccinelli responded by saying that this characterization of his record is unfair. Its overwhelmingly negative. It is unbelievably false. And no one up here, no one up here has done more to protect women, which is a focus of his attacks, than I have.
Whether it was back when I was an engineering student at UVA and a friend of mine was sexually assaulted, he said, my response was to start a new organization thats still functioning there to protect young women at UVA. And it was the first of its kind in the country. We run multiple domestic violence programs in the Attorney Generals Office. And we started from scratch fighting human trafficking. And weve done a great job of it.
In fact, under Cuccinellis stewardship, Virginia law has taken a hard right turn with regards to womens health and reproductive decisions. With the AG offices blessing, Republicans in the state legislature have ratified dozens of new laws designed to shut down womens clinics that perform abortions.
Furthermore, Cuccinelli mounted his own campaign to have the states sodomy laws reinstated so as to make all forms of sex outside of the heterosexual missionary position illegal in the state.
The far-right Republicans term in office has been so markedly prudish and anti-woman that he even mandated that the bare breast of the Roman goddess Virtus on the states seal must be covered henceforth. The seal was originally adopted in 1776.
In recent weeks, Cuccinelli has seen his poll numbers plunge in the gubernatorial race. Part of the precipitous drop in support has been a mass desertion of the candidate by Virginia women, who are endorsing McAuliffe over Cuccinelli at a rate of 50 to 32 percent.
Watch video from the debate, embedded below via YouTube:
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/26/cuccinelli-mansplains-no-one-has-done-more-to-protect-women-than-me/
PDJane
(10,103 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Taliban, don't treat women like second class citizens and declare they really like it. American women will not tolerate Taliban treatment.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)McAuliffe Hits Cuccinelli On Women's Issues In Virginia Debate
September 25, 2013, 9:58 PM EDT
Democrat Terry McAuliffe sought to hone in on issues that might widen the polling gap between him and his opponent, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), among women voters, during a gubernatorial debate on Wednesday night.
During multiple questions by moderator and MSNBC host Chuck Todd, McAuliffe tried to paint Cuccinelli as a conservative extremist who's out of touch on women's issues and gay rights.
"He sponsored personhood legislation that would outlaw most forms of contraception, would make the pill illegal," McAuliffe said. "He's referred to gay Virginians as self-destructive and soulless human beings. He was one of only three attorney generals when the Violence Against Women's was being reauthorized in the United States Congress -- 47 attorney generals signed the letter -- violence against women, not controversial. He is one of three that refused to sign it. It has been a pattern."
McAuliffe then linked Cuccinelli's stances on these issues as harmful to Virginia's economy, pointing in particular to a large government contracting company Northrop Grumman Corporation, which employes more than 40,000 employees in the Washington, D.C. area.
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Full article here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/mcauliffe-hits-cuccinelli-on-women-s-issues-in-virginia-debate
McDiggy
(150 posts)"Mansplain" is one of the nastier words we've come up with lately.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Mansplain is used in the original headline by RawStory. Besides, who is the "we" that allegedly created this "nastier" word?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)It's not using any dirty words, it's not referring to any dirty words. So what are you babbling about?
CTyankee
(63,902 posts)Also, please let us know who else agrees with you, because I have never encountered any criticism of the word.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)marble falls
(57,075 posts)women say the same stupid stuff "Conservative" men do.
CTyankee
(63,902 posts)I guess that makes 2 of us...