Runner-up was a bit harder to do this year. It came down to the real power behind the Tea Party, Dick Armey, the newest and soon to become the most powerful elected face of the Tea Party in Congress, Rand Paul – and who I finally settled upon – Ken Cuccinelli who I choose because just in one year he has already accomplished so much to hurt so many for so little reason.
Mr Cuccinelli is often referred to as "The Man who was the Tea Party before there was a Tea Party." He was a rabid Right-wing State Senator on his way out for being too extreme when he was elected last year as Virginia’s Attorney General in the swing to Evangelical Governor Bob McDonnell. Rather than the well deserved extensive name calling this slug of intolerance deserves let’s just go through what he does.
His first and most important claim to fame is that he is the moving force to repeal Health Care Reform as unconstitutional under the commerce clause. 20 more Republican State Attorney General’s have jumped on board. Health care MUST remain too expensive to buy for most and only available for the well deserved. Insurance Company board of directors will decide those issues as to quarterly profit margins.
He is also infamous for this denial of Climate Change. To such an extent that he is directing criminal investigations into Virginia University scientists who make claims that it is real. Who would have guessed that Cuccinelli previously worked as an energy industry lobbyist?
Next comes his extreme bigotry towards gay men and women,
"It is my advice that the law and public policy of the Commonwealth of Virginia prohibit a college or university from including ‘sexual orientation,’ ‘gender identity,’ ‘gender expression,’ or like classification as a protected class within its non-discrimination policy absent specific authorization from the General Assembly."
He is one of the first to initiate and promote repealing the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to revoke citizenship rights for children of illegal immigrants who are born in the U.S. He is also pushing laws that those who cannot speak English properly should be disqualified in receiving unemployment benefits.
No sex education funding unless it is Abstinence-only.
Sponsor of legislation to carry handguns in bars.
Rabid Pro Life.
And to top it off he personally re drew the artwork of the Virginia State Seal to hide a clothless breast.
Needless to say, at many Virginia Tea Party rallies CUCCENILLI FOR PRESIDENT signs, posters and bumper stickers prevail.
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