Wednesday, May 05, 2010

Planet Wingnut News for Wednesday

Cuccinelli ditches censored lapel pins, blames the media for making them a ‘distraction.’

From his statement:

The image on my office lapel pin is similar to that of a large antique state flag that hangs in the Virginia Capitol. That is where I got the idea for my pin. I liked this particular image and thought it would be something unique for my employees. I cannot believe that joking with my staff about Virtue being a little more “virtuous” in this antique version has become news. This is simply a media-made issue that has become distracting to the work of my office. I am going to end this distraction by discontinuing future use of the pin. I think we all do the citizens a service by getting back to talking about things that are more important to them, including my office’s work last week to get four sexually violent predators committed to mental health treatment, the collection of $225,000 in back debt owed to the commonwealth, and assisting local law enforcement in an investigation that resulted in a drug kingpin being sentenced to life without parole

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