New Ad Underscores Ken Cuccinelli's Efforts to Help Energy Companies Screw Virginians

A new ad by NextGen Climate Action Virginia will underscore a sore subject with many Virginians from Southwest Virginia in particular.  The ad?  A piece that looks at Cuccinelli's office assisting Consol Energy screw over Virginia landowners and short change them on gas royalty payments.  Here are details via Blue Virginia:

NextGen Climate Action's Virginia campaign will begin tomorrow to air a roughly half-million dollar advertising buy with this ad.  Over a roughly 10-day period, it will run in the Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke markets.

This is the first in a series of ads we plan to do highlighting important, basic questions Ken Cuccinelli clearly doesn't want to answer about the scandals surrounding his conduct in office - and what it says about him.

We now have a pattern of Cuccinelli dismissing, spinning or turning away from questions - whether they are from reporters, a 74 year-old landowner, or young Virginia voters. You can see the pattern here.

The problem for Ken Cuccinelli is that in Virginia, you have to actually talk to reporters and voters if you want to be Governor. You don't get to duck the big questions for eight weeks. Then again, it's pretty clear why he won't answer the questions: It looks bad. He's our top law enforcement official, he took $100,000 from an out-of-state fossil fuel company while his office helped that company rip off Virginians -- and then played disclosure games to avoid getting caught.

This is unacceptable. People like me move to, stay and do business in Virginia because it's been a well-run state. But the McDonnell and Cuccinelli scandals are threatening to turn us into a national joke.

Not to sound like a broken record, but during all my years in the oil and gas industry, NEVER, EVER did I see a state attorney general's office assisting energy companies in civil litigation against landowners entitled to royalty payments.  I think we all know that there were over 100,000 reasons why Cuccinelli's staff acted improperly and against Virginia citizens and landowners.