Faced With Losing Campaign, Cuccinelli Lashes Out at Virginia Beach Mayor

Apparently starting to grasp the reality that Terry McAuliffe may well beat him on Election Day, Ken Cuccinelli appears to be looking for others to blame rather than accept the fact that it is his own extremism and nastiness towards, gays, blacks, moderates and many others who do not fit the white Christofascist profile that is doing him in.  The coverage all over Virginia and America of yesterday's Supreme Court decision to drop kick Cuccinelli's appeal which sought to reinstate Virginia's sodomy law has only served to remind everyone just how out of step Cuccinelli is with modernity and mainstream thought.  But instead of looking in the mirror to find the source of his troubles, Cuccinelli has lashed out at Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms and accused him of striking a deal with Terry McAuliffe on light rail in exchange for Sessoms' endorsement.  Never mind that there is no evidence of any such deal.  And never mind that the Virginia General Assembly, not the governor, appropriates funding for transportation projects.  The Virginian Pilot looks at Cuccinelli's veritable temper tantrum.  Here are highlights:

Republican candidate for governor Ken Cuccinelli has alleged that Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms endorsed Democrat Terry McAuliffe as a trade-off for his support to extend light rail to the Oceanfront, calling the purported bargain “a little quid pro quo, maybe.”

Cuccinelli made that bold, and unsubstantiated, claim Wednesday in Newport News when he affixed a four-year, $14 billion price tag to many of McAuliffe’s spending priorities, saying the Democrat can’t possibly pay for them all without making deep budget cuts or raising taxes.

Since endorsing McAuliffe last month, Sessoms, a Republican estranged from the local GOP unit, has appeared in two television ads for the Democrat, whose campaign has made a big show of his defection. Sessoms said he wrestled with the choice before concluding McAuliffe would be more responsive as governor.

uccinelli’s chronology is correct on one count – one week separated Sessoms’ Sept. 17 endorsement and McAuliffe’s release of an urban investment plan calling for light rail extension to Norfolk Naval Station and the Virginia Beach Oceanfront.

But it overlooks past McAuliffe statements to that effect, including one from a May speech in Norfolk when he said The Tide should go “all the way from the naval base to Virginia Beach.”

Sessoms called Cuccinelli’s claim “reckless” and untrue.  “For him to insinuate something like that is infuriating,” the mayor said, adding that while he’s thrilled McAuliffe favors light rail extension, “I’ve never asked him for a darn thing” to pledge funding for it.

Cuccinelli has made a career out of prostituting himself to religious extremists, closeted white supremacists, and those who want to turn back time by a century.  Now, he is reaping what he has sown through his own lunacy and extremism.