Powhatan Tea Party hears Cuccinelli
Attorney General outlines lawsuits to supporters in front of courthouse
Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia’s Attorney General, spoke at his first tea party of the day Saturday when he addressed thePowhatan Taxpayers’ Alliance TEA Party rally with over 350 of their friends and supporters on the Courthouse Green.
Organizer Todd Rojcewicz led the morning’s events with George Washington kneeling in prayer before the Powhatan Courthouse.
Del. Lee Ware introduced the Attorney General as a ‘friend of mine” and invoked John Adams who famously said “ours is a government of laws not men”. Del. Ware said that “if there is man in Virginia who stands on that, it’s Ken Cuccinelli.”
Cuccinelli acknowledged his former General Assembly colleague and said it was “great to be with so many people who appreciate the Constitution”. He mentioned that he has been in office a little over three months and whenever he hears that the swearing in was January 16th he says to himself “yeah and the swearing at began on January 17th and its kept up pretty steadily since then” and also that his staff are now “pining for boredom”.
EPA suits – don’t hold your breathSince taking office, Cuccinelli has initiated two suits against the EPA including the finding that carbon dioxide creates an endangerment to human health which the Washington Times called a ‘gutsy and intelligent step. A second step was filed early April on the EPA’s new rules for fuel efficiency on cars and trucks.
“The Attorney General’s office is a very reactive office. We wouldn’t be suing the EPA if the EPA did not abandon all semblance of science and law to put out its endangerment finding on the CO2. Now, let’s make them all happy just for a moment and everybody just hold your breath,” Cuccinelli waited several seconds before saying “There you go, just a short period of time with no CO2. Now the trees are going protest but at least the EPA will be happy”. The crowd lapped it up.
“The first and most important part of the oath I took for this office was to defend the Constitutions of the US and Virginia and that is what we are doing in these efforts.”
Cap and Trade “on steroids”
Cuccinelli said the EPA is expanding federal power to an extraordinary degree. The Attorney General said that though a lot of people were familiar with so called ‘cap and trade’ but that this was now “cap and trade on steroids.”
“It is faster, it is more far reaching it is more economically destructive and it will take away more opportunities for future generations than cap and trade if it is ever passed. It’s incredibly destructive with no apparent environmental benefit that anybody can demonstrate.”
And along came the health care bill
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Ken Cuccinelli noted that it was ironic that the day President signed into law his controversial health care reform bill was also the 235th anniversary of Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death” speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond just a mile or so from the Office of the Attorney General. He went on to say that there were a lot of things that can be said about the health care law suit but that “when you boil it down…this suit is about protecting liberty itself. Health care is the subject matter but liberty is the issue.”“Never before under the guise of regulating commerce has the federal government attempted to compel you to buy any product from any American. They are going to compel you into commerce under the guise of regulating commerce. That is an extraordinary power if the federal government were allowed to exercise it and we shall see if they will be allowed to exercise it,” Ken Cuccinelli told the rally.
The Powhatan Taxpayers Alliance are an active group meeting regularly with their legislators, attending local meetings and who actively support candidates who adhere to a vision of fiscal responsibility at all levels of government..jpg)
Organizer Todd Rojcewicz mischievously urged the crowd several times to call county leaders who he and the Powhatan Taxpayers Alliance consider are abusing travel and wasting taxpayer dollars.
Other speakers included Delegate Lee Ware, Patrick McSweeney, Scott Lee from the Lee Bros on Radio WRVA, Americans for Prosperty’s State Director Ben Marci, James R Manship Sr, and Mickey White
The Richmond Tea Party are hosting and holding the 2nd Annual Tax Day Tea Party April 15th at Kanawha Place and features Doc Thompson and Charles Payne of Fox News among others.
VARight have the full video of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli at the Powhatan Tea Party HERE
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This article is horribly, phony- linked to climatedepot.com. Morano is the organizer of such sound bites for legal terrorists.
Let the courts decide the science.
ClimateDepot.com and tomnelson.blogspot.com for full coverage of the global warming hoax.
RINO; I can assure you that they linked her article to their site at an attempt to discredit her reporting.
It was a great day. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is working to protect Virginia and our State rights. Thank God for him. Virginia is extremely lucky.
Great recount of the day!
Economic alarmism aside, maybe Cuccinelli doesn't realize that on average, trees are pretty happy with existing CO2, given other limiting factors on growth. That's why fossil CO2 is still ACCUMULATING at today's output of nearly 30 gigatons annually. That wouldn't be the case if plants were lapping up whatever we could throw into the system, right? And his little breath-holding quip looks foolish given that human breath is carbon-neutral.
Yes, Mr Cuccinelli, harken back to your school biology, where you SHOULD have learned that respiratory CO2 comes from the oxidation of carbohydrate. Which is ultimately derived from plants, which absorb atmospheric CO2 in the production of that carbohydrate. So little to no net change, depending on the food source. Meanwhile, fossil CO2 is generated in quantities that far surpass natural uptake, from hydrocarbons that have been sequestered over geologic timescales. Basic science anyone should know before they start judging entire scientific fields.
Thanks.Im glad, finally, we have reps that get it.The new governor and his ag give me a hope I havent had for quite sometime.We the citizens arent alone anymore.
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