Democratic Candidate Holds Telephone Townhall Tonight To Discuss GOP AG Nominee’s Extreme Record Today Senator Mark Herring released a web video comparing his record against Senator Obenshain’s. On Saturday, Tea Party activists in Virginia nominated their choice for Attorney General and Lt. Governor to join Ken Cuccinelli on the ballot this Fall. Emerging from this convention was Senator Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg) for Attorney General. Since Saturday, Virginians have bee...

Republican Senator brags about supporting Guns in Bars Senator Mark Obenshain continues to receive endorsements that show just how out of touch he is from mainstream Virginia. The latest example is his recent endorsement from the Virginia Citizens Defense League. On his website Obenshain applauds the endorsement and brags about sponsoring a bill to allow guns in bars, calling opposition to it “nonsensical.” “Guns and booze don't mix," said Senator Mark Herring.  ...

The Virginia Education Association Fund for Children and Public Education announced their endorsement of State Senator Mark Herring in the Democratic primary for Attorney General on June 11th.  The VEA Fund cited Senator Herring’s “proven record of support for public education” in a press release announcing the endorsement. “As a graduate of Virginia public schools, a father of two children who attend public schools, a husband of a public school employee an...

Note: Dr. Michael E. Mann currently serves as the Director of Penn State Earth System Science Center and is a former University of Virginia Professor and climate science researcher. In 2010, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli initiated an investigation of Dr. Mann under the guise that he was defrauding taxpayers.  In reality, Cuccinelli disagree with the conclusions of the research Dr. Mann was conducting related to climate change.  Senator Herring was among the first to come to Dr. ...

On April 11 I called for a federal investigation into the relationship of Governor Bob McDonnell, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and Star Scientific. The gifts and the cozy relationship between these individuals and this company have raised serious concerns in Virginians’ minds, especially because Star Scientific has business before the state. At the time I said that in order to restore the public trust, we need an outside and independent investigation to determine if any legal or ethi...

AG Candidate Unveils Policy Agenda And Web Ad Focused On Women’s Rights, Protecting Families And Ensuring Paycheck Fairness Democratic candidate for Attorney General State Senator Mark Herring released his newest web ad, the campaign’s second, highlighting Herring’s support for a woman’s right to make her own personal, private decisions regarding her health care on a press call this morning. Herring also released a new policy agenda, which can be found online at...

Governor McDonnell did not shed any light on any of the ethical problems swirling around his administration with his phone call from Asia. Massive gifts from a businessman with a tax problem, Ferrari's, unaccounted items taken from the Governor's mansion and suspicions of a quid pro quos. Its clear its a far cry from Downton Abbey over at the Governor's mansion. What remains is that there are still serious questions about gifts not being reported, serious questions about favors given and rece...

“Doing the right thing only after you've already been caught isn’t good enough. The Attorney General should know that. That's too low a standard. The people of Virgnia have a right to expect more from their public officials. Ken Cuccinelli’s ethical lapses and involvement with the company Star Scientific and its CEO Jonnie Williams have cost Virginians yet again. For a second time, Ken Cuccinelli has been forced to recuse himself from a case involving Star Scientific. O...

Today Senator Mark Herring (Loudoun and Fairfax) launched a petition to give Virginians a chance to voice their opinions on the scandal surrounding Governor Bob McDonell and Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s financial relationship with the company Star Scientific and its CEO Jonnie Williams Sr. The petition, which can be found at www.HerringForAG.com/InvestigationPetition, reads: “Virginians deserve the whole truth about McDonnell, Cuccinelli, and this big GOP donor. Mark&#...

Today marks the six-year anniversary of the horrific shootings on the campus of Virginia Tech. On the heels of yesterday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon, and four months after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary, our national consciousness has been awakened, and we are called to take action to address this violence and string of tragedies that are becoming all too commonplace in our society.   As we take time today to reflect on the memory of the 32 lives that were taken so sud...