Corey Stewart Becomes Victim of a Public Smack-Down by the AG

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Wonders never cease to amaze us.  Even a broken koo koo clock is right twice a day.  It seems that Elena and Moon agree this one and only one time with AG Ken Cuccinelli.  Over what, you might ask, knowing that the earth has not begun to rotate backwards and that something must be up.

It seems that the Office of the Attorney General has created a side by side response to Corey Stewart’s Virginia Rule of Law Campaign.  The gods must not be happy because Corey got spanked– big time spanked. 

There must be an internal war going on in the Virginian Republican Party, or perhaps, Cuccinelli just wants Corey Stewart out of his way since Corey has been making ‘higher office’ noises.   The AG could have quietly gone to the state Republican higher ups and told them to kill Corey’s proposal before it ever got into the General Assembly.  He could have easily told them that the governor didn’t like it, especially since Governor McDonnell has been rather stand-offish over the entire immigration issue. 

But Cuccinelli didn’t let Corey Stewart’s baby bill die a quiet death.  He did a public smack down and apparently the OAG released the comparison. 

Obviously the AG sees the Virginia Rule of Law Campaign for exactly what it is:  a cheap political ploy created to get Corey Stewart’s name in lights and usher him on in to higher state or national office.  Corey should know he can’t ride that horse into town again and he is no Jan Brewer.  Even the AG has limits on how many times he wants the state of Virginia to be sued.

Opinion from the Office of the Attorney General.  Click to download the side by side comparison.

[Note:  the matrix showing side by side comparison was not issued by the OAG.  That arrangement was made for comparison purposes.]

It appears that the AG sends a strong message implying  that the Virginia Rule of Law Campaign verbage is simply a sloppily crafted piece of legislation.  Stewart either violates the Virginia or U.S. Constitution or adds new laws we can’t afford at every turn.    Cuccinelli points out each legal oversight,  point by point. 

So what caused Cucinelli to turn on Corey Stewart?  Why would he shoot holes in Corey’s great claim to fame?  Is this a case of clothes-lining  (or in this case, piano-wiring)  one’s politicial rival?  Is this a rift in the Virginia Republican Party or is this just a general shake down?  Will there be turf wars in Prince William County?  Is Corey sufficiently embarrassed?  Will he call on old friends to help him regain his political dignity?

 

More on this story:

http://9500liberty.com/blog/virginia-stunner/

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The Washington Post gets It: Immigration crackdown in PW is a cautionary tale

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Editorial in Wednesday’s Washington Post, in its entirety:

 

 

Immigration crackdown in Prince William is a cautionary tale

AFTER 31/2 YEARS and some $3 million in public spending, Prince William County’s crusade against illegal immigrants – launched almost single-handedly by an ambitious local politician who has made nativism his stock in trade – has confirmed the county’s reputation as a national symbol of intolerance. Now, a study by scholars at the University of Virginia has exposed just what was achieved, and wasn’t, when Virginia’s second-largest locality undertook its campaign against undocumented workers.

Prince William citizens had been much less concerned with illegal immigration than with traffic and development, but in 2007 Board of Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart (R-At Large) put the issue center stage and pushed through a policy that turned out to be a precursor to the one adopted this year in Arizona. Implemented in 2008, it authorized police to check the immigration status of anyone they detained who they suspected might be in the country illegally. After a public uproar, the county watered down the policy – immigration checks are now done only after arrest, and for everyone taken into custody – but the damage to the county’s name was done.

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