Cuccinelli Compass: New Fact Check Website by Noah Wall

Dear Catherine -- 

Terry McAuliffe has been running one of the most dishonest campaigns in the history of Virginia politics. On top of that -- unsurprisingly -- the media has failed by all accounts to hold McAuliffe and the Democrats accountable for the barrage dishonest attacks. 

That is why we need your help to share the truth about Ken's record and values with your friends, neighbors, and family. I know this is something many of you already do, but as Election Day gets closer it becomes more important than ever.

Ken travels the Commonwealth every day, but the truth is he will never be able to meet everyone. Many will choose their choice for Governor based solely on what they see on TV and what they read in the newspaper. That is why it is so critically important that we have your help to share the truth about these negative attacks with everyone you can.

Today Ken's campaign is launching a new feature to our website to provide you with detailed information to debunk and rebuke the false narrative we are running against. You can visit our new fact check site by clicking here. 

I hope that this website will offer you the resources you need to get the facts to uniformed or misinformed voters you know. Ken has a positive message for Virginia, and we need to make sure that its not overshadowed by Terry's lies. 

Thank you for your support and for your help.

Sincerely,

Noah Wall
Political Director
Ken Cuccinelli for Governor

PAID FOR AND AUTHORIZED BY KEN CUCCINELLI FOR GOVERNOR

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REPLY: Oh my god. Seriously?

You DID NOT sue the University of Virginia seeking Michael Mann's emails? Excuse me? Then The University did what exactly with that $600,000 in legal fees? It didn't go towards reducing the cost of admission.

Yes, yes, I understand. You were trying to determine whether "state money" (it wasn't state money) was spent on bogus research. But that's NOT the government's call! How can you say you're anti-government intervention when the very act of sticking your nose into the validity (or not) of research is government intervention?! Who made you the god of science? And if we were to lay down and give you what you demanded, which you have no right to access, what precedence would that set? That all university research must meet the demands of the czar?

For those of you who didn't attend The University from 2007 to 2011, I'll tell you that U.Va. gave "the government" (joke, it's anyone whose interested. If you want Mann's data you can get it yourself.) Mann's research because it's more or less public knowledge. There aren't any hidden data points/research and were no secret destroy/shred meetings. No. What Cuccinelli wanted were Mann's private emails which supposedly prove that he was making up data to support climate change. He sued 3 times for these emails and 3 times the justice department said that he couldn't have them.

Now, there are enough cases of ACTUAL improper use of grants that are actually really easy to spot. Because what happens is that someone goes to repeat an experiment after reading the data/results of someone else (which is, you know, how science works) and finds that there is something fishy going on when their results don't match. THEN the investigations start and eventually someone has to pay back the money plus face ethics trials. Like I said, it's very difficult to fake science because it's pretty obvious when results don't match. Like that time I got a 20,000% error in chemistry one year. Even the teachers didn't know where I went wrong because my data seemed to be correct, but did NOT add up.

It'd be easy to see if Mann faked his data because there are thousands of other climate scientists doing their own research and it'd be pretty clear if his numbers started looking remarkably different. This isn't the case. In fact 95% of climate scientists see similar trends. But Cuccinelli would rather believe in a mass conspiracy.