Early Political Career
Cuccinelli was elected to the Senate in an August 2002 special election. He was re-elected in 2003 and 2007, with a recount needed in 2007, giving him a majority by 98 votes out of about 37,000 cast.
In the Senate, Cuccinelli sat on the Courts of Justice, Local Government, Rehabilitation and Social Services, and Transportation Committees. During his time in the Senate Cuccinelli took positions opposing abortion, gay marriage, illegal immigration, conservative positions on taxes, government spending, property rights, and the second amendment, while advocating law enforcement and increased care for the mentally disabled.
Read more about this topic: Ken Cuccinelli
Famous quotes containing the words early, political and/or career:
“Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man,—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Man is by nature a political animal.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)
“The 19-year-old Diana ... decided to make her career that of wife. Today that can be a very, very iffy line of work.... And what sometimes happens to the women who pursue it is the best argument imaginable for teaching girls that they should always be able to take care of themselves.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)