Cuccinelli Stattment on President Obama Campaigning for McAuliffe

Statement

Ken Cuccinelli released the following statement regarding Terry McAuliffe's decision to campaign with President Barack Obama in the final days of the campaign for governor:

"It's telling that in the final moments of the campaign for governor, Terry McAuliffe has decided to campaign with President Obama. The move makes official what we have already known to be true: McAuliffe's unwavering support for the President's signature legislative achievement, Obamacare. The law is already preventing hiring and job growth across Virginia, driving up the cost of insurance for families and forcing employers to drop coverage for workers. Now we also know that Obama Administration officials, including the President himself, were knowingly misleading the public when they said that the American people would be able to stay on their health plans despite the new law. In other words, President Obama was selling the public on the most significant law in a generation under false pretenses. And my opponent will be making his closing argument to Virginia workers and families with the President by his side. If McAuliffe wanted to do right by the people of Virginia, he would ask the President to apologize for misleading the public so spectacularly. That of course is unlikely since McAuliffe was an ardent supporter of the law, so much so that he thought it didn't go far enough. Indeed, McAuliffe has made clear that he plans to use a central tenet of the law -- Medicaid Expansion -- to fund nearly all of his many platitudes for Virginia, despite the fact that even the liberal Washington Post editorial board has found that to be untenable.

"I'm proud to have been the first attorney general in the country to sue to stop ObamaCare. I did so because I believed the law was unconstitutional and violated our sacred first principles of individual freedom and limited government. As governor, I will continue to do everything in my power to stop the law from exacerbating the uncertainty already felt by our job creators and leading to fewer options and more expensive healthcare for middle-class Virginia families. Make no mistake, this is a fundamental and critical difference in the race for governor. Virginians must be warned, ObamaCare will negatively affect you, your friends and even your family. On Election Day, the vote you cast will have a huge impact on whether we have a governor who protects the rule of law, fights for job creators and puts the best interests of the Commonwealth first, or a governor who perpetuates a lie that hurts the very people he aspires to govern for the sole purpose of growing the reach and power of government." - Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli

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