Washington Post Story Slams Cuccinelli

Yet another story in the Washington Post looks at Ken "Kookinelli" Cuccinelli's insane self-declared war against knowledge and academic freedom on Virginia's college and university campuses. Kookinelli's approach clearly is one of trying to silence anyone whose research and/or views do not support Cooch's own warped beliefs. One can only hope that (1) the academics will fight back and (2) this ongoing tempest will wake up the business community as to the poisonous results of having an unabashed religious fanatic in the office of Attorney General. Meanwhile, whispers continue that Kookinelli is a self-loathing closet case who has dipped into the gay well at least once much like George "Rentboy" Rekers. In my experience, the more hysterically anti-gay one is, the more likely they are cut out of the George Rekers/Ted Haggaed cloth. Obviously, I sincerely hope that Kookinelli self-destructs sooner as opposed to later. Here are some story highlights:
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[T]here is peril, too, for Cuccinelli in his battle with public colleges. In a state that prides itself on a university system founded by Thomas Jefferson, colleges have long enjoyed bipartisan support, and a broad fight with academia could alienate business leaders whose backing will be crucial if Cuccinelli makes any future run for office.
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[M]any faculty members and students are convinced Cuccinelli is cherry-picking issues that enable him to challenge liberal academia. That theme has been adopted by the state's Democratic Party, which released a statement calling on Cuccinelli to keep his "hands off our universities."
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"It's quite easy to pick on us, because everyone he wants to pander to already thinks we're overpaid Marxists," said David Burdige, an oceanographer at Old Dominion University and a member of the school's Faculty Senate. "If you're trying to appeal to a particular group of people, then picking on the university as being bastions of left-wing thinking and depravity, it's sort of like shooting bears at a garbage dump. You're guaranteed to score points."
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After he sent letters to the presidents and boards of every college in March instructing them to change policies that barred discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, students across Virginia launched a slew of anti-Cuccinelli Facebook groups. Students at Richmond's Virginia Commonwealth University organized a protest that culminated in a march from the campus to the state Capitol.
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This past week, more than 675 Virginia professors also signed a letter asking that Cuccinelli drop his demand for documents related to the work of former U-Va. climate scientist Michael Mann, calling it "burdensome and entirely unwarranted." The university's Board of Visitors, which usually receives legal counsel from an on-campus representative of the attorney general's office, has now hired an outside firm to consider whether to fight Cuccinelli in court over the issue.