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Cuccinelli Swears Off No-Tax Pledge

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Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, who has signed Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge in the past, has made a new vow: No new pledges.

The Republican gubernatorial candidate told a group of Northern Virginia business leaders this week that he will not sign the pledge pushed by anti-tax activist Norquist, or any other pledges pushed by other groups.

Cuccinelli consultant Chris LaCivita on Wednesday confirmed the comment, which was first reported by Politico.

After giving a speech to the business group, Cuccinelli was asked in a question-and-answer period if he would sign Norquist’s pledge not to raise taxes. Americans for Tax Reform, the group Norquist leads, lists Cuccinelli among its “2013 state legislative signers of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” There is only one other elected official from Virginia on the list, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling (R), who supported the transportation package and announced this week that he would not run for governor as an independent.

LaCivita said that Cuccinelli had signed in the past, “but not in 2013.”

“Ken said, no, he wasn’t going to,” LaCivita said. “We have just adopted a policy of not signing pledges of any nature.”

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Effort to register your pet to vote for Obama moves to Virginia; Romney complains

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign is asking Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to launch an investigation into voter-registration forms that are being sent to Virginia residents and addressed to deceased relatives, children, family pets and others ineligible to vote.

The errant mailings from the Washington-based nonprofit group Voter Participation Center have befuddled many Virginia residents, leading to hundreds of complaints.

The organization has been mass-mailing the forms — pre-populated with key information such as names and addresses — to primarily Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as young adults, unmarried women, African-Americans and Latinos.

In a letter to Cuccinelli’s office and the State Board of Elections, Kathryn Bieber, an attorney for the Romney campaign, calls for an investigation into the matter by law-enforcement officials, claiming that the mailings appear to violate “at least one and maybe several Virginia laws aimed at ensuring a fair election.”

Bieber refers to the mailings as “tactics that amount to, or at the very least induce, voter registration fraud,” and says the issue “presents a very significant risk to the proper administration of the upcoming general election.”

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