Wow. In the middle of the battle, the warmists erroneously send up a flare from their position, drawing undue attention to the target. I rather expected a moribund outcome from this investigation, maybe a couple of embarrassing quotes, maybe a hotheaded Santeresque comment by Dr. Michael Mann about Dr. Pat Michaels, but that was about it.
Now, with them trying to retroactively change the law as a way to head off the investigation, it makes me wonder if maybe there’s really something profound there in those communications after all. Bad move fellas, you just made the Q Score for this story triple.
From the Daily Progress:
By Bryan McKenzie
Two Democratic state senators are proposing to change state law to thwart Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s efforts to investigate a former University of Virginia professor’s research on global warming.
The proposed legislation would repeal sections of Virginia law that give the state’s attorney general authority to issue civil investigative demands, similar to subpoenas, to gather documents in relation to a civil investigation conducted by the office.
The bill is in response to efforts by Cuccinelli, a Republican, to investigate possible fraud by former UVa professor Michael Mann in relation to five taxpayer-funded research grants between 1999 and 2005.
The senators, A. Donald McEachin and J. Chapman Petersen, will meet this morning with Del. David J. Toscano, D-Charlottesville, at the Capitol to discuss the legislation.
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Read the article in full here
h/t to Bishop Hill
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A clever thought, but it’s illegal to delete documents that are the target of an ongoing judicial case.
POSTURING!!
The VA Senate is controlled by Dems, the Assembly is Republican. The Senate can’t do squat on its own.
Nothing but noisemaking. Fuggedaboudit.
How about cutting UVAs budget 10 dollars for every 1 dollar spent on this?
George – I guess you do not want your kids going to UVA? The problem with the “public” universities is they have multiple avenues to obtain funding. And while penalizing them sounds good – in effect, they will just jack up tuition.
ginckgo says:
January 19, 2011 at 9:38 pm
“If a Cuccinelli-type investigation were to proceed it could lead to the exposure of far deeper and fundamental information as to how the marxists-leftists took control of education in America and indoctrinated and corrupted your young, behind your backs and without your consent – not just at university level.”
ROFL!
Oh, wait, you’re serious?
ROTF are we? it seems to me a bit more like Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
Then again, maybe you’re young or already well indoctrinated.
Maybe you’re a little like the frog in the hot water? If you really knew what the temperature was you’d certainly be ROTF but i doubt you’d be LYAO.
If you think my contribution to the thread is so hilarious why don’t you make a contribution?
I promise I won’t laugh – really.
Phil –
Yes, you are correct. VA is unusual wrt the scheduling of its elections. I could suggest that even if Democrats were elected to a majority of both VA statehouses, it would likely take them a year of in-fighting before they could accomplish anything. That would result in my two-year guesstimate being right – but I would never suggest such a thing 😉
jtom – another interesting part of the Virginia Legislature is that it only meets for 45/60 days each year (60 days after an election, and 45 after the non-election years). While your scenario is plausible, it would be doubly hard even then. Not impossible, but not very likely.
‘The wicked flee when no man pursueth…”
Need we say more?
If the law is passed, then it WOULD affect any actions currently in progress. Simply, authority is granted under the current law, and if it is changed, current requests would lose their authority and would not have any power.
Consider it as equal to a search warrant being revoked while they are at your house (or in it)
they have to leave. simple as that.
It’s all fraud anyway, anyplace there’s money -especially GRANT money, there is ALWAYS fraud.
Similarly with expense reports and time sheets.
There is always some shit with those too.
So the question then becomes, not WHAT, but WHO
Is this some witch hunt because the Republican Atty is against global warming and looking for dirt on those who are its proponents?
Who the hell cares. Today battle the global warming liars, tomorrow, those fakers who push that Evolution nonsense!
(Next week: Persecuting the “Round Earth Fableists” )