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Attorney General-elect Ken Cuccinelli announced his transition team leaders this morning in a conference call with reporters.
He has tapped former Attorneys General Andrew Miller, a Democrat, and Republican Richard Cullen, as well as former state GOP chairman Pat McSweeney, to help with the effort.
Miller, an unsuccessful candidate for governor and U.S. Senate in the 1970s, practices law in Washington. He’s from a storied Democratic family; his father ran for governor in the 1950s, opposing the conservative machine of the late Harry Byrd Sr.
Cullen completed the term of Jim Gilmore, when Gilmore quit in 1997 to run for governor. Cullen now heads a large Richmond law firm that is closely aligned with Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell.
McSweeney is a Richmond lawyer who was on the staff of the commission that rewrote the Virginia Constitution in the early 1970s.
More recently, he was the lead lawyer in the case in which the Virginia Supreme Court overturned as taxation without representation a transportation-financing plan defended by McDonnell when he was attorney general.
Rounding out the Cuccinelli transition team: Republican Bernie McNamee, a a Cullen law partner and lobbyist who served in the AG’s office under Jerry Kilgore and was an aide to Gov. George Allen. McNamee unsuccessfully sought an appointment to the agency that polices Virginia business, the State Corporation Commission.
After naming his team, Cuccinelli said he’s focused on planning the transition, making hiring decisions and creating his legislative agenda for the upcoming General Assembly session. He plans to announce additional decisions next week, including any structural changes to the office and new hires.
Cuccinelli was asked whether he felt excluded from the rest of the Republican ticket of McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, particularly after the two men appeared together yesterday for McDonnell’s transition team announcement.
“No, I don’t,“ Cuccinelli said. “Bob and I talked yesterday about Bill’s role in his transition. Bill Bolling, let’s face it, is a sitting lieutenant governor, he really doesn’t have anything to transition.“
“I fully expect to be working closely with my ticket mates in pursuing each of our agendas, many which were rolled out together,“ he said. “I really don’t anticipate much in the way of challenges within our own team—by which I mean Bill, Bob and I, I expect that to be a good partnership and I have every reason to expect that.“
—Jeff E. Schapiro and Olympia Meola
