Cuccinelli acknowledges hectic first months have taken a toll...

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli acknowledged Friday that his hectic first few months as the state's top lawyer have taken a toll.

"There are people pining for boredom in the Attorney General's office," Cuccinelli told a breakfast for business leaders on the Peninsula Friday. "And I can tell you I am one of them."

Cuccinelli has stirred up controversy in several different circles since his inauguration, challenging the science behind global warming, telling state-supported colleges they can't bar discrimination based on sexual orientation and filing a lawsuit that could undermine the federal health care reform signed by President Barack Obama this week.

But Cuccinelli did not seem weary at all Friday morning as he discussed a wide range of issues with members of the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce. Dressed in a dark suit and tennis shoes because of a still-healing broken foot, Cuccinelli joked about Gov. Bob McDonnell raiding the AG's office for staffers and encouraged folks to keep eating while he was talking.

"Being Italian and having seven children, I'm sort of used to that activity continuing all the time," Cuccinelli said.

Cuccinelli was headed for a meeting with local police chiefs from Newport News and Poquoson when he left the breakfast.  

  

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[DEBRA WILLIAMS]

If you can't take the heat get out of the kitchen. I beleive he and McDonnell are both racist becasue there is a black (bi-racial) President in office.

[Dean]

"Being Italian and having seven children, I'm sort of used to that activity continuing all the time," Cuccinelli said.

"I love my cigar, but I take it out once in a while," supposedly said Groucho Marx.

[Dean]

Here's a hint Cooch: The next time you think you have to do something, don't.

Don't write the letter. Don't offer hypothetical responses. Don't file the motion. Don't think you can think; you can't.