John Woodard Interviews Ken Cuccinelli on The John Woodard Show | Eastern North Carolina Now

Kenneth "Ken" Thomas Cuccinelli II (born July 30, 1968, in Edison, New Jersey) is the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. He was appointed to the position by former acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan on June 10, 2019. Cuccinelli is a former Republican Attorney General of Virginia, having been sworn into office on January 15, 2010. Prior to this, he had been a Republican member of the Virginia State Senate since 2002, representing the thirty-seventh congressional district. Cuccinelli was the Republican nominee for Governor of Virginia in the 2013 election. He was the only gubernatorial candidate to file for the party's statewide primary convention by the January 14, 2013 deadline. He faced Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe and Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis in the general election on November 5, 2013, coming in a close second to McAuliffe.