At the direction of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), Richmond’s top prosecutor has been investigating Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s (R) statements of economic interest for possible violations of disclosure laws, the Richmond Times Dispatch reports.

Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R), known for his strong stances on immigration, said he plans to formally announce a run for governor on a conservative talk radio show today, the Denver Post reports.

Said Tancredo: “This Dunlap thing is the last straw.”

Tancredo was referring to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s (D) decision to grant a temporary reprieve on the execution of death row inmate Nathan Dunlap, who was convicted of killing four people in 1993.

Anthony Weiner told Politicker that he hasn’t spoken with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) since his resignation following the sexting scandal that forced him to resign from Congress nearly two years ago.

“When it came to President Barack Obama, he said he’d have to check with his wife to make sure they hadn’t attended a same event, but couldn’t recall speaking to the nation’s top executive. Mr. Obama said at the time that he would resign if he were in Mr. Weiner’s shoes.”

Anthony Weiner announced his comeback attempt earlier today, but Karen Tumulty notes his challenge is greater than Mark Sanford faced earlier this month.

“Sanford, once it became clear that he had not been hiking the Appalachian Trail, pretty much owned up to where he had really been and the truth about his relationship with Maria Belen Chapur. Weiner continued to deny that the crotch photos sent through his Twitter account were in fact of his own crotch, even as the falsehood became more and more transparent.”

“And where Weiner was forced to resign, Sanford remained in office, surviving an effort to impeach him, paying the largest ethics fine in South Carolina history, and ultimately enjoying the most productive period of his governorship. Indeed, he left office in 2011 on something of a high note, with approval around 55 percent–which, as the Charleston Post and Courier noted at the time, made him more popular than half the nation’s governors.”

Stuart Rothenberg: “While national polls haven’t shown a shift in the public’s opinion of President Obama’s performance, recent controversies have, in my view, significantly changed the political landscape.”

Former Clinton White House counsel Lanny Davis said the growing IRS scandal has robbed Democrats of the so-called “trust edge” they held over Republicans and is now jeopardizing hopes that Hillary Clinton will replace President Obama in 2016, the Washington Examiner reports.

Said Davis: “This hurts the Democratic Party and will hurt anybody who runs for president in 2016. It will make it almost impossible to elect a [Democratic] president…I’m nervous.”

Coincidentally, Davis has a new book on how to deal with scandals called Crisis Tales.