Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli plans to tie Democrat Terry McAuliffe to labor groups early and often in the Virginia governor race in hopes of winning support in a state with a long history of anti-union culture.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, Cuccinelli reaffirmed his support of Virginia’s right-to-work laws, making it a pillar of the five-point agenda he unleashed there. Cuccinelli said right-to-work states “have more freedom” and he accused his November opponent of working “hand-in-hand with the national union bosses” during the time McAuliffe was Democratic National Committee chairman.