marcambinder.theatlantic.com - 8/13/2008
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The selection of ex-VA Gov. Mark Warner to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention comes on the heels of a secret, last-minute effort to convince Warner to submit his name and record for vice presidential vetting. Sources close to Warner say that the Virginia Senate candidate was subject to fairly intense pressure by Obama advisers to allow the team of Eric Holder ...
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Warner Would Not Submit to Vetting
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Marc Ambinder reports that the selection of Mark Warner to deliver the keynote address
at the Democratic National Convention "comes on the heels of a secret,
last-minute effort to convince Warner to submit his name and record for
vice presidential vetting." Warner "was subject to fairly intense pressure by
Obama advisers to allow the team of Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy to
open an account and begin their work." However, Warner resisted, "citing, as he has done publicly, family concerns and his public pledge to Virginians."
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