Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors (Update2) (flag)

www.bloomberg.com — Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Virginia Governor Tim Kaine has a Harvard Law School degree, has twice won statewide office, and is fluent in Spanish. It’s a recent line on his resume that may become an issue as President-elect Barack Obama’s choice to head the Democratic Party. Kaine, 50, is the ...

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RedState: Conservative News and Community — And are you worried about the way that there’s supposed to be this whole new Dizzy City anti-lobbying initiative going on in a few months, and everything? Well, stop worrying, and instead check out the Southern Governors’ Association. More specifically, the SGA’s Corporate Affiliate Program, which “was created to provide a more formalized structure by which individuals and organizations with an interest in the South can work with member governors through the exchange of information and ideas that address issues and initiatives of regional importance.” Among other things, joining that gets you face-to-face time with ...

President-elect Obama makes Tim Kaine DNC chairman-elect
Top of the Ticket — Remember the other day when The Ticket reported that President-elect Barack Obama was going to name good pal and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as the new parttime chairman of the Democratic National Committee? And the parttime-ness of the Harvard-trained lawyer would last through Kaine's last year in Richmond? Before Kaine becomes a fulltime chair or something bigger next year? Remember that? It was right here with all the background on their connections and similarities. all that. Well, Obama did all that today in Washington. So now it's ...

Obama Welcomes Kaine To DNC, Praises Dean's Legacy
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... The knock on Kaine, at least from the Republican perspective, is that he is tied too closely to corporate interests to fit with Obama's message. Earlier this week, the RNC blasted out a story from Bloomberg News noting that Kaine serves as "chairman of the Southern Governors' Association, a group that raises money from tobacco, oil, energy and pharmaceutical companies in exchange for access to governors and other state officials." ...

Obama Welcomes Kaine To DNC, Praises Dean's Legacy
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... The knock on Kaine, at least from the Republican perspective, is that he is tied too closely to corporate interests to fit with Obama's message. Earlier this week, the RNC blasted out a story from Bloomberg News noting that Kaine serves as "chairman of the Southern Governors' Association, a group that raises money from tobacco, oil, energy and pharmaceutical companies in exchange for access to governors and other state officials." ...