latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/5/2009
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Back in 2001, President-elect George W. Bush named Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore as parttime chairman of the Republican National Committee. Richmond was close to the party's Capitol Hill headquarters and, as a governor himself, Bush liked to put chief executives in chief executive positions. ...
mydd.com - 1/5/2009
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Re: Should Tim Kaine be the Next DNC
Chair? ( 2.00 / 2 ) I agree with
your points, except for McAuliffe. I wouldn't vote for Kaine. But good luck organizing the DNC against the President's choice, there is no way the committee would go against a newly ...
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bloomberg.com - 1/7/2009
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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 ...
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Kaine Heads Group Offering Donors Access to Governors ...
news.yahoo.com - 1/8/2009
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news.yahoo.com —
WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama appeared Thursday at Democratic
Party headquarters with his hand-picked incoming chairman, Virginia Gov.
Tim Kaine , but his predecessor, outgoing chief Howard Dean , was nowhere in sight. Dean, who has clashed ...
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Obama appears with new DNC chief - Yahoo! News
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Kaine as “part-time” DNC chair
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Perhaps Barack Obama meant it as a consolation prize. After passing over Tim Kaine for his running mate in favor of Joe Biden, Obama selected the Virginia Governor to succeed Howard Dean as the next chair of the DNC. Unless Kaine decides to resign as governor, that means that the Democrats will temporarily return to the figurehead model for leadership, which Andrew Malcolm explains : Now, just two weeks before his inauguration, comes word from Democratic sources that President-elect Barack Obama later this week will name Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as part-time chairman of the ...
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The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... Tim Kaine will be elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee next month. Along with Kaine, Obama's team will appoint a strong executive director and shift the focus of the party to organizing. ...
Jesus Obama picks Pontius Pilate to head the DNC
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Now, with his pick of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to head up the Democratic National Committee, the Obamessiah has evidently decided to join forces with an east coast Pontius Pilate who, perhaps, washed his hands of sin by being a Democrat and voting for Obama (it certainly wasn’t accomplished by not running for the same office as the president-elect, as Gov. Palin also ran for a different position). ...
Shocking news
Sister Toldjah —
... , that Obama actually dispatched an electronic missive earlier today praising as “an ideal leader” Virginia’s Gov. Tim Kaine, Obama’s newly named part-time chair of the Democratic National Committee. “Gov. Kaine has seen the power of the 50-state strategy firsthand,” says the president-elect’s message. “And under his leadership, Democrats will continue to organize and compete in every corner of our country” ...
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Stop the servers.
The Democratic National Committee has circulated an email, in the name of President-elect Barack Obama, that doesn't ask for a penny for the party. Obama, who built his record-setting nearly billion-dollar ...
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politico.com 1/4/2009 — Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine has been chosen by President-elect Barack Obama to head the Democratic National Committee, , a Democratic official said.
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dailykos.com 10/26/2008 — Who will that person be? I've been struck at the similarities between the GOP these days and our Democratic Party back in 2004. We weren't happy with our standarbearer, we chaffed at the out-of-touch party establishment still fighting the battles of ...
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