Obama taps Virginia's Gov. Tim Kaine as parttime DNC chair
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latimesblogs.latimes.com — 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. ...
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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 ...

Top Of The Morning
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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