In August, Virginiia Gov. Tim Kaine joined then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at a town hall meeting at John Tyler Community College in Chester, Va. Kaine is set to become the next chairman of the Democratic Party. AP Photo bySteve Helber
by Mark Silva
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Tim Kaine, Democratic governor of one of the long-red states that gave President-elect Barack Obama his electoral college landslide, will serve as chairman of a Democratic National Committee attempting to build upon Obama's success.
Kaine, an early supporter of Obama once viewed as a possible running mate, plans to perform the DNC task part-time from Richmond while finishing his four year term as governor of Virginia. When he is finished as governor in January 2010, he plans to become fulltime chairman of the party.
"He's going to be offered the chairmanship of the DNC and he's going to take it," state House Minority Leader Ward L. Armstrong told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Armstrong said Kaine sounded him out about the appointment during a phone conversation on New Year's Day, the paper reports.
"He has the ear of the president, and I understand [Obama] wants to expand the role of the DNC,'' he said, " I don't think that hurts us in this part of the world."
The part-time appointment might pose political difficulties for Kaine in Virginia, his home-state paper reports. "He will seek to promote Obama's agenda while coping with Virginia's budget shortfall of nearly $3 billion.
This also marks the passing of an era for a party led by Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont who ran for president in 2004 on an anti-Iraq war platform and served as chairman since then with a vision for waging a "50-state campaign'' for his party. Obama built his success on far fewer states, focusing on battlegrounds such as Virginia that had not voted Democratic since the 1960s.
Kaine was the first governor outside of Illinois to endorse Obama. Both are Harvard graduates and civil-rights lawyers, the paper notes, and their mothers grew up in the small town of El Dorado, Kansas.
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"Tim Kaine: New Democratic Nat'l chairman!"
...meanwhile, the Repuglicans are busy defending Chip "magic negro" Saltsman and pushing for him to be their next Grand Wizard.
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Posted by: Help Obama take America back from the REAL criminals | January 4, 2009 8:03 PM
MJ...Kaine just a "mouthpiece picture boy". The new DNC is the Chicago gang headed by Daley...that's a fact.
Posted by: Bubba Porter | January 4, 2009 9:27 PM
Who the heck is part-time Kaine? Never heard of him. At least Dean is a known commodity--and Dean also had the winning idea for Obama to have a state by state campaign. The 50-state campaign did more for Obama's fundamentals in the battleground states than Obama might admit. Obama may want to share his barber with Kaine.
Posted by: Vivian | January 5, 2009 11:55 AM
Thoughts that don't seem to occur to Swamp reporters:
1) Is Kaine so non-busy as governor of VA that he can take a 2nd job?
2) Isn't Kaine short-changing the people of VA by becoming a part-time governor?
3) Since Kaine is now a part-timer, he should refund part of his governor's salary.
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