Kaine pays up

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia ham in the possession of Gov. Tim Kaine had seemed quite secure. Virginia Tech had been a four-point favorite heading into their Orange Bowl matchup with Kansas, and the sentiment around the football world was the oddsmakers were giving the Jayhawks too much credit. But there’s a reason…

Kaine backs Schultz, visits SU

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Story by Chris Graham Gov. Tim Kaine is solidly behind the campaign of 27th Senate District Democratic nominee Karen Schultz. Kaine appeared with Schultz at Shenandoah University in Winchester on Thursday to discuss their ideas on devising and implementing innovative education plans aimed at moving Virginia forward. Schultz is a professor at SU in the…

Schultz, Kaine to appear in Winchester

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Item by Chris Graham Gov. Tim Kaine will be in Winchester Thursday to campaign for 27th Senate District Democratic Party nominee Karen Schultz. Kaine and Schultz will make a joint appearance at Shenandoah University – where Schultz is a professor and the head of the service-learning program at the SU School of Pharmacy. The event…

Potts down to last strike: Candidate running out of polls, time

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Story by Chris Graham Independent Russ Potts may have only one chance left to qualify for an Oct. 9 televised gubernatorial-candidate debate. Three organizations – Mason-Dixon, Rasmussen Reports and The Washington Post – have been regularly polling Virginia voters as to their preferences for governor in the 2005 elections. Only one of those three, the…

Kaine ties donations to silence on investigation

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Story by Chris Graham   A mailer sent out by Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Tim Kaine last month implies that Republican Party rival Jerry Kilgore held off on launching a state investigation into a pharmaceutical company’s actions regarding its alleged overbilling of the federal Medicaid system during his term as Virginia’s attorney general because the…

Allen fights back at Kaine remarks

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Story by Chris Graham   U.S. Sen. George Allen isn’t taking the political attacks being lobbed at his former secretary of public safety, Republican Party gubernatorial nominee Jerry Kilgore, lightly. “I read with bemusement Tim Kaine’s reaction to Jerry Kilgore’s positive proposal to continue battling violent street gangs in Virginia, many of which are made…

Kaine talks regional growth, I-81

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Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine spent a good part of his day on Wednesday talking about how he wants to take steps to strengthen regional economies in Virginia. So … what would the presumptive Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee do to improve the lifeblood of Western Virginia’s regional economy that is Interstate 81?