Fallout from Kaine-for-VP talk

Chris Graham

Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine is vice president, and Scott Sayre is your 24th District state senator. Think I’m reaching there? Let me take you where I am with this far-reaching scenario that’s been running through my head the past couple of days. Thinking things through, with Kaine as VP, Bill Bolling becomes…

Does Kaine make sense on Obama ticket?

Chris Graham

Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about Tim Kaine being on Barack Obama’s VP short list is no accident. Just look at the timing. That’s what has Christopher Newport University political-science professor Quentin Kidd thinking there’s more to the firestorm of coverage on this short-list news than maybe meets the eye. “There are two…

Where does Kaine fit in?

Chris Graham

Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] If Barack Obama was to go strictly by the positive numbers, he’d have John Edwards making a second run at the job of second most powerful person in the free world. A Rasmussen Reports survey released on Monday showed that the former North Carolina senator and 2004 Democratic Party vice-presidential…

Kaine pushing alternative work options in Richmond

Chris Graham

Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine has some ideas for saving state taxpayer money in this day and age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Kaine announced yesterday a telework initiative for 120 employees in his Cabinet and in the governor’s office and a directive to all state agencies to consider ways to improve and expand…

Kaine introduces transportation-funding bill

Chris Graham

Item by Chris Graham [email protected] An increase in the motor-vehicle sales tax, a hike in annual vehicle-registration fees, and a 1 percent increase in retail sales taxes in Northern Virginia and Hampton Road are among the highlights of Gov. Tim Kaine’s proposed solution to the state’s transportation-funding crisis. Kaine introduced legislation that he wants to…

Winners and Losers: McCain, GI Bill, Gilmore, Kaine

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: John McCain drops John Hagee like a hot potato “I can understand why people are upset about this. I can understand why, that Americans when viewing these kinds of comments are angry and upset.” That was McCain talking a few weeks ago about the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, incidentally….