More Kaine travel stories

By JR Hoeft | Friday, July 10th, 2009 | Catch-All

Yesterday, the Washington Post connected on Gov. Tim Kaine (D))with a direct uppercut regarding his travels across the country as DNC Chair all the while purporting to be our governor – breaking yet another pledge (taxes, transportation, etc.):

Timothy M. Kaine said he has been spending a day and a half of each workweek handling fundraising and policy matters for the Democratic National Committee, a departure from his pledge to conduct most of his national party work by phone and fax and restrict it largely to evenings and weekends while he is governor of Virginia.

When he took the party job, Kaine said he would work part time as DNC chairman from Richmond until January 2010, when his four-year term ends. He said he would conduct DNC business on weekends and in the evenings and rely on aides, computers and phones to monitor party business. He said in November that to do otherwise would not be “consistent with being governor. . . . I would view it as taking my eye too much off the ball about things that need to happen here.”

Since taking the DNC post, Kaine has repeatedly declined to release a schedule of his travels. Through interviews and a review of news reports, The Washington Post found that much of his party work was occurring on weekdays.

We’ve written about this extensively at BD over the last few weeks, so it seemed ridiculous to pile-on yet again. But what the heck.

Kaine has spent the last two years as an absentee governor – whether campaigning on behalf of Pres. Barack Obama or now as DNC chair – he’s failed to live up to his obligations as governor…and we have no long-term transportation solution and a 7% unemployment rate to show for it.

Thanks for the leadership, guv.

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