This is pretty cool - five Virginia governors sitting around talking about politics, raising money (and how much they hate it), blogs and other new media, qualifications for governor, etc. Check it out. [...]
Back in early 2008, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine launched a commission to study the impact of Global Warming on Virginia. "Gone are the days of debating whether man-made effects exist," he said. "Those days are gone."

Gov. Tim Kaine, Gov-elect Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling all attended the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Revenue Estimates (GACRE) today and received less than stellar news regarding the state budget.
The estimators predicted that “Virginia needs to cut an additional $250 million from the budget [...]
Outgoing Governor Tim Kaine is proposing tax increases to balance the gap in the upcoming budget (Norm @ TQ).
After all, it’s not as if the last fellow to call for a tax increase went down to the greatest landslide defeat in almost fifty years . . . [...]
More "whitewashing" from the DPVA? It sure seems that way. I'm hearing from reliable sources that Tim Kaine and Creigh Deeds will be coming to the DPVA's State Central Committee meeting on December 5 specifically in order to discourage any discussion about what happened in the recent election' [...] 
Alan Moore of the DC Examiner recently did a profile of each of the three Republicans in the race to succeed AG-elect Ken Cuccinelli; Chairman Tim Kaine recently set the date of the general election to Tuesday, January 12th. Here are some excerpts from Moore’s articles:
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Marianne Horinko
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From Roz Helderman at the Washington Post:Gov. Tim Kaine's office reports that it has now received a copy of a letter from Sen. Ken Cuccinelli, indicating that he will resign from the state Senate on Jan. 12, in preparation for his inauguration as state attorney general Jan. 16.
On Monday, I listed what I believe to be Tim Kaine's "Top 20 Successes" as Governor. Now, as promised, here are his Top 20 Failures. Oh, and for anyone who says this is just "Monday Morning QB'ing," I recommend that you go to the Raising Kaine archives' [...] According to the WaPo, Tim Kaine blames Creigh’s loss on the fact that he distanced himself from the president and his policies.
The real reason he lost was because he couldn’t get enough distance…..
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