WA POST: VA GOV KAINE IS ABSENT FROM OFFICE
WA POST: VA GOV KAINE IS ABSENT FROM OFFICE
(QUOTE) Kaine has been to North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Texas, Georgia, Missouri and Ohio in recent months and has often attended fundraisers in Virginia and the District. He was in Philadelphia on Wednesday and will be in New York on Monday.
"The citizens of Virginia have the right to know the facts so they can judge for themselves whether the governor is spending adequate time on the job that he was elected to fulfill," said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics in Washington. (Unquote)
This the first time the Washington Post is reporting on the absence of Virginia Governor Tim Kaine as he travels around the country with a Virginia State Police escort week in and week out as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/24/AR2009062403522.html