It didn't seem right that we'd just post our list of The Top 25 Reasons Not to Vote for Jerry Kilgore on Raising Kaine. We owe it to our readers to say why we support Tim Kaine for Governor. The real problem with both these lists was paring them down to ONLY 25 items each. Well, we did our best. Here is our countdown of The Top 25 Reasons to Vote for Tim Kaine , counting down one-by-one, here's #6.6. Tim Kaine is strongly for children and for education. Tim Kaine?s signature ?Start Strong? plan will provide universal pre-K access to Virginia 4-year-olds. This is not just the right thing to do, it's also highly cost-effective. As Kaine points out, "We spend at least $5 for remedial education right now for every dollar we put in early childhood education. All the studies on early childhood education show this is going to pay for itself.?
In fact, studies show that for every $1 spent on pre-k education that state saves $17 in service expenditures over the lifetime of those children. This isn't just a smart thing to do, it's the right thing to do. Tim Kaine is the right man to get it done.