Positions on the Issues

Prescription Drugs from Canada: "This is long
  overdue...the price of drugs continues to rise and is needlessly driving
  up the cost of health care for Virginians."

Small Business: Kaine favors a tax credit for businesses
  of 50 or fewer employees of $500 per employee to offset the cost of
  providing health insurance. Kaine also favors creating a purchasing
  pool that would allow small companies to join together in order to obtain
  less expensive insurance rates. Kaine also supports fully restoring
  small business incubator funding to its previous level, before the General
  Assembly eliminated it.

Malpractice: Kaine would "stop frivolous malpractice
  claims while protecting the rights of people who have suffered preventable
  injuries."

College Tuition: Kaine favors restricting tuition
  increases at Virginia's public colleges and universities to the rate
  of inflation in order to "ensure that Virginia families have access
  to an affordable higher education for their children."

Preschool Education:His "Start Strong"
plan will make pre-kindergarten available for all Virginia 4-year-olds.

Teacher Quality: Require every public school teacher
  to receive an annual evaluation. Benchmark Virginia teacher salaries
  to the national average in order to "attract and retain high quality
  teachers."

Southside University: Create a new four-year public
  university in Southside Virginia in order to "stop families in
  Southside from having to send their children away to get an in-state
  college education" and to "serve as an economic engine in
  the part of the state that has been hardest hit by job loss."

Transportation: Amend the Virginia Constitution to
  lock up the Transportation Trust Fund. Kaine "applaud[s] Governor
  Warner for restoring money to the trust fund that had been previously
  removed" from the Fund.

Prevent Juvenile Violence: Supports a "'Juvenile
  Exile' bill to enhance the penalties for juveniles who are convicted
  of illegally carrying a firearm and found to be a danger to himself
  or others."

Guns:Kaine's innovative program, "Project Exile,"
  brought together people on all sides of the gun issue when Tim was
  Mayor of Richmond.  Kaine supports enforcing existing gun laws but not
  adding any new ones.  He supported a constitutional amendment to
  guarantee the right of Virginias to hunt and fish.

Anti Gangs and Counter Terrorism: Give the State Police
  the resources they need to combat gang violence, drug dealers and terrorism.
  Allow the state police to convert 113 Virginia State Police officers
  with enhanced tactical, canine or scuba training into full-time specialists
  ("I've always said you can't be cheap on crime if you're going
  to be tough on crime")

Abortion: Tim Kaine is a religious Roman Catholic and is personally
  opposed to abortion.  He believes in imposing a ban on "partial
  birth abortion" that both protects the mother's health and that
  is constitutional.  Beyond that, he believes that the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision
  is the law of the land and should be enforced.