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 #22.22. Tim Kaine champions transportation. Tim Kaine has committed to protecting the Transportation trust fund. He will lead a charge for a constitutional ammendment to protect Transporation funding from being cannibalized by other priorities. This was a true priority for Tim Kaine, his opponent jumped on the bandwagon afterwards.
Unlike his opponent, Tim Kaine has a trackrecord of success on transporation issues.
Tim Kaine is a proven leader on transportation with a record of getting results. As the Mayor of Richmond, Kaine successfully fought for the restoration of daily train service to the historic downtown Main Street Station, and he bridged a long-standing conflict between Richmond and Chesterfield County to build a regional partnership for bus service. He worked with regional leaders on road projects in Virginia?s third most populous region. As Lieutenant Governor, Kaine worked with Governor Warner to reform VDOT and forge the historic bipartisan budget agreement that allowed the state to make an $850 million investment in roads, rails, and transit in 2005. The 2005 investment, the largest one-time investment in transportation in Virginia?s history, would have been impossible if the opponents of budget reform had prevailed. - [For more, click here.]
It's easy to stand up and say over and over again "I'm going to widen Route 66" and "I'm the only candidate with a plan". It's not so easy to actually effect change within a contentious State Senate. Tim Kaine has done it. Unlike his opponent, Tim Kaine is a leader with a history of successful results.