Governor Kaine to be new DNC Chair

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Kaine Poised To Chair The DNC (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401139.html?hpid=topnews)
Va. Governor to Hold Position Part Time In Last Year in Office

Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will become chairman of the Democratic National Committee later this month, serving as the top political messenger for Barack Obama's administration even while finishing his final year in the governor's mansion, several sources said.

Kaine, 50, who emerged as a finalist for the job of Obama's running mate last summer, will operate from Richmond in a part-time capacity until January 2010, when he will become the full-time DNC chairman. Kaine is constitutionally barred from running for reelection.

Kaine, a friend of the president-elect's, is a gregarious chief executive who is known to relish political combat and helped put Virginia in the Democratic presidential election column for the first time in almost 50 years.

Obama transition officials declined to comment yesterday, and aides to Kaine did not return calls seeking comment. Two sources said Obama will announce his choice of Kaine for the DNC post later this week.

It looks as though we have Gov. Howard Dean's replacement and he's not a minor talent in the least bit.

[Tenbatsuzen]

Kaine?

MAH GAWD

[Tenbatsuzen]

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[TooLowBrow]

gregarious chief executive who is known to relish political combat
heres a guy who want to talk you to death

[epo]

heres a guy who want to talk you to death

So was Dean. Maybe we democrats like a loudmouth in charge?

[Tallman388]

Yeah but I bet Kaine is less of a windbag than Dean.

[SonOfSmeagol]

Damn - all this talk about "Kaine" and "Dean" - I got confused

http://www.supermanhomepage.com/images/lois-and-clark/dean-cain-superman1.JPG

[high fly]

Though I'm not a fan of the spiky hairdo, Kaine has talent and I think he'll do a good job, especially if he brings "Mudcat" Saunders and and Steve Jarding on board.
Kaine has been a very good governor..

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DNC changing 50-State Strategy: (http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11034)

Another story we have been following on Open Left is the fate of the fifty-state strategy now that Howard Dean will no longer be DNC Chair. During the festivities here in D.C., I ran into a source close to the transition at the DNC who was able to provide an update on the new outlines of the DNC strategy, which does diverge from the current form of the fifty-state strategy in multiple ways:

1. Increasing Centralization: The shift in resources away from paid media and toward on the ground organizers will continue. However, these resources will be more directly controlled by the DNC itself, rather than by state parties. In other words, the SPP program where the DNC pays for organizers chosen by the state parties themselves is, as previously reported, done. Instead, the DNC will likely hire and assign organizers themselves. State party grants will also likely be transformed into more centrally directed expenditures by the DNC.

2. More swing state, less fifty-state: Many, if not most, states will have more resources spent on them during the next four years than during the previous four years. In addition to increasingly centralized control over how these resources are spent, there will also be a return to a swing-state focus for 2012. However, it is important to keep in mind that the Obama campaign's version of a swing state strategy was broader than either the Gore or Kerry incarnations.

In short, the DNC will be moving away from the long-term, decentralized, fifty-state strategy of Howard Dean's tenure, and toward serving as a short-term, centralized re-election effort for President Obama in 2012. It will continue the move away from paid media ushered in by Howard Dean, maintain or increase the amount of resource expenditures in most states, and the number of states it targets will be a broader effort than the narrow focus we saw in 2001-2004 (but more narrow than 2005-2008). However, it will return to the traditional role of the DNC as a supplement for the sitting President's re-election campaign, rather than as the long-term, localized institution building operation that is was from 2005-2008.

The fifty-state strategy of 2005-2008 is going to be replaced with the "re-elect President Obama" strategy of 2009-2012. Both have their advantages, but I still consider firing the 200 state party organizers a real blow to the long-term development of local Democratic Party talent and infrastructure.

While good for the short-term success of the party, I think structurally moving away from the 50-state strategy employed by Governor Dean is a horrible tactical idea.

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Tim Kaine stepping down as DNC Chair effective immediately. Plans to run for Senate in 2012 in Virginia.

Good riddance.

[A.J.]

Tim Kaine stepping down as DNC Chair effective immediately. Plans to run for Senate in 2012 in Virginia.

Oh joy for me.

[epo]

Oh joy for me.

You can deal with him. He's done enough damage to my party...

[Dude!]

Oh joy for me.

not to worry...
the bloom is off that rose

[A.J.]

You can deal with him. He's done enough damage to my party...

He's done enough damage to my Commonwealth.

[jonyrotn]

He shoulda been tarred and feathered a year and a half ago...

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Likely replaced by....Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc_n_845234.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1195803,b=facebookhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc_n_845234.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1195803,b=facebook)

[Zorro]

Likely replaced by....Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Oh that voice...reminds me of a friend's mom growing up...(whining) "you were supposed to rake the leaves"

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Likely replaced by....Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc_n_845234.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1195803,b=facebookhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/debbie-wasserman-schultz-dnc_n_845234.html?ref=fb&src=sp#sb=1195803,b=facebook)

I wish it was Joe Lieberman so you would get angry

[A.J.]

I wish it was Joe Lieberman so you would get angry

Lieberman is not a Democrat. He's "INDEPENDENT".

Although he could have had a great campaign slogan: "You can't spell Lieberman without 'lie'!"

[WRESTLINGFAN]

The DNC just threw a big fat fastball down the middle of the plate. Wasserman Schultz is basically a Pelosi clone with an atrocious voice

[Zorro]

Lieberman is not a Democrat. He's "INDEPENDENT".

Although he could have had a great campaign slogan: "You can't spell Lieberman without 'lie'!"

No you di'int!?

[Dude!]

Although he could have had a great campaign slogan: "You can't spell Lieberman without 'lie'!"

and
you can't spell Debbie Wasserman Schultz
without "Die ass"

[A.J.]

No you di'int!?

I did!

Once upon I time I was proud to call him my Senator.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Already Wasserman-Schultz is providing some fine entertainment. She was crying about how Ryans budget proposal would kill seniors.

Watch out for scooters and canes along the streets. Make sure you dont hit Grandma while her corpse in on the parkway

Lets not stop there. How about a subsidy for the elderly. Special can openers so that they are able open their dog food. Grips for Geezers

[hanso]

You don't think this happens. Or you get jollys from it.

[WRESTLINGFAN]

You don't think this happens. Or you get jollys from it.

Sure there are some people who have to go that route, but its not going to happen en masse like Schultz is worried about.


Medicare should have never been implemented. As usual the feds didnt see the unintended consequences of people living longer, just like with social security.

Its the same scare tactics but different deck chairs. 2 years ago it was death panels , now its senior citizens bodies being stacked up like in the movie 300

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Already Wasserman-Schultz is providing some fine entertainment. She was crying about how Ryans budget proposal would kill seniors.

Watch out for scooters and canes along the streets. Make sure you dont hit Grandma while her corpse in on the parkway

Lets not stop there. How about a subsidy for the elderly. Special can openers so that they are able open their dog food. Grips for Geezers

Actually your example is EXACTLY what I want the DNC Chair to be doing. Its her job to flank the party in a very direct and over-the-top fashion to help the rhetoric for those who are trying to play the actual middle.

You clearly don't understand politics.