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| Hillary and Kaine |
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Democratic Party
in the United States of America, Hillary Clinton has picked Virginia Senator
Tim Kaine as her running mate.
According to a
Clinton campaign official, the former US secretary of state reportedly called Kaine this
evening to make the formal offer adding that the
vetting process first began back in April with numerous contenders.
The statement added that Kaine and Clinton
campaigned together last week in Northern Virginia making people perceive the likelihood
of endorsing Kaine as her Vice President...
Kaine was a finalist eight years ago in
President Obama's vice presidential search, and he had endorsed the
then-Illinois senator early on. This time, he joined the "Ready for
Hillary" bandwagon before she even announced.
The 58-year-old is a former housing lawyer who
took off time from law school to work with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras,
during which he became fluent in Spanish. Kaine got his start in politics on
the Richmond City Council and later became the mayor of the Virginia capital.
In 2001, he was elected the commonwealth's lieutenant governor.
In 2005, he won a hard-fought race against
then-Republican Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, helped by strong margins in the
Northern Virginia suburbs and exurbs. His father-in-law is also a former
Virginia governor.
Kaine's tenure as governor (Virginia is the
last state that still limits its governors to a single four-year term) was
marked by the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech in April 2007. He was praised
for his response to the shootings, gathering a panel to investigate the
school's response and push for more mental health reforms.
Kaine sits on the
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committee and has been less hawkish
than Clinton in some instances. He has said the Obama administration needed to
get authorization from Congress to use force against ISIS, and he has been
critical of Congress for not granting an Authorization for Use of Military
Force.
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