Kaine shoots back at Allen, gears campaign site to Spanish speakers
Tim Kaine
George Allen
Folks hankering for former governors George Allen and Tim Kaine to hammer away at one another in the race for U.S. Senate have received their first gift of the campaign today.
Kaine’s announcement of his candidacy for U.S. Senate is only a few hours old, but his campaign is already firing at Allen, who criticized him earlier today.
Mo Elleithee, who carries the title of Kaine senior advisor, sent out a statement this afternoon responding to George Allen’s statement earlier today:
“It’s unfortunate that George Allen has resorted to name calling so early in this campaign. Virginians deserve a Senator who will focus on our nation’s economic challenges and will bring more civility to Washington.
“We agree that Virginians will have a clear choice in this race. As Governor, Tim Kaine cut $7 billion from the state budget, and Virginia was named the Best Managed State in the Nation, Best State for Business four years in a row, and Best State in Which to Raise a Child — all during the worst recession in decades. On the other side will be a candidate who supported the policies that led to record unemployment and took America’s largest budget surplus and turned it into America’s largest federal deficit –helping to CREATE the worst recession in decades. There will be plenty of time in the coming months to have this debate, once we know who our opponent will be. We look forward to it, and in the meantime, wish all of our potential opponents well.”
In other U.S. Senate campaign news, it’s clear that Kaine has been looking at U.S. Census figures showing a 91.7 percent increase in Virginia’s Hispanic population from a decade ago: There’s a Spanish-language version of Kaine’s campaign site.
And it includes a Spanish version of his announcement video:
April 5, 2011 - 4:24 PM
Can illegals vote? Thats the vast majority of hispanics in Va.
The increase is reflective of the dramatic increase in legal Hispanic immigrants, whether you like it or not.
I laugh just thinking about Macaca Man ‘reaching out’ to Spanish speaking people…
Well of course! They get free education while dragging down the performance of English speaking students in the classroom and a whole lot of other free-bees draining the resources of cities and states which would otherwise go to citizens. This pretty much proves the liberals are targeting them for their support and wanting to give illegals equal status. Of course the R’s do it too. But still, the R’s do it because they need to counter the libs. The libs do it to strengthen their power base.
#1 Now how did I know there would be a comment like this from Jack?
Please provide your evidence that MOST Hispanics in Virginia are illegals.
“Please provide your evidence that MOST Hispanics in Virginia are illegals.”
The Washington Examiner reports the illegal population at 250,000 in Va.Thats down from over 300,000 previously.Pilot online puts the total Hispanic population in Va at 470,000.Theres your sign.
Had a little fun today. Stopped by the “federal grant money” funded sidewalk project in front of the public (read tax payer funded) housing project on wise ave. today and asked several of the workers for their green cards. Looks like the obama illegal workers stimulus package has hit another home run.
On another note – has anyone seen a bicycle rider using the new bike lanes on Gus Nicks Blvd. between orange ave and vinton? these will come in handy when gas goes to $10. In the mean time – avoid the inside lanes when driving your car, they are DANGEROUSLY narrow. I wonder cif anyone has checked to see if they meet state DOT lane width requirements.I doubt they do.
LOL, I see George Allen’s base is well represented here.
“Had a little fun today. Stopped by the “federal grant money” funded sidewalk project in front of the public (read tax payer funded) housing project on wise ave. today and asked several of the workers for their green cards. Looks like the obama illegal workers stimulus package has hit another home run.”
Yes the crew is 95% Mexican,and more than likely 95% illegal.While legal citizens with no jobs must depend on the Mission for sustenance.It makes me wonder,just who decided a few years ago to allow this plague of illegals into this Country.And what is really scary is that members of both parties want to let these criminals who have broken into our Country get special “pathways” to citizenship.Bush and Obama are both for it.
Well. I must say this. I wanted to vote for Kaine and not the old school republican Allen who has proven to be part of the problem and not the solution.
I am VERY concerned that Kaine’s FIRST outreach in his election bid is to Hispanic voters. I am currently re-evaluating who I am voting for. This ad is not good for Kaine.
Radke just moved up by default. I am very disappointed. This may come down to voting for the ridiculous TP candidate to teach the party machine its time to change or die off to the next generation of parties.
“the R’s do it because they need to counter the libs.”
No, the R’s do it because their base makes a fortune off of cheap labor.