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Clinton’s Indiana squeaker
Andrew Cain
May 07, 2008

Jeff E. Schapiro has this skinny:

Jody Wagner, until Aug. 8, was Gov. Tim Kaine’s finance secretary. Now she’s running for lieutenant govenor—with the help of Kaine’s political team.

Wagner, facing Jon Bowerbank for the Democratic nomination, is announcing her campaign staff—and it reads like the phone directory of the ‘05 Kaine-for-governor operation.

Wagner has hired Mo Elleithee as senior adviser. He was Kaine’s communication director, and most recently worked for Hillary Clinton as her presidential campaign spokesman.

Pollster Pete Brodnitz, another Kaine hand, is on board. The Bowerbank organization thought Brodnitz would work for the Russell County businessman—even announced that he’d be hired. But Brodnitz apparently had been leaning to Wagner.

David Eichenbaum, Kaine’s advertising consultant, will serve in the same role for Wagner. So will internet adviser John Rohrbach.

Alan Moore will handle Wagner’s direct mail. He’s been with the state Democratic Party and handled its efforts for Kaine in the race three years ago against Republican Jerry Kilgore and independent Russ Potts.

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      A stop at John Tyler Community College’s Chester campus could be added to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign tour through Virginia this week.

      Sources tell us that the site is under consideration for a Thursday morning event that would be closed to the public.

      Obama is holding events in Martinsville and Lynchburg tomorrow with former Gov. Mark Warner and Sen. Jim Webb, respectively.

      Also, if you wanted to catch the Lynchburg event and didn’t get your tickets already, you’re out of luck. They sold out.

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      Sen. Barack Obama has added a Lynchburg appearance with Sen. Jim Webb to his pass through Virginia this Wednesday.

      Webb and Obama will hold a town hall meeting with voters, which will focus on improving the economy and Obama’s plans for a tax cut for middle-class families and $4,000 in college tuition tax credits, according to the campaign. The event is free and open to the public.

      Earlier Wednesday, Obama and former Gov. Mark R. Warner will visit Martinsville. There, they will meet with workers and families who have been affected by what the Obama campaign calls the “failed trade policies of the Bush administration, policies [Arizona Sen.] John McCain promises to continue.”

      Of the 134 counties and cities in the state, Martinsville has the highest unemployment rate, measured in June at 11.4 percent.

      Obama is expected to make additional stops in Virginia this week, but the campaign has not confirmed other visits.

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      On Aug. 28, two weeks from tonight, Barack Obama accepts the Democrats’ presidential nomination in Denver. Meantime, wags are still trying to read the tea leaves about his vice presidential pick.

      Gov. Tim Kaine’s public schedule for next week, just released, doesn’t list any face time with the Ilinois senator. Of course, Kaine surely would make an exception if the Illinois senator came calling.

      Here’s Kaine’s schedule for now:

      On Monday morning, Aug. 18, he appears before the General Assembly’s money committees to present the news about just how badly the state’s revenues are missing projections. That afternoon Kaine is to be in the Old House Chamber to deliver remarks at the unveiling of a “portrait bust” of Meriwether Lewis on the explorer’s 234th birthday.

      On Wednesday, Aug. 20, Kaine and his Cabinet will be out and about, getting a briefing at Fort Monroe, touring an education center in Hampton, visiting a community for the elderly in Newport News, touring a science center at the College of William and Mary and attending a reception at Berkeley Plantation in Charles City County.

      On Thursday, Aug. 21, Kaine is to deliver remarks in Mechanicsville at the launch of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program’s Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign.  It raises awareness about drunken driving.

      Presumably sometime that weekend Kaine will fly to Denver to attend the Democratic convention, which begins Monday, Aug. 25.

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      Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will host a town hall meeting in Henrico County on Sunday to talk about Sen. Barack Obama’s plans for energy independence, tax relief and job creation, as well as “his commitment to fundamentally change the politics of Washington to make it work for Virginia families again,” according to the Obama campaign. 

      The event is open to the public and starts at 6:30 p.m. at Henrico High School, 302 Azalea Avenue.

      It’s one of several town hall meetings that Kaine, a national co-chair of the Obama campaign, is scheduled to hold around Virginia on Saturday and Sunday. The other town hall stops are Winchester, Leesburg, Manassas and Warrenton.

      Kaine will attend a canvass kick-off rally in Richmond at 5 p.m. on Sunday at the Campaign for Change office at 1208 West Marshall Ave.

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