Kaine urges mutual action at climate symposium in Washington
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was on Capitol Hill yesterday to take part in a one-day symposium on climate change, along with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, senators, fellow governors, business leaders and academics.
"We know that the issues around global warming and climate change reach across party lines and across national boundaries, across state borders and communities," Kaine said in a statement.
"That's why we must work together on global solutions as well."
The symposium, "U.S. Climate Action: A Global Economic Perspective," was organized by three Washington think tanks and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Kaine's Renew Virginia agenda met with mixed results in the recently concluded General Assembly session.
Also yesterday, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling urged the federal government to move forward with the lease sale for offshore oil and gas development off the coast of Virginia.
Last month, Kaine had urged Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to put off the lease sale, writing that: "our policies do not support exploration for oil or production of gas or oil."
In his own letter to Salazar, Bolling wrote that: "proceeding with this lease sale is essential to furthering Virginia's efforts to develop our offshore energy resources." -- Andrew Cain
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The powers to be who want to destroy this Republic sure have found two very useful idiots in Tim Kaine and Barack Obama their spokesmen.
How else can you explain the assaults on private business and the power grabs that are occurring daily around us?
Concurred, Kaine has contempt for the local politicians, and seems more interested in padding his resume than with the affairs of the Commonwealth.
He should resign.
Agreed! Kaine’s interests and loyalty are entirely with the DNC, not the Commonwealth of Virginia. The only reason he will not do the honorable thing and resign is that he believes he is a “place holder” to ensure that a Democrat is the next Governor of the Commonwealth. Kaine’s term in office has been a great disappointment and represents the squandering of a talent that could have served to improve the Commonwealth.
Last time I checked Kaine was still being paid to be govenor of Virginia, but he’s all about ‘global’ issues and this obsession with hobknobbing with the British government makes one wonder. Last month he signs off on some agreements between them and Virginia. Now this. If Kaine wants to be in the big leagues, that’s his business, but if he cannot put the interests of this state before his own ambition and those of Washington then he needs to do the honorable thing and resign.
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