This oughta be good.
Posted on 02/10/2010 1:34:56 AM PST by BIOCHEMKY
RICHMOND, Va. -- Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is urging President Barack Obama to fire Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, another former Virginia governor.
Wilder wrote of Kaine, in a column for the Politico news Web site, that "the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee is the wrong job for him."
In an interview with The Associated Press, Wilder cited Republican victories in last month's Senate election in Massachusetts and in gubernatorial races last fall in New Jersey and Virginia.
"I'm just disappointed in his leadership," Wilder told the AP. "And there are a lot of people -- a lot of Democrats -- who come to me and are disappointed but are not going to speak out like I'm saying it."
"Don't let yourself believe that Massachusetts and Virginia and New Jersey were some aberration," Wilder said, "and I hope Tim and the president will take it in the constructive way it was intended."
Wilder also noted the $1 billion-a-year income tax increase Kaine proposed before leaving office and his efforts to let a German diplomat's son convicted of two grisly slayings return to Germany from a Virginia prison.
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It looks like VA was quite a power base for the DEMS.
Democratic former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder
former Virginia governor & DNC Chair Tim Kaine
What a shame (for the Dims!) that the CURRENT VA Governor, Bob McDonnell, is such a genuine person, patriotic Amerian, and a true political conservative!
fyi
Gov. Douglas Wilder — isn’t he the one that was such an abject failure as Governor that they had to create a job for him — Mayor of Richmond? Richmond never had a mayor before. Wilder is not well thought of in VA.
another link from a Virginia news site
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1884746
Former Va. governor urges DNC chair’s ouster
“Richmond Mayor Doug Wilder ends 40-year public service career with mixed legacy”
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=76
Former VA Governor Douglas Wilder was the natio’s first elected black governor.
He became the Mayor of Richmond, VA (in 2004?) ten years after leaving the Governorship.
Mayor Wilder recently had a plunge in popularity and decided to retire in May of 2009 after a 40 year political career.
This oughta be good.
Wilder represents 40 GD years of Affirmative Action FAILURE. At least with MLK we got a flag as to how to avoid the cesspools in our cities by avoiding all areas with MLK street names.
Former Va. governor urges DNC chair’s ouster
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=600&sid=1884746
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The nation’s first elected black governor is calling for Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine’s ouster.
In a column Tuesday on the political news Web site Politico, former Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder said the Democratic Party has suffered a series of reversals in governor’s races and special congressional elections under Kaine’s watch.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Wilder said his comments about Kaine, whose term as Virginia’s governor expired last month, were not personal. Wilder said he’s just disappointed with Kaine’s leadership.
Wilder and Kaine were among President Barack Obama’s chief supporters in 2008 when Obama became the first Democrat to win Virginia since 1964. Obama chose Kaine to head the DNC after winning the presidency. Wilder supported Kaine in 2005 when Kaine was elected governor.
Richmond Mayor Doug Wilder ends 40-year public service career with mixed legacy
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/news.php?viewStory=76
RICHMOND (Special to the NNPA from the Richmond Free Press) — “As the first elected mayor under the city’s new form of government, I have set the course that will continue to produce meaningful results even as I now announce my leave from this office at the end of the year.”
Facing a gathering storm of challengers eager to attack his my-way-or-the-highway approach that has been the hallmark of his tenure, the mayor touted his achievements and chose to bow out rather than risk ruining his unblemished election record.
Mayor Wilder was elected mayor in 2004, fully 10 years after leaving the governor’s office. He led the campaign to replace Richmond’s appointed city manager with an at-large mayor and created high expectations for change when he was swept into office with 80 percent of the vote.
His decision not to run again follows a plunge in his popularity. That plunge was fueled by his combative style, his never-ending fights with city council and the school board and a series of missteps. They range from his failure to keep the Richmond Braves in the city to the fiasco of trying to boot the school board from City Hall without council approval. Richmond Circuit Judge Margaret P. Spencer halted the school system move.
Mayor Wilder was battered most recently after it was revealed that he had been receiving a $700-a-month car allowance for three years while riding around in a chauffeured city car with a police security detail that cost taxpayers more than $400,000 a year. He reimbursed the city $25,000. However, recent polls taken for several mayoral candidates had indicated that less than 40 percent of city residents would vote to re-elect Mayor Wilder.
"Don't let yourself believe that Massachusetts and Virginia and New Jersey were some aberration,
Blaming whitey for Americas rejection of the black on the outside red on the inside marxist POTUS and his comrades mad dash to socialism and totalitarianism.
How stereotypical.
Let me guess, fire him and give me the job, is that about right Gov Wilder.
Personally, I think they should keep Kaine and fire Obama.
Sorry, your view from Wisconsin is a bit skewed.
Virginians know that nobody is more important to Doug Wilder than Doug Wilder himself. And yes, his time as Mayor was controversial.
But, even as a Democrat Governor, he managed to deal with a budget shortfall left by his Democrat Governor without raising taxes. True he got criticism for running for President while Governor (it happens). But he was not an “abject failure.”
Richmond has always had a Mayor, just not a directly elected one. Tim Kaine was a former Mayor of Richmond. Prior to Wilder’s election the Mayor was selected from among the elected members of the City Council. The position was not “created” for Wilder.
I’m told that the position became directly elected because the City Council would not have elected him. I’m sorry that I stated it awkwardly before. My opinions are reflections of what I have been told by people who live there now and who lived there under his term as Governor. The nicest thing that I can say is that he is not universally admired for his leadership. The word “incompetent” comes to mind.
It’s damning with faint praise, but I’d take Wilder over both Mr. Ed (Marky Mark Warner) and the Hinky Eyebrow (Kaine), if I had to be in Virginia and stuck with a Rat in the governor’s mansion. At least Doug’s entertaining. He’s an arrogant bastard, but if you ask him a question you’ll get a straight answer.
}:-)4
O wil never in a million years admit a mistake.
For Rahm’s sake I hope he doesn’t accept an invite to go sledding in Ft. Marcy Park any time soon.
Wilder’s a take-no-prisoners buffoon. He’s stubborn and likes to pick a fight. That’s why he wasn’t liked as Mayor. But he’s not incompetent.
I’m no Doug Wilder fan, but he was a far better Governor than any of the other Democrats we’ve had in the last 30 years.
We should all call the democratic leadership with the message... “stay the course, keep doing what you are doing....”
That way maybe the dems will be scuttled for decades.
I’m with you Corin...I’m not a fan of Doug Wilder, but I have to give him creidt for leaving the state with more money in the treasury than when he came in.
As far as running for office while still in office, it seems that is the way to go nowadays isn’t it? I guess we Virginians haven’t deserved a full-time Governor for quite a while
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