How about Kilgore Trout instead??
Does either have official websites yet?..
That does sound like the logical match-up.
Kaine is the former mayor of Richmond and Kilgore was Public Safety Director in the Gilmore Administration.
Visit the state GOP's web site and you can see them already starting to take aim at Kaine:
http://www.vagop.com/cgi-data/content_press/files/117.shtml
Should be an interesting off-year race to watch...
Kilgore will win this one...
Kaine was mayor of Richmond when I lived there. The guy is an empty suit - there's no there there. But he is slick - Kilgore should not underestimate this guy.
Richmond ping.
Anyone care to weigh on this?
Jerry Kilgore will be the Republican Nominee. He is a conservative, law and order, limited government Christian.
At this point he is favored to win. A lot of that is that he has higher name recognition. However, he was the top vote getter in 2001, receiving more votes than the carpetbagger Governor.
He has named his campaign team this week. They are some of the best in the business. He will officially file just after the first of the year and will likely resign as Attorney General to campaign full time once he makes an officially announcement.
You can contribute at http://www.jerrykilgore.com
Kaine will have to defend his record in the city of Richmond - highest per capita murder rate in the country; high taxes; corruption at all levels of city government (about 15 people are in jail because of convictions on various charges); poor school performance; yada, yada, yada.
Kilgore should run on reducing taxes - the $1.5B tax increase pushed through last session of the general assembly has resulted in a $1B budget surplus (can you say "overtaxation"? I knew you could.)