Coast to coast: the off-year elections to watch: the tight Virginia governor's race and the anti-union ballot initiatives in Schwarzenegger's California.(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
American Prospect, The, October, 2005 by Meyerson, Harold
MIDWAY THROUGH VIRGINIA Lieutenant Governor Tim Kaine's presentation-cum-slide show, a tour de force on education policy in the state where Democrat Kaine is running for governor in November's upcoming election, a slide like no other abruptly appears on the screen. It shows mestizo peasant children in a barren room clustering around some young Yanqui--bearded, hair flowing in all directions, gaunt as a wraith. Kaine--the very model of middle-class, middle-aged professional decorum--beams at the crowd. "That's me," he says. The crowd erupts in laughter.
In his early ...
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