Kaine Says Va. GOP to Regret Killing Extended Unemployment

 

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Governor Tim Kaine (front, left) spoke at a fundraiser for Virginia Delegatge Jim Scott (front, right) last week.

It is beginning to dawn on Virginia Republicans that the vote by their colleagues in the House of Delegates to kill an initiative to extend unemployment benefits was a huge blunder that could cost them dearly in this November’s state elections, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine told the News-Press during an appearance at a fundraising event in McLean Tuesday.

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Kaine Says Va. GOP to Regret Killing Extended Unemployment

Kaine Says Va. GOP to Regret Killing Extended Unemployment

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