Democratic Party Presumptive Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton taps U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia as Vice-President Running Mate

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016

Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she is “thrilled” to name U.S. Senator and former Virginaia Governor Tim Kaine as her Vice-President running mate in the 2016 Presidential Election.

Kaine served as a City Councilmeber of the City of Richmond, Virginia, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, Governor of Virginia, and now as a U.S. Senator.

Kaine is a former civil rights attorney born in Minnesota but raised in Kansas and a Catholic.  He is seen as a moderate Democrat in the U.S. Senate.  He is a fluent speaker in English and Spanish.  He learned Spanish and did a one year overseas volunteer program in Honduras.

The 2016 Democratic Party National Convention opens on Monday, July 25, 2016 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the birthplace of Independence in the United States.