Goldman for Mayor - 11 August 2008 - For Immediate Release
Dear Karl,
Why is it that so many people who work, or did work, for President Bush, seem so eager to thumb their nose at middle-class America? Case in point, your elitist attacks against us here in Richmond, stated this Sunday where you told the CBS TV audience:
"Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years," Rove told Bob Schieffer [host of Face The Nation on CBS]. "He's been able but undistinguished. I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done."
Rove even dragged Richmond into his sights. "[Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America," Rove said. "And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa, or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas, or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town."
Karl, as I have been saying, ever since you went to Washington, you and the other Bushites have become creatures of the Inside DC crowd, who believe those in that federal enclave have all the knowledge and all the wisdom. You thumb your nose at us here in the middle of Virginia, like you do at Middle America generally.
You have lost touch, assuming you ever really had it, with the rest of America, those living outside the beltway, the middle-class families the do the work, raise the children, fight the wars, and move our country forward.
Yes, Richmond isn't the biggest city in America. Thank goodness for that. You believe, as one would expect from someone who advised the President to run-up the biggest deficits in American history, that the bigger the government, the better.
Richmond is a great city, with great people, and one reason is it's manageable size, and the fact it is still a community with so many small, viable, neighborhoods.
Tim Kaine did a lot to improve our City, and I was happy to work with him to improve our form of government, an historic change praised by Republicans and Democrats alike in our area.
It has been a long time since America has had someone with hands-on experience in dealing with urban and suburban issues as our Vice-President.
Karl, you think that kind of experience would be bad for American. I believe it would be not only good for America, but great for America.
Richmond may not be the biggest city in our country. But it is a city that faces so many of our challenging issues, and I would rather have Mayor Tim Kaine trying to solve them, then Vice-President Dick Cheney, who had no experience in these areas whatsoever [as he has shown], Vice-President Dan Qualye [true, I suppose he could have helped with First Tee], to name just the last two GOP VEEPS.
Indeed, Mayor Kaine proved to be a far better administrator and problem-solver on these crucial issues to America than anyone the Republicans have elected to Vice-President since Teddy Roosevelt in 1900, who likewise got his start in politics as a local leader [actually, TR ran and lost for Mayor of New York before becoming Police Commissioner].
Harry Truman got his start in local government: he faced the same elitist criticisms from the GOP. But HST was a great Vice-President and President.
Next time you are in Richmond, give a ring.
Sincerely,
PG
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