CANDIDATES

Governor Tim Kaine for Senate

Tim Kaine has served people throughout his adult life as a missionary, fair housing attorney, teacher and elected official.  He is running for the United States Senate because America needs optimistic doers who know how to find common ground.

Tim grew up in Kansas City. He graduated from the University of Missouri and Harvard Law School.
Tim began his public service career when he took a year off law school to work with Jesuit missionaries in Honduras. 
After finishing law school, he practiced law for 18 years, specializing in representing people who had been denied housing due to their race or disability.  He also began teaching at the University of Richmond, an association that continues to this day.
Tim entered political life in 1994, running for the Richmond City Council. He served as a Councilman and Mayor.  Richmond saw an economic renaissance that led to increasing population, a bond rating upgrade and recognition by Forbes Magazine as one of America's ten best cities for doing business.

In 2001, Tim was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia.  In 2005, he was elected Virginia's 70th Governor. During his time as Governor, Virginia was honored as the Best Managed State in America (Governing Magazine), the Best State for Business (Forbes.com -- four years in a row) and the Best State to Raise a Child (Education Week).  Virginia maintained its Triple A bond rating for fiscal management -- an honor shared by only 7 states -- and had one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates and highest median incomes.

He was the Chairman of the Southern Governor's Association in 2008-09 and served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 through 2011.

Tim has been married for 27 years to Anne Holton. The Kaines have three children -- Nat, Woody and Annella -- all of whom attended Richmond Public Schools. The family is active in their church and spends all the time they can camping, hiking, canoeing and biking in Virginia's outdoors.

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Paul Hirschbiel for Congress

Paul Hirschbiel is a business and community leader with a proven track record of growing businesses while creating jobs and opportunity. He is currently the owner and President of Eden Capital, a Virginia Beach-based firm focusing on both for-profit and not-for-profit consulting and investing.

Born and raised in Virginia, Paul grew up in a middle class home in Norfolk. He earned his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar in 1975, and received his MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill graduating as a Dean's Scholar in 1981. Paul then began a successful career in business, working his way from the ground up.

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