{"id":9019,"date":"2016-10-10T10:51:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2016-10-10T10:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:51:45","slug":"holton-visits-west-chester-to-push-registration-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=9019","title":{"rendered":"Holton visits West Chester to push registration, turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wife of VP nominee Tim Kaine talks election, Hillary Clinton<\/em><\/h2>\n
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West Chester Mayor Carolyn Comitta shares a moment with Anne Holton, wife of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine during a voter registration event Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

WEST CHESTER \u2014 Anne Holton, wife of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine visited the borough Saturday with a simple message: vote, and if you\u2019re not registered to vote, get registered immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n

While it’s doubtful that any of the attendees who overflowed\u00a0the Church Street campaign office \u2014 one of four offices the Hillary Clinton Campaign has in Chester County \u2014 aren\u2019t already registered, Holton pushed the attendees to get the message out to their friends and families. The deadline to register to vote in this election is Tuesday, Oct. 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

Borough Mayor Carolyn Comitta \u2014 who is on the ballot for State Representative herself this November \u2014 presented Holton with the Key to the Borough and thanked her for her work with children over the years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Holton stressed the need to get voters registered \u2014 suggesting sending would-be voters to IWillVote.com<\/span><\/a> to get registered \u2014 and then to get them out to vote on election day.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen people participate, it\u2019s good for democracy,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen Democrats turn out, Democrats win, it\u2019s just that simple.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Holton \u2014 daughter of a former Republican Governor of Virginia and who was serving as the commonwealth\u2019s Secretary of Education until Kaine (a U.S. Senator and former Virginia Governor) was tapped as Clinton\u2019s running mate \u2014 said she\u2019s gotten to learn a lot about who Clinton is as a person on the campaign trail.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHillary is the consummate listener,\u201d Holton said of the presidential nominee. \u201cShe loves nothing better than talking to voters, to people everywhere sharing their concerns, their issues, what\u2019s working in their world, what\u2019s not. I watched her cross examine the bus driver one day on the bus tour we did across the state, during a break and she saw the bus driver talking to her children on Facebook back in Georgia, and Hillary starts asking her about \u2018how do you do the work\/family balance? And what\u2019s working and what sort of sick leave policy do you have?\u2019 <\/span><\/p>\n

“Hillary loves people, loves connecting with people and people love hearing their stories and loves connecting those issues to policies and programs that we, collectively can do to help each other through good government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Holton said her husband is aware of the historical nature of Clinton\u2019s candidacy \u2014 as\u00a0 <\/span>the first woman to be her party\u2019s nominee for president \u2014 but that he, too, has a historic role.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTim is so excited about the historic opportunity he has in this race,\u201d She said. \u201cWe\u2019re hearing a lot of history at the top, and we are going to make history at the top, but what about the opportunity to have a strong man in a supportive role to a strong woman, as our first president?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Holton urged supporters to get to work, noting that the race is likely to be very close, even though she argued it shouldn\u2019t be, based on the quality of the two candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband \u2014 he\u2019s my best political advisor, he told me a year ago that this is going to be a close race,\u201d she said. \u201cHe said we have the best candidate \u2014 head and shoulders \u2014 before we even knew who their candidate would be. We have somebody who\u2019s got the strength and the judgment and the experience. She\u2019s a phenomenal leader \u2014 and she\u2019s going to be, when we inaugurate her, she\u2019s going to be one of the most qualified people to walk into that office in a very, very long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wife of VP nominee Tim Kaine talks election, Hillary Clinton By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times WEST CHESTER \u2014 Anne Holton, wife of Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Tim Kaine visited the borough Saturday with a simple message: vote, and if you\u2019re not registered to vote, get registered immediately. While it’s doubtful that any of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4815,110,2800,3162,3739,4816,4463],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anne-holton","tag-chester-county","tag-election-2016","tag-featured","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-tim-kaine","tag-voter-registration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9020,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions\/9020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}