Samuel --

Thank you so much for the warm welcome to the team!

I could not be more honored to fight alongside you -- I know
that together, we're going to win in November:

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I wanted to take a moment to tell you a little bit more
about myself -- and bear with me, since I know you might not
have even heard of me before Friday!

Growing up in Kansas, vice president was never a job I
aspired to.

My dad ran an iron-working shop and my entire family pitched
in to help.

My parents taught me the lessons that have guided my entire
life -- my mom once told me: "Tim, you have to decide if you
want to be right or do right. If you want to be right, be a
pessimist. If you want to do right, be an optimist."

I've been an optimist ever since. And since my time at a
Jesuit boys school, I've been a man of faith.

After racing through college and starting at Harvard Law, I
took a year off to volunteer with missionaries in Honduras.
I got a firsthand look at a system in which the few folks at
the top had all the power and everyone else got left behind.

That experience convinced me: We've got to expand
opportunity and equality for everyone, no matter where they
come from, how much money they have, what they look like, or
who they love.

I'm lucky to have married a woman who felt the same: Anne is
the daughter of Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, who
integrated Virginia's public schools and modeled how
important it was by sending his kids in to lead the way.

Anne and I settled in Richmond, started a family, joined a
church, and made our home together. I took on work as a
civil rights lawyer, representing people who were denied
housing because of their race or disability.

I found myself at a lot of City Council meetings to raise
the issues I was dealing with on behalf of my clients. But
the infighting was horrible! So in 1994, I decided to run
for office. I knocked on every door in my district, and I
won by 94 votes. (I know the value of the kind of organizing
this team is doing!)

If I'm good at anything in public life, it's because I
started on the local level, listening to people, learning
about their lives, and trying to find consensus.

In the years that followed, I became mayor of Richmond,
lieutenant governor of Virginia, and in 2006, I served as
governor.

I had to make tough calls during the recession. But I'm
proud of what we accomplished in Virginia: the best managed
state, The best state for business, and my personal favorite
accolade, the best state to raise a child.

I've kept it up as Virginia's senator. And I won't stop when
Hillary and I are in the White House. We'll do what we know
best: Deliver results for people.

That's what drives us both. Hillary and I have different
faiths but we share a common creed: Do all the good you can
in all the ways you can.

We don't back away from tough fights. We're energized by
them. Hillary and I have a strong progressive agenda and
we're not going to get distracted from it.

We'll make our economy work for everyone. We'll make college
debt-free. We'll take on the NRA, we'll work toward
comprehensive immigration reform -- we'll fight for paid
family leave, and equality for women, and making sure every
kid has a chance to live up to their potential.

These are tough times -- but we're tough people. We can do
it.

Let's go. I'm excited to work with you to make history:

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Thanks again for the warm welcome.

Tim






















































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