What Virginia #IBEW members have to say about @timkaine https://t.co/DMvjVI15BJ

— IBEW (@IBEW) July 29, 2016

“Tim is a guy who is good to his word,” said Fourth District International Representative Neil Gray, who has worked closely with Kaine over the senator’s 20 years in elected office. “When he tells you something, you can take it to the bank.”

The open dialogue Kaine has always held with IBEW officials came up again and again in conversations with Gray, Richmond, Va., Local 666 Business Manager Jim Underwood and Fourth District Vice President Ken Cooper.

“Years ago, when Kaine was governor,” Cooper said, “the owners of a plant closing in Alexandria wanted a meeting with him. Tim wouldn’t take the meeting, wouldn’t say a word to them, until the IBEW was represented in the room. That’s the kind of leader he is. He brings both sides of an issue together, and whether he’s with you or not, he gives it to you straight.”

“With Tim Kaine, what you see is what you get,” said Underwood, who first worked with Kaine when he was mayor of Richmond from 1998 to 2001, and then when he was lieutenant governor and governor from 2002 to 2010. “He brought us a lot of work as governor, but just as important, he was always accessible. Even when he disagreed with us on something - and there wasn’t a lot of that - he would sit there and explain why.”

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