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bigtree

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Sat Jul 23, 2016, 11:20 AM Jul 2016

Tim Kaine teaching a carpentry class in Honduras 36 years ago

/r/hillaryclinton ?@DailyHillary 18m18 minutes ago
Tim Kaine teaching a carpentry class in Honduras in 1980 #strongertogether #ClintonKaine2016




Tim Kaine in Honduras last year...



Gov. Kaine had a special opportunity to return to El Progreso, a small city outside San Pedro Sula where he worked with Jesuit missionaries at a technical school in 1980. After attending Ash Wednesday services at Parquia de la Mercedes, a church he regularly attended, Kaine was “welcomed home” to the Instituto Tecnico Loyola by former Jesuit colleagues and more than 300 current students and teachers. Thirty-five years after he taught carpentry and welding there, Kaine toured the expanded campus and spoke to a school-wide assembly, reflecting on his time in Honduras.

“The school has grown rapidly, but the spirit of the people here is exactly the same,” said Kaine. “El Progreso is extremely special to me. Thirty-five years ago, I took a year off from law school to work with a group of Jesuits here affiliated with my high school in Kansas City. My experience working at Loyola taught me the importance of access to skills-based training – both in Honduras and the U.S. – and inspired me to pursue the issue of expanding career and technical education in the U.S. Senate.”

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Tim Kaine teaching a carpentry class in Honduras 36 years ago (Original Post) bigtree Jul 2016 OP
kicking obamanut2012 Jul 2016 #1
Another Democrat that walks the walk and talks the talk! tallahasseedem Jul 2016 #2
K&R auntpurl Jul 2016 #3
K & R Iliyah Jul 2016 #4
Memo to GOP: that is what a TRUE Christian looks like. forest444 Jul 2016 #5
Kickity lillypaddle Jul 2016 #6
does any one think TRUMP or Pence ever did anything for some one else??? beachbum bob Jul 2016 #7
Well Pence's wife is a big animal lover kwolf68 Jul 2016 #10
K & R Scurrilous Jul 2016 #8
He seems like a genuinely nice guy. DawgHouse Jul 2016 #9
» bigtree Jul 2016 #11

forest444

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5. Memo to GOP: that is what a TRUE Christian looks like.
Sat Jul 23, 2016, 12:09 PM
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