doug wilder. brown. [applause] one sentence, and the platform we built says it all. the most important family if you are sick and tired of or the threat of it in our future. or like the great civil rights speaker betty hammer -- betty lou, you are sick and tired of being sick and tired. join us, work with us, win with us, and we can make our country the country that it was meant to be. [applause] george bush talks a good game, but he has a game plan to win so that we can compete against the global economy. i do. take on the big insurance companies and bureaucracies to control health costs and give us a formal health costs for all americans, but i will. [applause] he won't even implement the recommendation of his own commission on aids, but i will. [applause] streamline the federal government and change the way it eurocrats,100,000 and put 100,000 new police officers on the streets of american cities, but i will. he has never balanced a government budget, but i have. 11 times. break the stranglehold that special interests have on our election, and lobbyists have on th

when heected with him was the chairman of doug wilder's governor campaign in 1969. job of the lieutenant governor is presiding over the state senate. when i got elected lieutenant governor, there were 40 senators . i had one-on-one meetings with every senator to say, what do you expect to see in a preside her, and i just listened. it proved to be helpful. and you know, virginia is the only state with a one term governor. i know that mark would be ivernor for four years, so learned from him so if i got the chance i would the better at it. mark was governor during tough times, but i was governor during tough times -- the worst economic crisis since the night and 30's, the horrible shooting at virginia tech that occurred when i was governor. of being mayor which was really tough because of public safety issues and watching mark deal with challenging issues, being at mark's right hand prepared me to deal with tough issues when i was governor. april 2007. virginia tech. where were you, what did that tell you about the issue of guns in virginia and the issue of mental hea