Kaine's September Travel

View Kaine's Travel Adventures in a larger map. KEY: Blue markers are DNC trips, red markers are official state trips, and purple markers included a mix of both or are unclear at this time.

Gov. Tim Kaine, who serves as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, reported spending all or part of 12 days out-of-state this month, including five trips to Washington.

Kaine's office released his travels for September in keeping with his pledge to do so at the end of each month, which was made following pressure by the media and others to disclose his whereabouts.

His out-of-state travel included trips to Burlington and Norwich, Vt. (Wed., Sept. 2), Dallas, Brownsville and Austin, Tx. (Wed., Sept. 9-Sat., Sept. 12), New York and Greenwich, Conn. (Mon., Sept. 21-Tues., Sept. 22). He also reported spending part of four weekdays and one Saturday in Washington.

Much of the out-of-state travel was likely for DNC business, but may have been in his role as governor or for both jobs. The travel log does not indicate the purpose of the trips, but the Texas trip was primarily to preside over his first full meeting as national party leader at the DNC summer meeting in Austin.

Kaine significantly limited his out-of-state travel in August as he faced yet another budget shortfall and continued criticism for his out-of-state travel. But his travel increased in September.

In June, Kaine traveled for the DNC half of the days. In July, he traveled to eight other states, while spending part of four days in Washington that month. In August, he traveled to five states and spent only part of one day in Washington.

See September's full schedule below:

Sept. 1 Richmond, Fairfax, Alexandria, Washington, Richmond

Sept. 2 Richmond, Burlington and Norwich (Vermont), Richmond

Sept. 3 Richmond

Sept. 4 Richmond

Sept. 5 Richmond

Sept. 6 Richmond, Dublin, Harrisonburg, Lexington

Sept. 7 Buena Vista, Newport News, Richmond

Sept. 8 Richmond

Sept. 9 Richmond, Dallas and Brownsville (Texas)

Sept. 10 Brownsville and Austin (Texas)

Sept. 11 Austin (Texas)