Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) shows off his Spanish fluency in a new television ad released by his campaign.
Kaine, in impeccable Spanish, touts his time spent as a Catholic missionary in Honduras, where he "learned more about faith and family," as pictures of a bearded young Kaine scroll by. He then says as governor he worked with the Hispanic community to expand preschool education programs and promises as senator to increase education funding and fight for immigration reform.
That Kaine has released the ad shows the increasing importance of Virginia's fast-growing Hispanic community, which doubled in the last decade and is now 8.2 percent of the statewide population. The six-figure ad buy is mostly focused on northern Virginia, where the bulk of that population lives.
