Another Halloween may have come and gone, but that doesn’t mean a good scare won’t await the next inhabitant of Virginia’s executive mansion come January. It seems outgoing Virginia governors have a habit of pranking the new guy — a tradition Virginia Democrats Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, now both in the Senate, wholly embraced before leaving Richmond in the rearview. Current Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that Kaine kept him and his family on edge by triggering strategically placed cellphones (hidden behind walls and atop elevators) late into the night. That disclosure prompted Kaine to reveal how his lifelong buddy, Warner (the two met at Harvard Law School in 1980), had wreaked a little havoc on his own moving-in day. (more…)
