Mark Warner

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Mark Robert Warner (born in 1954) is a politician states-unien, former democratic governor of the State of Virginia of January 2002 with January 2006.

Warner was born the December 15th 1954 with Indianapolis, in the State of the Indiana and was high in the Connecticut.

In 1980, it is graduate in right of the faculty of Harvard.

It makes fortune in the licenses and franknesses from cell phone and is cofounder of Nextel and investor in many companies of mobile telephony.

Warner launches out then in the political career while directing the victorious countryside of Douglas Wilder in 1989 for the post of governor of Virginia.

In 1996, it tries to be made elect with the Sénat of the United States but is beaten by its republican opponent John Warner.

In 2001, Warner conducts a campaign based on preserving tax positions to be made elect governor of Virginia. It beats thus the Attorney General republican Mark Earley with a margin of 100 thousand votes.

The mandate of governor of Warner was dominated by a ceaseless combat against the massive budget deficit of the State, inherited its republican predecessor, the governor Jim Gilmore.

In 2002, the voters of Virginia disallows his proposal to increase the taxes but the tax re-entries finally increase sufficiently to make up this deficit.

With the assistance of the moderated republican legislators, it carries out massive increases in taxes on the cigarettes.

In 2003, the popularity of Warner makes it possible to the democrats of the assembly of the State historically to increase their manpower with the room of the delegates although this one remains under republican control.

Warner even managed to make pass another law allowing to increase the taxes in order to balance the public purses and to finance reforms in particular as regards education.

Arrived at the end of its mandate that it cannot prolong, it supports actively Tim Kaine, its lieutenant-governor, to succeed to him.

The November 8th 2005, Kaine is elected by 51% of the voices against the republican Jerry Kilgore. This victory is partly due to the popularity of Warner, very implied during the electoral campaign.

The November 13rd 2005, Time Magazine distinguished Mark Warner like one from the five best governors of the United States (or one of five the most powerful). In December 2005, he is the 7th most popular governor of the country with a rate of approval of 66%.

Warner was perceived a long time like a potential candidate for the presidential of 2008. Often compared with Bill Clinton because of her social, geographical origins and its important networks, it could bring in the escarcelle democrat an important republican state which did not vote nationally for the democrats since 1964.

In October 2006, with the general amazement of the observers, Warner announced that he would not be candidate with presidential of 2008. September 13rd, 2007, Warner announces his intention of candidater for the post of vacant senator left by the octogenarian Republican senator John Warner.

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