Conversation so far:
Did Tim Kaine run for Governor?
Kaine ran for governor.
In which state?
Virginia.
Did he win?
Kaine ultimately prevailed, winning.
Who did he run against?
Jerry W.
Kilgore.
Was Kilgore a Republican?
Republican.
Was there anybody else in the race?
A third candidate--independent state Senator H.
Russell Potts Jr..
What was the race like?
sharply negative in its final weeks.
How was it negative?
Kilgore running television attack ads that claimed, incorrectly, that Kaine believed that "Hitler doesn't qualify for the death penalty..
What else was nasty about the campaign?
attacked Kaine for his service ten years earlier as a court-appointed attorney for a death-row inmate.

Question: Did Kaine have any response to these attack ads?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Tim Kaine have any response to attack ads made against him by Jerry W. Kilgore?