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In
January, the
state party was inclinded to keep 5th District Congressman Virgil Goode
in its folds.
"'If you can find a candidate in that district who is universally
popular and a Democrat that's a good thing for us,' said Craig Beiber, executive
director of the state party. 'The
Democratic Party of Virginia would like Mr. Goode to remain in the Democratic
Party,' he said" (Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times, January 23,
1999).
In August, the Capitol Hill Newspaper Roll Call reported that
U.S. House Republican leaders were looking at Virgil Goode, a conservative
Democrat from Virginia, to fill an
Appropriations seat.
Now, with the Virginia redistricting process is under way, Virgil
"has now been sent word by Republican leaders that it is time
to leap" (B. Drummond Ayres Jr., The New York Times, November
7, 1999).
"If he does not jump, they say, the lines of his district, the
Fifth, in the south-central part of the state, will be the first to be redrawn
to a Republican-friendly configuration" (B. Drummond Ayres Jr.,
The New York Times, November 7, 1999).
"Republicans could draw Goode into the 9th Congressional District
with U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, another Democrat" (Craig Timberg, Washington
Post, November 9, 1999).
If you have advice for Virgil, please send it on.
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