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Since January and before, Virginians, including residents of Rappahannock, have been exposed to a major element in the political process—an election campaign.
Candidates for the top state offices have been roaming the state seeking votes. Meanwhile, as the long days of the campaign unwind without apparent end, the candidates have been talking to people. And people have been talking to the candidates.
Denying either fatigue or boredom, the candidates say they enjoy it. Governor candidate Andrew Miller in an interview with newspaper reporters a couple weeks ago underscored his further conviction that the process is useful, saying, “The personal contact is important...It means (if you’re elected) when you go into office you have a vast reservoir of information which really you can’t attain any other way.”
The people learn, too, that often the candidates’ answers aren’t widely different. Both Miller and his Democratic contender Henry Howell, for instance, want the state highway commission to be more responsive to the people.
With varying degrees of vehemence, one without reference to the other, they have said in separate interviews that the commission needs to be enlarged and so, it’s hoped, become more representative. And both have said, for instance, that it’s ridiculous to have a highway office in Culpeper administering road construction and problems in the metropolitan area next to Washington.
And in another candidate-press exchange, Miller responded to a question about what can be done about localities wiio are having trouble raising school funds td pay for staterequired programs by saying “It’s something the state government must get a handle on.”
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