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tms was tne ... first and last BOWLES event at that astonishing conclave to proceed according to the expectations of either the Republican political engineers or the so-called political experts among the Commonwealth’s fourth estate.
Going into the convention, it was all said to be wired. Investmant banker Walter Craigie of Richmond apparently had a lock on the nomination for lieutenant governor. He was the choice of Dalton, Godwin and assorted other alleged power brokers within the party.
In addition, he had money, had access to money and knew how to use money, and, as one wag put it, to Republicans, money is a sex symbol.
His opponent, Sen. Joe Canada of Virginia Beach, had already been consigned to outer darkness. He had stubbed his toe on his famed vote against the Equal Rights Amendment during the 1977 General Assembly. His one major endorsement came from Sen. William L. Scott.
With lesser certainty, Del. Wyatt Durette of Fairfax was considered favored to defeat Sen. Marshall Coleman of Staunton for the attorney general nomination.
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