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Last week Lawson fired off a strongly worded letter to the governor charging that Secretary of Commerce and Resources Maurice Rowe is the villain in the piece.
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“By now I suspect that you may have some concern that Sec. Rowe may have deliberately misled you,” wrote Lawson, "into not reappointing me as Director of the Virginia Energy Office. I feel that the only basis for Sec. Rowe telling you that I was ‘uncommunicative, uncooperative and not the type person who should be the head of a State agency' may have been his personal concern that I not be reappointed.”
Lawson believes that the "personal concern” on Rowe’s part had to do with Lawson's determination to investigate the management of the Cheatham Annex petroleum storage facility on the York River if it was placed under his control, and also his concern over the management of the petroleum set-aside program under Rowe’s former deputy, Ed Isbell.
(Under the Godwin Administration, Rowe had served as Secretary of Administration and Finance. He was shifted to his present post by Dalton.)
Lawson is convinced that Rowe engineered his dismissal, for which he carefully absolves Dalton of blame, in an effort to forestall inquiries into both of these situations.
In a cryptically worded paragraph of his letter, Lawson seems to come close to charging Rowe and an unnamed state legislator with a conflict of interest in the matter.
Said Lawson, "I believe I know the names of the legislators who talked with you on February 27-March 1 about the ‘allegations’ you said had been made against me. You may find—if you do not already know—that at
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