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stop unfair utility rate increases.
"The big utilities and big oil companies have lots of friends in Washington," said Fickett of his intent to broaden his fight for utility reform to the national level, "and it's time the consumers had a friend in Congress to fight for them.”
Fickett, a political soience teacher at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg and a part-time lawyer who holds several degrees from Harvard University, campaigns as an advocate for utility reform, 100 per cent parity for the family farmer, and tax relief for the “working American and senior citizens.”
Fickett characterizes Robinson as a friend of big oil companies, big utilities, giant agribusiness corporations, and the “special interests which contribute large amounts of money to his campaigns.”
In Virginia’s conservative tradition, Fickett speaks in favor of tax reduction, limited government spending, a hard line on crime, tougher national defense including development of the neutron bomb and B-l bomber, a
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