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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
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A partisan crowd gave Niki Coleman an enthusiastic reception at the Rappahannock court house last Friday as the wife of the Republican gubernatorial candidate pinch-hit for her husband on a campaign swing through Piedmont Virginia.
All of America will be watching voters in the Commonwealth, she said, to see if support exists for President Ronald Reagan’s programs.
“We will be on view," Mrs. Coleman emphasized, adding that the results will be important nationally and for Virginia, “important enough for the President to come down here and campaign for Marshall.”
Federal budget cuts will present the next Governor of Virginia a challenge to maintain good government with less financial support from Washington, she said.
Her husband supports the “long overdue” budget cuts, Mrs. Coleman noted, but still the Reagan administration’s economy measures require ’’creative and’ innovative thinking" in Richmond.
Virginia needs a leader who believes in solving “our own problems in our own ways.” Mrs. Coleman said. Government has set a trend for doing more than people expect, a trend that is being reversed by Reagan in returning power to the states. The state of Virginia should follow that trend by returning power to local governments, a philosophy her husband espouses. Mrs. Coleman said.
She related a story of a barn that burned down in Augusta County. People there rebuilt the barn without government funds or “Great Society programs" in an example of what community
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