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nomination for that high office,” Del. Pickett said Tuesday.
Mr. Pickett’s campaign manager, Tim Ridley, said in Richmond that it was clear Pickett’s candidacy was creating tensions within the party.
“Owen just felt that he did not want his candidacy to be the cause of some sort of irreparable damage to the party,” Mr. Ridley said. ' Del. Pickett’s candidacy ran into trouble recently when state Sen. L. Douglas Wilder (D-Richmond), the state senate’s only black member, threatened to run against Del. Pickett and Rep. Trible as an independent. Most Democrats agree that such a bid would doom the Democratic nominee, since Sen. Wilder would gain an overwhelming majority with the black vote.
Black voters were a key to Democratic state-wide victories last year when Governor Charles S. Robb, Lieutenant Governor Richard I. Davis, and Attorney General Gerald L Baliles defeated their GOP opponents.
Sen. Wilder said he was dissatisfied with the Virginia House of Delegates Democratic leadership early this year after house committees killed bills that
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