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By SEAN ADAMS
Arundel Newspaper* ^ riter
About eight months after being elected as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, perhaps the last thing on Democrat Richard J. Davis’s mind was running again for political office.
Last November, Davis had beaten Nathan Miller after a hard-fought campaign and was looking forward to presiding over the Virginia Senate for four years, perhaps with an eye toward his party’s gubernatorial nomination in 1985.
But the political fates had other plans for Davis, a 61year-old lawyer and millionaire mortgage banker from Portsmouth. When Owen Pickett’s Senate candidacy crumbled about a month before the Democrats were to choose a nominee, party leaders asked Davis to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Independent Harry F. Byrd Jr.
Davis received the Democratic nomination at the Ronaoke convention in June and has waged an aggressive campaign this year against Republican Rep. Paul S. Trible Jr., the GOP nominee. Davis’ style this year has been similar to his approach last year, when he capitalized on conflicts of interest charges against Miller.
In a recent interview, it became clear that last year's race is still on Davis' mind.
To help reduce federal budget deficits, Davis suggested deferring next year’s 10 percent federal income tax cut, which is part of the economic program President Reagan proposed last year and v hich Congress approved.
Trible, a congressman from the First Congressional District, supported Reagan's plan last year and has said the tax cut should not be deferred. In fact, Trible has charged that Davis wants to raise taxes because he wants to defer the tax cut.
Davis said that kind of talk is “irresponsible.” “I think it’s the Marshall Coleman syndrome that we had in last year’s election,” Davis said of Coleman, a Republican who lost to Charles S. Robb in last year’s gubernatorial race. Coleman had said that if he were
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