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Richard Davis is running for a Virginia Senate seat as the result of what he describes “as near to a true political draft as has happened in American politics."
He was picked by his fellow Democrats because of his business and financial experience, the kind of experience that Virginia and the nation desperately need in the Senate during the current economic crisis.
In 1974, Davis was elected mayor of Portsmouth, a city with a $3 million deficit. Four years later, when he left office after having been re-elected without opposition in 1976. that city had $3 million in unappropriated funds. He can apply the same discipline he learned in local government and as a banker and director of corporations to the federal budget.
But Davis will bring more than just g<)od business sense to Washington. He will bring integrity. At a time when most Democrats followed the Byrd machine's lead, Davis stood with the few in opposition to the policy of massive resistance to segregation. He
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