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stood with the few in supporting the Voting Rights Act. He was a non-Byrd Democrat, a rare breed in the Commonwealth.
Still fighting against discrimination, he supports passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. Davis also endorses Virginia’s right-to-work law and has pledged to guarantee a sound and secure Social Security system. Aware of the horrors of nuclear war, he wants more than a nuclear freeze. The Democratic candidate endorses a reduction of nuclear arms with the conditions that reductions be mutual and verifiable and leave the United States still capable of deterring any nuclear attack.
Davis took over the chairmanship of the state's stumbling Democratic Party in 1978 and helped orchestrate the recovery that sent Charles Robb to the Governor’s mansion with Portsmouth’s ex-mayor as his lieutenant.
At 61, Richard Davis is older than most first-time Senate hopefuls but he has shown the leadership, financial expertise and dedication to principles that we need in Washington.
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