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attempt to advocate programs and policies that were in line with my own personal convictions.”
"But there are a lot of things I won't miss about it,” he added. “I won’t miss what 1 consider to be too much blind political partisanship in the Congress. Too many members of both the House and Senate, 1 feel, tend to judge matters as to whether it'll help or hurt one particular political party.”
“I think the issues that we are involved with here transcend either political party,” said Byrd, who was elected in 1966 as a Democrat and reelected iri 1970 and 1976 as an Independent.
In May, a group of conservatives, led by former Gov. Mills Godwin and former state Del. Roy Smith, began a petition drive to put Byrd on ballot. But the senator, although appreciative of the support, said he would not reconsider.
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