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Ernest Schlahaeli
Schlabach noted two major environmental issues which will he addressed by the General Assembly in upcoming sessions: uranium mining and the slurry pipeline. To transport coal through the proposed pipeline, millions and millions of gallons of water will have to be pumped from Southwest Virginia's groundwater reserves, creating the possibility of shortages there, he said. Then Portsmouth, the pipeline’s destination, will have to solve the problem of what to do with all that sulphur contaminated waste water, Schlabach said. The timer interrupted before he could go into detail on the uranium issue.
In the question and answer period that followed the five minute presentations by state and local candidates, the senatorial hopefuls were asked how they would raise money to replace what the state has lost due to cuts by the Reagan administration.
“I'm not sure I’m aware of a dollar amount for that loss,” Miller replied.
“The newspapers said it was $:t0<),000,000” countered Dorothy Davis. "As a member of the General Assembly, aren’t you privy to that information?”
“I’m not in the General Assembly now. I gave up my seat in 1981,” the candidate said. He added that if elected to the State Senate, he wanted to serve on the finance committee where he could play a role in making adjustments to balance the loss in federal revenue. “$300,000,000 sounds like a lot but when you put it against a total state budget of $14 BILLION, it’s not all that dramatic,” the Republican said, noting that annual increases in the state budget have equaled the annual rate of inflation. “My record shows that I have saved the taxpayers’ money,” h<* concluded.
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