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ous, including work on advisory committees in education, the arts, health and human services, human rights and economic development.
Although she may be able to bring together traditional Democratic voters, some wonder how hard the party’s establishment will work for her.
Some say she angered the party leadership in 1982, when redistricting forced her to run against Thomas Moss, a fellow Democrat from Norfolk and also majority leader of the House of Delegates. She lost the primary after a bitter campaign.
Indeed, the party was slow to embrace her early this year when she showed more interest than any other Democrat in making the race against Warner. She acknowledges that Gov. Charles S. Robb, the highest ranking elected Democrat in the state, was hesitant to endorse her until she could show “that I had support.” He did so at the state convention after she won the nomination without opposition.
Robb, as well as Lt. Gov. Richard J. “Dick” Davis and Attorney General Gerald Baliles, also Democrats and both interested in running for governor next year, have endorsed her, calling for the party to unite behind her.
Aside from grassroots support and endorsements, however, Harrison will need money. Warner has already raised or gotten commitments for close to $1.5 million, and estimates are he could spend twice that much.
Harrison said she has to raise at least $1.2 million for her entire campaign. “You have to have enough money to get your message out,” she said.
She expects a media budget of from $600,000 to $1 million and will loan $100,000 to her own campaign. “I hope to get it back,” she said.
Married to a wealthy Norfolk Realtor, Stanley Harrison, the candidate said she intends to spend as little of her own money as possible. She also said the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has agreed to contribute an initial $17,500, and may contribute more.
Harrison’s non-traditional candidacy not only caused initial hesitation among leading Democrats, but she also brought charges of unfairness recently from opponents after allegedly raising an issue that is usually off-limits in the genteel world of Virginia politics: one’s personal life.
During a recent interview with editors of The Washington Post, she allegedly drew contrasts between her personal life and Warner’s. She is married to her only husband and has three children, and she said
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