beth Taylor—but she says she and Warner are “very

beth Taylor—but she says she and Warner are “very different people.”

Despite support for civil rights programs and opposition to massive resistance—positions that would classify her as “liberal” by Virginia definition— she says she’s not liberal, and eschews political “labels.”

“The point is I call myself a common-sense candidate.”

“John Warner votes for budget deficits unprecedented, and certainly contrary to Virginia tradition of fiscal responsibility. Now do you call him a conservative or a liberal? He’s our alltime big spender, our big, big spender.”

As the first woman to run for the Senate with major party backing, Harrison admits she is doing something “non-traditional,” but that she is a traditional person.

“I’ve lived a very traditional life in e\*ery sensei” «he said. < “Just how you picture the values that President Reagan talks about—that’s been my life. Home and family and community and volunteerism and working to make the community a better place, all those things.”

A native of Detroit, Mich., Harrison married her husband, Norfolk realtor Stanley Harrison, and moved there when she was 21. It was then that she had trouble registering to vote, she recalls.

The problem was that the law required persons to maintain residence for six months before they could register. After she and her husband spent a summer in Virginia Beach, they returned to Norfolk after they had already lived there before, but the sixmonth period had to begin again.

She became involved in a number of local issues in the Norfolk community, she said, and worked with Democrat and former gubernatorial candidate, Henry Howell, “in the movement to open the schools” when the massive resistance movement shut them down in the late 1950s.

She later worked to improve voter registration and supported civil rights legislation in the 1960s, including the federal decision requiring “one person, one vote,” she said.

“I’ve always been committed to the concept that democracy requires