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By GEORGE BOWLES
The Old Dominion’s Republicans are approaching the 1985 election season with an outward air of supreme confidence. GOP insiders readily admit, however, that a new and totally unexpected development within the party has them increasingly worried.
That development was the surprise entrance into the race for the GOP lieutenant governor’s nomination of Richard Viguerie, a nationally recognized direct mail expert whose services have been, in the past, highly effective in the campaigns of conservative candidates and causes.
This year, to the dismay of many of Virginia’s Republican leaders, he is putting his formidable talents and resources to work in his own behalf as a potential candidate of the party.
This is the year, of course, when Virginians will elect a governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and all 100 members of the House of Delegates.
The announced GOP candidates for governor are former Fairfax Del. Wyatt Durrette, now of Chesterfield, and 8th District Congressman Stanford Parris of F airfax.
The lieutenant governor hopefuls are former Attorney General Marshall Coleman of McLean, state Sen. John Chichester of Stafford, Del. A.R. “Pete” Giesen of Waynesboro, Maurice Dawkins, chairman of the Virginia Black Republican Council, of Arlington, and Viguerie, who makes his home in Falls Church where he also bases his direct mail operation.
The only potential GOP candidate eyeing the attorney general’s race is Del. William R. “Buster” O’Brien of Virginia Beach.
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