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By GEORGE BOWLES
There is something extraordinarily rough-and-tumble about the race for the Republican nomination for governor this year.
The Democrats are engaged in an epic shootout for the gubernatorial nod with no holds barred, and it appears the GOP contest is just as hard-nosed and determined.
The battle for convention delegates between the two Republican hopefuls, former Fairfax Del. Wyatt Durrette, now of Chesterfield, and 8th District Congressman Stanford Parris of Fairfax, is well under way. The nomination will be conferred at the GOP’s state convention to be held in Norfolk’s Scope on May 31 and June 1. Thf legates to that convention are presently being elected at party mass meetings around the state.
And a right spirited series of in-family squabbles they promise to be, judging from the few which have already been held.
The fight for the nomination is interesting because it is almost totally non-ideological. This is not a struggle for the “soul of the Republican party” between its right and left wings, or anything close to it. Durrette and Parris are equally conservative, although each insists that his conservative credentials are more pristine than those of his opponent.
It is, in fact, a struggle for the control of the GOP between two powerful party factions. The leaders of each faction see gaining the nomination as the key to controlling the state government if their man wins in November. Thus it is a high-stakes gamble, well worth a heavy investment in time, planning and, needless to say, money.
The nomination battle is therefore bitter and, in spite of pledges by all concerned to refrain from personal attacks, it promises to become highly personal. Indeed, it has already be
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