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By GEORGE BOWLES
Next to the nomination for the governorship itself, the most sought-after prize within the gift of the Republican party this year is its nomination for lieutenant governor.
The battle to grab that gold ring of Republican politics is rapidly becoming the most heated contest in either party as the state’s Democrats and Republicans prepare for their nominating conventions. The Republicans will hold their conclave in Norfolk’s Scope on May 31 and June 1. The Democrats will convene a week later, on June 7-8, in the Richmond Coliseum.
Vying for the GOP lieutenant governor’s nod are former Attorney General Marshall Coleman of McLean, state Sen. John Chichester of Stafford, direct mail impresario Richard Viguerie of Falls Church, Del. A. R. (Pete) Giesen of Waynesboro and the Rev. Maurice Dawkins of Arlington. Dawkins says he ifrin the race primarily to promote black participation in Republican politics and is making no real effort to win the nomination.
The other four candidates, however, are deadly serious about their efforts. Rightly or wrongly, they regard winning the lieutenant governor’s nod this year as a virtual guarantee of being the front-runner in the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination four years hence.
The reason is it is now all but certain that black state Sen. Douglas Wilder of Richmond will be the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor. In spite of Wilder’s undeniable talents, Republican strategists regard the GOP nomination to oppose him as tantamount to election.
Oddly, the contest for the Republicans’ number two spot has been vastly complicated by recent events in the Democratic Party. Until the Democratic caucuses two weeks ago, it had been widely assumed that Lt. Gov. Dick Davis would win his party’s
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