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etly assembled over the past several years. Her basic credentials as a candidate are impressive. She is an attorney, the chairman of the board of directors of a bank, and the possessor of a lengthy litany of academic, civic and professional offices and honors.
She has served in the House of Delegates since 1978, and the respect in which she is held by the members of that body is reflected in the prestigious list of committees to which she has been assigned. Those include: Courts of Justice; Education; Corporations, Insurance and Banking; and Conservation and Natural Resources.
Politically, she is neither a Geraldine Ferraro nor an Edythe Harrison. She is a moderate-toconservative Democrat in the Robb tradition who is strongly supported by such lions of the party as House Speaker A.L. Philpott and the top majority leaders in both Houses of the legislature, as well as by both Democratic candidates for governor.
In short, she has in abundance what both Ferraro ancj Harrison totally lacked last year. That is that mysterious something which politicians call credibility as a candidate.
Demonstrating that credibility, last week Terry exploded something of a bombshell over the state’s political scene. She announced that state Sen. Elmon Gray of Waverlv would be her campaign treasurer and chief fund-raiser.
Gray’s coming on board does far more than simply enlist the services of one of the best men in Virginia at raising campaign bucks. Although a Democrat, Gray is also a stalw'art of the state’s famed independent con
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