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Rv GEORGE BOWLES
Democratic candidate for governor Gerald Baliles and his Republican opponent Wyatt Durrette met in their first headto-head encounter last week.
While neither camp was willing to style the meeting a debate, to the extent that it highlighted some profound differences of opinion between the two men and produced some fairly sharp, if low key, rhetorical exchanges, a debate is what it was. The forum, as they preferred to call it, was sponsored by the Virginia Retail Merchants Association and took place in Norfolk.
The event, whether it was a debate or something else, undoubtedly set the tone for the gubernatorial campaign ahead.
Baliles, a moderately conservative Democrat, will be trying to nail down his claim of being the political and philosophical heir to the style of government set by Gov. Chuck Robb during the last 3% years. At the same time he will be blazing away at the allegedly liberal legislative voting record compiled by Durrette when the latter was a member of the House of Delegates a decade ago.
Durrette, who was once regarded as a moderate Republican, will be attempting to make amends for his earlier missteps when, as a delegate from Fairfax, he fell into such liberal error as supporting the Equal Rights Amendment, meet-andconfer negotiations for teachers, and was, incredibly, the chief sponsor of a major Virginia abortion law.
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