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City, garnered a surprising and, for O’Brien, an embarrassing 26 percent of the delegates’ votes.
But it was in the no-holdsbarred battle for the lieutenant governor’s nomination that the face-off between the traditional “mountain-valley” Republicans and the Byrdmen took place.
It was a five-way contest. The candidates were Chichester, former Attorney General Marshall Coleman of McLean, publisher and direct mail expert Richard Viguerie of Falls Church, Del. A. R. “Pete” Giesen of Waynesboro and the Rev. Maurice Dawkins of Arlington.
The real struggle, however, was between Coleman, who was desperately fighting for his political life, and the independent and Godwin-led GOP conservatives who were equally determined to do him in.
For Coleman, after his loss to Gov. Charles S. Robb in the 1981 gubernatorial race and his aborted candidacy for the party’s nod for governor earlier this year, a rebuff in his bid for the number-two spot on the ticket might appear to be the final nail in his political coffin.
For Godwin and the conservatives, who openly and vocally supported Chichester, the odds were just as high. In 1977 the conservatives had attempted to put Richmond stockbroker Walter Craigie on the ballot for lieutenant governor and fail* d. He was defeated for the nomination by state Sen. A. Joe Canada Jr.
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