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Although the campaign was slow to heat up, there were signs in early October that it would get hot. Baliles said Durrette wasn’t qualified to lead the state, and later said that if Durrette kept distorting his record, Durrette “would become known as the Pinnocchio of politics in Virginia.”

Baliles has been fond of referring to what he calls the “old Wyatt and the new Wyatt,” saying Durrette has flip-flopped on capital punishment, tax increases and the Equal Rights.Amendment, among others.

Durrette has said that isn’t true, and has called Baliles “clever” at distorting the record. Durrette also called a press conference to denounce Baliles as a “mischievous child” and saying Baliles had personally attacked him by

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