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By WILLEM SCHELTEMA ARUNDEL NEWSPAPERS STAFF WRITER
In his campaign for attorney general, Republican candidate William Ryland “Buster” O’Brien has staked out a strong law and order position and has promised that if elected, he will spend more time in court than his predecessors.
O’Brien, 39, faces Democratic candidate Mary Sue Terry, the first woman to run for attorney general in Virginia in the Nov. 5 statewide elections.
Terry leads in most polls, though her margin is slim, but O’Brien isn’t too concerned. He lost his first political campaign, a bid for state deleagte in 1977, but two years later won in a six-way race and was re-elected in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
“This race will be won the last two to three weeks,” said a confident O’Brien. “We have to get to be competitive with my opponent in the last two weeks.”
The Republican candidate is a partner in the Virginia Beach law firm of Hudgins, Ege, Johnson and O’Brien,doing mostly criminal trial work. If elected attorney general, O’Brien said he would spend time in court trying major cases, but not at the expense of administering the state’s to law enforcement office.
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