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A badly shaken state Republican Party will gather at the Ingleside Motel near Staunton early next month for a weekend of soul searching, damage control and rehabilitative therapy. The gathering also may be the first of a series of bloody cat-and-dog fights between warring GOP factions which could bring basic changes in the Republicans’ organizational and philosophical direction.
The meeting will take place Dec. 6-8. Such organizational gatherings are frequently referred to as “retreats.” State GOP Chairman Don Huffman, however, especially in the wake of the Republicans’ electoral disaster earlier this month, is keenly aware of anything with a negative implication. Hence he has decreed that such assemblies of the party’s leaders be known as “advances,” a novel application of the word which may require a bit of getting used to.
The word from Republican headquarters is that Huffman and the rest of the ruling circle hope that the Ingleside meeting will be positive in tone, and that the various opposing tribes will remain quietly in their tents, kicking up as little sand as possible. Word from the tribes, however, indicates there is plenty of unrest and there is almost certain to be a major blowup during the meeting.
Indeed, in spite of their words of hope for peace and harmony, the headquarters press secretary for the party says the meeting of the State Central Committee set for Dec. 7 will be closed to reporters. It is at this meeting that the fireworks, if they occur, are expected.
Just where those fireworks will come from is unclear.
Many Republican moderates were outraged when, a few days after the election, Sandy Scholte, a
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