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was getting its act together and the rule of the Eleventh Commandment (“Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”) was strictly enforced.
But in the closed-door workshops, in the halls and hospitality rooms and in the closed session of the GOP State Central Committee on Sunday morning, it was another story altogether.
“The pot bubbled but never quite came to a boil!” was the way one dissatisfied attendee put it. “I think a conscious decision was made to defuse the situation at this meeting so as not to have an explosion so closely following the election.
While there are any number of factions and sub-factions within the party, the main divisions seem to be between those who supported the illfated gubernatorial nomination bid of 8th District Congressman Stanford Parris of Fairfax and the supporters of candidate Wyatt Durrette.
The latter group had the strong support of the most conservative wing of the party led by former Gov. Mills E .-Godwin Jr., as well as that of a hefty portion of the independent conservative coalition led by former Del. Roy Smith of Petersburg. The Huffman loyalists were clearly in command at the Staunton meeting, and after a hasty nose count their pre-eminence, and thus the security of Huffman’s position, was acknowledged by the dissidents.
In the end, it was decided that because the Huffman forces had enough votes to defeat them anyway, to introduce them would have been futile.
Once again Judy Peachee, a former GOP national committeewoman and now-the Richmond aide to Sen. Paul Trible, was singled out by the
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