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In the 6th District rumors are afloat that former Democratic Delegate Willis M. (Wicke) Anderson of Roanoke may be considering opposing Olin. But 6th District observers tend to discount the rumor.
In the 7th, Del. Alson (Al) Smith of Winchester, a close confidant of former Gov. Chuck Robb, had made clucking sounds about a possible interest in a challenge to Slaughter. He has since disavowed such interest, but has, nevertheless, surfaced the names of several potential candidates. They are 7th District Democratic Chairman Henry Lee Carter of Orange, state Sen. R. Edward “Edd” Houck of Fredericksburg, George H. Gilliam of Charlottesville who was the Democratic nominee for the post in 1974 and Lewis Costello of Winchester who challenged Slaughter two years ago.
Eighth District Democrats are having a similarly difficult time in finding a candidate to oppose Parris. Among the trial balloons which have floated aloft have been those bearing the names of W. Raymond Colley of F. rfax, Deputy Clerk of the House of Representatives, and Robert Horan, commonwealth’s attorney of Fairfax County. No affirmative responses have been forthcoming thusfar, however.
Wolf, in the 10th, however, may have a formidable opponent. Arlington County Board Chairman John Millikin has all but declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination.
Thus the Republicans’ hold on the majority of the Virginia Congressional delegation is anything but assured as the November 1986 elections approach.
The loss of a single seat, say the
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