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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
R*pp«h*nnock New« SUff Writer
Members of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors — pro-growth and slow-growth alike - are on record as refusing campaign contributions from individuals and firms that are involved in the county’s booming development industry. Last month, when Republican candidates learned that donations from a Republican political action committee came initially from developers who may someday be before the board with a rezoning request, they returned the money.
But that policy won’t work in little rural counties, according to William C. Chase Jr., chairman of the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors and unsuccessful candidate, for the Virginia Senate seat from the 26th District which includes the counties of Culpeper, Page and Rappahannock, the City of Harrisonburg and portions of Fauquier, Madison and Rockingham counties.
According to records in the Culpeper registrar’s office, Mr. Chase received $3,000 in campaign contributions from four developers who have proposals either coming or already before the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors.
“Everyone who contributed to my campaign knows me, and I like to think they gave because they wanted to see me in Richmond,” Mr. Chase said in a telephone interview Tuesday night. “I struck no bargains and I made no deals,” he said, suggesting that an anonymous telephone call that led to the examination of his campaign contributions could be viewed as an attack on his personal integrity. “I’ve been called a lot of
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