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referring to her earlier visit to Warrenton, where she Was barraged with questions about the project.
“It would pull the traffic that goes into Washington, that doesn’t need to go into Washington, out ' I think that the eastern bypass will probably be the first one built. I look for that one to be funded first. ”
Reminded that the Boards of Supervisors of Rappahannock, Fauquier and Loudoun counties have sent resolutions to Richmond stating their opposition to the bypass. Sen. Dalton replied, “When you look at a transportation problem, you look at the whole picture — at a unified Virginia and the whole picture.
“When you look at the whole picture, the eastern bypass will be built first — because it’s the most needed, and that’s where the funding will come first... I don’t know when the western bypass will ever be built; I expect that it will be sometime in the distant future. Maybe not too distant, but it will be a while.”
She promised that, if elected, she would cut the budget for the office of lieutenant governor in half. She said that it had mushroomed from $60,000 when her late husband held the job to $300,000 under Lt. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. "It’s the same job, the same responsibilities — but a different philosophy of government, a different way of looking at the people’s money.”
Her philosophy, she added, begins with two questions, “Are you a steward? Is the money spent where the people want it spent?”
Telling the small group at the courthouse about her five grandchildren, who she said refer to her as “Senator Grandmother,” Mrs. Dalton said “I really want to do something about drugs.” Calling the drug problem a “scourge,” in Virginia and
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