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Parris and Sen. Paul Trible in a bitterly contested primary, the long knives began to appear everywhere in party circles.
Those who had been unhappy with the party leadership even before the election had their hands strengthened when public revelations were made of sloppy bookkeeping practices at party headquarters that resulted in thousands of dollars of overdrawn checks and a need to borrow money to pay the Internal Revenue Service $240,000 in taxes, penalties and interest.
As this is written, at least several groups of prominent Republicans are out to sack party chairman Donald Huffman and executive director Joe Elton and to restructure the party from the top down.
Huffman, a Roanoke lawyer who had plenty of defenders, says he’s sticking to his post. The infighting became even bloodier when an audit report the GOP leadership hoped to keep within the family was mailed anonymously to the press, resulting in editorial charges that the party’s central committee had attempted to cover up its flawed financial practices.
Typical of the reaction by Huffman supporters to the leak were comments by Hugh Mulligan, first vice chairman, who said whoever released the report was “a skunk” who should be drummed out of the party.
On the other side, former party official Jeff Gregson, now a consul
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