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Fauquier Times-Democrat Tuesday evening, Sen. Warner said “I worked on the farm today, took my steers to the Fauquier Livestock Exchange and sold them for a good price.”
He pledged that Virginia farmers will always have a voice as long as he is in office.
The senator added that he does not feel that the squabbles over the budget, the mounting Federal deficit or the Persian Gulf situation had hurt Republican incumbents. “Across the nation people turn to leaders who have played important roles, politics played second.”
Both Sen. Warner and Rep. Slaughter apparently overcame the hurdle that was predicted to endanger incumbent lawmakers around the country. Political analysts forecast that the budget snafu, which sent the federal government into a tailspin throughout October, would cause voters to oust incumbents.
Tony Likins, Slaughter’s campaign manager, said that no such urge reached voters in the 7th District, in part because Slaughter did not take campaigning lightly.
“We knew very early on that we could not sit and be complacent as an incumbent,” said Mr. Likins. He added, “You can’t say anti-incumbent without first establishing what
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