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By MARKSCOLFORO
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The hotly contested race for the Democratic nomination for the Seventh District seat in Congress heads to Culpeper Saturday with Kay Slaughter holding a commanding lead in delegates.
All three candidates — Ms. Slaughter, Dean Reed and Wilke Green — were sounding confident this week, but only Ms. Slaughter has accumulated more than a few delegates going into the convention.
Counting the delegates is an inexact science, to say the least. On Tuesday Ms. Slaughter’s handlers claimed 141 committed delegates, Mr. Green said he had promises from “between 76 and 86" and Mr. Reed’s campaign issued a statement claiming “Reed has assurances from over 120 of the 166 uncommitted delegates on the convention’s first ballot.” That totals more than 307, the number of delegates going to Culpeper.
“All the candidates are claiming crazy numbers,” said Mr. Green, who would have to pull off an incredible maneuver to win the nomination.
Virginia Daugherty, Ms. Slaughter’s campaign manager, said this week that her candidate hoped to nail down a majority before the end of the w'eek and avoid a divisive floor fight.
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