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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Virginia Republicans may provide the first significant test of whether the OOP’s tent can be pitched broad enough in the future for it to take back the White House and compete realistically for control of Congress.
A state Republican convention in Richmond in early June will be among the largest in Virginia history and possibly the most acrimonious with a huge battle brewing between so-called party regulars and what the media describes rightly or wrongly as the fundamentalist wing.
Ironically, the fight will be principally joined not at the top of the ticket where three men are vying for the gubernatorial nomination or in a two-race for the nod for attorney general, but for nomination for lieutenant governor and the dubious right to face Democratic incumbent Donald Beyer next fall.
There are two announced candidates at the moment for second spot, although there is already talk of slipping someone else in as a compromise convention choice.
The tw'o now running are Michael Farris, a Northern Neck lawyer and fundamentalist who is using close ties with the Rev. Pat Robertson’s organization to get delegates elected to the convention who are pledged to his candidacy, a former White House aide Bobbie Kilberg, also an attorney, who is getting major support from the pragmatic regular elements who want to see such controversial
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