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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
The jockeying for postition in the 1994 race for a U.S. Senate seat in Virginia continues to overshadow the gubernatorial race that is coming up this fall.
Governor L. Douglas Wilder seems increasingly to be leaning toward taking on incumbent Senator Charles S. Robb for the Democratic nomination.
The Wilder strategy would be to press for a primary that might be able to give him maximum advantage of his popularity with blacks and labor unions.
Yet if that should happen, and you heard it here first, there could be another entry in the race that would be a huge surprise. Scruples relating to sources prohibit me from providing any specific name at the moment, but it may be possible a bit later.
Wilder has been tossing firebombs at Robb for several weeks and may have scored again when, according to reports. President Clinton decided not to nominate attorney Charles Ruff as number two person in the Justice Department.
Ruff, who was Robb’s attorney during a grand jury probe of an illegal taping of a Wilder conversation, had come under fire from the governor for his part in the Robb defense. Wilder hinted he thought some secret deal may have been made between Ruff, a former Justice Department official, and federal prosecutors to lessen the chances of Robb being indicted. And while Ruff’s nomination was ultimately torpedoed because of his failure to pay Social Security taxes for a domestic worker, Wilder’s sharp criticism of Ruff certainly caught the attention of several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, according to a Washington Post story.
On the Republican side, Richard Cullen, who has been dismissed as a federal prosecutor by Attorney General Janet Reno, indicated be will seriously consider seeking the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate next year. Cullen echoed the feelings of a number of Republican loyalists when he said former Marine Colonel Oliver North, a key Iran-Contra figure whose conviction on charges was overturned on appeal, may not be the kind of candidate the party should field.
But if North’s nomination is to be stopped either by Cullen, former OMB director James Miller, J. Marshall Coleman or anyone else, the formidable
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