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By MAGGIE L. LAWSON if Rappahannock News SUff Writer J- The Republican Party of Vir|!ginia, which raised some $500,000 at j'a state convention in early June, has • yet to give one dime to the finan!;cially-strapped gubernatorial campaign of former Rep. George F. j'Allen. •I The two other candidates at the ' top of the GOP ticket, Michael P. J Farris, who is running for lieutenant ; governor, and James S. Gilmore, j who is seeking the attorney gener•lal’s post, are also fending for them! selves on fundraising. I Some members of the Virginia J GOP’s executive committee, a group j whose ranks include the 11 district i ;hairmen from across the state* !; 5lame Patrick McSweeney, head of J; he party, for cutting the top candiJ- lates off from the money trough, i The critics said they also have i juestions about how state party rev| *nues, reportedly tallying close to $1 J nillion in the first six months of J 993, are being spent. Approxi• nately 14,000 delegates forked out ! >35 each to attend the state convenJ ion in early June. ' J McSweeney “unilaterally” de1 :ided not to provide money for the ! statewide ticket, on grounds that ! funding for those races was not in J the budget, said 10th District GOP J chairman James Rich of Middleburg. • The issue of funding for the ! statewide GOP ticket came up at a ! meeting of the party’s executive [ committee in June, several weeks af[ ter the state convention, Rich said. • “It was a very poor move on the 1 part of the state chairman," Rich said. ”A lot of us thought it was abSplutly crazy.” ^ Donald C. Williams, of Cheaspeake, who is the party’s 4th district chairman, said executive committee members “without exception” Bunted to give the three candidates money to help them jumpstart their campaigns. V‘J “We were not able to vote,” Wil']|ms said. “There was a motion placed on the floor, and it was ruled out of order by McSweeney.” JU“ McSweeney could not be reached lor comment this week, j"'. Rich Jefferson, director of communications and research for the Estate GOP, said party rules concernling the budget left no place for funding the three statewide races.
Jefferson said the GOP has reasons for not contributing directly to ‘\-fte top ticket. “There are a lot of
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