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By SUSAN NORMAN
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
With the June 10 Republican primary four weeks away, Virginia Attorney General Jim Gilmore and all four of the Republicans who would like to replace him in November came to Loudoun County Saturday seeking support.
Unfortunately, fewer than 100 people braved the cold, blustery afternoon to attend the Algonkian Regional Park picnic sponsored by the Loudoun County Republican Committee, the Loudoun County Republican Women and the Loudoun County Young Republicans.
Gilmore, unopposed for the party’s nomination for governor, repeated a recent campaign pledge to phase out personal property taxes on the first $20,000 of the assessed value of cars and trucks and called on his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, to leave his current office as Gilmore plans to do on June 11. Beyer Saturday was receiving his party’s formal nomination at a state convention in Richmond.
John Hager, the sole Republican candidate for lieutenant governor since the withdrawal of Coleman Andrews, did not make an appearance at the Loudoun GOP gathering.
Nevertheless, the event did provide a forum for the four Republican lawyers who are vying for the party’s nomination for attorney general.
With the Democrats’ three-man slate selected, and two of the three slots on the Republican ticket filled, the only real question for primary voters is who will be the Republican nominee for attorney general.
The candidates are Gil Davis of Arlington, Jerry Kilgore of southwestern Virginia and Mark Earley and Ken Stolle, both of the Hampton Roads area. Despite their shared party affiliation and their common profession as lawyers, the four candidates offer voters significant choice.
Davis, a University of Virginia School of Law graduate, practices with the firm of Cohen, Gettings, Dunham & Davis. His only previous run for office was an unsuccessful attempt in the mid-’70s to become Fairfax County’s commonwealth’s attorney. President of the United States.”
At 54, he is the oldest of the four candidates and has 28 years of legal experience, including four as a federal prosecutor in the early ‘70s in the eastern district of Virginia. He claims that he has prosecuted more felons than all three of his opponents combined, and he numbers his career caseload in both civil and criminal work in the thousands.
See Candidates, Page A-8
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