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Gilmore: He’s
all business
By Susan Norman
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
He smiles occasionally and shakes hands like other politicians, but Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Gilmore does not come across as the typical politician.
In a recent appearance before the editorial board of Times Community Newspapers, a group of 16 Northern Virginia weeklies, this candidate was all business.
As he introduced himself to the reporters and editors, he went directly to the bottom line: “I want the endorsements of all your papers,” he said, smiling but in no way joking.
During the next hour, Gilmore carefully laid out the road map of his life, a life characterized by personal achievement and high goals.
He was bom 48 years ago, on Oct. 6, 1949, to a working-class couple who had moved from Madison County in central Virginia to the state’s capital during World Warll.
His father was a butcher for Safeway. His mother, a church secretary.
He attended public schools in Henrico County north of Richmond, graduating from John Randolph Tucker High in the late ‘60s.
University of Virginia granted him two degrees, one in international relations and the other in law.
Between degrees, he served as an Army intelligence officer in West Germany for NATO and received the Joint Services Commendation Medal, which he now wears on his lapel.
See GILMORE, Page A8
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