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JULY 15, 1977 VOL. XIII No. 14 50 cents

Washington Window DEFINING REPUBLICAN ISSUES

This city is now in the midst of a Indeed, in the Senate hard-line con­ Republican soul search. Republicanus servative representation would be in Diagnosticitis tends to flare up in ep­ danger of extinction without represen­ idemic proportions in years after Repub­ tation from small western states. Al­ licans have blown presidential elections though able to elect senators and repre­ ---1949, 1961, 1965, and 1977. Each sentatives in many of these states, the time two competing panaceas are advanced ruling conservatives have been spectacu­ to rescue the elephant from a mastodon's larly unsuccessful at winning state ex­ fate. ecutive positions. In none of the 17 states west of the Mississippi River Republican conservatives have consis­ which supported Ronald Reagan at the tently dispensed a prescription for un­ 1978 GOP National Convention is there alloyed economic and social conservatism now a Republican governor. that would appeal to racially conserva­ tive white Democrats and independents Yet this electoral impotence of the Party progressives and moderates have Republican Right is nothing for progres­ suggested that the party's salvation sive Republicans to crow about. Republi­ lies in an "open party" strategy. These can big-state governorships---once the code words translate roughly in an ap­ pillar of moderate Republican strength peal to racial minorities, youth, and ---have dwindled to a lonely threesome, other normally non-Republican groups. -~-Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan. For all their rhetoric about an open party, An interesting ~wist to this debate progressive Republicans are in no more has been the addition to the progressive danger than their conservative brethern camp of Sen. Bob Dole, who has been of being trampled by a rush of eager preaching the "open party" gospeL/with recruits. The decision of progressive the fervency of a reformed sinner. Yet, U.S.Rep.Charles Whalen(R-Ohio) not to somehow the debate seems to have degen­ seek reelection under the threat of a erated to a dialogue of the deaf (with­ conservative challenge was the latest out sign language). Both sides to the setback progressives have suffered. argument seem to have increasingly weak credentials to support their respective A change in the Republican Party's cases. An objective observer would have fortunes will not result from an ideo­ to conclude that both the Republican logical tilt (whether more to the right Right and the Republican Left (to say or to the left) nor' ,by press agentry. nothing of those in between) have lost The Republican Party can hardly hope to strength in recent years. match the media manipulation of Jimmy Carter, America's first McCluhanesque Key to the predicted conservative re­ President. Moreover, Carter has effec­ vival is;the South, which was supposed tively preempted the spending issue, to provide legions of Republican repre­ which nearly enable Gerald Ford, despite sentatives and senators. It is conceiv­ numerous mistakes and mishaps, to retain able that after the 1978 elections the the White House. And the GOP can no only Republican senator from a southern longer trade on Carter's implausibility state may be Sen. Howard Baker Jr. of as President as it did in last fall's Tennessee, hardly a favorite of the campaign. Carter may still seem a lit­ Human Events crowd. tle strange, but the public has grown accustomed to his smile. A Republican renaissance is possible only if the party is willing to tap in­ to deep concerns in the American elec­ torate and propose solutions which chal­ lenge ~he prevailing establishment orth­ odoxy. Many of these approaches will draw on values common to both Republican conservauives and progressives. At the same time, the Democratic Party---wheth­ er the party of Carter, K~nnedy or Mc­ Govern---is sufficiently mortaged to certain interest-groups to preclude any effective counterstrategy. There are at least four problems of paramount in­ terest to many Americans which Republi­ cans are best able to address: 1) Barriers to youth entry into the labor force. The gut issue with youth in their late teens or early twenties is no longer foreign policy or the draft. It is instead the acquisition of an ini­ tial job, a chance to step up onto the first rung of the job ladder. Yet, Dem­ schools are in a state of lavishly fin­ ocratic policies, shaped in large part by anced collapse. organized labor, have continued to swell youth unemployment to shocking levels. The weight of incompetent teachers Steady increases in minimum wage levels protected by a tenure system rigidly po­ combined with escalating payroll tax liced by teachers unions together with rates have priced many youth out of the a huge administrative overhead has viti­ job market. ated the public schools' effectiveness. Yet the schools continue to consume mil­ Republicans might explore a number of lions in tax revenues. Increasingly, approaches to facilitate entry of youth the middle class---black as well as into the work force. These could in­ white---are forced to flee to surround­ clude an exemption from the minimum wage ing suburbs where taxpayer-supported or at least a permissible pay differen­ schools still dispense some modicum of tial for employers hiring such a youth education. Once viewed as the most im­ or a job voucher to reimburse the employ­ portant element of America's melting pot er for the cost of training a youth on society, public schools in many areas his/her first job. Republicans can look have increasingly become a principal to Western European allies for a number cause of class and racial segregation. of useful models. Restrictive appren­ ticeship requirements in labor unions Radical surgery is clearly required and other artificial barriers to profes­ if quality, publicly-financed education sional entry into the work force are ad­ is again to be widely available. Repub­ ditional barriers whose eradication licans can begin developing a voucher could be proposed. system to empower parents to secure a decent education for their children with­ 2) The breakdown of public education. out deserting the central c.i ty. In ad­ In many areas of the country, the only dition to pressing for the institution ~things less popular than haitosis are of educational vouchers, Republicans at the teachers unions and educational bu­ all levels of government can begin in­ reaucracies. Yet, these same groups sisting on teacher accountability for played a vital role in the nomination pupil performance. and election of Jimmy Carter and scores of congressional Democrats. The public 3) The increasing scarcity of home increasingly views the educational bu­ ownership opportunities for many Ameri­ reacracies as ponderous and unproduc­ can families. Home ownership is a cri­ tive and the teachers union as defenders tical element in most Americans' con­ of the rights of the least effective in­ ception of upward mobility. A dramatic structors. In many cities the public inflation of land and construction costs has elevated the cost of new homes out interests are also heavily represented. of the range of many middle income fam­ And contrary to Ralph Nader's rhetoric, ilies. High down payment requirements the odd man out is more often the small have had the same effect. businessman than the consumer. Republicans are particularly well pos­ Republicans might seriously consider itioned to ameliorate this problem. In converting the Small Business Adminis­ many areas of the country, a high per­ tration from its current, relatively centage of the cost of a home---as much ineffective role as a banker of last re­ as $10,000 on a $50,000 home---is attri­ sort to a role as an advocate and anal­ butable to wasteful, union-fostered work ysis agency. SBA would assess before­ practices and obsolete building codes. hand the impact on small business of Over a 24-year mortgage, the cost of all proposed legislation or major exec­ this waste, including interest, may be utive actions. Financing functions now $25,000. This is a con~~er ripoff far filled by SBA could be spun off to pri­ more devastating than most of Ralph Na­ vate sector lenders through the institu­ der's pet concerns. tion of automatic guarantee or interest rate subsidy programs. I~ seems unlikely that the Democratic Party will lead the fight to reform work A Republican strategy focused around practices in the building trades. The the solution of these problems would ap­ GOP has a ready-made building site. In peal to a diverse range of Americans. addition to pressing for an overhaul of Some new alliances would be forged quite construction industry work practices, removed from conventional political wis­ Republicans should press initiatives to dom. The educational voucher's appeal facilitate family acquisition of down would probably be greatest among both payment money, such as proposed by Sen. blacks and urban white ethnics. In Edward Brooke(R-Mass.) in the Young Fam­ each of these situations, the Republi­ ily Housing Act. can Party would, as progressives have demanded, be moving in a realistic way 4) An increasingly hostile climate to solve urban problems. At the same for small business. A welter of pieces time, it would be proposing initiatives of normally well-intentioned legisla­ which could prove acceptable to the tion have produced severe strains (n great majority of Republican conserva­ small businesses. The unit cost of com­ tives. Meanwhile, the Democrats would plying with various regulatory require­ be immobilized by its political alli­ ments is often much higher for a firm ances with organized labor and the pub­ with 25 employees than for one with 250, lic service bureaucracy and their touch­ 000 employees. Big business is well ing devotion to establishment cant. • represented in Washington. Consumer I 81P01: Updale

I LAWYE:~S "When lawyers can advert1se, they'll be a lot less law­ yers in politics," the head of one of New York City's most prominent law firms said in an interview earlier this year. The heavy participation of lawyers in politics is the func­ tion of many factors, only one of which is the "legal" advertising which a successful lawyer-politician re­ ceives for his political work. The advertising benefits may be increasing­ ly outweighed by the heavy time de­ mands which municipal and legislative posts place on incumbents. Politics is increasingly a full-time occupa­ tion---as Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Car­ ter demonstrated last year. Finan­ cial disclosure and conflict of inter­ est legislation may also work to de­ crease the number of politician-law­ vers, while- the business of clients seeking "influence" and the lure of ingratitude for his past services ,to a judicial reward may keep lawyers the Kenpedy family. While Joe himself politicking. says he has too much work at the Kenne­ dy Library, there are other reports I TENNESSEE I Tennessee Republicans that Joe is still in the running for are sarivating happily at the possibility Crane's job. One continuing possibil­ that the Tennessee Constitution might be ity, according ~o the Boston Globe's changed in time to allow Gov. Ray Blan­ Robert Healy, is that Kennedy could ton (D) to seek reelection in 1978. A seek the seat of U.S.Rep. James Burke constitutional convention this summer (D) if the incumbent retires for health could initiate the change, and Blanton's reasons. That ploy is limited by the aides have indicated he might be tempted ambitions of State Sen. Joseph Timility, to run again. The Democratic governor a former candidate for mayor of Boston has said he intends to leave public of­ who has strong links to the Carter Ad­ fice for business when his term expires. ministration. If Crane is the Demo­ A Blanton candidacy would be doubly de­ cratic candidate for state treasurer, sirable as far as the GOP is concerned. he would face a strong progressive Re­ First, they think that Blanton's contro­ publican challenger, former Department versial record and personality would be of CommUnity Affairs Commissioner Lewis an easy targ~t. Second, a Blanton can­ Crampton. didacy would provoke consternation among other ambitious Democrats who are look­ I KANSAS I Former U.S.Rep. Bill ing at a gubernatorial or senatorial run. Roy(D) has declared his gubernatoriar-­ Some Blanton backers are already commit­ disinterest and backed House Speaker ted to back banker Jake Butcher for gov­ John Carlin(D). The Roy family may not ernor. House Speaker Ned McWherter is be completely off the ballot, however. preparing for a gubernatorial race---so National Democratic Committeewoman June seriously that he is/divesting himself Roy, the wife of the former senatorial of his beer distribution business---but candidate, is being mentioned as a Car­ might be forced into a race against Sen. lin running mate for lieutenant gover­ Howard Baker Jr. (R). So might Lt. Gov. nor. John Shelton(D). Commissioner of Reven­ ue Jayne Ann W02Q§(D) indicated earlier I SENATE I There are 15 former this year she might challenge Baker, but governors currently serving in the U.S. now seems to be backing off. Like other Senate. That club could increase con­ top-ranking Tennessee Democrats, she in­ siderably if many .. of ,the ten governors sists that Baker 'can be beaten. Few and former governors currently consid­ seem ready to tackle that challenge per­ ering 1978 Senate races win election. sonally, however. They seem more con­ Next year's entries could come from cerned that without strong opposition, New Hampshire, Michigan, Iowa, Montana, Baker would be free to campaign exten­ New Mexico, Arkansas, Mississippi, Ala­ sively for the party's probable candi­ bama, West Virginia, and Virginia. date for governor, Lamar Alexander. Al­ exander's chances would undoubtedly be I FLORIDA I Former Sen. Edward improved if the Democrats return to Gurney(R) is considering a political their old habit of holding large, divi­ comeback. Acquitted in two trials for sive primaries for the gubernatorial his alleged role in a contractor extor­ nomination. Other possible candidates tion scheme perpetrated by members of include Tennessee Public Service Commi­ his staff, he accumulated more than sioner Robert N. Clement; his aunt, State $500,000 in legal fees. Still angry Sen. Anna Belle ClemEi~O'Brien; and at the Justice Department for what he Nashville Mayor Dick Fulton. GOP State views as its persecution of him, Gur­ Chairman Tom Beasley is concentrating on ney has dabbled in real estate during legislative races~oping the Democrats his enforced retirement. Now, state will undo themselves as the top of the and local GOP leaders would like him ticket. to run for the 9th C.D. seat being va­ cated by U.S.Rep. Louis Frey, Jr.(R). I MASSACHUSETTS I Whether Joseph Ken­ Frey ,has announced he will seek the nedy III is running for state treasurer GOP's nomination for governor in 1978. is a function of what newspaper edition (Frey's only competition is former you read. After a big publicity build­ General Services Administrator Jack up in late spring, there was a backlash Eckerd, a millionaire businessman ---particularly from incumbent State who was the party's 1974 Senate nom­ Treasurer Robert Crane who interpreted inee.) Though Gurney is 63, the GOP the nascent Kenne~ candidacy as rank is afraid it will lose the seat with­ out a strong nominee. WashingtoD Window CARGO PREFERENCE: CARTER'S MILK FUND?

Despite the Carter Administration's decision also has triggered severe appre­ oft-repeated declarations of political hensions among our European allies, par­ rectitude, the Administration seems ticularly Great Britain. Along with knee-deep in a series of questionable Scandinavian governments, the British transactions that could dwarf the Milk feel the action violates free trade guar­ Fund Scandal of 1972. That scandal, antees made by Carter at the recent Lon­ one of the least seemly of the various don Summit Conference. episodes grouped under Watergate, in­ volved the bartering of campaign con­ Underlying the Administration's cargo tributions by dai~ interests for Nix­ preference decision is the huge debt Jim­ on Administration moves to raise dairy my Carter owes the maritime unions for price supports. his election victory. In fact, clandes­ tine actions by the maritime unions may The Milk Fund Scandal led to the in­ have torpedoed Ford's comeback surge. dictment and near political ruin of the The chronology of events in the cargo most charismatic Treasury secretary preference story follows this sequence: since Alexander Hamilton. It also con­ tttbuted to the Nixon Administration's * Gerald Ford as House minority lead­ downfall, although impeachment articles er was the recipient of campaign contri­ related to the Milk Fund Scandal were butions from two maritime unions, the dropped from the House Judiciary Com­ Seafarers Union and the Marine Engineers mitteels report to protect prominent Beneficial Association. While a member Committee Democrats who had reaped huge of Congress, Ford was a consistent sup­ contributions from the dairy interests. porter of maritime industry causes, in­ cluding cargo preference. The Milk Fund episode may be penny ante politics compared to a scandal en­ * In the 1974 congressional elections, veloping the Carter Administration con­ the maritime unions shelled out over cerning the obscure issue of "cargo pre­ $1.5 million to candidates sympathetic ference." The beneficiaries of the Nix­ to their position on cargo preference. on action to raise price supports in­ cluded tens of thousands of generally * After Congress had approved cargo moderate income dairy farmers. Presi­ preference legislation, President Ford dent Carterls decision to support cargo pocket vetoed the bill on December 30, preference legislation will benefit a 1974 on grounds that it would prove much smaller and much better heeled enormously inflationary. group, already heavily-subsidized u.S. shipowners and shipbuilders and their * In the spring of 1976, Jimmy Carter allies in the maritime unions. met privately with Jesse Calhoon, power­ ful president of the Marine Engineers The cargo preference position recently Beneficial Association. Following the adopted by Carter would require that be­ meeting, Carter sent Calhoon a letter en­ tween 4.5 and 9.5 percent of foreign oil dorsing increased subsidies for the U.S. shipped to the United States come on Amer­ merchant marine and stating that the ican flag ships. By some calculations, American fleet "should be manned by civil­ Carterls decision will cost the Ameri- ian seamen trained in industry schools." can consumer over $7 billion by 1982. Ad­ As Dan Rather pointed out October 3, 1976 ministration economist Jerry Jasinowski, on "Sixty Minutes," the interpretation of whose weighty credentials include the au­ "industry schools" is union schools, thorship of the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, schools like the Calhoon School of insists that Carter's action will cost Marine Engineering---as opposed to the American consumer only a little over the Merchant Marine Academy. Calhoon's a billion dollars. union has, Rather's report suggested, waged a consistent effort to close Whatever the dimensions of the ripoff down the Merchant Marine Academy and to of the American consumer sanctioned by exclude its graduates from jobs on union Carter, the only basis for his decision ships. was political---as consumer adovcate ana former Maritime Administrator Nicholas * On June 4, 19·76, a week and a half Johnson has charged. In addition to after Carter's letter to Calhoon, Car­ soaki~e American consumer, Carterls ter's campaign received in a single day a total of $25,000 from maritime offi­ than those various crimes lumped toget cials, nearly all associated with the er as "Watergate." Repugnant as the Maritime Engineers Beneficial Associa­ various Watergate outrages were, they tion(MEBA). On June 30, 1976, Jesse clearly had a very marginal impact on Calhoon sponsored a fundraiser for Car­ the 1972 election results, most proba­ ter in Washington. Well over $150,000 bly shaving Nixon's landslide margin. was raised that day for Carter, by then The spurious charges sent the special the near-certain Democratic presidential prosecutor almost certainly we~e deci­ nominee. sive, on the other hand, in Carter's Electoral College victory and probably * In the summer of 1976, one or more were crucial to his popular vote mar­ maritime union informants went to Spe­ gin as well. cial Prosecutor Charles Ruff with alle­ gations that Gerald Ford had converted The issue then is whether Gerald maritime union contributions to his per­ Ford was merely the victim of bad tim­ sonal use while still a congressman. ing or of something far more sinister. Several serious questions remain unan­ * Just as Carter's lead was beginning swered: to disintegrate in the fall, maritime 1) In his secret meeting with Cal­ union officials began to leak stories hoon, what if anything did Jimmy Carter about Ford's problems with the special promise him in return for MEBA's. poli­ prosecutor. In late September, press tical support? reports about this investigation of Ford 2) Did maritime union officials in­ placed the President on the defensive spire the investigation of Ford by and undercut Ford's strongest political the special prosecutor? advantage, his reputation for personal 3) If so, did they do this with the integrity. One can only speculate as knowledge or acquiescence of Carter to the political impact of this decel­ campaign officials or of Jimmy Carter erating force on the Ford campaign, but himself? it may have produced a net shift of 3-4 4) Was Carter's decision to support percent of the November vote. cargo preference designed in part tp seal the lips of maritime union offi­ cials? It is doubtful if the Justice Depart ment, which has been repoliticized at its top levels since Carter assumed the Presidency, can be expected to pursue this issue with vigor. This subject, far more than the probe of South Korean influence peddling, would seem to war­ * Fearing that Carter as President rant the appointment of a special pros­ might reverse his campaign position on ecutor. Although the appointment of cargo preference, maritime industry and such an official is not an expedient union officials organized a massive me­ answer to every case of political mal­ dia blitz to plug cargo preference leg­ feasance, it is dictated in this in­ islation. Hired to direct this adver­ stance by the pervasive impact of the tising was Gerald Rafshoon, who had or­ maritime unions within both the execu­ ganized Carter's campaign advertising tive and legislative branches. Con­ and who now serves as a private consul­ gress' handling of the Korean influ­ tant to President Carter. ence peddling scandal has demonstrated the limitations of any in-House clean­ ing acti vi ty. * In early July of this year, the White House announced Carter's support Furthermore, public scrutiny of the for cargo preference. The President's manipulation of Congress by massive mar decision came over the objection of the time industry campaign contributions State Department, the Defense Depart­ would seem long overdue. Even before ment, the Treasury Department, and the cargo preference became such a key topi Office of Management and Budget. the American taxpayer was being billed for hundreds of millions of dollars an­ If these events had revolved around nually to subsidize the u.S. merchant Richard Nixon rather than Jimmy Carter, marine. Yet, this dollar cost pales be there is little doubt they would have side the perversion of our political provoked strong suspicion. Yet, in some process which the industry's practices ways, the events may be more troubling have fostered. • POLITICS: The Presidency WILL CARTER PLAY IN TRENTON & RICHMOND ?

Republicans expect to win the gub­ Bateman to debate him on the state's ernatorial races in both New Jersey key issue: extension of the income tax and Virginia this year. In both races next year. Bateman emerged as the un­ the Dem~cratic candidate is vulnerable expectedly strong victor of the Repub­ to Democratic defections to the GOP. lican primary. He defeated former In both races, the GOP candidate is Assembly Minority Leader Thomas Kean positioned to pick up Democratic de­ in a race in which both stressed their fectors. In both races, the Democra­ opposition to the current income tax. tic candidate has taken controversial Bateman's ads, including an effective positiops. And in both races, the . endorsement from U.S.Rep. Millicent Fen­ Democr~tic candidate was an early sup~ wick(R-5), reversed an early lead which porter of Jimmy Carter. Kean's own polls showed he-held. Bate­ man's victory---which relied on organi­ What Jimmy Carter does to return zation support---showed the grassroots that support may determine the final weakness of the Jersey GOP. The voters outcome of these races. Both New Jer­ that Kean hoped to attract through tele­ sey Gov. Brendan Byrne(D) and former vision advertising never materialized Virginia Gov. Henry Howell(D) emerged at the polls. from their primary victories in June in stronger positions than had been The primary defeat of Byrne's neme­ predicted earlier this year. Both had sis, State Sen. James Dugan (D) , may aid been underdogs---Byrne for imposing an Byrne's political pacification program. income tax in New Jersey and Howell for He has replaced Dugan as state chairman his reputation for liberal populism. with Mercer County Democratic Chairman Howell received a bare majority of the Richard Coffee. Bateman made an effec­ Democratic votes in bis primary and tive beginning at revitalizing his par­ Byrne only 30 percent of his. ty by selecting former Senate candidate David Norcross as the GOP's new state Both must round up a substantial chairman. Like Byrne, Bateman has trou­ proportion of their alienated Demo­ ble within his own party. Bergen Coun­ cratic constituency to win. That's ty in particular is a battleground be­ where Jimmy Carter's influence may be tween.warring factions. decisive. He has already put his im­ primatur on Howell, giving him the red New Jersey voters don't like the carpet rose garden treatment. Carter state's income tax. Byrne's strategy I has been much more circumspect about is to convince them there is no alter­ his association with New Jersey's native. His primary advertisements ad­ Byrne. He can hardly forget that mitted he made a mistak~ four years ago voter dissatisfaction with the New Jer­ when he promised there ,woufd pe no in­ sey income tax cost him the state's come tax during his ~dministr~tion. electoral votes last fall. The low Bateman's goal is to convince,lithe voters estate of Gov. Byrne was satirized by that the income tax i!!i. both urifair and the New York Daily News' John McLaugh­ unnecessary. lin after the primary: Brendan Byrne won the Democratic nom­ Even more than Brendan Byrne's, the ination because the polls show he is personality of Henry Howell will be the terribly unpopular and that of all focus of the Virginia gubernatorial con­ the Democratic candidates only he has test. The animosity Howell can generate a solid shot at losing to a Republi­ was illustrated by an article written by can in the fall. Democrats like a the Richmond News-Leader's Ross MacKen­ challenge. zie in the National Review: Ordinarily, Virginians require a dig­ Byrne won only with the jUdicious use nified demeanor in their candidates; of incumbent political muscle, the with­ they have never known anything quite drawl of former Jersey City Mayor Paul like Howlin' Henry. He is a Lester Mad­ Jordan, and the division of the anti­ dox with brains, a monumental braggart, Byrne vote among nine other Democratic a voluble, Falstaffian, carny-caller. candidates. Byrne came out of the pri­ He is a smiling, single-issue Naderite mary swinging, giving one of his best who says such things as I) "Every year, speeches on primary night, and chal­ like clockwork, the big utilities try lenging Republican nominee Raymond to raise your rates, and every year, like police work, Henry fights for the GOP's spring convention. To win this consum7r"i 2) "The utilities don't like fall, Dalton will have to regain the ~ pry~ng, and I don't like their prof­ middle ground he vacated to guarantee ~ts"i and 3) "you all know what Vepco the conservative GOP's support. He [the Virginia Electric and Power Com­ must counteract Howell's surprising pany] means: it means'Very Expensive strength in traditional Republican Power Company." And apparently he is voting grounds in western and Tide­ a member of the Andrew Young school water Virginia. that so enjoys the luxury of contra­ diction: having taken repeated credit Both Dalton and Bateman are heirs to for thwacking Virginia's utilities, the moderate-progressive traditions of Howell declared himself "an ocean of the GOP in their states. Both have had ignorance" on such important matters to move to the right in order to win as, for instance, utility rates. the nominations of their parties. Both face candidates who were expected to lose the Democratic nomination. And Even before the June 14 primary, sup­ both will have to campaign against thei porters of Howell oppon~nt Andrew Mil­ opponent with one eye pealed for Jimmy ler indicated they might switch to Re­ publican John Dalton if Howell was the Carter. As Dalton said recently, "We Democratic nominee. Howell's problems Virginians think of this as an elec:tion in forging a unified Democratic slate for governor, but the national press are helped/hindered by the ideological and the White House will be viewing it disposition of his running mates: moder­ as a referendum on the Carter adminis­ ate Charles Robb for lieutenant gover­ tration. They will be watching to see nor and conservative Edward Lane for if Jimmy Carter can get his friend attorney general. Despite an acrimon­ elected governor." ious campaign, Miller and Howell have at least cosmetically reconciled their Henry Howell puts it another way: differences. Remnants of the old Byrd There are people that want to be Machine are sure to shift into the Dal­ judges, United States marshal, who ton camp regardless of Miller's lead. want to do a whole lot of things. And they're not going to be going around Dalton's ticket is rounded out by kicking Henry Howell in the last thir­ State Sen. A. Joe Canada for lieutenant ty days and trying to scare people lik governor and State Sen. Marshall Cole­ it was Halloween---the same tactics man for attorney general. Canada won that they used on Jimmy Carter---be­ the GOP nomination through the influ­ cause they're going to say: "We better ence of National Conservative Politi­ not hit Henry too hard, because even cal Action Committee operatives in if he doesn't win, Jimmy might ask Virginia while Coleman won his spot him who should be the federal judge despite the NCPAC group's power at the or who should be postmaster, or who should be whatever Jimmy Carter can do.

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