THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 5, 1995 TAG: 9502050048
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ALEX MARSHALL, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Short : 34 lines
Dimitrios N. Rerras, a 37-year-old native of the city, is campaigning to bethe Republican candidate for the state Senate seat held by Sen. Stanley C. Walker, a Democrat.
Rerras preaches a conservative party line of welfare reform, lower taxes, tougher crime punishment and tax credits for people who send their children to private schools.
If elected to the 6th district seat in November, Rerras would provide Gov. George Allen another vote toward a Republican majority in the General Assembly.
Rerras held a fund-raiser Saturday at the Greek Orthodox Church on Granby Street. A member of the church since infancy, Rerras said the church community and his neighborhood were his natural political base.
Rerras works with Computer Dynamics in Virginia Beach and has been active in the Republican party for several years. He serves now on Gov. Allen's Commission on Champion Schools, which is an educational reform group. Rerras is secretary of the Norfolk Republican party.
Provided Rerras wins his party's nomination this spring, his expected opponent would be Walker, who has served in the General Assembly for more than 30 years and in the senate for more than 20.
A staff official for Walker said the senator was ``absolutely set'' to run again. by CNB