Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 26, 1990                   TAG: 9004260096
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Richmond bureau
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

TERRY POLITICAL OFFICE READY

But she is maintaining a political office here and a political telephone number under the listing of "Terry for Virginia" which, obviously, is ready to go when she's ready.

The telephone number, incidentally, is 644-1993.

Bert Rohrer, Terry's press secretary in the attorney general's office, said it's nothing new. "We've always had a political office."

Rohrer said the one-room office is used whenever Terry's political lieutenants need to do things - like raising funds for strictly political activities - that should not be done in her state office and on state time.

But they do it as volunteers, in their spare time, the press secretary said. "We don't have anybody on the payroll" for a political campaign organization and the office is not staffed on a regular basis, he said.

Mostly, Rohrer said, the office is now being used for storage of computer equipment and other paraphernalia that are the gut workings of a political campaign. There's even a coffee pot, he said.

Terry is widely expected to run for governor in '93 - and there is the possibility that she could be challenged for the Democratic nomination by Lt. Gov. Don Beyer.

"We don't have any sort of highly active political organizing going on right now," but Rohrer conceded that the office could be cranked into service in a jiffy.

"Just add water," he said - presumably referring to the coffee pot.