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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1992                   TAG: 9201290232
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-1   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Landmark News Service
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BILL ELEVATES THE RIGHTS OF BUBBAS

Del. George Grayson, an erudite political theorist from the College of William and Mary, rose Tuesday on the floor of the House with a grandiloquent defense of a group of endangered constituents.

"This group is not women," intoned the well-groomed Williamsburg Democrat. "It is not minorities. It is not the elderly. It is Bubbas."

Grayson acknowledged that Bubbas might be unknown to "the green chablis crowd from north of the Rappahannock."

Bubbas, he explained, eat ham biscuits and jelly doughnuts for breakfast, favor three beverages - "Beer, beer and beer" - and show their uniqueness "by the rakish tilt of their gun racks."

The bill Grayson eventually got around to presenting made a technical modification to a law passed last year limiting how high vehicles can be "jacked up." Grayson's change, made on behalf of some car enthusiasts in Henrico County who ran into trouble with the guidelines, would exempt manufacturers' spacers and bushings when figuring the height limitation.

"This bill is a small step for man, but it's a large step for Bubbakind," Grayson said.

When one colleague rose to ask a question, Grayson ignored him and kept talking.

"He refuses to yield," said Speaker of the House Thomas Moss of Norfolk.

"Bubbas," Grayson thundered, "don't yield for anybody!"

After wild applause, Moss shook his head. "Never has so much been said about so little," he said.

The Bubba bill comes up for final consideration today.

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