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

DATE: MONDAY, March 23, 1992                   TAG: 9203230137
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

OUTGOING MONTGOMERY GOP CHAIRMAN SNUBBED

Montgomery County Republicans snubbed their departing county chairman by giving one of his opponents for the 9th District congressional nomination more delegates to the May 23 district convention in Wytheville.

Outgoing Chairman George Bell collected 12.2 delegate-votes and trailed Radford businessman Gary Weddle, who had 13.8. Lew Sheckler, a Radford University music professor, came in a close third with 11. Five votes will go to the convention uncommitted.

Montgomery County, with its 42 votes, will have the largest delegation at the convention, which will pick someone to run this November against Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher of Abingdon.

Montgomery County's was the third Republican mass meeting to be held in advance of the 9th District convention.

Bell claimed the 11 delegate votes that were picked in the district's Roanoke County precincts on March 12. Scott County's Republicans selected 17 convention delegates Thursday night, but none of them is pledged to a particular candidate.

- Staff report

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