DYKE WON'T CHALLENGE TERRY FOR NOMINATION

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 27, 1993                   TAG: 9301270134
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: Staff report
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DYKE WON'T CHALLENGE TERRY FOR NOMINATION
Education Secretary James Dyke said Tuesday he will not challenge Attorney General Mary Sue Terry for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination this year, but will consider a statewide race in 1997.
Dyke told WDBJ-TV in Roanoke he plans to help advise Terry on issues that he said in December she has ignored: education, economic development and fiscal responsibility.
In other interviews Tuesday, Dyke told reporters his December threat to challenge Terry was an attempt to get a "message" to her that she needed to address traditional Democratic constituent groups and issues he says are the hallmark of the Wilder administration.
"We're looking most seriously at a race for governor or lieutenant governor in 1997," Dyke told the Roanoke station. A lawyer, he said he plans to return to the private sector after Wilder's term ends early next year.
Dyke's trial balloon was lofted about the same time his boss, Gov. Douglas Wilder, declared he might urge black voters to abandon the Democrats next year. Those comments came after Terry had beaten Wilder's attempt to remove her as counsel to the Virginia Retirement System. The governor sought to fire Terry after she criticized the pension fund's governing board, most of whom were Wilder appointees.
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by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB