MILLER SAYS EXTRA BALLOTS WILL WIN HIM GOP'S NOD

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: THURSDAY, April 1, 1993                   TAG: 9304010154
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: GREG EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short
MILLER SAYS EXTRA BALLOTS WILL WIN HIM GOP'S NOD
Del. Clint Miller of Woodstock says he can take the Republican nomination for governor if the June 5 convention goes two or three ballots.
Miller, who was in Blacksburg for a speech to Montgomery County Republicans on Wednesday, said he was seeing a lot of soft support for his two opponents for the GOP nomination, former 7th District Congressman George Allen and Northern Virginia businessman Earle Williams.
When he was in Fairfax for a Republican meeting last Saturday, Miller said he got a "tremendous reaction," and won over a lot of converts from Williams and Allen to his campaign.
"They were literally taking off Allen and Williams stickers and saying they were going to support me," Miller said.
Miller has taken some political stands that some might consider bold this year but that will go over well, particularly with urban voters.
He called for the Republican Party to remove an anti-abortion plank from its political platform as being too divisive and was one of a few rural legislators to support legislation restricting handgun purchases in Virginia to one a month.
Miller said he has been traveling every day since the end of this year's General Assembly session trying to line up support.
The candidate said he has built up a good organization. Dennis Peterson, who ran campaigns for Marshall Coleman and John Warner, is his campaign manager.
He feels like World War II Gen. George Patton who, after surveying a battlefield, said he loved war, Miller said. He loves politics, he said.
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