Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, September 21, 1993 TAG: 9309210109
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
"This is a bold, new approach that goes beyond government handouts to hand-ups," Allen said.
The Allen proposal includes doubling - to 50 - the number of state-designated enterprise zones, which offer tax credits to businesses relocating within them.
He also proposes government partnerships with the private sector to attract grocery stores and other businesses to urban areas and to promote and expand the "Weed and Seed" anti-drug program, a national effort being tested in Richmond.
Allen seemed taken aback when a reporter told him that two of his proposals - role-model programs in which state and national leaders come to Virginia to talk to inner-city youths, and voluntary mentoring programs linking adult women with teen-age mothers - already are up and running.
Gov. Douglas Wilder is co-chairman of Virginia Heroes, a role-model program started several years ago in Richmond at the urging of Arthur Ashe, the late tennis star and Virginia native.
And Lynda Johnson Robb, wife of Democratic Sen. Charles Robb, has been a major supporter of the "Resource Mothers" program, which links older women with teen mothers.
"We would expand that. This is not a partisan issue," Allen said.
Kemp, who also spoke for Allen later in the day at a Norfolk luncheon, likened Allen's "audaciousness" to that of Martin Luther King.
Allen could not say how much his urban program will cost but stressed that tax money would be generated if businesses move to inner-city areas, creating jobs for local residents.
State Sen. Benjamin Lambert, D-Richmond, held a news conference later Monday to criticize Allen's record on urban affairs and chastise Kemp's comparing Allen to King.
In other campaign developments:
Democratic nominee Mary Sue Terry campaigned in Virginia Beach, telling the Virginia Petroleum Jobbers Association that she would be the "state's top salesperson for jobs, tourism and Virginia's products."
Terry said she would work with the private sector to market Virginia products.
She said she would continue the tradition of Virginia governors taking business delegations on trade missions.
The Allen campaign spotlighted the presence of Sheila Levin, the top fund-raiser for New York City Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman, on a list of sponsors for a Terry reception Monday night in Manhattan.
According to reports in several New York newspapers, the city's Department of Investigation has recommended prosecution of Levin for allegedly including false information on an application for a $450,000 loan to Holtzman's campaign for the U.S. Senate last year.
Tom King, Terry's campaign consultant, said Levin has not contributed to the Terry camp and is not expected to do so.
She was among 34 co-sponsors of Monday night's Terry event at the Manhattan apartment of Muriel Siebert. King said the $250-per-person reception was planned well before reports of any investigation of Levin.
The Terry camp complained about fliers it said were distributed Monday to workers arriving at Norfolk Southern Corp.'s Roanoke shops.
The single sheet pictures Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, his right arm raised in a salute. Alongside him are identical photos, but with the faces of Terry and Wilder superimposed on Hitler's.
"All in favor of gun control, raise your right hand," the caption reads.
The flier contains no indication of who was responsible for its printing or distribution.
But King argued that "it shows you the kind of tactics that are going to be used" against Terry by the gun lobby. Terry has made support for a five-day handgun purchase waiting period the centerpiece of her campaign.
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