Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, September 25, 1993 TAG: 9309250210
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short
"Come see me the day before the election," Warner said when asked if he planned to vote for Farris, a Christian conservative whose nomination has strained the conservative-moderate coalition in the party.
Warner told a Richmond television station that he and Farris "have different views . . . on some issues" but added that Farris is the "duly nominated" candidate of the Republican Party.
Farris, a nationally known advocate of home schooling, defeated a candidate for the nomination who enjoyed widespread support from the Virginia Federation of Republican Women - a group that has given Warner solid backing in the past.
Meanwhile, Farris and his Democratic opponent, Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, launched radio attacks against one another in opening their media campaigns this week.
Farris went on the air first, with an ad charging that Beyer opposed President Clinton's economic package a week after it had passed Congress.
"That's right, Don Beyer, the first statewide Democrat to endorse Bill Clinton. Don Beyer, who flew to Little Rock to party with Bill and Hillary on election night, kept quiet about the Clinton tax plan until it was too late."
Beyer's ad attacks Farris as "too extreme for Virginia.
"He was director of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority out in Washington state. He was treasurer of Pat Robertson's campaign committee. Now Falwell and Robertson want their lieutenant to become Virginia's lieutenant governor," the ad says.
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