Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, October 9, 1993 TAG: 9310090098
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: BY WARREN FISKE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Dole traveled the state with Allen, telling partisan crowds at four stops that Allen's election this fall would have national implications.
"All of America is watching this race, and if we win it, it will put Republicans in great shape moving toward the 1994 congressional elections," Dole told about 70 GOP activists during a brief stop at Roanoke Regional Airport.
"It will send a message to Democrats that we're winning elections," he said. "It will send a message to President Clinton to lay off the heavy government and taxes."
In addition to the stop in Roanoke, Dole was the feature speaker at a fund-raising breakfast for Allen in Tyson's Corner, a luncheon in Norfolk and a news conference in Richmond.
Dole gave Allen $10,000 from the Republican National Committee and pledged that the committee would kick in another $20,000 before election day.
Dole, a possible candidate against Clinton in 1996, blasted the president for raising taxes earlier this year and for proposing a health-care reform package that "puts 15 percent of our economy under the direct control of government."
However, Dole was supportive of Clinton's plan to double the number of American troops in Somalia. "The president does have a plan, it's specific, and it seems to me that it's our duty to support the president," he said.
The senator called Allen a "bright, young, articulate man who cares about people."
At a Norfolk luncheon attended by about 200 GOP activists, Allen also picked up support from former Gov. Mills Godwin.
Allen and Dole were accompanied by Sen. John Warner, R-Va. During a news conference in Richmond, Warner declined for the second time in recent weeks to endorse Allen's running mate, Mike Farris, the GOP nominee for lieutenant governor.
Warner said he recently met with Farris, an evangelical Christian whom Democrats portray as a religious extremist, and found him "intelligent." But the senator refused to say how he'll vote, adding "I urge all Virginians to let him make his case."
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