Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 19, 1994 TAG: 9408190099
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ALEC KLEIN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Medium
An alliance of prominent Republicans, conservative Democrats and independents threw its support to North, and the National Rifle Association announced it will endorse him today.
Former Republican state Attorney General Marshall Coleman was in Roanoke on Thursday to announce that he supports the prison and parole reform the Allen administration is seeking. Coleman will take a two-day tour of the far southwest section of the state.
Former Democratic Gov. Douglas Wilder has been driving all over the state, and will concentrate today on central Virginia. His one-car crusade will make its way from Fairfax down through Culpeper, Unionville, Orange and Gordonsville before winding up at the Louisa County Fair by evening.
Former Gov. Mills Godwin announced creation of ``Virginians for Oliver North,'' a coalition touted as including previous supporters of incumbent Democratic Sen. Charles Robb.
``We are starting a movement, I won't call it a crusade, but I'm going to call it a spirited endeavor on behalf of [North],'' Godwin said in a press conference at the Richmond Marriott Hotel. Godwin began his long political career as a Democrat but concluded as a Republican when he won a second term as governor in the 1970s.
After the announcement, North said Godwin's group would be ``the booster rocket'' that ``brings together an enormous conservative coalition.''
Virginians for North will not act as a fund raiser, but Godwin said that he and other members would campaign for the GOP nominee.
North will attend a rally tonight at the Northern Virginia national headquarters of the NRA to accept that group's seal of approval.
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