
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 7, 1995                   TAG: 9502070097
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

CRANWELL QUESTIONS HOUSE HONESTY

House Majority Leader Richard Cranwell, a leading critic of Gov. George Allen, stopped just short of calling a fellow legislator a liar Monday during a Republican attempt to bypass committee consideration of an Allen bill.

Del. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, wanted the House to sit as a ``committee of the whole'' to consider a bill sending lottery profits to local governments. Legislators viewed the bill as a step toward reviving a business tax cut.

Forbes prefaced his motion by saying the Democrat-controlled assembly has thwarted the public's desire for ``real change,'' citing school funding disparity legislation that he said won't work.

``How can you sleep at night when you say that kind of stuff?'' shouted Cranwell, D-Roanoke County. ``Where have our values gone that we are so loose with the truth?''

The effort to bypass the committee failed 58-42.

- Associated Press

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