Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 13, 1995 TAG: 9502130058
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short
Bayh said Democrats should stand for both social compassion and fiscal integrity, for the working person and the business entrepreneur, and for tough law-and-order measures and programs that prevent crime.
He spoke Saturday night to a record, overflow crowd of some 1,200 Democrats and lobbyists. Each paid $125 to attend the Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner at a downtown Richmond hotel.
The party was in a mood to celebrate because of the Democrats' defeat of Republican Gov. George Allen's budget in the General Assembly last week. The architect of the victory, House of Delegates Majority Leader Richard Cranwell of Roanoke County, was greeted with a standing ovation by members of the party's state Central Committee.
Cranwell proposed a floor amendment in the House that incorporated all of Allen's proposed $403 million in budget cuts. No Republican voted for it. Ten voted against the amendment.
``Thirty-seven had the courage of their convictions, and they abstained,'' Cranwell said.
The party chairman, Mark Warner of Alexandria, derided Allen for his appearance Thursday at a congressional hearing where the governor protested federal intrusion in state affairs.
While Republicans were rejecting Allen's proposed budget cuts, Warner said, ``their governor was nowhere in sight. He was in Washington again shaking his fist at the federal government with an eye toward the next step in his political career.''
by CNB