Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, November 7, 1995 TAG: 9511070049
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press CHARLOTTESVILLE
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The postcards, from an organization called ``Dems 4 Day,'' turned up in the mail of 25th District residents last weekend. They list the top 10 reasons Democrats should support Donal Day, and they attack incumbent state Sen. Edgar Robb, a Republican, and Democratic nominee Emily Couric.
Day on Sunday called the mailing a ``dirty trick'' and said his campaign was not involved. Couric termed it ``pretty rotten.'' Robb said he didn't know anything about it and didn't approve.
The Daily Progress of Charlottesville cited unnamed Republican sources as saying Dems 4 Day was established by people with GOP ties and has no connection with Day.
Asked if a Republican group paid for the mailing, Scott Leake, executive director of the General Assembly's Joint Republican Caucus, replied, ``I'm not saying that's a bad assumption.'' Leake would not say exactly who paid for the mailing, but he did say it was not Robb's campaign.
``I really, really feel I've been done wrong because I've become a pawn in somebody else's campaign,'' Day said, calling on the group responsible for the mailing to make itself known to him and to the voters.
Lt. Gov. Don Beyer, campaigning with Couric on Sunday, said the mailing is ``the only one I've ever seen that has no `authority line' whatsoever, no postmark and no one's ever heard of the group.''
The mailing listed one reason for supporting Day as ``Gun control. Day supports it. Both Couric and Robb are rated `B,' thus worthy of support, by the NRA. Day is rated `F' by the reactionary gun lobby.''
Charlottesville Mayor David Toscano, who said a Republican state lawmaker told him recently he had been asked about paying for a ``pro-Donal Day piece of mail,'' called the card a ``carefully worded anti-Emily Couric piece.''
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