ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, March 11, 1997 TAG: 9703110111
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH
State Sen. Kenneth Stolle has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for attorney general, saying he would take a hard line against drug use by children.
``We simply cannot allow another generation of Virginians to grow up feeling the peer pressure to use drugs,'' Stolle, a former Virginia Beach police officer, said Monday in entering the race to succeed Republican Jim Gilmore.
Stolle said laws are tougher on youngsters caught with beer than those caught with heroin. He said the number of children arrested in the state for drug possession jumped 385 percent between 1990 and 1995.
Stolle was elected to the state Senate in 1991.
He is running for the nomination against Gil Davis, a Northern Virginia lawyer who represents Paula Jones in a sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton; former state Secretary of Public Safety Jerry Kilgore, and state Sen. Mark Earley of Chesapeake.
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