THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, August 16, 1995 TAG: 9508160004
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A10 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 33 lines
The Democrats have raised the specter that a former state employee may have used his contacts obtained while employed by the state to advance his private business interests after he left state government.
Have the Democrats also raised the question of how Howard Cullem, former Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources (under a Democratic governor) was able to amass a list of 200,000 names of Virginia residents in less than a year? Mr. Cullem will be using this list to lobby the state for increased funding for needy Virginians through his Human Services Political Action Committee (HUSPAC). HUSPAC has announced that it will endorse political candidates in this fall's statewide elections. Two-hundred-thousand names represent about 10 percent of the households in Virginia, a rather significant ``grass roots'' lobby. Where did all those names and addresses come from?
The questionnaire recently sent out by HUSPAC to political candidates across the state was all about the need for more tax dollars to support services.
What do the Democratic candidates for state office have to say about this? The taxpayers/voters deserve a response. In the meantime more pork anyone?
ANNE W. GRAVES
Lynchburg, July 31, 1995 by CNB