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...made an inviting target for State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45, who had opposed conservative Byrd policies in the legislature for years, and now appealed for a "fresh, positive approach." Spong got a plurality of 764 out of a total vote...
...Virginia AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education (COPE) has endorsed both senate challengers, Armistead L. Boothe, who is opposing Byrd, and State Sen. William B. Spong, Robertson's opponent--though both say they favor state right-to-work laws...
Rather, it has been youth vs. age (Spong is 45) and a sort of mixed liberalism against a newly-defined conservatism. "On fiscal matters I'm as conservative as he (Byrd Jr.) is," Boothe has declared. "But where funds were available (in the state senate) and needed--truly needed--I was willing to appropriate them." Byrd Jr., who likes to talk about what he's doing in the U.S. Senate rather than what he did in the Virginia senate, calls himself a "forward-looking conservative...
...SPONG is a pragmatist who is projecting a kind of semi-Kennedy im-11GOVERNOR MILLS GODWIN...
...faces a Democratic opponent for the first time in more than a decade. State Assemblyman George C. Rawlings, 44, a Fredericksburg attorney and avowed liberal, plans to make Smith's obstructionism on civil rights and other contemporary issues the focus of his campaign. Moderate State Senator William B. Spong, 45, is attempting to oust U.S. Senator Absalom Willis Robertson, 78, and Alexandria Attorney Armistead Boothe is trying for the seat of U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd...