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  Two Tight Gubernatorial Races (VA)
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MediaWeekly News Magazine - TIME Magazine
News DateMonday, November 7, 1977 05:20:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionVirginia: Howell v. Dalton

"All power is vested in the people; public servants are your trustees ... We're turkeys for the utilities, and I'm tired of being plucked ... I don't want to ride in limousines and go to fancy balls." Henry Howell is on the Virginia hustings again, punctuating his outpourings of populist philosophy with karate chops at invisible exploiters of the little guy in the Old Dominion—the landed gentry, the bankers, the big public-service companies. Already a two-time loser for the governorship (in 1969 and 1973), Howell, 57, is giving it another try. This time his opponent is Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton, who is as lackluster as Howell is hokey and hard-hitting.

Dalton, 46, is a wealthy lawyer who followed his father, Ted, a popular Republican state senator, into the legislature in 1966. But it is the controversial Howell who has been the primary issue in the campaign. As a state legislator in the '60s. Howell successfully fought to abolish the poll tax and to establish one-man, one-vote representation. He worked to pass consumer legislation and plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees on a local option basis, lower electric bills and, in case of a fiscal crisis, higher state income taxes for the rich.

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