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[VA Rep] Davis's Plans Stir GOP Anxiety
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Sep 09, 2005 05:20pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Friday, September 9, 2005 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | By Michael D. Shear and Brian Faler
Friday, September 9, 2005; Page A07
Is Virginia Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, a fixture in Washington area politics for two decades, casting his eyes on greener -- as in, more lucrative -- pastures?
Davis, a Fairfax County Republican who is considered one of the top strategists in the House GOP caucus, is a political junkie whose love for the minutiae of elections is surpassed only by his obsession with baseball statistics. So most people have assumed he'd have to be dragged kicking and screaming away from his job as chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.
But several sources in both parties in Virginia and on Capitol Hill said they are hearing that Davis is a candidate to head the National Federation of Independent Business, one of the nation's leading lobbying organizations. Its president and chief executive, Jack Faris, announced his retirement in March, and a search for a new leader has been underway since then.
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But Republican sources said Sens. George Allen and John W. Warner have been urged by GOP operatives to talk sense into Davis -- reflecting the anxiety that the party could lose the seat to a Democrat if Davis bolts. His district, which includes central Fairfax and parts of Prince William County, has been competitive in the past. |
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