Potts to Run for Va. Governor: GOP Maverick Plans An Independent Bid

[Freddie Stubbs]

GOP Maverick Plans An Independent Bid

By Michael D. Shear
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, February 25, 2005; Page B01

RICHMOND, Feb. 24 -- Sen. H. Russell Potts Jr., a Republican from Winchester, plans to announce Friday morning that he is mounting an independent bid for governor but will not formally leave the party he says is gripped by conservative social issues and anti-tax rhetoric.

Potts, an irascible politician who has become a voice of the GOP moderates as chairman of the Senate's Education and Health Committee, has scheduled a news conference at the State Capitol to announce his decision.

He declined to comment publicly Thursday, but aides and colleagues said Potts has informed them that he is certain to run as an "independent Republican" in the 2005 campaign.

"He is a good man, and he is a candidate. He is a natural," said Thomas J. D'Amore Jr., a senior campaign adviser to Potts who worked for Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a former U.S. senator and Connecticut governor. "Is it a long shot? You bet. You can expect a really good fight and a good deal of good sportsmanship."

more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51590-2005Feb24.html

[Ekirh]

1. Yah I just heard that on T.V

Also got a bonus surprise... My Grandma use to date him. He broke up with her after finding out she already had five children.

[underpants]

2. Good sportsmanship from the Va. Republicans?

Guess again buddy.

This is very good news for Tim Kaine. Outstanding.