WP Article: Davis's Plans Stir GOP Anxiety

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801760.html?nav=rss_politics
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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1. I would love to see him go

The seat is ripe for a pickup. I really do hope he decides to take the job offers.

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2. "What's hard for me is deciding who I want to go more, Allen or Davis."