
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 6, 1990                   TAG: 9006060397
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GOV. WILDER THERE HE GOES AGAIN

VIRGINIA waves bye-bye once again to Gov. Doug Wilder, who is off to New Hampshire with the usual gaggle of state and national media types following along.

The stated purpose of Wilder's visit is to raise funds and visibility for Democratic candidates in the Granite State. It appears that interest there in his "New Mainstream" message is keen. Party officials in Sullivan County, N.H.,already have had to move the event where he will speak tonight from a local library to the Opera House in Newport to accommodate the expected crowd.

Wilder has said he is not running for national office - though he has said he's certainly qualified for it. And he's said he intends to complete his gubernatorial term, which ends in early 1994.

But is it just a coincidence that New Hampshire is, traditionally, the first state to hold a presidential primary?

Well, anybody who believes that probably also believes that Wilder scheduled earlier political speeches in Illinois, California, Georgia and Louisiana just to rack up Frequent Flyer points - and that later this month he heads for Iowa, which holds the nation's first presidential caucuses, because he's always hankered to vacation in the cornfields.

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