HOW WOULD YOU ASSESS THE INFLUENCE JACK HANCOCK AND HIS CLIQUE OF OLD-LINE

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, February 16, 1992                   TAG: 9202160052
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-1   EDITION: METRO 
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HOW WOULD YOU ASSESS THE INFLUENCE JACK HANCOCK AND HIS CLIQUE OF OLD-LINE
Musser: "Not a lot of influence. [With one exception] none of them has ever asked me to do anything. [The exception was Warner Dalhouse, Dominion Bankshares chairman, who once called Musser and asked the city help pay part of the cost for new Christmas decorations downtown]. None of them has ever contacted me on anything else. I can't speak for other council members, but I don't think they have used excessive pressure to get things done or had any undue influence. We need everybody to work together and not alienate any group."
\ Bowers:"I welcome the influence of men like John Hancock, [Grand Piano Chairman] George Cartledge, [Dominion Bankshares Chairman] Warner Dalhouse, [retired Shenandoah Life Chairman] Frank Clement. Those men are not real familiar to me. I don't socialize with them. I'm not of their same generation. But I understand their commitment to the future of our city, the progress of our city.
"I would welcome them into the mayor's office. I mean that sincerely. My interest as mayor is in trying to help everybody in this city have a say and feel like they have a say in what's going on. And that includes those gentlemen. I know of their interest and their commitment. I would certainly want to encourage them and I'd certainly be gracious and receptive to their input."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB