MILLER MAKES PROMISE FOR WHEN HE GOVERNS

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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 10, 1993                   TAG: 9303100229
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: WYTHEVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
MILLER MAKES PROMISE FOR WHEN HE GOVERNS
Clinton Miller, one of three Republicans seeking their party's candidacy for governor, made a deal with reporters during a swing through Southwest Virginia Tuesday.
He pledged that if he did not return as governor to Southwest Virginia as often as people here thought he should, he would sit in a dunking booth at a county fair or other festivity and let them have at him.
Miller, a House of Delegates member for 22 years, said he does not see himself "as a front-runner or a distinct underdog" in his race with fellow Republicans George Allen and Earle Williams. "I think I'm right where I need to be."
Since the General Assembly adjourned, he said, he has been meeting delegates and alternates and letting them size him up between now and the selection in June. "Three months in politics is an eternity."
He said Williams is right in wanting to apply business efficiencies to state government, but that Williams' business background - where he could tell his subordinates what to do - is not what is needed in working with the legislature. And Allen, he said, never got any legislation passed in nine years in the House.
As for any Republican defeating Democrat Mary Sue Terry in a race for governor, he said, she has been an adequate but not outstanding attorney general and was the same when she was in the legislature.
"Mary Sue is a nice person. I consider her a friend of mine. But she has limited her focus all the time she's been in the attorney general's office," Miller said, "and I think we can use this in the campaign against her."
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