Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 5, 1993 TAG: 9305050288
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By DALE EISMAN STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Accountings filed Tuesday with the state Board of Elections showed that Williams, a millionaire retired business executive from McLean, has lent $520,000 to his campaign since Jan. 1, while raising $286,801 from 840 contributors. Allen raised almost $528,000 from 3,538 supporters during the same period, with no loans.
The new Williams' loans bring his total aid to his campaign to about $1.6 million. Supporters have contributed an additional $550,000. Allen has raised almost $794,000.
The Allen camp said the reports are evidence of a lack of support for Williams and of Allen's ability to compete financially in a general election against presumptive Democratic nominee Mary Sue Terry.
Terry, according to a report filed Monday, has raised more than $2 million and has about $1.5 million of it in the bank ready for use in the general election.
While Terry's fund-raising total dwarfed Allen's, his camp noted that he has drawn from nearly as large a base of contributors - 3,538 - as the 3,798 claimed by the Democrat.
Steve Haner, a spokesman for Williams, said his candidate has devoted little energy to outside fund raising.
Other reports filed with the elections board indicated that Bobbie Kilberg is drawing support from a who's who of the national party in her race for lieutenant governor.
Her opponent, Michael Farris, reported more than three times as many donors as Kilberg but has raised about $50,000 less - $127,414 to $177,400.
In the Republican race for attorney general, reports indicated that Del. Steven Agee of Salem leads Henrico County prosecutor James S. Gilmore III in raising money.
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