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

DATE: SATURDAY, February 12, 1994                   TAG: 9402120117
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: AMANDA KELL ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

SCOTT RULES OUT SENATE RUN

Rep. Robert C. Scott Scott said Friday he has too many responsibilities as a freshman congressman and too little time to raise money to enter the race for Senate.

Sen. Charles Robb, D-Va., already is facing Richmond lawyer Sylvia Clute in the June 14 Democratic primary. But Scott, D-Newport News, would have offered a formidable challenge in terms of name recognition and fund-raising ability.

"About two weeks ago I was quoted in reference to the Democratic nomination that I had not ruled it out," Scott said in a telephone interview from his Washington office. "Today I am ruling out the possibility."

Scott said he received telephone calls from supporters asking him to enter the race after former Gov. Douglas Wilder announced Jan. 12 that he would not run.

A poll released last week gave Scott good favorable and name recognition ratings for a first-term congressman, and said that in a hypothetical primary, 47 percent of those polled would vote for Robb, 28 percent for Scott and 9 percent for Clute.

The poll also gave Scott 38 percent in a general election matchup, against Republican Oliver North's 28 percent.

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