Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, November 2, 1995 TAG: 9511020096
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Cupp said the ads are accurate: "It's very simple. [Marye] wants to get all the free media he can, and he wants to confuse the issues because it's getting close to election time."
Marye said a new mailing, which arrived Tuesday in Carroll County, repeats the contention that he failed to vote for last year's parole reform act. Marye missed the vote on one version, but voted for its twin. Both bills passed and were signed into law.
The mailing also distorts his vote, Marye said, against a prison building program this year that he said wasn't backed up by sufficient planning.
Marye said Cupp is running negative ads because he has no platform. "As candidates begin to see that they are losing an election, then the ads begin to get nastier and nastier and nastier," Marye said.
Cupp said much the same thing about Marye: that the senator is only objecting to the ads because he is the one who is desperate.
Marye rolled out one of his old stock characters. "Some of you may be familiar with quotations from my old Uncle Confucius Marye," the senator said. "He stated one time that if they lie to you before elections, they'll lie to you after elections. I tend to think that old Confucius Marye was right about that."
Cupp was unimpressed by the yarn. "For years, he says outrageous things and nobody says anything. You ask him how he voted, and he'll give you some Uncle Billy stories and some double talk," Cupp said. "You've got to notice that the votes are different than the rhetoric. ... The record speaks for itself."
by CNB