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Former Senator Jim Webb
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BEYER WARNING AND A CONFUSED WEBB
In his recently published treatise “In the Arena” Chuck Robb Tells an interesting scuttlebutt about the US Senate re-election campaign in 2000, which it lost to the Republicans George Allen.
Robb writes that he felt vindicated when he was re-elected over Republicans Oliver North In 1994, but when Allen announced his intention to seek the Senate seat in December 1998, Robb was already planning to retire.
“The Senate increasingly seemed to be becoming an environment of permanent stance and partisan blockade,” writes Robb. “I knew I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life legislating.”
Robb writes that he “didn’t want to just leave my seat to everyone,” so he looked for potential Democratic candidates for his seat.
He writes that his “first and greatest effort” was to advertise Don Beyerwho completed two terms as lieutenant governor after losing the 1997 governor contest to the Republicans Jim Gilmore. Robb writes that he and his wife, Lynda, invited Beyer and his wife, Megan, to their Fairfax house and talked it out over dinner, but that “the next morning Don refused.”