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WELCH GETS HIS CAREER AS DELEGATE UNDER WAY IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY.(LOCAL)

Byline: MATTHEW DOLAN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT\

RICHMOND -- John J. Welch launched his high-octane road trip to the General Assembly on Tuesday night with a Wendy's double burger in one hand and a cell phone in the other.

``He steered with his knees,'' confessed Welch's aide Robert A. Rummells.

Earlier that evening, Welch won office handily in a special election to fill Virginia Beach's newly vacant 21st House of Delegates seat.

But his hometown celebration was short-lived. Welch needed to drive furiously through the night to claim his spot in the 2001 General Assembly session starting Wednesday.

So little more than 16 hours after his Democratic opponent Alan ...

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