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Article: Helping Others Help Himself; Anticipating Redistricting, Robb Doles Out Favors Now
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- The Washington Post
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- October 1, 1999
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Sen. Charles S. Robb has launched an energetic campaign on behalf
of Democrats in Virginia's General Assembly races, spreading $100,000
among candidates and stumping hard on their behalf, while previewing
themes for his own reelection bid next fall.
At one typical stop, Robb promoted a roster of state and local
candidates at a Mount Vernon Democrats ice cream social before
driving home his point: As the General Assembly goes this Election
Day, so goes control over redrawing legislative and congressional
districts critical to the party's future--and to Robb's own fortunes
in 2000.
"How we vote this fall will determine who gets to draw the lines