(VA) Democrat's Bid Begins With a Salvo

[MountainLaurel]

Democrat Harris Miller kicked off his campaign for the U.S. Senate from Virginia yesterday with a pledge to "fix the problems in Washington" by ousting George Allen, the GOP incumbent he called "part of the problem since his first day in the Senate."

Miller, 54, accused the first-term senator of rubber-stamping the Bush administration's culture of "corruption, partisanship and special-interest priorities" and said Allen's presidential aspirations have hurt Virginians.

"George Allen has spent a lot of time in New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina recently," Miller told about 30 supporters, most of them students, in the student center on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. "As far as I can tell, that has done nothing to ease gridlock for commuters here in Northern Virginia, nothing to provide health care for a single family in Tidewater, nothing to provide good jobs for those who have lost jobs in Southside or southwest Virginia."

Like many Democrats running for office this year, Miller, a party activist and former technology lobbyist from McLean, is hoping to capitalize on President Bush's low approval numbers and to tie Allen to what he called the president's failed policies in Iraq and at home.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR2006041801631.html

[Robert Oak]

1. No Harris Miller