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Anti-Porn Trustee Elected to Va. HouseRichard Black, the Loudoun County (Va.) Public Library board member whose pro-filtering Internet policy is being challenged in federal court won a seat to the Virginia House of Delegates February 3 in a whirlwind special election of two weeks' duration. Black's 57% margin enables state Republicans to maintain a 50–50 legislative split in the house that they first attained after winning three other special elections in January, thus ending more than 100 years of Democratic sway. Some 12% of registered voters turned out for the runoff. Proclaiming Republicans to be "the party that cares about the innocence of children," Black vowed in his victory speech to "keep pornography out of our libraries and out of our schools. I'm going to fight them and fight them, and I'm never going to give up." Posted February 9, 1998. |
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