Loudoun Filter-Policy Author
Wins Virginia GOP Primary
Virginia State Delegate Richard Black, the former Loudoun County (Va.) Library trustee who wrote the Internet filtering policy that was overturned in federal court last year, handily won his district’s Republican primary June 8. His victory comes a month after he made headlines when he was forced by a library staffer to exit a sexually explicit Web site he was showing a reporter at a branch terminal.
Black defeated David G. McWatters, a centrist Republican and a member of the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, garnering 59% of the vote. He attributed his victory to voters’ recognition of his “overall family-values approach,” the Washington Post reported June 9. “They want a community that’s kept free of crime, vice and corruption.” The paper reported that Gov. James Gilmore’s political action committee had given Black’s campaign thousands of dollars of support and conducted phone canvasses on the candidate’s behalf.
Black will run against Democrat Kelly Burk in November.
Posted June 14, 1999.
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