Webb questions Allen's Senate accomplishments
2006-10-09
Source: Hampton Roads Daily Press
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rss feedames Webb is new at this politics business, so he doesn't know whether to be bemused or confused.
"If you've been in the Senate for six years and the only thing you can run in your ads is an education act (National Innovation Act) that's not even law - if that's all you can do, plus this article on a position I took 27 years ago, people ought to think about that," he said Saturday about the campaign of Sen. George Allen. Allen is trying to fend off a charge by Webb, his Democratic challenger, in the Nov. 7 election.
Webb was in Norfolk for the NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet, then in Hampton for the Peninsula Jefferson-Jackson Day celebration.
Allen's advertising concerning his accomplishments includes mention of the National Innovation Act, which he co-sponsored.
Three of the ads from the Allen campaign have centered on a magazine article that Webb wrote 27 years ago, decrying the presence of women in the service academies. He has since apologized for any harm that it did for female Naval Academy students and points to advances that women made while he was Navy secretary under President Ronald Reagan.
One Allen ad - released Friday - features Janice Buxbaum, who said she was a student at the Annapolis, Md., academy at the time of the Webb article. She added that she was misquoted in it. Her name doesn't appear in the piece.
"I think it's a very irresponsible ad," Webb said.
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