Foxx toes own line
She is credited with hard work, personal touch
RALEIGH (By James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal) - In the post-Jesse Helms era, it's hard to find a North Carolina politician more polarizing than Virginia Foxx.
A three-term congresswoman from Avery County, Foxx is seen by some as offensive and others as courageous. At 66, she clearly hasn't lost her zest for the thrust and parry of congressional politics.
"I'm a small-government conservative, and that's not very fashionable in Washington," Foxx said last week during a wide-ranging telephone interview. "The liberals have no new ideas, and so they're reduced to character assassination."
RALEIGH (By James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal) - In the post-Jesse Helms era, it's hard to find a North Carolina politician more polarizing than Virginia Foxx.
A three-term congresswoman from Avery County, Foxx is seen by some as offensive and others as courageous. At 66, she clearly hasn't lost her zest for the thrust and parry of congressional politics.
"I'm a small-government conservative, and that's not very fashionable in Washington," Foxx said last week during a wide-ranging telephone interview. "The liberals have no new ideas, and so they're reduced to character assassination."
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