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Virginia: ‘man enough to do it’
From Atlanta Constitution
by Joe Brown
When word got out that Sen.
Virginia Shapard had in
troduced a resolution to censure
Sen. Roscoe Dean, one state
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God, there’s someone over
there who’s man enough to do
it.”
The 39-year-old mother of
four just smiles when she hears
that story repeated. But the
good humor of Georgia’s only
female state senator evaporates
when it is suggested that she
took out after the Jesup
Democrat to further her own
political career.
“You know what my gut
reaction to that is?” she said.
“Some people have been around
this Capitol for so long that they
can’t tell personal conviction
from political ploy.“I intend to
run for this Senate seat again,”
the freshman legislator said. “I
will not run against
Congressman (Jack) Flynt for
the Democratic nomination as
some have suggested that I
might.”
Mrs. Shapard, a former
Spalding County welfare
worker, says she has long had
an interest in politics.
“When I was in college, I
headed up the Young
Democrats for (Adlai)
Stevenson in 1956,” she said.
“And I still think he would have
made the best president we
could have ever possibly had.”
However, after graduating in
1957 from Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College in Virginia
with a B.A. degree in biology,
she married Griffin textile
manufacturer Robert P.
Shapard 111 and set politics
aside.
“When I first got married, it
took me 45 minutes to wash a
frying pan. And when I got it
down to five minutes and we
didn’t have any children, I
thought that I would seek
employment,” she recounts.
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available and what I thought
would be challenging, I came
upon a vacancy at the then
county welfare department.
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worker. In a county welfare
department, if you are a child
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welfare worker, in addition to
adoptions and foster home
placement, it involves dealing
with children that get into every
sort of situation,” she said.
“You get into child-abuse
work, delinquency and coun
seling. And it’s certainly not the
kind of job you can come from
and say: How many bottles did
you cap today?’ and count it off.
It’s hard to put your finger on
what your productivity is. And
therefore, it’s sometimes very
frustrating, but sometimes very
rewarding as well,” she said
Mrs. Shapard stayed there
four years, and she says the
things she learned working with
families and their problems
pushed her closer to the
political arena.
“There’s a saying: Don’t get
in the well with them, but
provide a ladder.’ And to do
that sort of work is very
challenging,” she said.
“A combination of factors”
finally triggered her decision to
seek her Senate seat, she said.
“All along through the almost 20
years I’ve lived in Griffin — we
actually live in Griffin — we
of Griffin, my husband raises
registered polled Herefords as a
business as well — I’ve always
had political concern.
“If someone were running for
office that I thought was a
particularly good candidate, I
would participate in the cam
paign as a campaign worker. I
didn’t do it every election year.
And I didn’t do it with every
candidate straight down any
sort of line, but when I saw a
candidate that I thought was
really meritorious I certainly
pitched in. I’ve addressed my
share of envelopes and that sort
of thing,” she said. “I think
that there are two major
precipitating factors that
brought me to the point that I
wanted to run for this Senate
seat,” she said. *:“One, of
course, is the Watergate thing. I
really think that if there’s any
beneficial by-product to
Watergate it will be three
fold: “That more people with
the ability and qualifications
and desire to give good public
service will offer for election.
“That, two, the people will
look more carefully at can
didates and their qualifications.
“And, three, hopefully that
they will participate actively in
the political process.
“I say I’m not a politician.
I’m a person,” she said. “But
we do have a vote. And this
apathy on voting is something
that breaks my heart —
literally. It’s just one of the
saddest things that’s come to
pass. But I think if more and
more people will look at
Watergate and think: ‘lt just
really does boil back to you as
an individual and as an
American citizen, and your
responsibilities that to along
with your citizenship.’
“I know that sounds like a
band-wagon speech or
something you would hear at a
rally, but I just happen to really
firmly believe it,” she
said.
Sen. Shapard said her first
exposure to “practical politics”
was when she successfully
spearheaded a bond referen
dum effort to build a regional
library in Griffin that serves
eight counties. “As I was out
speaking at every crossroads,
every small church, every civic
group I came to the con
clusion,” she recounts, “that
people when they vote down
bond referendums they’re not
voting against libraries.
They’re not voting against
sewer systems. They’re not
voting against paving. They’re
not voting against schools. They
are going in there and flicking
that lever on the voting machine
and they are saying: ‘No, not
another red cent!’
“In other words, its the only
opportunity that they get to say
directly that they don’t want
more taxes — which led me to
get concerned about ad valorem
taxation.
“I frankly and genuinely
believe,” she said, “that it’s un-
American to force anybody to
sell off part of their property to
pay their taxes.”
Sen. Shapard said she has
experienced no sexual
discrimination in her dealings
with her fellow lawmakers.
“On some issues with some of
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this time at the neighboring
house and he did not want them
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them, I stand toe-to-toe. And on
some side-by-side. And the ones
that you stand toe-to-toe with
today you may be side-by-side
with the next day because it’s a
different issue. But quite ob
viously, I have a vote and each
one of the other senators has a
vote.
“I think we get over-involved
— and you see this in all the
media — in this man-woman
thing,” she said. “I think it’s the
person, regardless of the sex,
and their ability to accomplish
the job that are important.
“The point is, can the person
do the job? And are they willing
to give of themselves and are
they qualified? That’s where I
think the emphasis should be.”
Asked if there are many
frustratrions in reconciling the
roles of lawmaker, wife and
mother of four grammar school
age children, she replied:
“I think that when any
member of the family broadens
his or her horizons that you
broaden the horizons and scope
of the whole family.
“My children, for example,
have had experiences that they
would never have had,” she
said. “They have an un
derstanding of government that
I doubt very many grammar
school children have. And I
think it’s been beneficial.
Naturally, there are some
sacrifices that are made along
with it.
“This job, when it’s done
properly — and I certainly am
trying to do it to the best of my
ability — is tremendously time
consuming,” she said.
Sen. Shapard said that,
because the lives in nearby
Griffin, she can make it home
most nights, even when the
General Assembly is in session.
“Being the mother of four
children, I find the silence of a
hotel room to be appalling,” she
said.
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