Daily Press
April 16, 2009
By Kimball Payne
Cloudy skies and the occasional drop did little to dampen the atmosphere at the 61st annual Shad Planking Wednesday as three gubernatorial candidates finished up speeches just before a wall of rain moved over Wakefield.
The rural, political festival is an annual rite of spring in Virginia, where candidates past, present and future glad hand with the partisan faithful and woo voters with free beer trucks, ham biscuits, bumper stickers and cigars. Former Republican governors Jim Gilmore and George Allen were both working the crowd Wednesday, along with state lawmakers and a handful folks running for Lt. governor and attorney general.
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