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The District’s worst nightmare has come true. A white, wealthy, suburbanite Republican holds vast power over the city. So what? Rep. Tom Davis’ middle-of-the-road politics are just what Washington needs.
On the dank, snow-melting afternoon of Jan. 18, Rep. Thomas M. Davis III leaves his Capitol Hill office, climbs into his Subaru Legacy, and heads for Fairfax County. It’s a familiar commute, past the sterile skyscrapers of Rosslyn and Ballston, through the scruffy, close-in burbs of Arlington, and into Fairfax County near the rumpled strip malls of Seven Corners.
Eventually Davis heads west, taking the Dulles toll road past Tysons Corner, the largest concentration of commercial real estate between Washington and Atlanta, and into the residential exurbs. At 7:30 p.m., right on time, Davis bounces over the speed bumps in the parking lot of a Comfort Inn. He’s in Herndon, a town only 20 miles, but a world away, from Washington. On the western end of Fairfax County, Herndon is the edge of Edge City.
Davis strides into the hotel and is led to an all-pastel conference room where 14 members of the Greater Herndon Jaycees have gathered. All eyes turn to the door when Davis enters, and a hush falls. He’s a good three inches taller than everyone else in the room, a dashing figure in his navy pinstripes. It’s a reverent and Republican crowd that will later kiddingly chide the Jaycees’ president for forgetting the opening Pledge of Allegiance and prayer.... Continued 
Issue of Feb. 16 - 22, 1996
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