2007.11.06
Onzlee Ware on the way to another term
Eleventh district House of Delegates incumbent Onzlee Ware, D-Roanoke, apparently was not hurt by a late-in-the-campaign revelation that he once used heroin, became and government informant and was apparently shot for his cooperation with authorities.
He was pummeling independent Delvis O. "Mac" McCadden by a nearly two-to-one margin with 23 of 25 precincts counted. McCadden, a former Roanoke city councilman and political veteran, had intended to challenge Ware for the nomination in a local Democratic party recently taken over by leaders with little love for Ware. But McCadden failed to get his paperwork in on time. He revived his run as an independent, but to no avail.
By 9:15 p.m., McCadden had tallied a victory in only one precinct, on Williamson Road in Roanoke.
