Summary
NORFOLK
W. Randy Wright often mangles the English language, and even in a suit can look disheveled. He lacks a college degree and often raises the ire of others with blunt, in-your-face talk. Raised in a poor family in blue-collar Norview, Wright excelled at bowling in high school, not academics.See the full content of this document
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Randy Wright Was Determined to Rise - and Did
Yet, he now mixes confidently with the city's business and political elite.
Wright, a city councilman since 1992, is one of the region's most powerful political leaders and a catalyst for some of Norfolk's most ambitious projects: among them, MacArthur Center, East Beach and the revitalization of Ocean View.Next year, light rail, a project that Wright pioneered, will begin rolling through Norfolk. It's a project that some say will be Wright's legacy.Yet he is also Norfolk's political bull in a china shop. He relishes political controversies and plays politics like a contact sport."So many people have underestimated Randy over the years, to their detriment," Norfolk attorney Peter G. Decker Jr. said.He h...See the full content of this document
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