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A new agreement between the county and the promoter would move this year’s shows from the Chesterfield County Fairgrounds to River City Sportsplex.

BY JEFF E. SCHAPIRO Richmond Times-Dispatch When it came to briefing the legislature’s money committees, no one quite rivaled Stuart Connock in telling them what they wanted to hear — without telling them too much. He would use a lot of technical jargon, allude to “taxpayer behavior” and cite economic data, which he pronounced “dater.” Connock, as Virginia’s de facto and actual finance chief in the 1970s and 1980s, was not trying to mislead delegat...