While in college 28 years ago, 2nd District Democratic congressional candidate Philip Kellam pleaded guilty to a simple assault charge after an argument with a woman, but the judge threw the case out. Kellam's campaign manager said Kellam, then a student at Elon College, did not strike the woman. Kellam, commissioner of revenue in Virginia Beach and a member of a famous political family, is in a close race with Rep. Thelma Drake, a Norfolk Republican, for the congressional seat... After Kellam pleaded guilty June 2, 1978, in Alamance County {N.C.] court to simple assault, a judge entered a "prayer...
