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authority over them. Localities must now go to Richmond begging for authority to enact legislation that will only affect their area.
Mr. Dalton, on the other hand, said in a recent interview with this newspaper that he is against home rule for localities, opposed to granting us the authority to enact certain local taxes which would take the burden of running local government off the backs of the property owners. Asked how he would solve the financial problems of local government, Mr. Dalton said local elected officials should cut back on government. What he fails to understand, and what Mr. Howell seems quite aware of, is that much of the growth of local government has been created because of mandated programs handed down from the federal and state levels forcing local officials to raise already high property taxes. Mr. Howell believes that the best government is the government closest to the people. Sadly Mr. Dalton like Gov. Godwin believes otherwise, which is one reason the established order now needs change.
Virginians can rightly be concerned about Mr. Howell on only one issue, his ties with the “big boys” of big labor and the potential for his changing his specific present opposition to authorizing unions for state employees and to repeal of Virginia’s right to work law. Mr. Howell has fought “big business” in Virginia. We should correctly expect him as well not to be the captive of “big labor.”
Regardless, we can be confident that the General Assembly during the next four years will hold any such initiative in check.
Because of his sensitivity to working people and local government, we feel that Henry Howell should be elected Governor on Nov. 8. He is unconventional, but it is time for unconventional leadership in the Governor’s office.
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