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monwealth since the late Harry F. Byrd became Governor in the 1930’s with clean, honest and efficient state government, a remarkable legacy exemplified today by Senator Harry F. Byrd Jr. It is an uncorrupted record of government which few other states can lay claim to, notably including next door Maryland.
But Virginia's political order, which has worked so well for so long from the State House to the Court House, has reached a dangerous stage. Its unwritten power and authority among old political associates now stretches unbroken from the Governor’s office through our senior Congressional delegation and through the top leadership of the General Assembly. We no longer have an effective separation of powers in Virginia, and are approaching a state of
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